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Questions on the subject Yoreh Deah

General
28 Sh'vat 5772
Tevilah for Ceramic Mug
Hi Rabbi, Does a ceramic mug that a child made have to be toiveled? Answer: If the ceramic mug is unglazed earthenware, it will require no tevilah. However, if it...
Basar BeChalav
27 Sh'vat 5772
Heating Dairy Plate in Meaty Microwave
1] Our Nanny heated a ceramic dairy dish with fish on it in a meat microwave and used meat utensils to eat it. What is the status of the dairy...
Converts
25 Sh'vat 5772
Conversion Process
Does it require a Beit din for a convert to convert? Where is the source of this law? What if a convert, all alone, accepted upon himself the mitzvot, dipped,...
General
24 Sh'vat 5772
What Requires Genizah?
What constitutes sheimos? If school parsha sheets come home with full pesukim or a few words from a pasuk is that sheimos? If benchers at a simcha have the name...
General
23 Sh'vat 5772
Honoring Parents for Married Women
Where does it say that after a woman gets married her obligations in “kibud av v’em” became less and the kibud of her husband comes first? (For sure issues of...
General
20 Sh'vat 5772
Deducting Shekels from Dollar Maaser
I have pledged 650 nis to the tomchei Torah of my yeshiva here in EY. Being that I will be paying in shekels I was wondering at what conversion rate...
General
20 Sh'vat 5772
Tefillin for Non-Jew
Could a person who is in the process of conversion wear Tefilin, is it even preferable that he should, so as to get accustomed in the mitzvot? Or just the...
General
20 Sh'vat 5772
Using Vase for Fruit
Someone who has a glass vase that’s always used for putting in flowers, now they want to use it for putting in fruits or other foods one time. Does it...
General
19 Sh'vat 5772
Gemach of Glass Vessels
Someone who has a gemach of glass celim (for serving food on, etc) do they need to be toveled? Or is it like they are “omed l’sechorah” and patur from...
General
19 Sh'vat 5772
Kid Poured Milk into Cholent Pot
Someone woke up Shabbos morning and saw his child standing by the cholent pot with a plastic cup filled half the way with milk. The child explained that he wanted...
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