Halacha Deep Dive
Halacha Deep Dive
Rabbi Yehuda Brickman • 131 episodes
Rabbi Yehuda Brickman
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Name
Release Date
Duration
51
Women Wearing Pants
Women Wearing Pants
May 20, 2024
16:48
Can a women wear pants? With no men around? Pajamas? Ski pants?
52
Folding a Tallis on Shabbos
Folding a Tallis on Shabbos
May 14, 2024
15:06
Can you fold your tallis on Shabbos or should you leave it until after Shabbos?
53
Listening to music
Listening to music
May 6, 2024
21:29
Is all music and singing permitted year round? Music in a restaurant with wine?
54
Using Grape Juice for Kiddush & Daled Kosos
Using Grape Juice for Kiddush & Daled Kosos
Apr 16, 2024
21:00
Is it better to use wine for Kiddush? Can grape juice be used for the daled kosos? Should I get a non mevushal wine or grape juice?
55
Lowering a Flame on Yom Tov
Lowering a Flame on Yom Tov
Apr 8, 2024
19:26
Can you lower a flame on Yom Tov? What if your food will burn? What if you can light a smaller flame instead?
56
Bringing a Korban Pesach Nowdays
Bringing a Korban Pesach Nowdays
Apr 1, 2024
21:01
Can we bring a korban pesach before Moshiach comes and Beis Hamikdash is rebuilt?
57
Responsibility for Damage on Purim
Responsibility for Damage on Purim
Mar 17, 2024
20:24
Is a person held responsible for damages they cause on Purim? Does it make a difference if they are drunk? Does it make a difference how much damage they cause?
58
Pasterurized Wine as Mevushal
Pasterurized Wine as Mevushal
Mar 3, 2024
23:32
Does pasteurization make wine considered mevushal?
59
Using a Water Filter on Shabbos
Using a Water Filter on Shabbos
Feb 27, 2024
23:19
Can you use a water filter on Shabbos? A Brita pitcher? An undersink filter?
60
The Bugs in NYC Water
The Bugs in NYC Water
Feb 12, 2024
23:41
Does NYC water need to be filtered?
61
Using 'Hanging' Toilet Disinfectant on Shabbos
Using 'Hanging' Toilet Disinfectant on Shabbos
Feb 5, 2024
23:25
Can you use a toilet disinfectant tablet that colors the water and gives off a good smell on Shabbos?
62
Mezonos Rolls
Mezonos Rolls
Jan 29, 2024
18:43
Is the bracha on 'mezonos rolls' mezonos or hamotzi?
63
Reading Other People's Mail, Texts & Emails
Reading Other People's Mail, Texts & Emails
Jan 21, 2024
29:25
Can you read your spouse's emails? Can you look at your child's texts?
64
Shellac on Candies
Shellac on Candies
Jan 16, 2024
23:20
Is Shellac (used to glaze candies kosher)?
65
Counting Jews
Counting Jews
Jan 7, 2024
24:08
When and how can you count a group of Jews? Can one partcicpate in the Israeli census? How to count for a minyan?
66
Workplace Holiday Parties
Workplace Holiday Parties
Dec 25, 2023
22:45
Can you go to your office holiday party? Can you have 'drinks' by your office end-of-year party?
67
Asara B'Teves on Erev Shabbos: When Does a Friday Fast Finish?
Asara B'Teves on Erev Shabbos: When Does a Friday Fast Finish?
Dec 17, 2023
18:45
When Asara B' Teves is on Friday when can you break your fast? Before Shabbos? When youget home from shul? Tzeis Hakochovim?
68
DE - With Meat, After Meat, and Cholov Yisroel
DE - With Meat, After Meat, and Cholov Yisroel
Dec 10, 2023
24:47
Can a dairy equipment (DE) product be eaten with meat or after meat? Can someone who only eats Cholov Yisroel eat a DE prodcut?
69
Bison & Giraffe
Bison & Giraffe
Dec 5, 2023
19:54
Are Bison kosher? What about Giraffe? Do animals require a mesorah to be considered kosher?
70
Is Turkey Kosher?
Is Turkey Kosher?
Nov 19, 2023
18:47
What makes a bird kosher? Does turkey meet those requirements? Why is turkey widely considered to be kosher?
71
Worcestershire Sauce
Worcestershire Sauce
Nov 14, 2023
21:17
Can you use Worcestershire sauce on meat? Can you put a marshmallow on a skewer you just used for a hot dog?
72
Hunting & Fishing for Sport
Hunting & Fishing for Sport
Nov 5, 2023
22:10
Is hunting or fishing for sport permitted? Is it tzaar baalei chayim or baal tashchis? Is it something a Jew should do?
73
When Does Shabbos End?
When Does Shabbos End?
