Category: JEWISH PRACTICE

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   Is it permissible to eat in a designated picnic area of a park?   There is a genre of halacha known as hilchos derech eretz which include the Torah’s...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   A person who is employed and would find it difficult to get home in time to light the menorah at the proper time, may he continue working after nightfall?...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   A man from a non-frum Sephardi family grew up in an Ashkenazi environment and therefore adopted Ashkenazi customs, nussach and pronunciation. When the man was thirty five years old...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   What is the halacha if genes of a predatory bird (which is not kosher) were inserted into an egg of a chicken, causing the hatched chick to exhibit predatory...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   Is it permissible to place food in a holding compartment underneath a stroller in which an infant is sleeping?   Halacha forbids eating food that was left under a...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   How do I ask for forgiveness? The teshuvah done on Yom Kippur only atones for aveiros between man and Hashem but not for aveiros between man and his fellow....

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   When and how do I make an eruv tavshilin?   It is forbidden to do melacha on yom tov for Shabbos. Therefore, anyone who will prepare for Shabbos on...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   A woman baked challah and realized on Shabbos that she had forgotten to separate challah. May challah be taken on Shabbos? Lechatchilah, challah should be taken before baking, as...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   One who is only ready to light the menorah after the time of maariv has begun (i.e. tzei hakochavim – nightfall) and has no minyad readily available: should he...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   May one put on tefillin while the Sefer Torah is out of the Aaron kodesh?   The Alter Rebbe writes in his Shulchan Aruch[1]: If one takes off his...