Daily Life

These days, there are so many tzedaka campaign links that are sent around daily. Should I be giving to everyone else shuls, yeshivos and causes at the expense of having money left to give my own shut or yeshiva or does my own causes come first?

Can I eat food that went into the bathroom?

Can a man use an in ground swimming pool for his daily morning mikvah immersion? also does a man say any bracha or anything else before dipping in a mikvah for daily immersion or before Shabbat/yom tov?

Am I able to drink from same plastic bottle I drank from yesterday if I drank from it after eating meaty and still remain milky

is it true that it is an ayin hara to sleep facing the door?

Hello, this is a quick question - I see people raise their pinky when the Torah is lifted and then kiss it before putting their finger down. What is the meaning behind that practice and does the pinky stay up the entire time the Torah is raised and only put down once the Torah is covered? Thank you.

May one drink milk when eating smoked salmon? Or use butter with smoked salmon? I am Sephardic.

Sometimes I am still finishing korbanot when they get up to kadesh. Am I allowed to continue davening in between saying amen or should I stop completely until the kadish is over?