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4th of July Special: R. Ethan Tucker: 250 Years of Judaism in America
Can You Count the Omer Early?
Are Women Exempt from Mitzvot?
Does Jewish Law Permit Getting a Reversible Vasectomy?
Are Jews Allowed to Spay or Neuter Pets?
Is Buying Jewish a Mitzvah?
Can Women Give the Priestly Blessing?
Is Seeing Yourself on Zoom Like Looking in a Mirror During Shiva?
Can I Lead Prayer if I Don't Believe in God?
Can We Have Joint/Group Aliyot?
Can We Add Aliyot to the Torah Reading?
Can I Get a Reiki Treatment?
What Is the Scope of Pikuach Nefesh (Can I File a Death Penalty Appeal on Shabbat)?
What Does Halakhah Have to Say About Plasma Donation?
How Do I Dispose of Christian Religious Items After I Convert?
Can I Attend a Wedding in a Church?
Blowing the Shofar: Tips, Tricks, and Considerations
Minor Fast Days
Can We Decorate Shul With Flowers for Shavuot? And Should I Pull an All-Nighter?
Can I Bring in a Second Day of Yom Tov Early?
Can I Say the Names of Other Gods?
Should I Purchase Life Insurance?
Suicide and Burial
Which Direction Should I Face During Prayer?
What Do You *Mean* I Still Can't Eat Bread? (re-release)
Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification? (re-release)
Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control (re-release)
Can I Do Something Forbidden For Shalom Bayit?
Can I Have a Karpas Course at the Seder?
How Do I Forge My Own Religious Path While Respecting My Parents?
Can I Print an Overlay to Make Torah Reading More Accessible?
Can I Read My Horoscope?
Should the Torah Be Translated as it's Read to Make it More Accessible?
Making Sense of the Mechitzah
Thanking God for "Opening the Eyes of the Blind" When I'm Disabled
Can I Say Birkat Kohanim While Carrying a Gun?
Kashrut and the Modern Dairy Industry
What is the Role of Doubt in Jewish Law?
Can I Swim on Shabbat?
Why is the Age of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Gendered?
Should I Say "Amen" in the Bathroom?
Can I Use Generative Artifical Intelligence?
Does Jewish Law Care About Non-Jewish Life?
Are Jews Responsible for One Another? How so?
Coming Soon: More Responsa Radio
R. Ethan Tucker on the Multivocality of Halakhah
Do the Laws of Eruv Make Any Sense At All? 100th Episode Update
Is Impossible Pork Kosher? 100th Episode Update
Is There a Blessing on Seeing a Solar Eclipse?
Can I Buy a Non-Jew a Sandwich on Passover?
What Am I Allowed to Do at a Mock Seder?
Can I Put on a Play During the Megillah Reading?
How Should Jewish Criminal Lawyers Respond to Crime Scene Photos? 100th Episode Update
How Can I Make Coffee on Shabbat? 100th Episode Update
How to Name a Baby Girl: 100th Episode Update
New Podcast Trailer: Answers WithHeld
How Do I Become More Observant?
How Does Cheese Become Kosher?
Can an AI Chatbot Answer My Halakhic Questions?
Do I Need to Light Hanukkah Candles Again After a Communal Lighting?
What Liturgical Changes Should We Be Making Right Now?
How Far Must We Go To Redeem Captives?
Can Musical Instruments be Used on Shabbat?
How Do Time Zones Work For Shabbat?
Is My Tallit Supposed to be White?
Should All Jews Switch to a Mushroom Burial?
How Much Time Do I Have to Say a Berakhah?
Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control
Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification?
When Can I Make a Shehehiyyanu?
Does Welcoming Guests Ever Override the Laws of Shabbat?
When Should We Recite the Shema?
Can Animals Be Used in Medical Research?
How Should I Talk to Patients About Physician-Assisted Suicide?
Can a Rabbinic Ruling Outlive its Reasoning?
Should I Save Money or Give Tzedakah?
Can I Lie for the Sake of Scientific Research?
Can I Make Seltzer On Shabbat?
Can I Change My Seat in Shul While in Mourning?
Why Do We Wait Between Eating Meat and Dairy? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #4
How Old Will I Be at the Resurrection of the Dead? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #3
Did the Sages Have Last Names? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #2
Can You Make Kiddush on Frozen Grapes? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #1
Is Impossible Pork Kosher?
Can I Take a Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test on Shabbat?
Can I Do Something Forbidden for the Sake of Education?
How Will We Return to Running Minyanim Virtually and In-Person?
Do I need to take my kippah off in a restaurant?
High Holidays Special Edition
What to Do with Grandma’s Treyf China
How Do We Use Space During Yom Kippur Services?
Can I extinguish my gas burner on Yom Tov?
Can I attend the theater on Shabbat?
I'm a Kohen. Can I Attend My Father's Funeral?
Are non-Jews allowed to take on mitzvot?
Can I See My Therapist on Shabbat?
Can I bow down during karate class?
Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?
What’s the problem with getting a tattoo?
Passover Special Edition! (Re-release)