Category: PRACTICE

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   If one returns home from an event and realizes that he only has a large bill with which to pay the babysitter, is he obligated pay with that (and...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   A contractor verbally committed to do work for free in the house of one in need, but later had a change of heart and regretted his offer. Is he...

By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan   What are the prohibitions involved when cheating on a test? Is there any difference between a test on limudei kodesh material and lehavdil a test on secular studies?  ...

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...