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# 3395 Privy to the Privy
Hello Rav, In our basement with a washroom has in it a toilet and shower stall. The shower stall is never used. I’m wondering if its permissible to use it for storage of drinks. (wine, beer, soda...
# 3394 Feast of Reason
(See questions 3390 - 93 above) Is the tradition of Thanksgiving different in Canada than in the U.S. besides the date. Is the origin of the Canadian Thanksgiving religious, since it may have been ins...
# 3393 Crash the Party
See questions 3390, 91, 92 above. 3) Often my parents invite a neighbor family to join our Thanksgiving party. They are Frum people born in Latin America and they said that in their tradition they ce...
# 3392 Set the Agenda
Since you mentioned that Igros Moshe warns that one should not make Thanksgiving an established holiday that we must keep, can the Calendar from a religious school show that day as Remembrance,Victori...
# 3391 Go Cold Turkey?
See question 3390 above. 2) Is it permitted to eat a roasted turkey on Thanksgiving?...
# 3390 Thanks But No Thanks?
I’m a Baal Teshuva that belongs to a family still in the process of Kiruv and becoming close to Hashem. We are a closely united family and we try to maintain seriously that Shalom Bait. We usu...
# 3389 Walk The Talk
There is a Baal Teshuva that is fully integrated into the Haredi community with the exception of the fact that he cannot learn in Lashon Hakodesh and only learns from English sefarim (translated Gemar...
# 3388 The Easy Minyan?
An individual that comes to our shul suffers from a Multiple Personality Disorder. Although he can basically take care of himself, we are not sure if we should give him an aliya or even count him as p...
# 3387 Out of One's Hair
If someone combs his hair, touches it or his beard and some hair comes off, does he have to wash his hands three times using a vessel as after having a haircut?...
# 3386 Bring Back to Life?
I’m a Frum physician that was called out on Shabbat to travel and attend a suicidal woman that poisoned herself by swallowing a large amount of pills. Since this person had given up on her own li...
# 3385 Will Cause Eyebrows to Rise
Regarding question 3384 above. Recently the Rov mentioned in a shiur the prohibition for men to trim his eyebrows as women do. What happens if a man is taking a haircut, and without him noticing the b...
# 3384 Ask and Tell
When exiting shul after davening on Shabbos we witnessed a severe car accident in front of the shul and a victim died. Police arrived immediately and began asking questions from the standby witnesses,...
# 3383 An Early Night?
Q In our Shul we daven these days Mincha before the Shekia and Maariv right after. Sometimes, the Shaliach Tzibur davens Mincha fast and we may end up having to start Maariv, a few minutes before the...
# 3382 Most Eloquent Silence
Q 3. (See questions 3379 - 80 above) Could I rotate the hours of the Tzom Dibbur, or do they have to be static, for example, from 8am to 10am?...
# 3381 Fighting Talk
2. (See question 3380 above) As I have to deal with my husband’s caregivers, and they look for instructions, could I interrupt the Tzom just to give short and to the point instructions and then c...
# 3380 Fast Talk
I have been doing Tzom Dibbur (a fast or a day of restriction on speaking) on Yom Kippur for several years. This year, I decided to do a Tzom Dibbur for part of the day every day, and I have some ques...
# 3379 Oppose or Attract?
When I come (to shul to be) from the Assara Rishonim there is a person who comes and tells me Lashon Hara and disturbs my learning. Is it better to come later, since If I refuse to listen to him he wi...
# 3378 Is Early Better than First?
On question 2998 regarding if it is better to be from the Assara Rishonim or to daven Vasikin. you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is preferred to daven Vasikin (at sunrise), ...
# 3377 Inviting Ghosts to the Feast?
I heard recently (Izkor Shemini Atzeres) from our Rabbi that we invite during Izkor the Neshamot (souls) of our parents and grandparents and other dear ones to come join us and share the Yom Tov with ...
# 3376 It All Adds Up
During Simchat Torah due to the lack of space, we had to serve Kiddush inside the large Suka that we have in our shul. Is there a problem of "Baal Tosiff" or adding to the mitzvot that Hashem gave us,...