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											# 4308   Casing the Casino 
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												  Q. See question above. Would the same apply to a building that was once used as a casino or another even more immoral establishment? 
 
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											# 4307   Policing the Police Place
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												  Q.  Is it recommended or even proper and permitted to buy for using as a Talmud Torah a building that was used as a police station. It included a jail, that constantly was home for all kinds of criminals and most impure characters. Is it correct? W ....
											
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											# 4306   Crumb the Crumb?
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												  Q.    Are crumbs Muktza after Bentching?  What about matzah or cake crumbs? 
 
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											# 4305    Tzedek Taxes
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												  Q. How do I calculate the tzedakah on the sale of a house? If I still have a mortgage, do I deduct it as well as the original cost of the house? What about the real-estate, land transfer tax, HST and other fees? What if this leads me with a shortfa ....
											
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											# 4304   The Date changed the Date
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											# 4303    Lost The Silver Spoon?
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												 Q.There was a story about a young kallah who called the Rabbi crying that she just made her chassan a fleshing meal and accidentally put the milchig (silver) spoon into it and was upset that she would have to throw it away. The Rabbi said: "Didn't y ....
											
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											# 4302   Could we All Join You
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     Q. (See question above). If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way? 
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											# 4301  Read This
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												 Q. If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way? 
 
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											# 4300   Ask Me Another..
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												. Q.  Another question Kvod Horav.  I impart a very necessary and essential weekly Halacha shiur on the laws of Shabbat in my shul, and I explain very needful and indispensable information on what it involves to observe Shabbat properly. Since time i ....
											
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											# 4299   Pick and Choose
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												  Q.  Kvod Harav. I as a Rabbi, was offered to enact two very different weddings on the same time but at different locations, and I cannot do both. One is a common young Frum couple, the other is an elderly couple in their late eighties that lost the ....
											
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											# 4298   Hold on to  the Baby?
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												   Q.   I know there is a minhag for pregnant women or those of childbearing age not to go to a funeral. Is there a Halacha or minhag not to bring babies to a funeral or Shiva house? 
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											# 4297   Order in Law 
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												 Q.  After davening during Shabbat it is common in a shul to collect the sidurim or chumashim and placed them in order on the usual shelfs. Is there a problem of Borer (prohibited choosing act on Shabbat) especially at the night tefilah? 
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											# 4296   Best to Choose the Best
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												    Q. .  Regarding mixtures as they pertain to the Melacha of Borer (sorting), I have a few questions. 
1) -If I have a challah (bread) in the freezer among other food items, is it considered part of a mixture so that I cannot take it out at ni ....
											
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											#   4295   Feel at Home
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												  Q.  One of the  Gedolei Hador came to my neighbourhood and his Schachris minyan, was conducted in a house and open to the public. Is it better to daven in my Makom Kavua (establihed place) in Beis Hamedrash, or in the house with the Gadol? 
											
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											# 4294    Cat Out of the Bag?
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												 Q. Can I feed my cat food that contains in its ingredients meat even of chickens and milk ingredients together? 
 
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											# 4293   Stranger’s Dangers
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  Q.   Can I buy cat-food that has chicken and fish oil in it? What about a mixture of beef and fish, is that dangerous for animals as well as people? 
 
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											# 4292   Sign Away
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											# 4291   Sign of the Times
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												  Q.   Dear Rov I was at a wedding recently and I saw that the signature of one the witnesses at the Ketuba (marriage document) was almost illegible, you could not tell who signed it. Is that Ketuba Kasher. 
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											# 4290   Cut the Cut
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												  Q. Re- question above of not performing a Bris Mila on Shabbos for a baby whose father isn’t Jewish. If a child is born by IVF from an egg donated by a Gentile mother, is the Bris done in Shabbat? 
 
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											# 4289   So Glad To Hear That
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												  Q.  On question above If someone wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, if he turns on his cell phone and listens to a shiur, does he have to recite the Bracha on the Torah? 
 
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