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Harav Gedalya Oberlander will answer practical halachic questions including vitamins on Pesach, flying during chol hamoed, kneeling while cleaning, preparing for the seder and what if you forgot, petting zoos, and preparing gebrokts on Shvi'i shel Pesach.

Watch at 7 PM: Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including washing, ironing, and urgently needed tailoring on Rosh Chodesh, eating a special meal on Rosh Chodesh, sleeping alone at home, moving inedible pits on Shabbos, and exchanging an old coin in a pushka with a current coin.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including borrowing from a home pushka, watching and performing magic shows, brushing a sheitel on Shabbos, eggs added to a cholent after Shabbos started, and at what age to start saying brachos with children.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including putting earings on babies, what to do with extra money from a campaign, paying for treif lunch of non-Jewish workers, buying a gadget you saw by a friend, using pushka money for a different cause, and is a leather tefillin bag considered hiddur mitzvah.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including saying Shehecheyanu when buying a home, taking off tefillin while sitting, listening to krias haTorah of a second minyan, and food touched by a child before neggel vasser.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including entering a stranger's driveway to make a U-turn, eating before a child's bris, eating challa with milchigs, and having a motion-detecting thermostat on Shabbos.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including ripping packages open on Shabbos, a woman accepting Shabbos after her husband, saying Shema next to negel vasser, and when can you stop saying Tehillim for someone who is getting better.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including when can one take a haircut before Shavuos this year, eating meat on Shavuos, saying less tikun to understand it, bracha on snacks Shavuos night, moving flowers, and kashering oven to make milchigs.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including using baby wipes and spray deodorant on Shabbos, 6-hour cheese, toasting pas akum, and playing music for children during sefira.

practical halachic questions including playing music Lag Baomer eve, permissible music during sefira, the bracha on kneidlach, breaded schnitzel, and Shehecheyanu on a fruit available year-round.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including Minhag Chabad on trimming the mustache, using regular handsoap on Shabbos, when to do areinfirenish, and the bracha on breaded shnitzel.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander will answer practical halachic questions including “split chicken,” buying chometz from a Jewish store that was open during Pesach, waxing eyebrows during sefira, female mezuman, and birkas ha'ilanos after Nissan.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including selling part of a freezer, recycled cardboard on Pesach, kashrus of disposable pans, bentching after the end-time for chometz, non-mevushal wine with sulfites, and Maos Chittim when living off of savings.

practical halachic questions including what are the Lubavitch Pesach chumros, eating egg matza on erev Pesach, kashering the glass door of an oven, vitamins on Pesach, women pouring wine by the Seder, and using a backpack that was sold for Pesach.

practical halachic questions including a milchig Shabbos seudah, throwing out junk food, bedikas chometz when going away, fish fillets from non-kosher stores, and priorities in Pesach cleaning.

IS A JEW ALLOWED TO OWN A CAT practical halachic questions including owning a cat, Hagomel a month late, mixed mevushal wine, chosson entering during davening, mopping a dirty floor on Shabbos, mezonos roll for lechem mishneh, and how many people to invite to a seudas mitzvah.

practical halachic questions including maaser from stimulus check and tax refund, checking pockets before Shabbos, working on Purim eve, tuition from maaser, common borer questions, and eating bread baked in a fleishig oven with cheese.

practical halachic questions including women and older girls dressing up on Purim, parshas Zachor in quarantine, Mishloach Manos during aveilus, and Friday Purim seuda in a Chabad House.

practical halachic questions including pas Yisroel cereals, cutting nails on Friday Rosh Chodesh, evicting a shul, sherry cask whiskey, and earmuffs on Shabbos. Plus follow up on visiting the Ohel at night.

practical halachic questions including eating a snack before visiting the Ohel, Bishul Yisroel for tuna, tasting before Kiddush, Tehillim at night for a shidduch, eating marshmallows with milk, and glow-in-the-dark toys on Shabbos.

practical halachic questions including which fruits to eat on Tu Bishvat, reciting Shehecheyanu on fruits available year-round, how to check fruits for bugs, a man wearing women's sunglasses, and making a bracha on cake for dessert.

practical halachic questions including saying three brachos for rice, saying Tehillim in middle of davening, a lost kesuba, 60 breaths of sleep, and davening that someone in pain should pass away. Also follow up on naming a boy after a woman, reciting korbanos before the time for mincha, and adding a candle after missing one.

