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Halachos of Daily Living

Laws related to Berachos When does the day begin for the counting of one hundred brachos? Does one begin counting from sunset, when the halachic day begins, or does one begin counting from the morning? Poskim, such as the Mishna Berura (46:14), include…

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Corporate Gifts

Many startup businesses are created through an agreement in which an investor provides funding with a heter iska contract. May the business owner send the investor annual corporate gifts, or an extravagant Shalach Manos on Purim? Poskim disagree whether the…

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One Dollar, One Vote?

The (Putative) Hegemony Of the “Billionaire Class” By: Rav Yitzchak Grossman, Dayan at The Bais HaVaad The central theme of the presidential campaign of self-described “democratic socialist” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is a scathing denunciation of what he considers the…

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Digging for Din: May We Learn Halacha from Archeology?

Torah amid the ruins The archeology world was recently excited by the discovery of a marked beka (machatzis hashekel) weight in a dig at the Kosel. A small stone bearing an inscription that archeologists identified as the word “beka”—written backwards—was…

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Halachos of Daily Living

These are some brachos which fall in the middle between these two categories mentioned last week– that is – they aren’t clearly obligatory or not obligatory, and it is questionable if they are part of the 100 brachos or not: Amen in response to the…

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