תכלה שנה עם קללותיה
Combating domestic abuse in our community
Showering us with Brocha
Three day Yom Tov – Are you allowed to take a shower on Yom Tov?
לא תעמוד על דם רעך
Are you allowed to give a donut to an obese person, and other fascinating shailos
What causes someone to be unhappy with their looks?
Are our bodies halachically our own, such that we can do what we want with it?
Can we take medications when we don’t understand how they work and when there are serious side effects?
Should weight-loss injections be used only after trying to diet and control eating?
Can we suppress our appetite if it will take away from Oneg Shabbos and Simchas Yom Tov?
If someone uses Ozempic to lose weight while dating, does it need to be disclosed?
Should you allow your daughter to go out with a boy who smokes or vapes?
Is a smoker Possul Lei’dus?
If your father asks you to buy him a pack of cigarettes are you allowed to listen?
When a president loses his sanity does he lose his staus as a president?
Would Halacha require an aging forgetful leader to step down?
If the population loses their trust in the president (or leader) can they Halachically oust him?
When a husband loses his sanity can his wife or children take away his business?
When a father loses his sanity can his children take from his money for their wedding expenses?
For what type of situations should you be calling Hatzalah.
How should you call Hatzalah – with a shinui etc ?
Can you turn on outside lights to make it easier for Hatzalah to identify the house?
If you have to go to the hospital on Shabbos what do you have to know – what can you take clothes, phone, wallet etc?
Is it better to go with Hatzalah or drive yourself or go with uber?
Do you have to go to the closest hospital or to a further one – out of the T’Chum
Should you cancel Hatzolah if all is good and you don’t need them anymore?
If you madean early Shabbos should you be Matir Neder and then drive youself to the hospital?
Who can go along with the patient?
What can you or can’t you do in the hospital?
When can you come back home on Shabbos and when not?
The Torah’s look on: the Covid Vaacine, the Ne’emanus of doctors, the reasons of the anti vaxxers and anti maskers
Are you obligated to vaccinate? Is it safe? Can schools mandate it? Is it permitted to jump the line? Who should we listen to, Rabbonim or Doctors?
Is it permitted to report non compliance to Covid regulations?
Someone beating their spouse?
Reckless driving? ….
Monologue discussion;
Is the Yateds’ reporting responsible?
Is sticking up for our rights a Kiddush HaShem or Chilul HaShem? Is holding a protest the right way? Do we need to strictly comply with secular law, or is there flexibility? What if the enforcement of the laws is discriminatory against observant Jews? What if we disagree with the laws? What if the laws close down our yeshivos, shuls and weddings?
Our communities response to Covid examined halachically:
Agudah: A remarkable change of decades of policy unnoticed by many
Lakewood: Is the Covid Vaads Psak that a shul is מגין ומציל and therefore no need for masks consistent with Halacha?
The multitudes of sick in Monroe: Is there a mitzvah of Hatzala to a community that exhibits reckless behavior?
Belz: Is it justified to risk lives of some to save lives of others?
Important conversations about the halachos and hashkafos of wearing masks during davening, shaming those that don’t, shul policy, what is the din for someone who killed someone with Covid unintentionally, and much more…
Fascinating discussions on – Showers on yom tov with cold water, hot water; should we be davening this year in shul even with a mask; wearing gloves by lulav; pop up sukkos; meal of meat outside sukkah; shaming people without masks; and much more…
How much risk of danger is acceptable in Halacha? Time to open our Shuls and Yeshivos? Risk for Parnassah, and much more…
Cleaning for Pesach churros, kitniyos, tziruf liminyan, Kaddish and kriyas hatorah, Amazon Warehouses, tevilas keilim, hallel Pesach night, haircuts during sefirah, kedimah for ventilators and treatment, chasuanah less than a minyan
Paying playgroups and tuitions, deposits on hotels for Pesach and chasunos, mikvah and tevilas keilim, taanis bechorim, mattir kitniyos, selling chametz gamur and over phone, autopsies, Milah and metzizah b’peh, being moser on those not following govt guidelines
Minyan, mikvah, maaros, yotzei over phone, mesirah, rodeph, medical precedence, messages HKB”H is sending us, and much more…
Can you travel to Eretz Yisroel? Kissing a Sefer Torah? Doing Bikkur Cholim? Shaking hands? Going to hear Parshas Zachor or hearing the Megillah in shul? Adam hamazek? And much more…
Can a Frum Jew become a doctor? Can a Kohein become a doctor? What are some of the many Halachic challenges they face?
Giving stitches on Shabbos, Working in a Hospital on Shabbos, and many more practical applications…
Dina D’Malchusa, Texting and Driving, Chiyuv to wear a seatbelt, Halachically allowed activities, and many more shailos
Playing contact sports, going to games, following and cheering pro teams, idolizing sports heroes, Moshav Leitzim, and many other Halachos regarding sports
A fascinating conversation with the Mashbak of Rav Shach regarding his Hanhagos and care for health: what made Rav Shach quit smoking? Also, where does the Rambam recommend playing Ball?
Debates about their dangers and what Halacha says a parent must do
Does Halacha obligate a parent to vaccinate? Are you a rodef if you don’t? An expose with the worlds greatest experts…
Marijuana in Halacha
Divrei Zikaron of Rav Shteinman, Zatzal, Nachal Chareidi, Rav who donated a kidney
Should you sign an organ donor card and save as many as 8 lives?
Is a smoker passul L’eidus?, E-cigarettes in Halacha
Self-assisted suicide in Halacha and other contemporary medical Shailos
Responding to calls / emails
End of life issues
Yoetzet; having lady Poskim for Women’s Halacha
New Fertility Issues in Halacha
End of Life Issues Part II
DNA & Kohain gene
Metzitzah B’peh
Zika Virus and Halacha
Special one year anniversary show with the Gadol Hador the Raavid of the Eidah Hacharaidus, Hagaon Hagodol Harav Moshe Shternbuch Shlita.
He will be talking in English a conversation with Dovid Lichtenstein about modern contemporary halachic issues.
Topics will include Hafgaas kidushin in todays age, genetic testing, prenuptial agreements in todays times, is it a smart idea, is it halachically acceptable? vaccinations for children, should one follow his doctors advice or his Rovs? shaking hands with the opposite gender in the workplace, motion sensors, the kosher switch and grama on shabbos. Daas torah: what lesson should be taken from the…
Discrimination and the Situation in Israel today Vaccination in Halacha Alternative Lifestyles Smoking in Halacha Ilana Silver of Sharsheret: An Organization that helps Women with Breast Cancer
Vaccination in Halacha
DNA in Halacha
End of Life Issues
Financial Considerations and the Mitzvah of Pru U’Revu
E-Cigarettes in Halacha
The BRCA gene and Genetic testing – Understanding the halachic debate of Dor Yesharim Should we be testing for other genetic diseases for shidduchim and other relevant genetic debates in halacha
OCD in Halacha
School Vouchers and Metzitzah B’Peh
Vaccinations in Halacha Parenting Children in a Consumerism-Obsessed Society
