Misc.

In Halacha, Jews generally should violate Dina D’Malchuta Dina if it contradicts Halacha. This is why Orthodox Jews normally follow the Torah’s inheritance laws over secular law. But do inheritance taxes violate Halacha (since inheritance in Torah puts family first) so that Jews can’t comply with them, or are they compatible with Halacha so that Dina D’malchuta Dina applies? Beyond the moral question of whether they should exist.

There is a dispute in Tractate Chullin whether Reishit Hagez (the commandment to give the first shearing of the flock to a Kohen) applies in the Diaspora like it does the Land of Israel. My question is, even according to the opinion in Halacha of it not applying, what about cases where there is a sheep born in the Diaspora but brought into the Land of Israel and first sheared there?

According to Halacha, Jews are supposed to remit the debts of other Jews every 7 years during the Shemitta year, which has a positive commandment and a negative commandment so My question is, are women also obligated in the positive commandment, or since it is time bound are they Petur? (Please provide a source)

From my previous answer here, it seems you believe Miun can’t be witnessed through teleconference. My question is why that is the case when this article by Chaim Jachter said that witnesses to the request of a get document can be done that way. It seems like the same principle

According to Halacha, If a minor girl gets married to a man, if she shows intellectual capability over 6, she has to do Miun instead of a Get. Miun is her expression of refusal to the marriage. My question is, can Miun be expressed through a telephone or teleconference?

Does the Halacha’s prohibition of bestiality apply to fish? The reason I ask is because Halacha distinguishes between fish and non fish animals for other aspects of Halacha, such as the need for shechita.

I was curious if it is permissible to remove hair with depilatory cream when mourning. The reason is because there is a biblical prohibition against shaving hair (Deuteronomy 14:1) to mourn, but since it is according to many poskim Muttar to use depilatory cream on areas you’d otherwise be forbidden from shaving, does the same principle apply here that the biblical prohibition doesn’t occur since you’re not using an actual razor? Is it the same principle

In Halacha, is carried interest prohibited as ribbit? So Jew 1 owns an investment management fund, Jew 2 goes to him and pays for the value of the profit from the stock trading, and in exchange for managing the stocks in the fund Jew 1 gets 10% of the profit as a commission, is this prohibited as Ribbit?

Does halacha permit or prohibit a Jew to genetically engineer an animal with the DNA of another kind of animal, or is this considered “Kilayim” the forbidden mixing of two animal species? Does any rabbi talk about this

According to any authorities of Halacha, is metzitzah b’peh bal tosif