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Do airpockets make you full?

2

Have eggs shrunk?

3

What came first, the egg or the olive?

4

Moshe Rabbeinus invention

5

Do Americans know when they are full?

6

4 levels of appetite

7

How much cheesecake can you eat?

8

Eating matzo on Erev Shabbos

9

The controversial cracker

10

The Sephardi bagel

11

Is this really a debate?

12

Is snacky a word?

13

New topic: What is mezonos, what is hamotzi? - part 1

14

Forgetfulness

15

Cleanliness and G-dliness

16

New topic - The cleaning before the checking

17

Can women join in a minyan?

18

Contrasting the publicity of Chanukah and Purim

19

New Topic - Can one read the megila without a minyan?

20

A Jewish minhag is Torah!

21

Lice check

22

Petting zoo

23

Gloves

24

Can one consume the sweat of the brow?

25

Thinking Torah during a haircut

26

Thanking about Hashem in the lavatory

27

The kabbalists vs the Talmudists

28

Slip ons

29

My shoes from Zappo

30

The bad biting nail habit

31

Cutting nails

32

Eating a bagel before negel vasser

33

Fixing a pipe in the mikva

34

Washing hands before menorah lighting

35

Does culture effect halacha?

36

New topic: Lighting menorah where eat or sleep?

37

Looking at bugs

38

Can one think two thoughts at the same time?

39

Sticking ones hand into a bathroom

40

Definition of bathroom

41

Porta Potties

42

Persian bathrooms

43

Walking into a bathroom

44

Tried napping unsuccessfully

45

Can I wash my hands with milk?

46

Torah study prior to washing hands?

47

3 x after the bathroom?

48

Dirty or impure?

49

The Kabbalah of these washings

50

New topic - 14 other times one needs to wash their hands

51

Psychoanalysis of an ice cream vow

52

Was my pledge $5 or $5M?

53

Farstreached commitments

54

Indian giver

55

Mental commitment?

56

The pledge that turns into a vow

57

Don't delay paying your pledges

58

Rabbonim debate unique language of Alter Rebbe's hatoras nedarim

59

Is making a vow a good thing?

60

A vow in one's dream

61

Running late...

62

Don't delay past midday

63

Why hatoras nedarim twice?

64

New topic - Vows - part 1

65

The first teshuva of Reb Moshe Feinstein

66

Does the Talmud mention wearing a yarmulka?

67

Purim costumes during davening?

68

Fancy pajamas

69

Can those living in the East daven barefoot?

70

Did the Rebbe wear a gartel for morning berochos?

71

The Rebbe speculates on why we don't wear a gartel before the wedding

72

The source of the custom not to wear a gartel until after the wedding bf

73

The Munkatcher does not want you to wear a gartel all day

74

Definition of a belt

75

Did the Mishna Berurah wear a gartel?

76

Shirtless

77

The spot cleaning debate

78

Is doing laundry fun?

79

Dropping clothes on floor for 2 seconds?

80

Shabbos pajamas

81

Holes in your socks?

82

Minhag invented by women

83

The warp and the woof

84

Being Proactive in shidduchim

85

Unboxing

86

A new Lamborghini

87

New sheitel

88

Difference between sefira and the three weeks

89

How bad is it to steal to tease someone?

90

Permissible stealing

91

Stealing from the dead

92

Can I steal my best friends suit?

93

16th century business advice

94

The unsolved robbery

95

Your Black Label is spilling!

96

Can I steal your gun to protect myself?

97

New topic: A bite from your muffin

98

Jumping back into the mikva

99

How important are supporters

100

More on mugs

101

Mugs part 1

102

What if my vessels fell into the mikva by accident?

103

Can you trust a child to toivel keilim?

104

Toiveling dentures

105

Bar-b-q

106

The cookie cutter

107

Peeler for potatoes

108

Matza rollers

109

Grills

110

Nescafe

111

Pumpkins or Aluminum pans?

112

How many rabbis does it take to open up a tuna can?

113

The linenicy that becomes a stringieny

114

Did American's invent disposable vessels?

115

Common misconception

116

The G-d fearing chemist

117

Does stainless steel need tevila?

118

The science of tevilas keilim

119

Does one need to kasher vessels before toivling?

120

NEW TOPIC-Steel city

121

Sugar cube controversy

122

Making the Mishna Beruah and your wife happy

123

New broom?

