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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…

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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.…

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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…

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Vicarious (Secondary) Liability: Who is Responsible?

Rav Yitzchok Grossman Question: In western law there’s a concept of vicarious responsibility, where an employer is sometimes responsible for the actions of his employees. For example, in a restaurant, if the cook – who is just an employee –…

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