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Dear Rabbi, My parents got sick with COVID, and on a Thursday afternoon, while driving to do something for them, I said that I’m was going to start keeping Shabbat. So, I stopped driving on Friday and rested on Shabbat, but I feel like it’s really hard for me. I don’t know if I can keep doing this and I’m truly not ready to give everything up and I feel bad. I want to do things on Saturday, but I feel like something bad might happen to my parents if I stop keeping Shabbat. What do I do? How do I best approach this?

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Dear Rabbi, Can I still consider myself as someone who is “Shomer Shabbat” (a Sabbath observer) if I can't help but bite my nails? I always bite my nails and pick my lip and I was wondering if this makes me not considered as a person who is Shomer Shabbat. (I think I have a nail-biting “disorder” since I was only eight years old). Thank you very much!

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Can I/Should I consider myself a shomer shabbos if I can't help but bite my nails? I always bite my nails and pick my lip and I was wondering if this prohibits the food that I cook being kosher.( I think I have a skin picking disorder I have been picking since I was around seven or eight years old) ANYWAY thank you very much!

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Is it wrong to sell items on internet sites on Shabbat? Even if I don't work? The sites punish ads canceled on Shabbat.

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Hi. How can a religious jew have an online business which has customer service available on Shabbos? From what I've read online, one can start the company together with a non-jewish partner who will take an eighth of the profits, but it seems that one must be careful that it should be a 'real partnership' - not sure what that means. Does this include decision-making? What if I outsource the basic level of customer service? Would that work? Thanks for any pointers on this.  

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Hello, a question i have if you don't mind is regarding "sorcery". What exactly is "sorcery"? In Greek it is "pharmakia" and that sounds like "pharmacy". Also if you look the word "sorcery" up in a Strongs concordance where it gives you the Hebrew definition for the definition, it uses words like "drug" and "poison". I've also heard people talk about how things like cannabis a mind altering drug can open your mind up spiritually to demons, and also how some use mind altering drugs to communicate with spirits/demons. I've also seen a rabbi that said cannabis was kosher and ok to use, and have heard of rabbis saying that medication is ok. So idk. I'm trying to understand. If sorcery does have to do with drugs does that mean certain types of drugs or all drugs? Only mind altering drugs? Or only all man-made drugs including pharmaceutical medication, hence pharmakia? Is cannabis ok to use/smoke? Are psychiatric mental health medications ok to use? There may be a few questions in here which I am wondering, but mostly i want to understand: What exactly is "SORCERY" aka pharmakia? Thank you, I really appreciate this service.