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It is recommended to first search your question using the search bar, or to search by categories.

To ask a question, simply fill out the Submit a Question form. You can add an attachment if necessary, like a picture of a doorway for a question on Mezuza, or the like. Please include as many details as possible when you ask your question, as the final Halachic ruling depends on the details you provide. No account is required to submit a question.

Once you ask your question you will receive an email that your question has been received. If you'd like to track your questions, you can create an account, and your questions will appear in the My Questions section of the site. You will also receive an invite to create an account after submitting a question.

If necessary, you can ask your question anonymously by sending an email with your question to anonymous@asktherav.com. We request that this feature should be used only for matters of a confidential nature. Questions submitted to the anonymous email account may have a slight delay in the response time.

Every question gets answered. You will receive an email with your answer. If you have an account, the answer will also be displayed in the My Questions page.

After submitting a question, you should receive a confirmation email from shailah@asktherav.com. If you don't see it, check your spam folder — and consider adding that address to your contacts so future emails arrive in your inbox. If you never received a confirmation at all, this may indicate an incorrect email address was entered, and you should resubmit your question.

We do our best to respond to every question within 24 hours. If you submit it on Friday in New York, it might only be answered by Sunday. If your question is an urgent one, please specify "Urgent" in the subject of the submission form and we will try to accommodate.

Sometimes there could be a slight delay, but usually not more than 24 hours. If 36 hours have passed and you still did not receive your answer, we suggest you check your spam folder.

Any information provided to AskTheRav is completely confidential and does not leave the AskTheRav platform. Before the questions and answers are published on the website, they undergo extensive editing making sure all private details are removed prior to publishing.

Every Halachic answer takes time and effort to research and put together. We kindly request not to overload the system with theoretical questions, but to keep the questions to those which are practical and current. If you have more than one question, please submit them as two different questions instead of including them in one submission. AskTheRav reserves the right to decline to answer questions or to disable members who are abusing the system.

You can ask questions in English, Hebrew or Yiddish. Your question will be answered in the language that you ask it.

AskTheRav generally follows the Ashkenazic ruling, as well as the rulings of the Chabad Rebbeim starting from the Alter Rebbe – Baal HaTanya up to the current Lubavitcher Rebbe. If you follow other customs, please include in the submission form which custom you follow (e.g. Sefardic).

The Halachos on our database are meant for Halacha L'Maaseh – practical Halacha, and can be followed in regular circumstances. However, many details affect a Halachic ruling. Therefore, if your question is at all different from those published online, we encourage you to submit your question together with a link to the database for us to determine what the Halacha is in your specific case.

To use information from our database in your work, please contact us at info@asktherav.com. Any distribution, use or reproduction of information in our database without explicit permission is strictly prohibited according to both Torah law and secular law. AskTheRav intends to take appropriate disciplinary action.

The Rambam writes that one of the principles of faith is to actively wait for Moshiach's coming, every single day. This means that we expect, every day, that Moshiach will come. Furthermore, the Rebbe shows us how we recently started seeing many signs of Moshiach in the world. Just like we learn over the Halachos of a Yom Tov in the weeks prior to the Yom Tov, we learn the Halachos of Moshiach now, to know what to do when Moshiach will come.

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