Bais HaVaad Halacha Journal Parshas Shelach
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How Do Doctors and Patients Avoid Yichud During Covid-19?
Rabbi Yosef Kushner Case: In addition to the yichud scenarios discussed in previous sessions that have been especially pertinent during Covid-19, additional yichud shailos have arisen involving doctors, dentists, and the like. Normally, a female patient having an appointment with…
Yichud Part 3: Dating in an Empty Office Building: Is it Allowed?
Rabbi Yosef Kushner Question: One of the major halachic issues that has arisen during the era of Covid-19 is yichud while dating. While couples going out on a date would have previously met in public places like a hotel lobby,…
Yichud Part 2: How to Avoid Yichud in Businesses amid Covid-19
Rabbi Yosef Kushner Question: In the first segment of this series, we raised the issue that yichud may apply in cases of businesses currently operating by appointment only and behind locked doors. What possible solutions can we offer to solve…
Yichud Part 1: Introduction and Dealing with Set Appointments
Rabbi Yosef Kushner Introduction: Let us begin this series of daily halachos on yichud by summarizing a number of the basic principles of hilchos yichud that are relevant for discussing yichud in the workplace. The issur yichud is defined…
Bais HaVaad on the Parsha: Parshas Shelach
Nothing to Speak Of Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Moshe Zev Granek Send forth for yourself men, and they shall explore the Land of Canaan. Bemidbar 13:2 Rashi asks why the story of the spies is juxtaposed…
Q&A From the Bais HaVaad Halacha Hotline
Untimely Assistance Rav Avraham Yeshaya Cohen June 18, 2020 Q: May one ask a non-Jew before Shabbos to do melacha on Shabbos? Conversely, may one ask him on Shabbos to do melacha after Shabbos? A: The answers to your questions…
Running Riot: Responding to the Police Deportment
A Torah perspective on chaos (ra’os) Adapted from a shiur by Dayan Yosef Greenwald June 18, 2020 In light of the terrible violence and unrest that has gripped the United States in recent days, it behooves us to examine the…
Altering the Position of an Employee
Rav Chaim Weg June 11, 2020 Case: Due to Covid-19, a business owner does not have sufficient work to give to his employees. The owner decided that he would ask them to reorganize his office and storeroom. But the employees…
Bais HaVaad Halacha Journal Parshas Beha’alos’cha
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