Q&A- Chumra, Women & Chad Gadya

00:00 When we do netilas yadayim, what happens to the water?—and can it be recycled?

5:46 Is the story of Adam adding a chumra onto also touching apples a cautionary tale against excessive stringencies?

9:52 We have a rule that women are exempt from time-bound positive commandments, so how do we decide these Halachos for Pesach?

17:50 Can you elaborate the nature of impurity as we see in Tanakh

24:48 Why, if chashiv women are chaiv for reclining one Pesach like a man, the rama exempts men but considers all women chashuvos. Why do we follow this if it’s inconsistent?

30:48 What is the source for including piyutim in davening?-and on Shabbos?

35:28 is there anything wrong with putting a picture on headstone?—what does someone know when he dies?

38:03 is Kol D’Alam Gvar trial by combat?

40:25 We see sometimes Angels are sent to fight in wars, defend, etc.. Does HaShem not do it himself? 

43:20 What are some of the deeper meanings of Chad Gadya?

46:20 Was barley matzo the most common historically as suggested in Yoshua and the cycle of grains in Israel?

49:48 Why did Jerusalem keep an extra day for Rosh Hashana in the Middle Ages if this goes against the minhag from the Sanhedrin? 

56:15 According to the heter of rav Moshe Feinstein in regards to kli shlishi, can one make instant noodles on Shabbos?

58:58 The Gemara in brachos discusses woman’s hair as erva, so why don’t women cover their hair until marriage?

1:02:35 is there a machloches about whether oats are one of the 5 grains?

1:04:13 Are there potential issues buying stocks during Chol Hamoed?

1:05:30 If a women checks for menstrual blood extra days this is praiseworthy, but a man checking for seminal emissions is cursed. What does it mean that we will cut off his hand?

1:06:48 How can we say we forgive someone in another gilgul if it isn’t remembered?

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