124

Checking seforim

125

A dirty tam tam

126

$40 sourbread

127

More then spring cleaning

128

The final טוחן loophole

129

Separating the men from the boys - Hot peppers

130

Should we cut out the cutting board?

131

Double deviation?

132

Extra strange

133

Reb Akiva Eigers muddy question?

134

Can one crush salt on Shabbos?

135

What about very hard cheese?

136

What about an old man that doesn't have teeth?

137

More on the mandolin

138

Exploring the mandolin cutter - part 1

139

Can one use an egg slicer on Shabbos?

140

Is not Shabbosdik a halacha?

141

Berocha for a president

142

Crash course on hydroponics

143

Do mushrooms grow from the ground?

144

Do animals grow from the ground?

145

In hilchos Shabbos we take a stricter approach

146

Reb Moshe and the Chazon Ish debate bananas

147

The Tzemach Tzedek on making sushi

148

How small is small?

149

Did you chew 32 times?

150

Beating up the beets

151

If a rov doesn't teach these halachos in his community....

152

Should I add extra oil?

153

Putting out the candles

154

Practicaly speaking

155

The different types of שהחיינו

156

Should hallel be skipped in a bais avel?

157

The height of the menorah in the shul

158

Outstanding

159

More defense for the minhag to use candles in the shul menorah

160

Why did they use candles to light the menorah in770?

161

Gas propane, what is fire?

162

The hardline approach

163

Rav Solveitchik on public menorah lighting

164

Can guests sleeping a house adjacent to shul fulfill their menorah lighting with the shul lighting?

165

Who invented the minhag to light a menorah in a shul?

166

Is the chart in the back of the Kehot siddur the last word?

167

The Rebbe adds clarity to the Alter Rebbe's retraction

168

The big exception

169

Oh my are these tefilin holy!

170

The covering of the hand tefilin controversy

171

Winking

172

The unknown הלכה למשה מסיני

173

Walk and chew gum

174

Can I kiss my tefilin?

175

Are you allowed to kiss your tefilin?

176

Don't blink

177

Not one word?

178

Can I talk between shel yad and Rosh of Rabbeinu Tam?

179

Can I say thank G-d?

180

Court marshaled for talking

181

The old ovens were better for Yom Tov

182

Can one keep an urn plugged in over Yom Tov?

183

Is it minhag Chabad to light a yizkor candle?

184

How important is a yartzeit candle?

185

If not cooking should one make an eruv tavshilin?

186

Don't melt the wax on the bottom of the candle

187

The Taz assumes the Jew is not engaged in complete vanity

188

Smoking on Yom Tov?

189

Burning challah

190

How far we can go to honor a shul

191

Can we wash our hands with hot water on Yom Tov when Moshiach comes?

192

Does refrigeration change everything?

193

Baked apples

194

Cliff notes on the laws of borer on Yom Tov

195

Making tea on Yom Tov

196

Dust off your talmudic caps

197

The rabbis getting schooled on electricity

198

Oops I accidentally lit the flame?

199

If I'm running late can I ignite a flame on Yom Tov?

200

I'd there a scientist in the house?

201

What does the Chumash say about lighting a fire on Yom Tov?

202

Lighting a flame on Yom Tov

203

Can I go to a symphony?

204

Hold your trumpets

205

Are we too happy?

206

Do people actually put ashes on the choson's head?

207

Core of anti semitism as explained by the Kli Yakar

208

Diminishing in jewelry

209

Different theories as to why the practice has waned

210

Skipping fishsticks?

211

Don't forget your right side

212

What is I forget to leave the empty space?

213

They don't build them like they used to

214

Yartzeit of Reb Chaim Naeh today

215

All doorways

216

No plaster

217

Is mourning a good thing?

218

Balance in mourning

219

Hefsek mid tefila

220

Siren in the middle of tefila

221

Traveling to the ohel before daveing

222

Do people get offended nowadays?

223

Asking the Rabbi a question in middle of shmone esre

224

Pesukei dezimra and hilchos shechita

225

Shul announcements

226

Pause your tehilim and start with the minyan

227

Saying kadish in middle of pesukei dezimra

228

Lubavitcher Rabbonim debate the meaning of the Rebbe's letter

229

A song within a song

230

Fire drill in middle of shmone esrei

231

Called for an aliya

232

Waiting for a minyan at yishtabach

233

Bathroom breaks

234

Better to skip then to read quick

235

Two reasons for pesukei dezimra

236

Inviting the King

237

Halacha required singing

238

Together with the chazan

239

Forgot to make a berocha rishona do I bentch after?

