Broken Engagements

Reb Naftali Weinberg in his Rav Chaim Kanievsky on Shidduchim had posed a queestion to Maran Sar HaTorah about whether one may ask a Shadchan to return the shadchanus if the engagement was broken. Rav Chaim zatzal ruled that one may not. Broken engagements are never a pleasant item of discussion, and there are often…

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Rav Chaim zatzal on Wedding Costs

It is well-known that wedding expenses are one of the most enormous costs that parents can have. Reb Naftali Weinberger shlita (printed in his new Sefer, “Rav Chaim Kanievsky on Shidduchim” posed a number of questions on wedding expenses to Rav Chaim. Below are a number of those questions: At what point should parents start…

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Passing Inappropriately Dressed People

Trips When there are Inappropriately Dressed People. Even HaEzer What are the parameters of “alternative routes” regarding inappropriately dressed people? There is a Tosfos in in Avodah Zarah 48b that discusses the parameters of what is considered dracha acharina – an alternative path in which one would not be confronted with someone inappropriately dressed.  The…

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