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Monetary Matters
Monetary Matters
Debts and loans, returning lost property, copyright, torts, contracts and agreements, employer and employee, wills and inheritances, neighbors, fraud, and more
Shabbat and Chagim
Shabbat and Chagim
The laws of Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Chanukah, Purim, Pesach, Sefirat Ha'omer, Shavuot, Fast Days and more
Marital Laws
Marital Laws
Modesty, engagement and marriage, sheva brachot, divorce, yichud, procreation, alimony and more
Kashrut
Kashrut
Kashrut of products, restaurants, holiday homes and hotels, medication, infestation of food and more
Laws of Daily Life
Prayers, tefilin and more
Laws of Daily Life
Prayers, blessing and more Tzitzit, tefilin, prayer, blessings, bet kenesset, sefer torah, mezuzah, genizah and more
Mourning
Mourning
Funeral, eulogy and burial, aninut – status of mourners before the burial, memorial, impurities for the kohanim and more
Family Purity
Journey Through Life
Journey Through Life
Brit milah, pidyon haben, 'chalakeh' – boy's first haircut at 3 years, bar mitzvah and more (for marriage see: "Marriage Laws", for death see: "Mourning")
Interpersonal Relationships
Laws and Practical Judaism
Interpersonal Relationships
Between man and fellow man, matrimonial harmony, behavior towards parents, slander, lying, revenge and bearing a grudge, anger and more
Mysticism
Mysticism
Dream solving, segulot and their source, benefiting the soul of the deceased, graves of tzaddikim, methods of medicine, healing with energies, witchcraft and more
Tzedakah & Maaser
Defamation - Lashon Harah
Defamation - Lashon Harah
Questions and answers on the subject of defamation and Lashon Harah, Hotsaat Shem Rah, for benefit and without benefit.
Berachot
Berachot
The laws of usufruct blessings (blessings on food and drink, Bircat Hamazon and the final blessing, the blessings of smell), the blessings of praise (shehecheianu, birkat halevanah, etc.), and the blessings of mitzvot.
Peace at Home and Children's Education
(advice)
Peace at Home and Children's Education (advice)
This category is for non-halachic questions about peace in the home and education of children. For halachic questions on these topics, see the "interpersonal relationships" category and more.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Charity, lending money with interest, vows, prohibition of wearing other gender clothing, wasting, animals, shaving the beard, idol worship, shaatnez, sending away the mother bird, tattooing and many more subjects