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Tzedakah and Maaser

He spoke about his charity — does this cancel the donation?

Disposing of holy texts and objects

Genizah of a book that contains a sacred quotation

Kashrut of Gaviscon for heartburn

Songs after Lag BaOmer, peeling skin on Shabbat, netilat yadayim for food dipped in liquid

Customs during the sefirah

Music Therapy During Sefiras HaOmer: Is It Permitted?

Purity laws for Kohanim

Impurity from the dead on an airplane

Weekly Question

What is forbidden to cook

Definition of cooking on Shabbat versus cooking by a non‑Jew

Employees and employers

Halacha on Withholding Seminary Records for Unpaid Tuition

Blessings on pleasures

Drinking soda water without being thirsty

Study Day – Food Without Kashrut

Looking at a woman

Primary and secondary foods

A “secondary” food that arrives in the middle of the meal

Other forbidden activities

Carrying a Weapon on Shabbat

The will of rabbi Yehuda a-Chassid

Blocking a Window – the Testament of Rabbi Yehuda HaChasid