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יורה דעה - Yoreh Deah

הלכות שחיטה - Kosher Slaughter
הלכות דברים היוצאים מן החי - Living Animal Products
הלכות תולעים - Worms and Insects
הלכות בשר בחלב - Meat and Milk
הלכות תערובות - Mixtures
הלכות מאכלי עובדי כוכבים - Foreign Foods
הלכות יין נסך - Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine
הלכות רבית - Monetary Interest
הלכות כתובת קעקע וקריחה - Tattooing
הלכות נדה - Niddah
הלכות תלמוד תורה - Jewish Education
הלכות צדקה - Tzedakah
הלכות מילה - Circumcision
הלכות גרים - Conversion
הלכות ספר תורה - The Torah Scroll
הלכות מזוזה - Mezuzah
הלכות כלאים - Inter-Species Mingling
הלכות פדיון בכור - Pidyon HaBen
הלכות ביקור חולים ורפואה - Visiting the Sick and Medicine
הלכות קריעה - Responding to a Death
הלכות אבילות - Mourning

 הלכות שחיטה - Kosher Slaughter

  • Kassel Abelson, "Is a 'K' Kosher?" YD 1:1.1993
  • Elliot Dorff and Joel Roth, "Shackling and Hoisting" YD 6.2000
  • Pamela Barmash, "Veal Calves" YD 24.2007a
    • Paul Plotkin, "Veal Calves: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 24.2007b
  • Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "A Stunning Matter: Stunning and Bolting After Shehitah" YD 27:1.2001a
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Matter of Stunning (and Bolting)" YD 27:1.2001b

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​הלכות דברים היוצאים מן החי - Living Animal Products

  • Daniel Nevins, "The Kashrut of Cultured Meat" YD 81:10.2017

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הלכות תולעים - Worms and Insects 

  • Paul Plotkin, "Insect Infestation And Our Food: The Halakhot Of Bugs” YD 84:10.2018
  • Matthew Nover, "The Kashrut of Insects in Modern Times" YD 85:1.2025

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הלכות בשר בחלב - Meat and Milk

  • Suzanne Brody, "Lab-Grown 'Milk'"  YD 87:3.2024
  • Kassel Abelson, "The Kashrut of Mono- and Di-Glycerides" YD 87:10.1982
  • Kassel Abelson, Mayer Rabinowitz, "Definition of a Davar Hadash" YD 87:10.1984
  • Kassel Abelson, "The Kashrut of Microbial Enzymes" YD 87:10.1994
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "Curiouser and Curiouser" YD 87:10.1997
  • Suzanne Brody, "Gelatin Revisited" YD 87:10.2024

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הלכות תערובות - Mixtures

  • Loel Weiss, "On the Kashrut of Dishwashers" YD 95:2015
  • Paul Plotkin, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment" YD 108:1.2012a
    • Aaron Alexander, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Concurring Opinion" YD 108:1.2012b
    • David Booth, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 108:1.2012c
    • Pamela Barmash, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 108:1.2012d

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הלכות מאכלי עובדי כוכבים - Foreign Foods

  • Avram Israel Reisner, "The Meatless Menu" YD 113:1.2023a
    • Miriam T. Spitzer, "The Meatless Menu: A Concurring Opinion" YD 113:1.2023b
  • Paul Plotkin, "On Mixing Fish and Meat" YD 116:2.1998
  • George Pollak, "Synagogue Policy Concerning Bringing Foods Prepared in the Home into the Synagogue" YD 119:7.1988
  • Mayer Rabinowitz and Avram Reisner, "Tevilat Kelim" YD 120:1.2007

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הלכות יין נסך - Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine

  • Elliot Dorff, "On the Use of All Wines" YD 123:1.1985

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הלכות רבית - Monetary Interest

  • Ben Zion Bergman, "A Question of Great Interest: May a Synagogue Issue Interest-Bearing Bonds?" YD 167:1.1988a
    • Avram Israel Reisner, "Dissent: A Matter of Great Interest" YD 167:1.1988b

