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Features:
• Single Opinion - Most halachot present only one opinion, so the user can quickly figure out what to do without scholarly analysis of many differing opinions.
• Intuitive - The Practical Halacha website is designed to be intuitive: you can find the halacha you seek by category, by keyword, or via the glossary. The halachot are searchable and organized.
• Study Text - Practical Halacha can be used as a study text. Similar actions are grouped together to show similarities and differences between them. Subjects are taught by topic so that instead of memorizing thousands of halachot, a few dozen principles can cover many situations and many halachot.
• Introductions - For people unfamiliar with halacha, including non-observant Jews and even non-Jews, the introductions to each category can help give context and background to the actual halachot.
• Print - Practical Halacha can be printed in its entirety (see Read/Print as a Book on the upper right of the home page) or by section, or custom files may be assembled. Pull-out sections designed to be printed for easy use include the Siddur guide, Hagada, and Nida; the Shabbat and Holiday halachot can be printed for use on Shabbat and Chagim.
• Charts - Diagrams, charts, and photographs have been added to help clarify certain halachot. These may also be printed for quick reference. For example, the charts of milk and meat can be printed (and laminated) and kept in kitchens for quick reference.
These halachot are not intended to replace a rabbi who knows you personally or who knows the details of your specific question; rather the website is intended for when you have no access to a rabbi, such as right before Shabbat or Yom Tov, when travelling, or when the local rabbi does not have the expertise of a posek. Additionally, the website is useful as a convenient study text when no halachic books are available.
If any of you use this for teaching and you can suggest ways we can make it better as a teaching resource (or other content or functions which would be useful for teachers), please write to us.
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Richard Aiken
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