Yorucha: Dina Demalchusa Dina
WEEK OF DINA D'MALCHUSA DINA 1 By Rabbi Dovid Grossman, Rosh Bais HaVaad
Someone Works in Foodservice, and Part of His Job is to Handle Chametz, Is There an Issue With This?
Question: If someone has a job working with chametz food, is that a problem on Pesach? Answer: It is a big problem. The halacha is that it is forbidden to derive any benefit from chametz on Pesach. Being paid to…
If I Have an Amazon Store Which I Realized Sold Some Chametz on Pesach, Can I Keep the Money From Those Sales?
Question: If someone has an Amazon business and realizes on Pesach that some products that he’s selling contain chametz, is he permitted to keep the profits? Answer: First of all, it is clear that it is forbidden to sell chametz…
Co-ops and Chametz in Common Areas
Rav Yosef Kushner, Dayan in The Bais HaVaad Question: If someone lives in a co-op -style housing complex, such as a senior living community, which has common areas that are owned communally by the residents, does he have to be…
Non-Jewish Tenants Vs. Secular Jewish Tenants
Rabbi Yosef Kushner Question: In previous segments, we discussed non-Jews leaving chametz on one’s property. What about non-observant Jews? Would they be any different? Answer: The answer is that they present a much bigger halachic challenge. As we said, if…
Bais HaVaad Halacha Journal, Parshas Ki Sisa
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Q&A From the Bais HaVaad Halacha Hotline
Sales Tacks Dayan Yehoshua Grunwald March 4, 2021 Q Can one sell chametz over the phone or online? A Contemporary poskim permit a person to appoint a rav to sell his chametz over the phone. (See Mechiras Chametz Kehilchaso 17:11.) This verbal…
Bais HaVaad on the Parsha, Parshas Ki Sisa
Tea Time Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Yosef Jacobovits March 4, 2021 And the B’nei Yisrael shall keep the Shabbos, to make the Shabbos for their generations an everlasting covenant… Shemos 31:16 The Mishnah Berurah (O.C.…
Sleeper Agent: When a Proxy Fails to Act
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman March 4, 2021 One of the most controversial events in the GameStop saga was the decision by the Robinhood trading platform (followed by other brokerages) to halt purchases of GameStop (along…