240

Beginning and end

241

Rubbing oils

242

Creams

243

1/60

244

FDA

245

Bedridden

246

Pills

247

Poisonous bagel

248

Reb Moshe knew all the tricks

249

Why the dog?

250

Spoiled yeast

251

Is yeast edible?

252

Grasshoppers

253

Egg matza

254

Nuksha

255

Cash Mishloach manos?

256

Are there years I can't give my sons teacher Mishloach Manos?

257

When in doubt - do

258

Double gifts?

259

Feminist might want to skip this one

260

Does איש mean man?

261

Is mishlach manos only for friends?

262

Anonymous Mishloach Manos?

263

Are the jewish people in unity?

264

Can one give dancing shoes as a mishloach manos

265

Introduction to the mishloach manos debate

266

Can we compare putting on tefilin to giving a bris?

267

Should one wash their hands after putting on tefilin?

268

The non separation separation

269

More wraps

270

Holiness of the boxes

271

It's important for Poskim to give a bottom line

272

Dispute about what the Arizal did

273

Rubberbands?

274

Diving deeper into the way the Rebbe Rayatz wrapped his tefilin

275

Tip from the Zohar pleasure in olom haba

276

Knotty issue

277

Old Chabad Controversy

278

Lopsided yud by the lefties

279

Beautiful and proper

280

Armpit or shoulder?

281

Heart is off

282

Careful with large tefilin on hand

283

A little Yiddish lesson

284

The "kestel"

285

Interesting custom mention in the סידור עם דא"ח

286

Sales pitch for smaller batim

287

Covering the cast?

288

Cast problems

289

Cast

290

Become a righty to serve in the bais hamildash?

291

Transitioning in the Poskim

292

Two types of Paralyzed arms

293

Are fingers part of the arm?

294

A practical halacha from the שאגת אריה

295

Sales pitch for the Lubavitcher knot on tefilin

296

Should a leftie become a rightie?

297

The Rebbe opines?

298

More doorway discussion - cliffnotes

299

Double talmudic cap today

300

Is right, right?

301

Where should I start?

302

Can we paskin from a mammer?

303

What if there is no mezuzah?

304

No public mammer

305

Should one close their windows at night?

306

Location of tefilin - Part 3

307

Location of tefilin - Part 2

308

Location of tefilin - Part 1

309

Extra protection - part 3

310

Extra protection - part 2

311

Location of tefilin - Part 1

312

Hilchos Tefilin Extra protection - part 3

313

Hilchos Tefilin - Extra protection - part 1

314

Multi day journey - part 3

315

Multi day journey - part 2

316

Multi day journey - part 1

317

Should one wait until the seat belt sign goes off to say tefilas haderech?

318

The Rebbe was offered a candy - part 2

319

The Rebbe was offered a candy - part 1

320

Standing part 3

321

Standing part 2

322

Standing part 1

323

Does an onen say tefilas haderech and hamapil?

324

Suburbs and counties

325

Do the angels study chassidus?

326

Can one wash less than 50% of the body?

327

Gerama part 2

328

Gerama part 1

329

Saving our boiler system

330

Are we overshowering in our society?

331

Polll: Do you shower daily?

332

Washing hands on Yom Tov

333

Did the Rogatchover Goan ever fly on an airplane?

334

New York Drivers

335

3.840 Kilometers

336

The flying camel

337

Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim on measuring distance

338

Defining dangerous

339

The long Persian mile

340

Did the say tefilas haderech in Egypt?

341

Asking Hashem permission to leave town

342

Can one hire a gentile to do work during the 9 days?

343

Can I bring my violin to a wine party during year?

344

Can one build new bunkhouses during the 9 days?

345

Can I fix the woodwork in a shul during the 9 days?

346

Can I invest in real estate during the three weeks?

347

Dispute between the Bavli and Yerushalmi?

348

Can one work on 17 Tammuz

349

Controversy if one says a berocha when a child is born nowadays

350

Saying a shechiyanu by a siyum seder Torah

351

Shechiyanu for baby girl during 3 weeks

352

Hatov vehameitiv during 3 weeks

353

Days to diminish in commerce - part 1