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הלכות כתובת קעקע וקריחה - Tattooing

  • Alan Lucas, "Tattooing and Body Piercing" YD 180.1997

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הלכות נדה - Niddah

  • Miriam Berkowitz, Susan Grossman, Avram Reisner, "Mikveh and the Sanctity of Family Relations" YD 183.2006a
  • Susan Grossman, "Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human" YD 183.2006b
  • Avram Reisner, "Observing Niddah in Our Day" YD 183.2006c
  • Miriam Berkowitz, "Reshaping the Laws of Family Purity for the Modern World" YD 183.2006d

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הלכות תלמוד תורה - Jewish Education

  • Jay Stein, "V'shinantam Livanecha" YD 245:3.2009
  • Elliot Dorff, "Joint Conservative-Reform Religious Schools" YD 245:15.1988
  • Pamela Barmash, "Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014a
    • Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "An Egalitarian Abstention" YD 246:6.2014b
    • Loel M. Weiss, "Dissent on Women's Hiyuvim" YD 246:6.2014c
    • Reuven Hammer, "Concurrence on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014d
    • Daniel Nevins, "Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Barmash’s Responsum on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014e
    • Avram Reisner, "Mikhal bat Kushi Wore Tefillin: A concurrence to Women and Mitzvot by Pamela Barmash" YD 246:6.2014f
    • Elliot Dorff, "A Concurrence with Rabbi Pamela Barmash's Teshuvah: The Use of Principles in Jewish Law" YD 246:6.2014g
    • Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Women and Mitzvot: Abstention and Dissent" YD 246:6.2014h
    • Joshua Heller, "Dissenting Opinion on Rabbi Barmash's Responsum on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014i

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הלכות צדקה - Tzedakah

  • Elliot Dorff, "Donations of Ill-Gotten Gain" YD 259:2.2009

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הלכות מילה - Circumcision

  • Morris M. Shapiro, "Improperly Circumcised Children and Parents' Synagogue Membership" YD 262:1.1981
  • David H. Lincoln, "Naming of an Improperly Circumcised Child" YD 262:1.1984
  • Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Post-Mortem Circumcision" YD 263:5.2016
  • David Novak, "The Question of Hattafat Dam Brit (Hebrew)" YD 264:1.1982a
  • Joel Roth, "Hatafat Dam Brit" YD 264:1.1982b
  • Vernon Kurtz, "Anesthesia and Brit Milah" YD 264:3.1998
  • Daniel Nevins, "Early Circumcision in a Pandemic" YD 264.2020
  • Arnold M. Goodman, "Shabbat and Brit Milah" YD 266.1988
  • Vernon Kurtz, "Induction Leading to Birth of a Baby on Shabbat and Brit Milah" YD 266:2.1996

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הלכות גרים - Conversion

  • Joel Roth, Akiba Lubow, "A Standard of Rabbinic Practice Regarding Determination of Jewish Identity" YD 268.1986
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "The Case of the Unconverted Spouse" YD 268.1993
  • Herbert J. Mandl, "Conversion to Judaism Without Circumcision Due to Medical Complications" YD 268:1.1994
  • David Novak, "The Status of Non-Halakhic Conversions" YD 268:3.1982
  • Aaron L. Mackler, "Maternal Identity and the Religious Status of Children Born to a Surrogate Mother" YD 268:6.1997
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Conversion of Adopted and Patrilineal Children" YD 268:7.1988
  • Joel Roth, "Should the Kashrut of Conversions Be Investigated?" YD 268:10.1984a
  • David Novak, "A Teshuvah on the Subject of the Investigations of Conversions Today (Hebrew)" YD 268:10.1984b
  • Steven Saltzman, "The Status of Ethiopian Jews" YD 268:10.1986
  • Reuven Hammer, "On Proving Jewish Identity" YD 268:10.2011
  • Steven Saltzman, "May a Conversion Obtained Through Deceit Be Annulled?" YD 268:12.1989a
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "On Annulling a Conversion Obtained by Deceit: A Concurring Opinion" YD 268:12.1989b
  • Morris Shapiro, "Addendum I On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989c (part 1)
  • Morris Shapiro, "Addendum 2 On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989d (part 2)
  • Gerald Zelizer, "The Return of Second Generation Apostates" YD 268:12.1995
  • Kassel Abelson and Reuven Hammer, "The Status of 'Messianic Jews'" YD 268:12.2012a
    • Aaron Alexander and Elie Kaplan Spitz, "A Concurring Abstention to "The Status of 'Messianic Jews' "" YD 268:12.2012b
  • Barry Leff, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?”" YD 269:1.2010a
    • Elliot Dorff, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” a Concurring Opinion " YD 269:1.2010b
    • Miriam Berkowitz, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” A Dissenting Opinion" YD 269:1.2010c
    • Gail Labovitz, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” A Concurring Opinion" YD 269:1.2010d
  • Judith Hauptman, Suzanne Brody, Jessica Rosenthal Chod, "An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier" YD 269:9.2022a
    • Pamela Barmash, Amy Levin, "A Dissent to 'An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier'" YD 269:9.2022b

