BSD Jewish Laws of Contracts. When an agent misrepresents those who sent him it can get tricky, and the details are many. This applies both to monetary law and to the laws of a "get" (a divorce document), when a messenger was sent by a woman to receive her "get" from her husband. Watch [...]
BSD Welcome to the 6th chapter of tractate Bava Metzia. The first Mishnah deals with broken - or misunderstood- contracts. What should be done if your worker stands you up or your employer changes his mind- in the middle of the job? What happens if an agent heard one thing from the employer but [...]
BSD Loan interest? Bad news! Ribbis doesn't always mean giving more money. According to Jewish law, an extra gift from the borrower to the lender, or even special treatment from him are also considered as ribbis. This prohibition is so grave, that an interest lender breaks no less than five (!) different Torah laws. [...]
BSD Borrowing a (perishable) item in order to get it back (e.g. a bag of four for a bag of flour) may sometimes be a Ribbis issue. Why? Because the bag of flour may be worth $5 now but is likely to be worth more when returned, which is declared as Ribbis derabanan. There [...]
BSD Amud Yomi is back! This shiur discusses a case in which price was fixed (i.e. money was given without the item being delivered) with the hope that the price will go up and the seller will still keep the old price. But what happens if the price (unexpectedly) goes down, and if they [...]
BSD What's wrong with saying the truth about Rome? The great Rabbis of the Talmud had an argument regarding the Roman empire and its culture. This video will offer a resolution regarding this dispute.
Swear off a bit of This World to make room for the Holiness to enter our lives.
Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches about Sefiras Ha'Omer with the Mishnah Berurah. O.C. 489.
BSD "They drove to the inauguration...on Shabbos!" Was that allowed? Is a Jewish lobbyist allowed to act against Jewish law as part of his or her role? What is this idea based on? If there is a halachic source to that idea, to what extent does it apply? In this video, R' Akiva Teichtal [...]
Halacha is flexible when it comes to some monetary laws. Sometimes the financial norm (minhag) overrides halacha. For example: By the letter of the (Jewish) law, marking down a customer's name on a product doesn't mean that it's his yet. However, in certain communities it was accepted for customers to jot down their names [...]