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Responsa Radio — 154 episodes

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Can You Count the Omer Early?

2

Are Women Exempt from Mitzvot?

3

Does Jewish Law Permit Getting a Reversible Vasectomy?

4

Are Jews Allowed to Spay or Neuter Pets?

5

Is Buying Jewish a Mitzvah?

6

Can Women Give the Priestly Blessing?

7

Is Seeing Yourself on Zoom Like Looking in a Mirror During Shiva?

8

Can I Lead Prayer if I Don't Believe in God?

9

Can We Have Joint/Group Aliyot?

10

Can We Add Aliyot to the Torah Reading?

11

Can I Get a Reiki Treatment?

12

What Is the Scope of Pikuach Nefesh (Can I File a Death Penalty Appeal on Shabbat)?

13

What Does Halakhah Have to Say About Plasma Donation?

14

How Do I Dispose of Christian Religious Items After I Convert?

15

Can I Attend a Wedding in a Church?

16

Blowing the Shofar: Tips, Tricks, and Considerations

17

Minor Fast Days

18

Can We Decorate Shul With Flowers for Shavuot? And Should I Pull an All-Nighter?

19

Can I Bring in a Second Day of Yom Tov Early?

20

Can I Say the Names of Other Gods?

21

Should I Purchase Life Insurance?

22

Suicide and Burial

23

Which Direction Should I Face During Prayer?

24

What Do You *Mean* I Still Can't Eat Bread? (re-release)

25

Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification? (re-release)

26

Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control (re-release)

27

Can I Do Something Forbidden For Shalom Bayit?

28

Can I Have a Karpas Course at the Seder?

29

How Do I Forge My Own Religious Path While Respecting My Parents?

30

Can I Print an Overlay to Make Torah Reading More Accessible?

31

Can I Read My Horoscope?

32

Should the Torah Be Translated as it's Read to Make it More Accessible?

33

Making Sense of the Mechitzah

34

Thanking God for "Opening the Eyes of the Blind" When I'm Disabled

35

Can I Say Birkat Kohanim While Carrying a Gun?

36

Kashrut and the Modern Dairy Industry

37

What is the Role of Doubt in Jewish Law?

38

Can I Swim on Shabbat?

39

Why is the Age of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Gendered?

40

Should I Say "Amen" in the Bathroom?

41

Can I Use Generative Artifical Intelligence?

42

Does Jewish Law Care About Non-Jewish Life?

43

Are Jews Responsible for One Another? How so?

44

Coming Soon: More Responsa Radio

45

R. Ethan Tucker on the Multivocality of Halakhah

46

Do the Laws of Eruv Make Any Sense At All? 100th Episode Update

47

Is Impossible Pork Kosher? 100th Episode Update

48

Is There a Blessing on Seeing a Solar Eclipse?

49

Can I Buy a Non-Jew a Sandwich on Passover?

50

What Am I Allowed to Do at a Mock Seder?

51

Can I Put on a Play During the Megillah Reading?

52

How Should Jewish Criminal Lawyers Respond to Crime Scene Photos? 100th Episode Update

53

How Can I Make Coffee on Shabbat? 100th Episode Update

54

How to Name a Baby Girl: 100th Episode Update

55

New Podcast Trailer: Answers WithHeld

56

How Do I Become More Observant?

57

How Does Cheese Become Kosher?

58

Can an AI Chatbot Answer My Halakhic Questions?

59

Do I Need to Light Hanukkah Candles Again After a Communal Lighting?

60

What Liturgical Changes Should We Be Making Right Now?

61

How Far Must We Go To Redeem Captives?

62

Can Musical Instruments be Used on Shabbat?

63

How Do Time Zones Work For Shabbat?

64

Is My Tallit Supposed to be White?

65

Should All Jews Switch to a Mushroom Burial?

66

How Much Time Do I Have to Say a Berakhah?

67

Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control

68

Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification?

69

When Can I Make a Shehehiyyanu?

70

Does Welcoming Guests Ever Override the Laws of Shabbat?

71

When Should We Recite the Shema?

72

Can Animals Be Used in Medical Research?

73

How Should I Talk to Patients About Physician-Assisted Suicide?

74

Can a Rabbinic Ruling Outlive its Reasoning?

