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											# 1244   Account Your Blessings
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												Q.  3)  See prior question 1242. What happens if one of the sheva brochos was said with mistakes that change its meaning,  such as instead of Shehakol Barah Likvodo in the first brocho, one said Shehakol Nichye Bidvaro or Yotzer Haadama instead of Yo ....
											
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											# 1243   Mixed Blessings
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												Q.  2) Re – See prior question 1242. What happens if one of the sheva brochos was said before the other, and the order was changed? 
 
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											# 1242   Trial By Error
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												In recent times more family members and friends are being honoured with reciting sheva brochos and some of them are not very learned to say the least. This gives rise to brochos said with mistakes or omissions. I would like to know what is the correc ....
											
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											# 1241   Clean Your Plate
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												Q.   Thank you for the answer (See question 1029, I was making an omelette in a milchik pan... ). If the eggs are made on butter with cheese (on a milchik pan), and you accidentally put them on a fleishik plate?   
 
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											# 1240   Risk Of Showers
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												Q.   Is there basis for being able to use hot water for showering on Yom Tov because in today’s times when people have the luxury of having hot showers in their homes it seems to have become much more “shave lkol nefesh"?  
 
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											# 1239   Blessed Berries
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Q.  What bracha do you make on cranberries and strawberries? What happens if you made the wrong brocho? 
 
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											# 1238   Bugged By Frozen Bugs?
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												Q.  Hi. I am wondering which frozen fruits/vegetables need a hechsher and which don't. I know that frozen produce like mango and blueberries does not, but do frozen raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries require a hechsher? What about frozen gre ....
											
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											# 1237   Enjoy Your Anniversary Meal
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												Q.   Is that seuda considered (a seuda on the fiftieth yortzait – see prior question) a seudas mitzva? 
 
A.  As mentioned on the last question, it is difficult to find a source for a special “fiftieth year seuda” minhag.  
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											# 1236   Kidush on Kadish?
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												Q.  Is there a source for making a special seuda at the fifty year yortzait? 
 
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											# 1235   Kadish Leolam?
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												Q.  Is it true what some say that you don't have to recite kaddish on the yortzait more than fifty years?  
 
A.  Some Poskim do write that there is a fifty year limit for maintaining a yortzait and reciting kadish. (Yalkut Yosef – kivud Av ....
											
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											# 1234   Mystery Meat
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Q. (Re- above question on cultured kosher meat). Also what was the status of the meat that was created miraculously in Biblical and Talmudic times?  
 
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											#1233   Deceiving Appearances
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Q.  Regarding the above question of kosher cultured meat, why is there no prohibition of ma'aris ayin? (wrong appearances).  
 
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											# 1232   Size up
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Q.  One wants to replace an old pair of Tefillin (that was used for over 20 years) with a new pair.  
The new pair is smaller than the old one, but is more Mehudar (parshiyos, batim and retzhuos). Does the size matter; does the new pair have  ....
											
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											# 1231   The Crown Of A Good Name
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												Q.    If in a second marriage, there are 2 kids from a previous marriage named after the mother's side and one kid from a previous marriage after the father's side and then they have a daughter together, does one follow the minhag of naming the fist  ....
											
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											# 1230   The Meat Of The Matter
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Q.   Some time ago I sent this question and I didn't get an answer yet, I would like to know the answer. 
Is artificial meat created by starting cells taken from live animals. They are put into a culture media where they start to proliferate  ....
											
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											# 1229   Strangely Enough?
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												Q.  Who should recite viduy with a dying patient, a rabbi that does not know the patient or the patient's son who is there constantly with him? 
 
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											# 1228   Let There Be Light
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												Q. If on Erev Shabbos Chanuka it is already close to the shkiah, how many people is the minimum needed to light the shul menora with a brocho? 
 
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											# 1227   Bench on a Bench?
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Q.  If someone is totally homeless and sleeps on a bench in the park, can he light his menora there? 
 
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											# 1226   Bring To Light
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												Q.   Someone vacationing cross country in a trailer, can he place his menorah by the window and keep travelling during the half hour, while it is lit? 
 
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											# 1225   Follow The Flame?
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												Q.   When we say that lechatchila the Chanuka lights should be lower than ten tefachim is that measure from the flame or from the base of the menora itself? How about for the above three tefachim minimum? 
 
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