Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including who owns a lost object found on private property, non-mevushal wine for guests, and designating eruv tavshilin the night before.]]> https://anash.org/repairman-found-a-treasure-in-the-wall/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/dont-take-it-back-repentance-and-limits-of-restitution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-take-it-back-repentance-and-limits-of-restitution https://anash.org/dont-take-it-back-repentance-and-limits-of-restitution/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1048779 "Choshen Mishpat Renaissance" continues its series with Rabbi Yehoshua Yaffe as the new maggid shiur. In this shiur, he discusses "takkanas hashavim" in halacha.]]> https://anash.org/dont-take-it-back-repentance-and-limits-of-restitution/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/keeping-chometz-in-the-freezer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keeping-chometz-in-the-freezer https://anash.org/keeping-chometz-in-the-freezer/#respond Sun, 29 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1045170

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including keeping chometz in the freezer, filtering water on Shabbos, scented candles on Yom Tov, and firstborn ger.]]> https://anash.org/keeping-chometz-in-the-freezer/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/pesach-chumros-boiling-sugar-and-coarse-salt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pesach-chumros-boiling-sugar-and-coarse-salt https://anash.org/pesach-chumros-boiling-sugar-and-coarse-salt/#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1042447

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including tefillin after kabolas Shabbos, bris after shkiah, mezuzah on a mobile kitchen, and coarse salt and boiling sugar for Pesach.]]> https://anash.org/pesach-chumros-boiling-sugar-and-coarse-salt/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/robotic-vacuum-cleaner-on-shabbos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robotic-vacuum-cleaner-on-shabbos https://anash.org/robotic-vacuum-cleaner-on-shabbos/#respond Sun, 15 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1040258

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including necklace with an image of Pisces, dead mouse on Shabbos, gift for a spouse in aveilus, and vacuum robot on Shabbos.]]> https://anash.org/robotic-vacuum-cleaner-on-shabbos/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/you-break-you-pay-damage-costs-in-halacha/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-break-you-pay-damage-costs-in-halacha https://anash.org/you-break-you-pay-damage-costs-in-halacha/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1038812 "Choshen Mishpat Renaissance" continues its series with Rabbi Yehoshua Yaffe as the new maggid shiur. In this shiur, he discusses how we measure damage costs in halacha.]]> https://anash.org/you-break-you-pay-damage-costs-in-halacha/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/children-in-a-kiddie-pool-on-yom-tov/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=children-in-a-kiddie-pool-on-yom-tov https://anash.org/children-in-a-kiddie-pool-on-yom-tov/#respond Sun, 08 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1036124

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including children in a kiddie pool on Yom Tov, "zeicher-zecher," and the number of snapped tzitzis that poses a problem.]]> https://anash.org/children-in-a-kiddie-pool-on-yom-tov/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/sushi-and-wasabi-as-mishloach-monos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sushi-and-wasabi-as-mishloach-monos https://anash.org/sushi-and-wasabi-as-mishloach-monos/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1034178

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including a glass tube mezuzah case, hyphenating HaShem’s name, and serving of Sushi and a tub of wasabi as Mishloach Monos.]]> https://anash.org/sushi-and-wasabi-as-mishloach-monos/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/women-dipping-fingers-in-havdalah-wine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=women-dipping-fingers-in-havdalah-wine https://anash.org/women-dipping-fingers-in-havdalah-wine/#respond Sun, 22 Feb 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1031063

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including mezuzah on a walk-in fridge, lefty tying his shoes, machtzis hashekel for children, and women dipping fingers in havdalah wine.]]> https://anash.org/women-dipping-fingers-in-havdalah-wine/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/matanos-laevyonim-how-much-is-a-prutah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matanos-laevyonim-how-much-is-a-prutah https://anash.org/matanos-laevyonim-how-much-is-a-prutah/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1028554

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including how much is a prutah, washing after shkiah on Shabbos, selling incense to a non-Jew, and using a swing on a tree.]]> https://anash.org/matanos-laevyonim-how-much-is-a-prutah/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/apple-sauce-haeitz-or-shehakol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apple-sauce-haeitz-or-shehakol https://anash.org/apple-sauce-haeitz-or-shehakol/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1021721

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including why jackets don't need tzitzis, bracha for a new child, gartel for bentching, and the bracha on apple sauce.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including benefiting from church bells, toiveling keilim in snow, and giving credits for classes on Shabbos.]]> https://anash.org/toiveling-keilim-in-snow/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/toiveling-clay-pottery-i-made-in-a-studio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toiveling-clay-pottery-i-made-in-a-studio https://anash.org/toiveling-clay-pottery-i-made-in-a-studio/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1016818

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including checking out of a hotel on Shabbos, mezuzah on a deep doorway, toiveling personal pottery, and bishul yisroel of gluten-free bread.]]> https://anash.org/toiveling-clay-pottery-i-made-in-a-studio/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/rewriting-the-siddur-what-stays-what-goes-and-what-changes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rewriting-the-siddur-what-stays-what-goes-and-what-changes https://anash.org/rewriting-the-siddur-what-stays-what-goes-and-what-changes/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1016252 For centuries, the pinnacle of davening has been the silent whisper—a private conversation between the soul and Hashem. But in the times of Moshiach, that changes. The volume gets turned up.]]> https://anash.org/rewriting-the-siddur-what-stays-what-goes-and-what-changes/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/awkward-do-i-go-back-to-admit-a-lie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=awkward-do-i-go-back-to-admit-a-lie https://anash.org/awkward-do-i-go-back-to-admit-a-lie/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1015145

