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Why is circumcision performed at eight days old? Why not wait till the child is old enough to choose to have it done because he wants to?

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I'm having a marriage of 23 years. We are not a perfect match. Never went the same direction. My wife did thing based on her own opinion, never kept her word. I'm tired. My sons, 17 and 13, know we aren't a good association. I can't stand her. ¿How do I know when is time to leave?

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As far as I know a person who is in his shloishim after the loss of a parent even if the shloishim was cut back because of a Yom Tov that occured within the 30 days he is still a chiyuv as far as Davening as a Ba"al Tefillah is concerned. What happens if another person in the minyan has Yahrzeit for a parent, who takes precedence and should be Ba"al Tefillah?

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I am a Noahide seeking an answer to the question, when if ever do you take someone off a ventilator? My 43-year-old son suffered a bad stroke this past weekend. The ICU doctors say he will never be able to come off the ventilator. He is not brain dead but has bleeding of the brain causing pressure within his skull. His mother (my ex-wife) wants the ventilator removed which will result in his death. She has the say so in the ICU concerning my son's treatments. Please advise what Hashem would want done in this situation?

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What are a husband’s rights when his wife refuses to have sex with him? Is it permitted to have sex with another woman?

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I grew up in a shul where aveilim said all the kaddishes required by the nusach Askhenaz sidur. I am now in aveilus and daven at a different shul where this used to be the custom. Someone complained that it was taking too long, so the Rabbi canceled some of the kadishes. My question is: Should I go to two successive minyans in order to "make up" for the canceled kadishes?

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I have been to several orthodox weddings lately and noticed that there seem to be a lot of people crashing them. I have not seen this to the same degree at any other weddings. First, a lot of people who are not invited come to the ceremony only. That’s not unusual. But I’ve also seen many more people come to dance and/or socialize, but they don’t eat anything and they view it that they are not stealing food or putting a burden of cost on anyone. For example, one wedding I went to recently had seating room for 120 guests (15 tables of 8 each), but there had to be close to 300 people dancing. I’ve seen others come uninvited and they either share a meal with an invited guest they know or take an empty spot at the meal of a no-show. I’ve seen that happening at the exact tables where I have sat. And there are people who come for the cocktail hour and feel they are not stealing because there is lots of food just being handed out that would otherwise go to waste. Before I became friendly with so many orthodox people, I went to a lot of non-orthodox and non-Jewish weddings where if anyone crashed, it was usually just a single digit number of people. But I’ve never seen anything like what I’ve seen in the orthodox community here. Is there any reason for this?