February 22, 2025

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Rabbi Daniel Mann Eretz Hemdah

Rabbi Mann is a dayan for Eretz Hemdah and a staff member of Yeshiva University’s Gruss Kollel in Israel. He is a senior member of the Eretz Hemdah responder staff, editor of Hemdat Yamim and the author of “Living the Halachic Process Volumes 1 and 2” and “A Glimpse of Greatness.”

Articles by Rabbi Daniel Mann Eretz Hemdah

Are Newly Ripe Avocados Muktzeh?

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Today, Friday, our avocados are not quite ready to eat. If they become ripe enough

Reading Advertisements on Shabbat

  לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: May one read advertisements on Shabbat? If not, is it permitted to read divrei

How/When to Start Breaking Yom Kippur Fast

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I (a religious doctor) am often consulted about those who cannot fast for all of

Whose Responsibility Is Raising the Wall?

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I built my house years before the next-door property was developed, with an approximately meter-high

Cowbell for Help

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Recently, my mother had a hip replacement and needs help walking to the bathroom. May

Stopping a Charitable Horaat Keva

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: A friend wants to cancel a horaat keva (direct debit) to a charitable organization. He

Hagomel After Losing the Way

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: My son and I went hiking in a quite isolated area (no cell phone service),

Sheva Brachot During the Three Weeks

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: A friend—who made sheva brachot for me—is getting married a couple of days before Shiva

An Oleh Who Wants to Lein His Aliyah

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: As the gabbai in an Ashkenazi shul, I recently called up a guest for an

Kiddush in the Middle of Davening

 לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: We are making a private bar mitzvah minyan/seuda. Due to family dynamics, we want to

Hinting One Does Not Want an Aliyah

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל As a guest to a shul, I received an aliyah on Shabbat morning, and at Mincha,