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# 3495 A Kashi on the Sushi
What is Horav Miller’s latest opinion on the bracha on sushi?...
# 3494 Happy New Year?
Can one who usually greets first his Non- Jewish neighbors every morning, do so during this time of the year with ’Have a Good Year’ or ’Happy Holidays’?...
# 3493 Same Name Again?
Our daughter, who is having a difficult time finding the proper shiduch, was B’H able to connect recently with a promising candidate. But now a new issue appeared. The name of the mother of the p...
# 3492 New Mazal Appraisal
Our family is very worried about finding the right Shiduch for our daughter, who has been going out for years without success. Is it proper to do a Shinui Hashem or change of name, as we commonly do f...
# 3491 Did He Really Say That!
I have often wondered, the word ’Mesukan,’ written in Hebrew, is said on the praises to the Torah, in the Bracha after Kerias Shema every morning. There it is written with a Tav and means fi...
# 3490 Forgot the Name
Someone was asked to deliver a shiur he usually teaches daily, in the name of a sick person for his Refuah Shleima. He did remember that he was asked but couldn’t remember the proper Hebrew name ...
# 3489 Change the Name and Still the Same?
If someone had to have a name added because of a severe Covid infection, and B’H survived and the added name was kept, does one have to change the name written in the Kesuva and write a new one?...
# 3488 No Party to this Party
I’m a patient of a great and noble surgeon, who has practically saved my life on a number of occasions. As the Holiday season approaches, his staff and patients, plan to make for him a well atten...
# 3487 Strike a Match
We own a company that deals with recruiting and employment contacts. We would like to expand to other fields of establishing contacts, since in essence, we already have the infrastructure and computin...
# 3486 Off or On Vacation?
Is it proper for someone that has the option of taking his vacations during another time of year, to take them now during the week of Christmas and New Year?...
# 3485 Nitel Intel
This year Dec 25 falls on Shabbos, so Nitel will coincide with Leil Shabbos or Friday night. For some of us who carefully keep the Chassidic tradition of not learning Torah during Nitel night, does it...
# 3484 Speak from Experience
Our shul is starting a ’Kiruv" outreach program for neighbors who may want to join and become Frum. They are planing to hire a well remunerated professional ’Mekarev’ to do the work. Th...
# 3483 A False Alarm?
Can one program his cell phone to vibrate or turn on its light for a short time in order to wake him up on Shabbat morning?...
# 3482 Don't Brake Down
3) See questions above. When the Kesuva fell and the frame was damaged, the whole family became very upset. Should they be concerned that the occurrence of the Kesuva falling and the glass of the fram...
# 3481 Hanging on the Balance
2) See question 3480 above. If one could move it, could they have hanged up the frame on the hook still attached to the wall?...
# 3480 The Breaking News
Last Shabbat a sad thing happened to a close friend of mine. He has B’H a large and happy family with many children. He invited to his home a group of guests to join him for the Shabbat meal. One...
# 3479 Come In On Top?
I have seen people when they take off their Taalis and Tefilin, place the Taalis over the Tefilin since after all it is removed last. Besides, next day one is going to put on the Taalis first, and it ...
# 3478 From Sea to Shining Sea II
On question 3437 regarding the proper bracha for seeing the sea when traveling by plane, you wrote: "Mishna Berura (2) debates and quotes opinions if the Yam Hagadol is indeed the Mediterranean Sea an...
# 3477 Certifying the Certifier
An Innovative Pluralistic and Egalitarian Jewish Day School, with classes from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8, is seeking a Mashgiach for giving the children from Non-Orthodox homes Kosher meals at th...
# 3476 Remembering to Remember
I know that women are in principle exempt from the mitzva of reading every day the Shema Yisrael, since it is mitzva that has an appointed time (Zeman Geramah). I have often wondered if that applies a...