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הלכות ספר תורה - The Torah Scroll

  • Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Exodus of Shemot" YD 276:9.2003
  • Kassel Abelson, "Official Use of God" YD 278:12.1993
  • Micah Peltz, "Discarding Large Quantities of Old Siddurim and Mahzorim" YD 276:2016
  • Morris Shapiro, "The Printing of the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew on Synagogue Stationery" YD 276:13.1981
  • Kassel Abelson, "Display of Pasul Torah in Museum Case" YD 282.1997

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הלכות מזוזה - Mezuzah

  • Vernon Kurtz, "Removing a Mezuzah" YD 291:2.2003

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הלכות כלאים - Inter-Species Mingling

  • Daniel Nevins, "Halakhic Perspectives on Genetically Modified Organisms" YD 297.2015

הלכות פדיון בכור - Pidyon HaBen

  • Gerald Skolnik, "Should There Be a Special Ceremony in Recognition of a First-Born Female?" YD 305:1.1993
  • Vernon Kurtz, "Delay of Pidyon HaBen" YD 305:11.1995
  • Howard Handler, "Pidyon HaBen" YD 305:24.1991

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הלכות ביקור חולים ורפואה - Visiting the Sick and Medicine

  • Daniel Greyber and Micah Peltz, "When One Should, and Should Not, Pray for Someone Who is Ill" YD 335:4.2023
    • Daniel Greyber and Micah Peltz, Study Guide for "When Should a Person Come Off the Communal Prayer List?"
  • Joseph H. Prouser, "Chesed or Chiuv: The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ Donations" YD 336.1995
  • Joseph Prouser, "Organ and Tissue Donation Card" YD 336.1996
  • Joel Roth, "Organ Donation" YD 336.1999-
  • Elliot Dorff, "Stem Cell Research" YD 336.2002
  • Elliot N. Dorff and Aaron L. Mackler, "Responsibilities for the Provision of Health Care" YD 336:1.1998
  • James Rosen, "Mental Retardation, Group Homes and the Rabbi" YD 336:1.2000
  • Jay M. Stein, "Physician Strikes" YD 336:1.2016
  • Shai Cherry, "Xenotransplantation" YD 336.2024
  • Pamela Barmash, "Donating One’s Body to Medical Education and Research" YD 336:1.2024a
    • Meir Szames, "A Dissenting Opinion - Donating Bodies to Science" YD 336:1.2024b
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "A Halakhic Ethic of Care for the Terminally Ill" YD 339:1.1990a
  • Elliot N. Dorff, "A Jewish Approach to End-Stage Medical Care" YD 339:1.1990b
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "Mai Beinaihu?" YD 339:1.1990c
  • Amy Eilberg, "On Halakhic Approaches to Medical Care for the Terminally Ill: A Response" YD 339:1.1990d
  • Joel Roth, "A Response to Rabbis Dorff and Reisner" YD 339:1.1990e
  • Aaron L. Mackler, ed., "Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care" YD 339:1.1993
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "Peri- and Neo-Natology: The Matter of Limiting Treatment" YD 339.1995
  • Daniel Nevins, "Triage and the Sanctity of Life" YD 339:1.2020a
  • Elliot Dorff, "Triage in the Time of Pandemic: The Sanctity of Saving as Many Lives as Possible" YD 339:1.2020b

