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Tzitzit: Placement
Like all tzitzit, tzitzit on a talit gadol should hang over the side edge of the talit and not hang down from the bottom.
Note They are still kosher even if they hang straight down, b'di'avad.
Amida: Bathroom Needs
If you need to use the toilet, you may not say the amida.
Note If you could refrain—even with difficulty--from using the bathroom for 72 minutes after you finish the amida, it is OK b'di'avad.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Solid, COVERED
L'chatchila: Do not bake separate pans—whether uncovered or not—of dairy food and meat food in the oven at the same time.
Reason The food might spill over.
B'di'avad, you may cook pans of dairy food and meat food at the same time in one oven if both are:
  • Not touching,
  • Covered, AND
  • Non-liquid; i.e., either:
    • Solid, or
    • Liquid only at the beginning or end of the cooking (but not both beginning and end).

 

Jewish Festivals: Candles: Lighting with Delay until Sunset
As on Shabbat, you may say “I am lighting Jewish festival candles but not starting the Jewish festival until sunset” to delay observing the Jewish festival until sunset, but this in only b'diavad.
Note As for Shabbat, women should not routinely start Jewish festivals at sunset since the proper time for women to begin Jewish festivals is at candle lighting (typically 18 minutes before sunset).
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Solid, UNCOVERED
L'chatchila, you should not bake uncovered dairy and meat foods in the same oven at the same time, even if both pans:
  • Are non-liquid, AND
  • Do not touch each other.
B'di'avad, both uncovered pans remain kosher—even if they touch each other, if both pans:
  • Are non-liquid,
  • Are clean and dry (on the outside), AND
  • Do not contain spicy/charif food.
Example
Situation
  • Food in both pans is solid.
  • One pan is covered, one pan is uncovered.
  • Both pans are clean and dry on outside. 
  • No spicy/charif.
Status They are both kosher b'dia'vad.
Passover: When To Finish Kashering
When kashering an oven or utensils for Passover, you may kasher:
  • By Libun
  Anytime, including on chol ha'moed (but not on Jewish festivals or Shabbat).
  • By Hag'ala
  Until one hour before halachic midday on Passover eve (but b'di'avad it is OK until
  just before sunset of Passover eve).
 
Rosh Hashana: How Many Shofar Blasts To Hear
Men are required to hear at least 60 shofar blasts on Rosh Hashana (l'chatchila) in order to fulfill the commandment of hearing shofar:  30 before the musaf amida and 30 afterward.  But they fulfill their requirement (b'di'avad) if they have heard at least 30 on each day of Rosh Hashana. 
Women only need to hear 30 shofar blasts on each day of Rosh Hashana.
Note Although 100 shofar blasts are blown each day of Rosh Hashana, hearing all 100 is a non-binding custom.  You do not need to hear the first blasts or any other particular set, but you must hear blasts that include:
  • 3 tashrat (teki'a-shevarim-teru'a-teki'a) +
  • 3 tashat (teki'a-shevarim-teki'a) +
  • 3 tarat (teki'a-teru'a-teki'a).  

Rosh Hashana: Evening Kiddush: New Fruit for SheHecheyanu on Second Night
Place a “new” fruit--over which you may say she'hecheyanu--at the table for kiddush on the second night of Rosh Hashana.
Reason So the she'hecheyanu of kiddush also covers the fruit. 
Note B'di'avad, still say she'hecheyanu even if you do not have a new fruit.
How Much Matza To Eat
Motzi, Matza
For motzi and matza together, you must eat at least 1.9 fl. oz. (56 ml) of matza within a 4-minute period from when you begin eating.

Afikoman
For afikoman, you must eat another 1.9 fl. oz of matza; b'di'avad, at least 1.3 fl. oz. (39 ml, or 1/6 cup) is sufficient. 
Note This amount is about 1/2 of a machine shmura matza, or 1/3 of a hand shmura matza. 
Note If your mouth is too dry to eat that quickly, you may drink water with the matza.
Shomer To Honor Dead Person
A “watcher” (shomer) should stay with a dead body at all times until the burial, if possible, to honor the dead person. The watcher should be close enough to be able to see the body. A non-Jew may be a watcher, but only b'di'avad.
Note If the body is being shipped somewhere, it is preferable that a shomer stay with the body, but it is not required.
Attire: Man's Head Covering for Prayers or Torah Study
Wearing a hat for prayer (for men) is formal wear that shows honor to God. Men do not need to wear a hat but must have some type of head covering when saying blessings, when praying, or when studying holy texts (this is halacha). If a man said a blessing or prayer without a head covering, b'di'avad, it is OK and he does not need to repeat the blessing or prayer.     
 
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Both UNCOVERED; One Is Spicy/Charif
Situation Two uncovered pans (one of dairy food, one of meat) are baked in the same oven at same time. The food in only one of them is spicy/charif.  Even if the:
  • Pans are clean and dry,
  • Pans are not touching, and
  • Food is non-liquid.
Status The spicy/charif one is b'di'avad kosher;
The non-spicy utensil and its contents are not kosher.
 
Stovetop Surfaces: Hot Utensil with Food
Situation
A hot (120° F--49° C--or more) lid or utensil (such as a spoon, fork, or ladle) containing food is put on a stovetop surface. Consider:
  • Temperature of stovetop;
  • Volume of food on lid or fork/spoon;
  • Timing--Was the stovetop used at 120° F or more within 24 hours? (If not and if it is clean, everything is kosher b'di'avad.)
Status of Utensil
  • Utensil: Dry.
 Stove: Clean.
 Utensil is kosher.
  • Utensil: Dry or wet.
 Stove: Dirty.
 Utensil is non-kosher.
  • Utensil: Wet.
 Stove (clean or dirty); had hot opposite-gender food on it within previous 24 hours.
 Utensil is not kosher.
  • Utensil: Dry or wet.
 Stove: Clean; no hot opposite-gender food on it within the previous 24 hours:
 Utensil is kosher.
Drying Hands after Washing for Bread
When washing your hands before eating bread, the ideal procedure is to wash, say the blessing al netilat yadayim, and then dry your hands (since the drying is part of the washing procedure). Many people have the custom of pouring water onto each hand twice but only before eating bread.
Note If you washed your hands, dried them, and then said the blessing al netilat yadayim, b'di'avad you are covered. But if you washed your hands and dried them but did not yet say the blessing al netilat yadayim, you should touch a normally covered part of your body, wash your hands again, say al netilat yadayim, and go on to say ha'motzi on bread.
Birkat HaMazon: Location: Eating in Two Places--No Prior Intention
Situation
  • You said ha'motzi.
  • Ate bread without planning to continue your meal elsewhere.
  • Then changed your mind and wanted to eat at a second place.
What To Do The ideal practice is to:
  • Say birkat ha'mazon where you are, and then
  • Start a new meal--wash, make ha'motzi, and eat at least 1.3 fl. oz. (39 ml, or 1/6 cup)—of bread in the second place.
B'di'avad, it is OK to say birkat ha'mazon at the second place, but only if you also ate at least 1.3 fl. oz. (39 ml, or 1/6 cup) of bread at the second place (no additional washing or ha'motzi is needed).