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# 3455 Still in Place
If a Menorah was placed in a site where it can affect others walking by or it may be extinguished by them, can one move it to a better and safer place after it was lighted?...
# 3454 Sh'mitah Stringency?
Should one be makpid for the Chazon Ish’s chumros (stringency) on Sh’mittah in Israel? if you buy Sh’metiah food from a store or anything from a store which sells Sh’mitah food and...
# 3453 An Eye View
One is to undergo an operation on both his eyes and he will be bandaged and not seeing for a couple of weeks that coincide with some of the Chanuka days. Is he allowed then to have a family member d...
# 3452 See the Light?
I’m a physician (single) who had to assist on the operation of a patient on a Chanuka night and could not be at home for lighting the candles. I did see a lighted Menorah in the office of a colle...
# 3451 Have Torah, Will Travel
The Mishna Taanis 1:3 says that it took those that lived on the farthest borders of Israel took 15 days to travel to Yerushalaim. Males that lived in Israel are obligated in aliyah l’regel 3 time...
# 3450 Enlightening the Lightening
Hi. I hope I have the right number. I have a question for a Rabbi. I live in Toronto and I will have to leave my house on Sunday before Chanukah lighting. I will be going to see an event that I have t...
#3449 Juice Back
How much water can be added to grape juice before becoming Shehakol? If I am eating by someone Shabbos day and they add too much water, I am not being yotzi kiddush - does that mean I have to walk out...
# 3448 On Time?
Where does a yeshiva Bachur light Thursday night when leaving yeshiva for an off Shabbos on Thursday night at 10 pm?...
# 3447 Thanks A Lot
Is Hakaras HaTov(recognizing and thanking for a favor received) a mitzvah in the Torah? Last year Chanukah we provided my sons Rebbe with Chanukah Gelt, with a nice hand written card, and we didn...
# 3446 Enlightening the Converted
May a Gentile studying for conversion light a Menorah with Brochos? May one benefit from his candles?...
# 3445 Lip Service?
Why is it correct to say in Shemone Essreh three times a day "Ki Becha Batachnu" or "Because we trust in You," when we know that it is not necessarily always true?...
# 3444 Clean One's Act
Is it correct for Frum people to leave a discarded toilet for street collection sometimes for more than a week, when the neighbors are people who often learn Torah and also say words of Tefila as they...
# 3443 The Correct Question
In Ta’anis Daf 4a R’ Shmuel bar Nachmani says that three people asked Hashem shelo kahogen (incorrectly) and He replied twice kahogen and once shelo kahogen. This seems to imply that we must...
# 3442 The Black Sea?
(See questions above) Can one make the Bracha on the sea when seeing it from a plane while traveling at night?...
# 3441 High Seas?
Can one recite say ’Ose Maase Bereishit’ when looking at the sea from the great altitude of a flight at the time one cannot see any details, just a great blue surface ?...
# 3440 A Plane Answer
If one saw the sea from the plane at the beginning of the trip and did not make the Bracha of ’Ose Maase Bereishit’ at the time, can he say it latter during the same flight?...
# 3439 Falling for the Falls
See question above. Does the same apply to seeing the Lake Ontario and the rivers close to Niagara Falls?...
# 3438 The Lacking of the Lakes
See question above Q G-d willing, I am planning a trip to Toronto in the near future. Since I will be traveling over the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and will ostensibly see Lake Ontario whi...
# 3437 From Sea to Shining Sea
G-d willing, I am planning a trip to Toronto in the near future. Since I will be traveling over the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, (and will ostensibly see Lake Ontario while in Toronto), do I...
# 3436 Don't Ask Alexa
Can one use a computer that follows Alexa or Siri type of vocal instructions do melachot (prohibited works) on Shabbat, if it is programmed to only randomly follow up instructions 50% of the time? Sin...