Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

And eventually they'll get over it and they'll accept who you are.

But it's worth having that one conversation just to make clear where you're holding.

Obviously in the most respectful way and just to request their respect of your enhanced religious observance.

Just like you respect them and you wouldn't...

do anything to ask them to compromise their beliefs.

Again, it's not a guarantee that everyone's just going to be happy with it and say, oh, okay, no problem.

No, probably not.

They'll probably be very upset, but eventually they'll get over it.

Eventually, there are growing pains a lot of times in relationships.

It's just the way things work in real life.

Okay, question number seven.

If a stain gets on one's clothing on Shabbos, what halachic options are available and which commonly overlooked prohibitions are involved?

Okay, there's a lot to say on this.

I'm not sure how much I should get into it.

If part of the stain is above the fabric, so then it's like a case of a feather that falls on a baguette where you could just take it off.

And the part of the stain that's embedded in the fabric is like dust that's embedded in the fabric.

And, you know, whether you can remove it, says that you're allowed to remove dust that's embedded in the fabric.

But the Ramas says not.

In Siv Zayin, the Shulchan Aruch says, based on the Gemara, that removing a stain or mud by scrubbing the fabric against itself is aser because scrubbing is an act of kibus and is similar to melabe.

So Shulchan Aruch explains that the iser applies when you try to remove the mud by folding the garment so that the stain is in between the two folds and then you scrub one side against the other.