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  • This interaction between valid testimony and testimony by witnesses who are normally disqualified and who may have a stake in the issue is a matter of balance: she is forbidden to her husband, who must divorce her (a matter of religious significance, issur), but is allowed to claim her ketubbah (a matter of money, mamon).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Suspected Adulteress (Sotah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • The Rama even issues a warning against violating this specific issur.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

  • Thee reason is, is that smoking would only be considered deriving benefit issur hanah and it would not bee deemed ingesting the kitnyot.

    Hyper-machmir Green Leaf Party warns that the reefers are kitniyot | Jewschool 2007

  • One would be over on the issur of gvinas akum/gvinas goy depending on whether the source is ashkenazi or sephardi, which is a clear ossur based on all of the halacha seforim.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

  • For example, R 'Yosi Hagelili believe that the issur of meat and milk does not apply to fowl, but the psak halachah is otherwise.

    Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) admin 2010

  • Beis Yosef quotes Orchos Chaim: "The mitzvah to drink on Purim does not mean to get drunk, because being drunk is a total issur, and there is no aveirah greater than this!"

    Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) admin 2010

  • Question: Is timtum part of Teva (so too bad if you ate it unknowingly) or related to issur (no halachik harm, no foul)?

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

  • The issur of kitniyot drives me just as crazy as the next (Ashkenazi) guy.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

  • I believe that this dilutes the strong halachic and hashkafic case against ordination, in terms of the issur of serarah, issues of tzniyus, and the need to entrust halachic determination only to those who have had many, many years of near full-time immersion in Gemara and Rishonim, something that women have in fact not at all "just come in to."

    Cross-Currents 2009

  • Chalav Yisrael - It all depends on whether the concern is taarovet tameh (i.e. Chosheh for Issur V'heter) or it's a plain gzeirah (i.e. now it's a cheftza shel issur).

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

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