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הלכות קריעה - Responding to a Death

  • Isidoro Aizenberg, "Treatment of the Loss of a Fetus Through Miscarriage" YD 340:30.1987
  • Debra Reed Blank, "Response to Miscarriage" YD 340:30.1991a
  • Amy Eilberg, "Response to Miscarriage: An Alternate View" YD 340:30.1991b
  • Stephanie Dickstein, "What Should Jewish Practice Be Following a Stillbirth?" YD 340:30.1996a
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "What's In a Name?: A Concurrence and Dissent" YD 340:30.1996b

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הלכות אבילות - Mourning

  • Elliot N. Dorff, "Assisted Suicide" YD 345.1997a
    • Statement on Assisted Suicide YD 345.1997b
  • Elliot N. Dorff, "Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying Reconsidered" YD 345.2020
  • Kassel Abelson, "Suicide" YD 345:2.2005
  • Paul Plotkin, "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity" YD 345:5.1994
  • Myron S. Geller, "Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him" YD 345:5.1998
  • Morris Shapiro, "Cremation in the Jewish Tradition" YD 348.1986
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified" YD 352:3.1998
  • Ben Zion Bokser, "A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue" YD 353:3.1983
  • Pamela Barmash, “Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals” YD 357:1.2018
    • Noah Bickart, Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Jan Kaufman, Amy Levin, Jonathan Lubliner, "Concurrence to 'Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals'" YD 357:1.2018b
  • Morris Feldman, "May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?" YD 362:1.1983
  • David H. Lincoln, "The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial" YD 362:1.1983
  • Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "Alternative Kevura Methods" YD 362:1.2017a
    • Daniel S. Nevins, Noah Bickart, Josh Heller, "Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s 'Alternative Kevurah Methods'" YD 362:1.2017b
    • Elliot N. Dorff, joined by Amy Levin and Kass Abelson, "Concurrence to Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s Paper on Alternative Modes of Burial" YD 362:1.2017c
  • Myron S. Geller, "Exhuming the Dead" YD 363.1996
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "A Matter of Grave Concern" YD 367:1.1991
  • Myron S. Geller, "Peaceful Paths" YD 367:1.1994n
  • Kassel Abelson and Loel Weiss, "Burial of a Non-Jewish Spouse" YD 367:1.2010
  • Daniel S. Nevins, "Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death" YD 370:1.2004
  • Leonard Sharzer, "Organ Donation After Cardiac Death" YD 370:1.2010
  • Joel Rembaum, "Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives" YD 374:5.1998
  • Isidoro Aizenberg, "Mourning for a Newborn" YD 374:8.1987
  • Stephanie Dickstein, "What Should Be Jewish Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty One Days?" YD 374:8.1992a
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "Kiyyam Li: A Dissenting Concurrence" YD 374:8.1992b
  • Joshua Heller, "Shiva When Burial is Delayed" YD 375:2.2015
  • Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered" YD 375:7.2001
  • Pamela Barmash and Elliot Dorff, "Shiv’ah Guide" YD 376:1.2025
  • Richard Plavin and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Saying Kaddish for Twelve Months, A Valid Alternative" YD 376:4.2008
  • Pamela Barmash, "How to Recite Mourner's Kaddish While Physically Distancing During a Pandemic" YD 376.4.2020
  • Isidoro Aizenberg, "On the Status of Missing Persons" YD 397.1987
  • Daniel Greyber, "Comforting Mourners (Nihum Aveilim) on Festivals" YD 399:1.2018
  • Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat" YD 400:1.2000

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