Misc.

What parsha is batul in?

Do you have any advice for survival as being the only Jew in town? I am trying to do Hanukkah without being an outcast among my neighbors.

I received a Pyrex dish that was most likely used for non kosher food. Is it possible to kosher this baking dish? If rekoshering is possible, is the process same as regular glass?

Hi Rabbi Is Halachically allowed to study medical studies [not religious related] with an atheist friend? It might be Pikuach-Nefesh, and it's something that I can't study with anyone else. Thanks so much!

Hello Rabbi, I recently came to the realization that if an animal is slaughtered and the chalaf is found to have notches in it, thus rendering the animal not kosher, then the animal, naturally, may not be consumed. The animal at this point has already been killed. It has suffered, because the chalaf had a notch in it. Its death likely involved some form of pain, even if slight and lasting only for an instant. This animal's death was a tragedy, but it has occurred in the manner in which it has occurred. Why waste it? Why do we waste the life of this animal, who died painfully because of a mistake made by the slaughter or a defect in the tool used for the slaughter? What are we to do with the meat of this animal, and how are we to honor it, after what has been done to it? I cannot understand how G-d would want us to throw out the animal after it has suffered, as that would make its death meaningless.

I inherited glass dishes. I would like to use them. How do I kosher them?

What's a bagel?