By Rav Moshe Pinchasi [1] Counting Only Days If one only counted the days and not the weeks, one should count again without a Beracha. But if one forgot to count again and remembered only the following night – one may continue to count with a Beracha. [2] Counting Only Weeks If one only counted the weeks and not the days, if it is a complete week, such as on the … [Read more...]
Premature Reflections
Premature Babies in Halacha By Rav Ariel Ovadia The challenge of premature and congenitally ill infants has riddled humanity from the beginning of time, and until as recently as the turn of the 20th century premature babies stood little to no chance to survive. The pages of the Talmud and Poskim are rife with discussions of babies born in the eighth month and prior, or babies … [Read more...]
Bet HaVaad Halacha Journal For Parshat Shoftim
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Daf Yomi in Halacha Topics Parshat Shoftim
Halachot of Daily Living
I have a vitamin pill that contains kosher liver. If I take this vitamin, will I become meaty? HaRav Yitschak Yosef shlita in Yalkut Yosef (89:29) paskens like Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l (Igros Moshe YD 2:26) that if one swallows a meaty vitamin pill, one would not become meaty. The two reasons given for waiting six hours (i.e. that meat might be lodged between one’s teeth, … [Read more...]