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Definition of Interest According to the Torah and Rabbinic Ordinances

Giving Interest or Loan as a Gift

The Punishment for the Prohibition of Usury

Responsibility of Assistants in a Prohibited Loan

Praise for a Short-term Loan?

Praise for the Lender for a Loan

What interest is forbidden?

Immersion of a Vessel Made of Glass and Wood

Mixed Teflon Pans

Wedding meal and Sheva Berachos

Participation in Sheva Brachot During the Year of Mourning

Mourning During the Festival Days

Shiva (7 Days of Mourning)

Rising from Mourning on Shabbat

The First Year after Death

Participation of a Mourner in a Dinner

The First Year after Death

Participation of an Orphan in a Hanukkah Party

Wedding meal and Sheva Berachos

Death of the Bride's Grandfather During the Sheva Brachot Days