D'var Halacha

  We are continuing in siman 2. The Chayei Adam writes that if a bird flies into a house through an open window, it is assur to shut the window. It is assur even though the act of tzad will only be assur miderabanan, meaning, the bird will still have enough room to fly around […]

  We have finished siman 1, where the Chayei Adam discussed three of the five criteria for tzad mideoraysa. Before we move to the last two criteria, the Chayei Adam will discuss the level of domestication of an animal. If the animal is fully domesticated, trapping it is not assur because it anyways was not

  We are continuing in siman 1. The Chayei Adam discussed the first three conditions for tzad, that the animal is b’mino nitzad, the animal was not already sick enough to be considered trapped, and that the act of tzad confines it in a way that it is easily accessible to the human.    Regarding

We have begun siman 30, which discusses the melacha of tzad. As an introduction, we learned five conditions which are necessary to consider the action of the melacha of tzad on a torah level. In any of these cases, even if one does not reach the Torah level of issur, the action will still be

  We are beginning Klal 30, which discusses the melacha of tzad. This melacha is unique in certain ways, so we will begin with some examples.   The most common example of tzad is taking a living being into one’s hands. Before, it was a free animal, and now it is under the control of

  We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing other points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss separating pages of a book or sefer that are stuck together.   There are three possibilities as to how the pages got stuck together: The pages were never fully separated, such

We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing tearing toilet paper on Shabbos. We began by discussing a few ways to employ a non-Jew. When a non-Jew is not available, we learned a Jew can perform an issur derabanan for the purpose of kavod habriyos, such as carrying toilet paper from a

  We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing tearing toilet paper on Shabbos. We learned that tearing toilet paper would fall under the issur of korea (among other issurim), and applies both on the perforations and between the perforations. We learned that one can hint to a non-Jew. If the non-Jew

  We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss tearing toilet paper on Shabbos.   The potential concerns of tearing toilet paper are makeh bepatish, because one is making the item usable; mechateich, because it is being cut to

We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam.  We began discussing bottle caps yesterday. Another type of cap is known as a flip-top cap, such as found on sports drinks, where a plastic connector is torn off to allow the cap to open

  We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam.   The issue of opening bottle caps on Shabbos is not really related to korea, but we will clarify it now nonetheless. One type of cap is the cap on a beer bottle, where