75

Should I Save Money or Give Tzedakah?

76

Can I Lie for the Sake of Scientific Research?

77

Can I Make Seltzer On Shabbat?

78

Can I Change My Seat in Shul While in Mourning?

79

Why Do We Wait Between Eating Meat and Dairy? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #4

80

How Old Will I Be at the Resurrection of the Dead? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #3

81

Did the Sages Have Last Names? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #2

82

Can You Make Kiddush on Frozen Grapes? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #1

83

Is Impossible Pork Kosher?

84

Can I Take a Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test on Shabbat?

85

Can I Do Something Forbidden for the Sake of Education?

86

How Will We Return to Running Minyanim Virtually and In-Person?

87

Do I need to take my kippah off in a restaurant?

88

High Holidays Special Edition

89

What to Do with Grandma’s Treyf China

90

How Do We Use Space During Yom Kippur Services?

91

Can I extinguish my gas burner on Yom Tov?

92

Can I attend the theater on Shabbat?

93

I'm a Kohen. Can I Attend My Father's Funeral?

94

Are non-Jews allowed to take on mitzvot?

95

Can I See My Therapist on Shabbat?

96

Can I bow down during karate class?

97

Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?

98

What’s the problem with getting a tattoo?

99

Passover Special Edition! (Re-release)

100

Is Protest Prayer?

101

How to Count to Ten

102

Can the Government Seize My Property?

103

Whatever Could Be Wrong With My Mezuzah?

104

Online Communities & Other Questions

105

Pervasive Electricity & Other Questions

106

Can I pray next to people of other faiths?

107

Can I keep an Amazon Echo active on Shabbat?

108

Can I Take An Oath of Office?

109

What is the “Ben Yomo” rule and does it make sense?

110

Why No Shabbat Bicycles?

111

Self Driving Car Ethics—What’s the Halakhah?

112

Should a person’s Judaism dictate workplace behavior?

113

Can I Benefit from a Shabbat Violation after Shabbat is Over?

114

Do modern vehicles change the rules for Tefillat HaDerekh, the Traveller’s Prayer?

115

After a bad breakup, must I ask forgiveness from my ex?

116

Can You Hire People to Work on Shabbat?

117

What if a relative insists on being cremated?

118

Can nonprofits accept money from crooks?

119

Can you bend the rules for the sake of community?

120

Can I “Borrow” Office Supplies?

121

Do I Need to Stand for Kaddish?

122

Can I Listen to This Podcast During a Workout?

123

Should Campaign Contributions Be Considered Charity?

124

Can I Convert to Judaism Because I Love Someone?

125

Praying While In Physical Pain

126

Can I Open My Mail on Shabbat?

127

Can I Live Dangerously?

128

Can non-Jews lead parts of synagogue services?

129

How Do I Make Coffee on Shabbat?

130

When should my kid start keeping kosher?

131

Do forbidden acts become OK if you do them weirdly enough?

132

How To Name A Baby Girl

133

Prayer or a Crying Child—Who Wins?

134

Can You Lead Prayers on a Fast if You're Not Fasting?

135

Why "Rest" on Shabbat Might Include Not Taking Pills

136

Must One Wear a Kippah at All Times?

137

Sports on Shabbat—Can You? Should You?

138

Why the Fuss About Repeating Words in Prayer?

139

Can I Be in a Photograph on Shabbat?

140

I Printed Out God's Name—Now What?

141

Can I Train for My Job on Shabbat?

142

Why is Jewish Divorce Law Still Broken?

143

Can I Pay My Bills on Shabbat?

144

In IVF, Should The Egg Donor's Religion Matter?

145

What Do You *Mean* I Still Can't Eat Bread?

146

Pesah Special Edition

147

What is Jewish Law's Problem With Electricity?

148

Do the Laws of Eruv Make Any Sense At All?

149

How to Order in a Non-Kosher Restaurant

150

Can I Invest in Burger King?

151

Ant Farms, Dishwashers, Trains, and Blessings After Meals

152

Burial Practices, Umbrellas, Foster Kids

153

Fitbits, Intimacy in the Modern World, and "The 18 Minutes"

154

Night Owls, De Tocqueville, Dishes from Sears, and Theater!