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If my 4 year old son decides to play with the timer on Shabbat and now the lights are on in my bedroom and I can’t sleep. What are my options? Can I call a goy or it’s not allowed? Thanks.

Kavod harav if my wife put on make up on Shabbat can I look at her in the face or can I not benefit from this issur?

If one accidentally spills boiling hot water on their skin on Shabbat, can they use cream or medication?

Is one allowed to make tehina on Shabbat (from the paste, its a thick paste, you add water/lemon/spices and it becomes more liquidy when you mix it)? If not, does it become assur to eat if someone violated the issur?

Rabbi, what’s the halacha on lighting Shabbat candles at home and then taking a short drive to a guests house?

Shalom Rabbi Tahan, is a woman allowed to double knot her tichel, belt or shabbat shoes for a child on Shabbat to hold better? And does it have to be taken apart before Shabbat is over, because sometimes it stays until motzei Shabbat?

How much wine do I need to drink by havdalah? Can I just sip?

Can a Sefaradi use a soap bar on Shabbat?

If I am in shul (on Shabbat) and food gets on my clothes can I tap my shirt with water?

Kavod harav is it mutar nowadays to look in a mirror on Shabbat (because you might use it to do something to your hair/fix something) if so source please?

Can we use scissors on Shabbat to cut food packages?

שלום כבוד הרב. האם אפשר להשתמש בפלטה ביום כיפור כדי לחמם אוכל לילדים? לפי הספרדים…

is a slice of bread a Kazayit

Can one wear lace does on shabbos because he’s tying a knot?

Can one clean his shoes on shabbat with a baby wipe?

Rabbi till what time one could still eat Seuda reviiit?

Are you aloud to carry a vase of flowers and move it to a different location? Say from the dining room table to a coffee table?

Can I eat cake and coffee before shacrit on shabbat morning since we finish late?

Can one carry a bus card on shabbos (with eruv) to use after shabbos?

Can you carry apartment keys with you regularly in your pocket on Shabbat, as long as there is an Eruv?

Rabbi if I send someone a food basket and it arrives on Shabbat or summit can they open the box?

Kvod harav, I heard havdalah in a shul but all I heard was him speaking I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but I still still say amen to it, am i yotze

Kevod HaRav can I jew who is not shomer shabbat say kiddush for other Jews? Will the other Jews be yotse?

Can one move around cell phone on shabbos/chag if its being used as alarm clock?. Its on airplane mode so no signals are being triggered.

Rabbi, is there a problem on Shabbat/Yom Tov to use Whipped Cream from a spray can

If a non food decoration (for example paper decoratiion hanging) fell from the roof of Sukkah on Yom tov or Shabbat, can you re attach it?

can kids play with playdoe?

Is frozen meat considered muktse?

Can kids play with Legos on Shabbat

Can we fill donuts with jelly on Shabbat

What is the significance of having the nails brought up to the flame during havdala?

Can you mash potatoes on Shabbat

Kevod Harav may one put bread on a hot plate to make it to toast on Shabbat? Thank you for your time answering all these questions!

Can you invite a non shomer Shabbat Jew for a Shabbat meal, knowing they will be mehalel Shabbat driving in car to come?

Can someone turn on the tv before Shabbat an watch it during Shabbat?

Can people make requests on Shabbat or just give thanks to HaShem?

Rabbi is one allowed to repeat kiddush for someone that cannot read for himself?

Are we allowed to wear a solar powered watch on shabbat and yom tov?

Is there any opinion that holds that one is allowed to place fully cooked food on the blech on Shabbat and pick it up then put it back the next day? e.x- on kiddush night I removed the fully cooked dish from the blech and placed it in the fridge, then during the day I take it out of the fridge and put the dish back on the blech to warm it up (but it’s fully cooked), because I read Rav moshe doesn’t allow

Kvod harav, If my local mens mikva said on a paper 3$ per use, do I still have to pay for that or is it suggested since it’s for a mikva because I’m only 16 and I don’t have an income

Kevod harav is one allowed to move a muktseh item on shabbat if it’s moved by two people?

Rabbi whats the halacha regarding walking with/carrying a baby on shabbat who can walk but can not walk the entire distance?

Kvod harav if one is not able to immerse, how can one use 9 kabin, does he just pour it over his head? And does the water have to cover his entire body?

Are animals Muktzeh on Shabbat?

When a wife lights for Shabbat, is it officially Shabbat for the husband, or does he have 18 minutes from the time she lights?

Rav do you approve of the shobbos belt inorder to hold a key? If yes what is the proper way to use it ?

It you remove cholent from the slow cooker on Shabbat day, can you place it back on since the cholent is already cooked?

Can I manually pump CO2 gas into water on shabbat in order to make soda water?

If you dip in the Mikveh Friday morning, before hatzot, can that count as dipping for Shabbat? Or should you dip after hatzot?

Is a woman allowed to wear two necklaces on Shabbos or does wearing the second one constitute as carrying?

I am having a packaged delivered on shabbat by USPS that requires a signature. Is there any way I can accept the package halahicly speaking. Can I ask the goy to sign it himself?

