A. It’s Shul-ese for Congratulations, literally: All the more power to you. Or as in Star Wars, May the force be with you. Sephardic Jews have a different expression.…
A. Jewish tradition considers it a (reluctant) honor and obligation to participate in a burial personally, instead of letting the hired help with the backhoe do it. As much as we would rather never have to d...
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Q. I can’t believe the family is supposed to shovel dirt on the deceased at the funeral!
A. It is, and you’re right, we’re allowed to carry in private property on Shabbat. But in a Jewish legal sense, open, unfenced area, while not considered public area, is still not private for the...
A. Not being there, I can’t be sure, but it probably was an issue of tearing on Shabbos. If the tissues were connected, there may be an issue of tearing them apart on Shabbos. Some Rabbinic authorities...
A. That’s because our milk comes frozen, or we freeze it when we get it, because we don’t get it often enough, and we didn’t thaw this bottle long enough.
Why does our milk come froz...