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											# 2562   Honest to G-d
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												Q. A friend who is a shatnez tester and I consult him, requested that I ask the Rov, if from experience he knows that the cloth he is being asked to check is not likely to have any shaatnez. Does he have to inform the owner that no testing is require ....
											
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											# 2561   Examine the Examination
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												Q.  Re- questions (2559-60) above. How much is one obliged to be concerned about the possibility of having shatnez in one's clothing, to be machmir and pay for a bedika or shaatnez test? 
 
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											# 2560   Tailor Made Evaluation
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												Q. Can you rely on a non-Jewish tailor, when he assures that there is no linen in the wool suits he makes for you, specially when you have been his client for many years and he is afraid to loose a customer? 
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											# 2559   Look Out and Look in?
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												Q.  Do you have to check for shaatnez a suit that according to its label it 100% polyester etc. and does not contain any wool? 
 
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											# 2558   A Fresh Start
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Q. Should preference for reciting sheva brochos in the case above (Q. 2555) be given to the one that led the benching since he started with the mitzva? 
 
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											# 2557    Pray For The Medicine?
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												Q.  If someone keeps his medicines in the bathroom, can he say the tefila mentioned above (2556 - “Yehi ratzon milfanecha, Hashem Elo-hai, she’yehai eisek zeh li li’refuah ki rofai chinam atta," - May it be Your will, Hashem my G-d, that this activit ....
											
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											# 2556   Bless One's Medicine?
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												Q.  Does one say a special tefila or bracha before taking any medicine constantly taken with Hashem's name?  Does one say it on Shabbat or Yom Tov? 
 
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											# 2555   One's Cup of Wine
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												Q.  Is the case above any different than the common sheva brochos done in shul by shaleshudes during Shabbos? 
Is the cup of wine drunk before havdalah? 
 
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											# 2554   Chosen Celebration
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												Q.  If the newlyweds join the bris mila seuda (see question above) and they have fulfilled all of the requirements needed (extra food, their own place of honor, their own added people, and nigunim with songs also take place). When it comes to birchas ....
											
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											# 2553   Many Happy Simches 
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												Q.  We have invited our just married cousins to the bris mila of our son. (There should B'H be many simchas by all). I was told that if we add some more food to the seudas habris, we can recite sheva brochos, which would be very beautiful since some  ....
											
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											# 2552   A Family United
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Q.  Can a woman recite kiddush Friday night for her elderly father (who cannot say it himself) and for her daughters already bas mitzva, and other women guest, when her husband is not in town?  
 
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											# 2551   No Straps Attached?
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												Q.   The straps of my tefilin are only about ten years old. On the tefilin shel yad, at the top place, where it ties over the biceps and goes around the loop of the kesher, since I place them tight, the strap has shrunk a bit. Is the retzua still kos ....
											
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											# 2550   The Branch of Olives
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												Q,  We are learning about eating olives at the Daf. Is it true that the detrimental eating of olives that makes one forget his learning,  does not apply to someone who is a Talmid Chcham? (It was so mentioned in our shiur). 
 
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											# 2549   Bless The Hostess?
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												Q. When a guest is reciting during Birchat Hamazon after a meal the blessing for his host, should he not include the hostess also? Why is she is not usually included in the established different nuschaos or versions? (See first question above. 
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											# 2548     A Very Blessed Trip
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												Q. When someone is staying in a Jewish hotel or traveling El Al, should one say the blessing for the host after eating and reciting Birchat Hamazon? 
 
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											# 2547   The Place of Honor
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												Q. (Re- question 2546 above). Where is the correct place for the guest to recite the blessing honoring and thanking his host after the meal, during Birchat Hamazon? 
 
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											# 2546   Thank G-d For Small Blessings
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												Q.  Why is it that only some of the guest bother to bless their hosts at the end of a Shabbat or other meal, with the extended bracha mentioned in the Gemara, and they say only a short Horachaman, mentioned in sidurim by Birchat Hamazon? 
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											#2545   Thanks But No Thanks
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Q.  A gabay goes around the shul with a pushka during pesukei dezimara (by Vaiborech Dovid) to collect tzedaka for the shul. He often says yasher koach or thank you to the givers and he argues that it is not a hefsek or interruption,sin ....
											
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											# 2544   Make a Name for Yourself
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												Q.  When reciting a mi sheberach for a sick person, we usually quote his mothers name. If he is a Cohen or a Levy, should the gabay say Hacohen or Halevy after his name or after the mothers name, as we usually do with the father? 
 
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											# 2543   Tefilah Multitasking 
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