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BSD Can one borrow his friend's item...forever? For all his work? Where is the limit?

BSD On rentals and leap years. A person rented a property for one year, and later on Beis Din decided to extend that year by adding one month to it (a second Adar). If the rental agreement was annual and not per month (rental is defined as 120K per year and not 10K per [...]

Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches the halachas of Chol Hamoed with the Mishnah Berurah (O.C. 530). Covers topics of shaving before Yom Tov, not shaving during Chol Hamoed, and more!

BSD So, a bird came into your porch and laid eggs. Can you perform the mitzvah of "shiluach haken"?

BSD So, you rented an apartment and the window is broken... Does the landlord always have to pay for a new one? And who has to fix (and pay for) the mezuzah-the renter or the landlord?

BSD Renters' rights and duties in Judaism. A landlord wants to evict his renter, and not extend the rental agreement. How long before the contract is up shall he notify the renter? And what about the renter leaving without earlier notice? Can a landlord up the price with no justifiable reason?

BSD Does one have to take ma'aser (tithe) from produce grown in a non-Jewish field (located in the Holy Land)? If yes, does a Jewish sharecropper (working in the field for percentage) have to take ma'aser from both his part and the owner's part? *** If one planted trees in his friend's field without [...]

BSD Sometimes trees get swamped with a river's flow and find themselves regenerated in a new field (see https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/natural-regeneration) halachically, if these trees were owned by one person and are now newly rooted in another person's ground, who owns their produce from now on? The tree owner or the current land owner? Or both?

Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches the halachas of Chol Hamoed with the Mishnah Berurah (O.C. 530). This first class introduces Chol Hamoed and several concepts, including "Maasei Uman" versus "Maasei Hediot", permitted work, clothing, and more!

BSD Under oath! The Torah rules that sometimes an accused person should take an oath (shevua) and thus remove the claims against him or her. Yet, when it comes to certain items the rule of Shevua doesn't apply, and an oath is not taken. What are those "certain items"? And why are they excluded [...]