Electric Water Meter
Sump Pump (basement pump)
Security systems
Motion sensors
Using a whoop strap or a Fitbit
What is the issur of electricity?
Is there an Issur of increasing current to exisitng electricity?
What’s called a מעשה regarding מלאכת שבת?
Binyan in Keilim
Abortion of a fetus conceived through rape
Women tying tzitzis
Sheva brachos without the chosson or kallah
Returning home before Shabbos if one knows they will be called up on Shabbos
Returning home while one’s wife is a niddah if he doesn’t think he’ll be able to withstand the temptation to hug
A hug before a spouse leaves for battle if the wife is Niddah
Burying blood-soaked cars
Pidyon Haben when the father or kohen is not present
Shortening the taharah process for Niddah during wartime
Saying shehecheyanu when one will not light or even see Chanukah candles
Eating homemade foods sent to the front
Matzah bakery that ran into a shelter in middle of making Matzos
Running to a shelter in middle of Shemone Esrei or Krias HaTorah
Yichud in a shelter
Rewriting Kesubos for people in the North or South who evacuated their homes
A Kohein entering an Ohel Hameis for shelter during a siren
Shabbos:
Is it permissible to place an order with one-day delivery on a Friday?
If a package arrives on Shabbos, is it permissible to open and use it?
Is it permissible to make an online purchase on Friday when it is already Shabbos in the seller’s time zone, knowing the seller is Jewish?
Is it permissible to keep an Amazon account active during Shabbos and Yom Tov?
Ratings:
Is it permissible to leave negative reviews on products?
Is it permissible to create positive, but fictitious reviews for your own products to enhance sales?
Can one purchase items during the nine days (items like clothes and Keilim that is forbidden to buy in those days), to be delivered after tisha b’av?
Can one purchase item prior to the nine day to be delivered during the nine days?
Can one purchase items on Chol Hamoed (that are forbidden to purchase on Chol Hamoed) to be delivered after Yom Tov?
Can one purchase Chometz on Chol Hamoed to be delivered after Pesach?
Hear from the trenches – How are the Kehilos and families in Eretz Yisroel Managing
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?
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What are the issues with the Shabbos elevator?
Is it a halachic shayla of a Hashkafic Shayla?
What switched now?
If a Rov makes a mistake in Psak does he have to pay?
What if he retracts his Psak due to Haskafic considerations?
How does Halacha view mental health?
Can you be Mechalel Shabbos?
How do deal with OCD and Mitzvah observance?
When someone comes to therapy and is saying lashon Horah or talking bad about parents is that a problem? Especially when the therapist is encouraging it.
Can you tell an eating disorder patient to eat on Yom Kippur?
What to say when it comes to Shidduchim and you have privileged information?
And much more…
If your spouse is irreligious, can she trusted to say she went to the Mikvah?
Can you allow your son to stay in your house if he insists on staying there with his girlfriend?
Can you eat from the food they bring you?
Do you have to be afraid they’ll make your oven, microwave, and dishes Treif?
If they cook is it Bishul Acu”m?
If they touch wine does it become Yayin Nesech?
Can you give them food and drink if they won’t wash their hands or make a Brocha?
Are they מצטרפף לזימון ?
What happens if they bring Chametz into your house on Pesach?
If the air conditioner shuts off on Shabbos and they turn it on do you have to leave the house?
If they turn on a light on Shabbos can you use that room?
Can cameras be used for Hashgachos / Cholov Yisrael?
Do we still need on site Mashgiachim?
Security cameras around homes and shuls; does it create a problem entering / walking by on Shabbos?
Can you use a camera to monitor an elderly parent who’s in quarantine / in the hospital on Shabbos?
Can you use a nanny cam or baby monitor on Shabbos?
What’s the source of the proihbition of music? Is recordings, acapella and other forms of music forbidden?
Can you shave your beard? Can you make Shecheyanu?
Should you go to Meron this year or will it cause Chilul Shabbos? Does the pigrimage to Meron repair Charedi Chiloni relations?
What’s the real source of the Yom Tov of Lag Baomer?
A novel approach to the source of Lag Baomer
The 8 Kashrus questions you must ask the mashgiach before booking a hotel for Pesach, Does it take away from our childrens Pesach experience or is it a necessary break?, Is it over excessive Gashmius or Ruchniusdike inspiration, what can go wrong, and much more…
What can you buy without a hechsher? Swimming with family, yichud, and much more…
Schar Shabbos, Ribbis, M’achalos Assuros, Pesach, 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…
E-commerce, Amira L’Akum, Schar Shabbos, Contracts and Partnerships
Can we Daven to Meisim? What needs a Hechsher? Sensors and motion detectors on Shabbos
Should we own a dog? The recent ban in Eretz Yisroel to dog ownership, Muktzah, Hotzaah, Feeding, Neutering, and many more Shailos
Muktzah, Hotza’ah, Women, Kovod Beis Haknesses, Correct to arm our communities, does it help?
Amazing story from Rabbi of Poway Chabad
Clips from Rabbis Aderet, Brog and Weinberger
Discussion of dealing with the Conservative Synagogue massacre
Shaking hands with the opposite gender, Going to holiday parties, Meetings in non-Kosher Restaurants, Being an Ohr Lagoyim, Websites on Shabbos, and much more..
Sitting next to a women on an airplane, Making a minyan on an airplane, Going somewhere with no minyan, Siblings going swimming together, What can you buy without a Hechsher?, Traveling to Alaska or Hawaii – When do you keep Shabbos? And much more…
Lakewood has been in the news recently because of a number of arrests- Rabbi Aaron Kotler CEO BMG discusses it.
Jared Kushner have recently been criticized come for flying to Saudi Arabia on Shabbos, is it halachicly sound?
Lag Ba’omer and Shabbos implications
Lag Ba’omer – Meaning and history
Advice for A Ben Torah in the workplace
Halachic Applications of Amazon Echo and Similar New Technologies
How to Raise our Children to be Talmidei Chachomim
Shabbos Around the World
Dealing with Fertility and Related Issues
Rerun from previous shows about appliances on Shabbos and Yom Tov
Refrigerators and Ovens on Shabbos
Exchanging terrorists for a solider- The Gilad Shalit deal
Going up to the Har Habayis
Women of the Wall
Women saying Kaddish
Video cameras on Shabbos
Burial in Eretz Yisroel
Havdalah and Amein over the telephone
Webcam- Does it solve Yichud and Cholov Yisroel
Going to Uman for Rosh Hashana
Kollel vs. Kiruv
When’s it time to leave Kollel
Treating wounded terrorists
Killing a terrorist where others will get killed with him
Businesses that are open 24/7
Going to a corrupt bais din, inviting non religious on shabbos if they will drive, caring for pets on shabbos, and some other topics
Shailos including: Ben Pakuah Shechitah, Inviting non religious for shabbos if they will drive, Someone in kollel; Chiyuv to do Kiruv?, Contradictions between science and Chazal, Advertising on Frum blogs that post Loshon Hora, Motion detectors on Shabbos, AquaAdvantage salmon that has non kosher dna, Vaccinations in Halacha, The BRCA gene
Halachos of Kiruv
Loshon Hora and the Chareidi Blogs
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…
Reporting Abuse to Authorities and Ayin Hara Using the Yom Tov Oven
The Kosher Switch
Going to secular court (is it ever permitted?)
The Kosher Switch