practical halachic questions including brachos when going back to sleep, child toiveling keilim, naming a boy after a woman or vice versa, missed part of kiddush and reciting kiddush over mashke.

practical halachic questions including Pas Yisroel for granola bars, lighting Shabbos candles after mistakenly making the bracha, adding a candle when forgetting to light, thanking Hashem for a new baby, and mayim acharonim for women.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including what really needs to go in shaimos, making snowmen and snowballs on Shabbos, shoveling and putting salt on snow, and owning lifelike dolls.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including Asara B'Teves on Friday, what can you learn on Nittel, the reward for writing a Torah, chuppa witnesses who were second cousins, and when front lace sheitels will become acceptable.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including using oil left under a bed, propane for a public menorah, extinguishing the shul menorah when leaving, relying on a child against yichud, and upshernish before age 3.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including making a bracha on a public Zoom lighting, frying latkes while menorah is burning, Chanukah gelt vs. gifts, and menorah for girls.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including until what age may boys watch girls' productions and hear kol isha, skipping tachanun for a siyum Sefer Torah, relocating while eating, and eating food left under a bed.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including manicure on Rosh Chodesh, lace front sheitels, collecting a loan, playing with a sequins pillow on Shabbos, yichud between step-siblings, and Chanukah gatherings for mourners.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including waiting between meat and milk for children, letters with sprinkles, putting away dishes on Shabbos, leaving the room while eating, and neggel vasser after nap at night.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including white wine between 6 and 7, how to calculate 6-7, repeating kiddush for family, saying “oif simchos,” and Havdala wine that spilled before drinking.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including kiddush between 6 and 7 when hosting guests, kiddush before mairiv, nightgowns for young girls, and what is a woman's davening obligation.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including girls entering the men's section, eating after lighting Shabbos candles, flower-shaped ice cubes, cookies with lettering, decorating cookies, and setting up a Shabbos belt on Shabbos.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including listening to a recording of the Rebbe's hakafos, are pets muktza, adding and removing leaves from a table, using a baby monitor, asking a goy to do work in a different time zone, and sweeping on Shabbos.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including coming late to shofar, mask on shofar, checking temperature on Shabbos, fasting Tzom Gedalya if you won't be able to fast Yom Kippur and bracha on a granola bar.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including making havdala on orange juice, assembling an Ikea highchair on Shabbos, buying shares of prohibited products, Bishul Yisroel on fish, and Veyiten Lecha with a spouse.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including charging your phone in shul, buying a second-hand blender, pidyon haben for a premie, the start of shivah when attending a Zoom levaya, finishing all the food on your plate, and walking past a motion sensor on Shabbos.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including wearing a mask on Shabbos, bishul and pas yisroel on partially cooked foods, sitting when others are davening shmoneh esrei, and what to do if you forgot to take challah.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including paying for an item broken by a child, removing tattoos, emptying a sink strainer on Shabbos, playdough on Shabbos, and asking a non-Jew to open a fridge with a light.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including applying bug spray on Shabbos, using a sectional challah for lechem mishneh, morning brachos when rising before dawn, and whether women should recite kiddush levana.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including women and havdalah, eavesdropping on a phone call, halachos relevant to a challah bake, and returning a forgotten umbrella.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including fasting during Corona, eating meat at a Siyum, and when the Nine Days' restrictions end this year.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including water activities during Nine Days, changing linen for guests, and using perfume or aerosol on Shabbos.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including entering a non-kosher restaurant, putting challa in an oven on Shabbos mode, and lying to avoid uncomfortable situations.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including moving during the three weeks, putting on Rabbeinu Tam's tefillin by mistake, and using a knife sharpener for milchig and fleishig. Plus followup on coffee from a non-Jewish restaurant.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including reading emails of a deceased parent, girls singing on a camp bus, and coffee from a non-Jewish establishment.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander will answer practical halachic questions including toiveling a digital coffee maker, donating tzedaka before earlier pledges, and microchip implants. Plus follow up on salmon from Costco.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander answers practical halachic questions including toiveling a digital coffee maker, donating tzedaka before earlier pledges, and microchip implants. Plus follow up on salmon from Costco.

Harav Gedalya Oberlander discusses practical halachic questions including buying salmon from Costco, donating plasma, and the guidelines for taking in Shabbos early.