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Interest on loans

Selling a course where the payment varies based on profit later in the year

Interest on loans

Telephone course with additional lessons to be added later and a higher later price

Interest on loans

The company has a general heter iska, but no heter iska was signed in the contract

Interest on loans

Buying on a website that advertises a lower price for immediate payment and a higher one for installments

Interest on loans

Discounted advance payment for a product that does not yet exist

Interest on loans

Preschools that raised prices mid-year only for those who had not yet paid

Interest on loans

Promise of Double Reward in Return for Giving Up Now

Interest on loans

Partner’s investment in a property until a certain amount is paid, after which the property passes to the other partner

Prayer in unclean places

Clean clothing during study

Sale of real estate

Interest in profit-sharing from an investment in an apartment on condition it yields a fixed payment

Tzedaka and maaser purposes

Tithes – Giving Vouchers

Disposing of holy texts and objects

Discarded newspapers, clothes in the laundry basket, baby rattle

Prayer in unclean places

Blessing in a room with a jacuzzi

Prayer on the way

Why Kaddish Cannot Be Said Once Pesukei De’zimrah Has Begun

Tzedaka and maaser purposes

Choshen Mishpat