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Choshen Mishpat

  • Choshen Mishpat
  • חו"מ - שותפים בקרקע (קנז-קע), חומ - נזקי שכנים (קנג-קנו)

I have a problem with my neighbors

  Question: I have a problem with my neighbors. There were workers working in his house. Every time when they finish the job, they were leaving the gates for the…

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  • Chanukah, Choshen Mishpat, Separating Ma’aser
  • chanukah gelt

Children’s Chanukah Gelt in Halacha

  Question: I have two young children Bh, one a year and a half, and one 2 months old. Am I allowed to use the Chanukah gelt they received to…

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  • Choshen Mishpat, Renting
  • Covid-19, חו"מ שלד

Do I need to pay for rent if I didn’t use the apartment because I went home during the pandemic?

  Question: I am a single girl, and I rent an apartment in crown Heights during the year. Due to the pandemic, I went home from March 19th - the…

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  • Choshen Mishpat
  • חו"מ - אונאה ומקח טעות (רכז-רמ), מקח טעות

Do I need to pay for a broken item which I was accidently not charged for?

  Question: About a week ago a bought a couple of things in Jewish-owned store, including a thermometer. After I got home, I opened the thermometer's packaging and tried to…

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  • Avodah Zarah, Nizkei Guf V'Nefesh
  • chatzitzah, chovel, Tattoos

Permanent Makeup/Eyebrows

  Question: Is it halachically permitted to get permanent makeup that lasts for about a year, or permanent eyelash extensions? Is it a problem of tattoo? Is it a chatzizah…

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  • Choshen Mishpat
  • amazon, lying, review, לפני עור לא תתן מכשול

Is there an issue with writing fake reviews for products on websites to get them for free. What if they are actually 5 stars?

  When leaving a review on Amazon you are stating: 1. That you bought the product. 2. That you tried and used the product. 3. How the product performed. One…

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  • - Halacha Articles, Choshen Mishpat
  • חו"מ - דיני פקדון (רצא-שב)

Article: A Day in the Life of a Shomer Chinam

  I woke up pretty excited. I’m traveling to Yerushalayim for a summer learning program! I’m happy to be able to spend some time in the holy atmosphere of Eretz…

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  • - Halacha Articles, Choshen Mishpat, Medical, Nizkei Guf V'Nefesh
  • braces, Cosmetic, lo yilbash, surgery, חו"מ - הלכות חובל בחבירו (תכ-תכז)

Article: Cosmetic Surgery in Halachah

  Orthodontic care to straighten teeth (i.e. braces), maxillofacial surgery to improve the look of the jaw, plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes—as well as other elective treatments may constitute the issur (restriction)…

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  • Choshen Mishpat
  • הל' אונאה ומקח טעות

May I have a dysfunctional food scale in my possession?

  Question: I bought a food scale, and the numbers keep changing and it is not working properly - may I have it in my possession?   Answer: If you…

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  • Hashavas Aveida

Hashovas Aveida with forbidden objects

  Question: While cleaning up after a non-religious family event at Chabad house, a bag of non-kosher cognac and an empty flask was found. It belongs to one of the…

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  • Hashavas Aveida

Someone left a scarf in my house, I don’t know who it is, can I keep it?

  Question: This a previous correspondence with Asktherav: At a farbrengen at my home once, someone left a scarf. I ended up using the scarf. It is now some five…

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  • Stealing

I don’t want others to use my Seforim

  Q. Can you write אסור להשתמש בלי רשות in a sefer, and if yes, do you have to look in the front of a sefer to see if the…

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  • Choshen Mishpat

Can I Change my Mortgage Broker?

  Question: I'm currently in the process of getting a mortgage for a home purchase. I've been working for the last few weeks with a frum loan officer, and she…

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  • Children-Chinuch, Choshen Mishpat, Stealing
  • aseres hadibros, גזיל, לא תחמוד

Kids trading their possessions and the Issur of לא תחמוד

  Question: It often happens at home that one my children wants something another child has and tries to think of ways to get it whether just by asking (repeatedly)…

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  • Shmiras Guf V'Nefesh
  • bubbles, coffee, מעשה רב

I heard that drinking beer bubbles is not safe halachically. Does that apply to other bubbles like that are on top of a coffee?

  It does not apply only to beer. It applies to any type of bubbles. This would apply to both fermentation, as well as bubbles due to heat. Nonetheless, the…

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  • Loans, Spending Ma'aser
  • loan

Can I calculate the interest I would lose due to giving a loan as Ma’aser?

  Question: If I am lending my money which is in my saving account to a Jew and losing the interest that would accumulate during this time, can this amount…

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  • Children-Chinuch, Choshen Mishpat, Stealing
  • חו"מ - הלכות גניבה (שמח-שנח), חו"מ שמט

How can I pay back for damaging items during my youth?

  Question: I'm embarrassed to say but when I was 10 or 11, our teacher gave us books in the classroom library that we could take out and use and…

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  • Shmiras Guf V'Nefesh
  • soup

Drinking From a Bowl

  Question: Are you allowed to finish eating soup by drinking the rest from the bowl or it’s a Sakana of drinking from the keara that the Alter Rebbe brings?…

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  • Choshen Mishpat
  • חו"מ - הלכות נזקי שכנים (קנג-קנו)

Our tree is hanging over the neighbor’s garden, whose responsibility is it to cut it?

  Question: If our tree is hanging over the neighbor’s garden, whose responsibility is it to cut down those branches which are hanging over. If it’s my responsibility, do I…

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  • Choshen Mishpat, Sukkah
  • חו"מ - הלכות נזקי שכנים (קנג-קנו)

Does my neighbor have to pay for trimming his tree which is invalidating my Sukkah?

  Question: My neighbors tree branches are growing in such a way that they are over the area of my Sukkah. Who is responsible for paying for the trimming of…

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  • Choshen Mishpat, Damages, Lashon Hara
  • חו"מ - הלכות עדות

Should I tell the damaged party who was the damager?

  Question: If one yid knows that a second did damage to a third and doesn't want (and won't) admit it, should/must he tell the damaged party who was the…

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  • Geneivas Daas
  • geneivas daas, school, test, truth

שאלו היום בנות סמינר האם מותר להעתיק במבחנים, או אסור משום גניבת דעת, גזל. 

  אסור.   מקורות: פשוט שגם כשאינו לתעודת גמר - ה״ז איסור גניבת דעת ממש, וגם יש בזה משום שקר והוות. ומצו״ב מה שכתבנו לת״ח חשוב באה״ק:  להסברא שמונע מעצמו בזיון -…

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  • Choshen Mishpat, Tzar Baalei Chaim
  • right of way, secular

A Question from a Secular Jew: Yielding on Sidewalk

  Question: Hello Rabbi, I'm a secular Jew. I was walking with my child on Sat and a Hassidic couple was walking in a perpendicular direction. I thought since I…

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  • Kiddush, Shmiras Guf V'Nefesh
  • liquids left uncovered, wine, או"ח ערב

The wine stopper we used for our wine bottle popped off in the fridge and the wine must have been uncovered overnight. What is the Halacha?

  It may be used, even for Kiddush (assuming there is no issue with non mevushal handles by non Jews). See also: https://asktherav.com/a-drink-left-uncovered-overnight/   Sources: ראה שו״ע אדה״ז ערב, א.…

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  • Shmiras Guf V'Nefesh
  • מעקה

Is one allowed to go on the roof of a story building without gates?

  One may go up there on a temporary basis if he is careful, unless its dark etc.   Sources: ראה שו״ת מהר״ח או״ז סא. מרדכי הל׳ ציצית תתקמד. הובא…

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