Oct 29, 2023
25:30
Explaining the various opinions about when Shabbos ends. 50, 60, 72 and 8.5 degrees
74
Shaking Hands with the Opposite Gender
Shaking Hands with the Opposite Gender
Oct 22, 2023
19:55
Is a man allowed to shake hands with a woman?
75
Fridges and Freezers on Shabbos
Fridges and Freezers on Shabbos
Oct 15, 2023
23:09
Can you open a fridge when the motor is off on Shabbos? What are the issues to be aware of with new model fridges?
76
Buying Jewish
Buying Jewish
Sep 27, 2023
15:15
Do you have to give preference to buying from a Jew?
77
Shabbos Elevators
Shabbos Elevators
Sep 10, 2023
26:04
Using an automatic elevator on Shabbos
78
Magic Shows
Magic Shows
Sep 3, 2023
18:56
Can you do a magic trick or attend a magic show?
79
Gambling
Gambling
Aug 27, 2023
21:55
Can you play poker buy a lottery ticket or go to a casino?
80
Going Onto Har Habayis
Going Onto Har Habayis
Jul 16, 2023
16:22
Is it permitted to go onto Har Habayis?
81
Making a Bracha on Dessert
Making a Bracha on Dessert
Jul 9, 2023
20:50
Does dessert require it's own bracha? fruit? cake? ice cream?
82
Swimming on Shabbos
Swimming on Shabbos
Jul 3, 2023
16:37
Can you go swimming on Shabbos?
83
Getting Drinks in a Bar
Getting Drinks in a Bar
Jun 21, 2023
17:05
Can you drink a beer in a bar?
84
The Bracha on Sushi
The Bracha on Sushi
Jun 12, 2023
18:41
What bracha should be made on sushi? Mezonos? Shehakol? Haadama? Haeitz? All of them?
85
Making Sushi on Shabbos
Making Sushi on Shabbos
Jun 5, 2023
16:32
Can you make sushi on Shabbos?
86
Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic Surgery
May 30, 2023
21:46
Can a woman undergo cosmetic surgery? Can a man do the same?
87
Teaching Torah to Gentiles
Teaching Torah to Gentiles
May 21, 2023
27:32
What to do when a Gentile wants to learn Torah
88
Dancing & Clapping by Kabbalos Shabbos
Dancing & Clapping by Kabbalos Shabbos
May 7, 2023
23:52
Can you Dance or Clap during Kabbalos Shabbos? By an Aufruf or Sheva Brachos?
89
Amazon Packages That Come on Shabbos
Amazon Packages That Come on Shabbos
Apr 30, 2023
31:44
If your Amazon order comes on Shabbos can you use the package on Shabbos?
90
Buying Chametz After Pesach
Buying Chametz After Pesach
Apr 23, 2023
22:11
The halachic questions in buying from supermarkets after pesach. Is a mechira valid if the owner contines to do business with the chametz?
91
Owning Stock in a Company That Has Chametz
Owning Stock in a Company That Has Chametz
Mar 20, 2023
17:36
Can you own stock in a company that has chametz? Do you have to sell your shares with the rest of your chametz? What is the halachic status of a corporation?
92
The Quinoa Kitniyos Question
The Quinoa Kitniyos Question
Mar 13, 2023
19:08
Is quinoa considered to be kitniyos?
93
Megillah on a Microphone
Megillah on a Microphone
Mar 6, 2023
18:17
Can you listen to megillah or havdalah on a microphone? Should you answer amen to a bracha heard on zoom?
94
Kosher Tuna
Kosher Tuna
Feb 27, 2023
20:47
Does tuna need a mashgiach temidi and bishul yisroel?
95
Lab Grown Meat
Lab Grown Meat
Feb 19, 2023
22:38
Is it fleishig or parve? Does it need to come from a kosher animal?
96
Plunging a Toilet on Shabbos
Plunging a Toilet on Shabbos
Feb 12, 2023
15:34
Can you fix a stuffed toilet on Shabbos?
97
Adjusting Shabbos Clocks on Shabbos
Adjusting Shabbos Clocks on Shabbos
Feb 5, 2023
22:12
Can you adjust a Shabbos clock to make it go on or off earlier or later than it was set for?
98
Electric Shavers
Electric Shavers
Jan 29, 2023
23:56
Shaving with an electric shaver, foil screens, lift and cut and creams.
99
Cholov Yisroel, Powdered Milk and DE
Cholov Yisroel, Powdered Milk and DE
Jan 23, 2023
24:35
The Halachic opinions of Cholov Yisroel and Cholov Stam and the practical applications of powdered milk and DE (dairy equipment).
100
Shortcuts Through a Church and Other Uses of Church Property
Shortcuts Through a Church and Other Uses of Church Property
Jan 23, 2023
18:04
The Halachos of shortcuts through a Church and other uses of Church property