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including toiveling oil bottles for an event, leaving a cake in the oven at the start of Shabbos, and backtracking on a lie.]]> https://anash.org/awkward-do-i-go-back-to-admit-a-lie/feed/ 1 https://anash.org/hatoras-nedorim-for-a-yud-shvat-hachlata/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hatoras-nedorim-for-a-yud-shvat-hachlata https://anash.org/hatoras-nedorim-for-a-yud-shvat-hachlata/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1012888

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including calculating days of Sheva Brachos, hatoras nedorim for a Yud Shvat hachlata, and doing work on Motzei Shabbos.]]> https://anash.org/hatoras-nedorim-for-a-yud-shvat-hachlata/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/using-a-milchig-pop-up-toaster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-a-milchig-pop-up-toaster https://anash.org/using-a-milchig-pop-up-toaster/#respond Sun, 04 Jan 2026 https://anash.org/?p=1011329

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including using a milchig Pop Up Toaster, wearing night tzitzis, 10th man leaving shul early, and giving tzedaka before mairiv.]]> https://anash.org/using-a-milchig-pop-up-toaster/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/eating-bread-baked-in-a-flieshig-oven-with-butter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eating-bread-baked-in-a-flieshig-oven-with-butter https://anash.org/eating-bread-baked-in-a-flieshig-oven-with-butter/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 https://anash.org/?p=1009527

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including what to do with Chanukah wicks, bread baked in a flieshig oven with milchigs, and saying the Yehi Rotzon between seforim of Tehillim on Shabbos Mevorchim.]]> https://anash.org/eating-bread-baked-in-a-flieshig-oven-with-butter/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/gifting-my-workers-seasonal-gifts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gifting-my-workers-seasonal-gifts https://anash.org/gifting-my-workers-seasonal-gifts/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2025 https://anash.org/?p=1006762

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including lighting menorah at the Ohel, gifting 'seasonal gifts,' made a bracha on milchigs while fleishig, and toiveled with a sticker.]]> https://anash.org/gifting-my-workers-seasonal-gifts/feed/ 2 https://anash.org/knocked-over-a-bottle-of-wine-in-a-shop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knocked-over-a-bottle-of-wine-in-a-shop https://anash.org/knocked-over-a-bottle-of-wine-in-a-shop/#respond Sun, 14 Dec 2025 https://anash.org/?p=1004725

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including boiling water from a parev kettle into a meaty cholent, gluten-free dough for challa, and knocked over a bottle of wine in a shop.]]> https://anash.org/knocked-over-a-bottle-of-wine-in-a-shop/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/breaking-apart-chopsticks-on-shabbos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-apart-chopsticks-on-shabbos https://anash.org/breaking-apart-chopsticks-on-shabbos/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 https://anash.org/?p=1002124

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including mistakenly said Retzei during the week, taking down mezuzos affixed as a chumra, instant soup powder on Shabbos, and mezuzah taken down by a worker.]]> https://anash.org/breaking-apart-chopsticks-on-shabbos/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/switched-hat-at-the-kinus-hashluchim/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switched-hat-at-the-kinus-hashluchim https://anash.org/switched-hat-at-the-kinus-hashluchim/#respond Sun, 30 Nov 2025 https://anash.org/?p=1000265

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including putting Negel Vasser under the bed, reciting Sheva Brochos with no mechitza, and using a switched hat from the Kinus Hashluchim.]]> https://anash.org/switched-hat-at-the-kinus-hashluchim/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/bracha-on-rice-whats-the-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bracha-on-rice-whats-the-story https://anash.org/bracha-on-rice-whats-the-story/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2025 https://anash.org/?p=998775

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including the bracha on rice, Tehillim for age for a ger, putting down the match after licht bentchen, and using a slightly curved menorah.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including brocho for Malawach, divorced woman covering her hair, rolling the beard on Shabbos, and laundry that dried on Shabbos.]]> https://anash.org/using-laundry-that-dried-on-shabbos/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/hatzalah-call-in-the-middle-of-a-meal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hatzalah-call-in-the-middle-of-a-meal https://anash.org/hatzalah-call-in-the-middle-of-a-meal/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 https://anash.org/?p=993612

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including putting dishes in a dishwasher on Shabbos, Hatzalah call in the middle of a meal, trimming one's mustache, mezuzah on a pocket door, and rolling one's beard.]]> https://anash.org/hatzalah-call-in-the-middle-of-a-meal/feed/ 0 https://anash.org/adding-a-name-to-a-child-after-the-bris/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adding-a-name-to-a-child-after-the-bris https://anash.org/adding-a-name-to-a-child-after-the-bris/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2025 https://anash.org/?p=992276

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including newly uncovered edits from the Rebbe on neggel vasser, adding a name after the bris, adding water to wine, and why we don't leave an unfinished spot to remember the churban.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including semi-cooked French fries, putting a talis in shaimos, size of hole when blocking up a door or window, and saying Shehechiyanu on a cooked Esrog.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including schach placed by a non-Jew, bracha on snack-bar with mashed dates, rising for borchu during krias hatorah, and teaching Hebrew to a Ben Noach.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including tikun for cutting down a fruit tree, reciting havdala in the days after Yom Tov, schach from a cemetery, and sukkah with three lovud walls.

Anash.org Feature: This week's Iyun Podcast by Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, director of the Tzfunot Institute, analyzes the Rebbe’s chakira if shaking the Lulav in the Sukkah is a detail & hiddur in the mitzvah of Sukkah or in the mitzvah of Lulav, and its ramifications in the situation when one is exempt from Sukkah.]]> https://anash.org/lulav-in-sukkah-hiddur-in-sukkah-or-in-lulav/feed/ 0