Is someone allowed to take a haircut on motzai shabbat? Would it be different for a person under 13? Thank you!

I have a hot water urn that I use for shabbat. The nozzle broke so I cannot dispense the water to make tea. Am I allowed to open the top lid and withdraw the hot water and then close the lid back can I do this on shabbat. Does this violate the laws of cooking?

Rabbi when I light candle for sadikim if it falls on Friday can I light it before Shabbat candles?

Hi. Why cant one eat before havdala?

Shalom Rabbi, I’m curious about what’s the closest I can get to a shower on shabbat? Can I wash with cold water?

Can you look through a telescope on Chag or Shabbat?

Can you pray mincha on Shabbat if you didn’t have hamotsi/second seuda?

Is one allowed to dry wet dishes using a towel? Is this an issue with the “Sehita-squeezing” prohibition.

How many ounces are required for kiddush ?

If an exterminator comes to house after Shabbat already started can you let him in to work?

For sephardim – what child games are allowed to be play with ur children? Connect4,? lego? Backgamon? Chess? Puzzle?

Kavod harav..Can we say kiddush on cognac or champagne? Do we say hagefen in both?

Are you allowed recite kiddush on whiskey or beer?

Are you allowed to use a plastic cup to recite kidush? And does doubling up cups help?

Is it prohibited to walk a baby stroller on grass on Shabbat?

are you allows to defrost challah or puta on shabbat on the Blech to eat?

On Shabbat can one move, without unplugging, something like a fan or heater if it was turned on before Shabbat started ? And can one move a lamp on Shabbat?

HaRav on erev Shabbat we hold one bread on top of the other with the bottom one closer to you and cut the bottom one first? Same order on Shabbat day or different? Thank you

Can you look through a telescope on Chag or Shabbat?

Hi rabbi is someone allow to study anatomy and physiology on Shabbat? It is not out of enjoyment it’s homework?

Is mayim achronim only done on Shabbat?

can i be yotze lechem mishne with an ashkenazi which is using one matzah and one challah?

Is singing pizmonim on shabbat table a higher level than learning on shabbat table? If so is there a source?

Rabbi can one use English muffins for lehem mishne (I’m asking bc I’m not sure if it’s considered a full “loaf” it has a cut in them to separate the halves)?

Can I unplug something that was turned off by a timer on Shabbat as long as the timer is still in the wall?

If I am eating seudat shelishit and I don’t say birkat hamazon yet… and I go to pray arvit because if I don’t I will miss the minyan, and after I pray arvit I go home to say birkat hamazon, do I say ritzei?

Can I take out the water from the can of corn and can of Olives on shabbat?

Rabbi can you fill up your refrigerator with water bottles on Shabbat? (It obviously is for the week). If one did so on Shabbat what should he do now?

Is one aloud to wear a pocket square on Shabbat or is it carrying?

Is one allowed to keep peeled hard boiled eggs in a chulent overnight?

Hi Rabbi- on shabbat if i want to wash netila and there is a sponge in the sink: 1. can i take the sponge out of the sink, or is it mukse? 2. can i wash as normal with the sponge in the sink if it for sure will get wet?

How does one fulfill the mitzvah of shnayim mikrah if he can’t read Hebrew?

Can a person click back the glass in his glasses back on the frame on Shabbat if it falls out?

Are you allowed to kill a bug/fly if it is bothering you?

Allowed to use a plunger on shabbat?

Can one touch their pets on shabbos or are they considered muktzah?

can one take their dog for a walk on Shabbat is there is no eruv?

Can one use an electric toothbrush on Shabbat if they don’t turn it on

Coloring food on Shabbat

are you allowed to fold your talet on shabbat

if your sisit gets tangled on shabbat are you allowed to untangle

Can I clap on Shabbat?

If i have something in the dryer that was fully dry before shabbat can i take out on shabbat?

Kevod Harav, could a person have his surveillance camera on during Shabbat? Also, could one pass by such a house on Shabbat?

What’s the din with washing after chatzos on Friday? lechatchila/bedieved?

This past Shabbat the 6th Aliyah was the beracha of veyiten lecha. People were interested in buying it. Can a person who is let’s say the only Kohen in shul wants it. Can he leave before they start to make it en Kan Kohein and then walk back in? Let’s say he is the only Levi In shul. Can he walk out so he can buy the 6th Aliyah. And if the Levi is allowed to walk out and what point does he go out? Right when the Kohen finishes his Aliyah? how could it work out? Would it be disrespectful to the other portion of the Torah if someone does this?

Why is it by many that a Jews religious status is defined by him Keeping shobbos and not by any other misvah and when they refer to such Jews very commonly it is said that he is a shomer shobbos? What makes shobbos different than all other misvot in the Torah ?

Can you peel off a sticker from fruit on Shabbat?

Are you allowed to peel oranges on Shabbat? How about peanuts in a shell?

For a married girl who is sefardi…please clarify if she needs to light candles if she will sleep over with her husband at someone’s house for Shabbat

Cosmetics on Shabbat