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# 3375 Murky Waters?
I sleep in a Sukka with two other people but we have only one bowl for Negel Vasser. (Water to be used for washing hands when one wakes up. After washing the water is considered to possess a spirit of...
# 3374 A Balancing Act
It became popular in some places to use during Hoshanos on Sukos, when doing Hakofes, a little siddur that one attaches with a type of clip to the basket-holder attached to the Lulav and the Haddassin...
# 3373 The Sooner the Better?
Is it correct that one should dismantle his Suka immediately after the end of the Yom Tov?...
# 3372 Grinding into Grinding
Can one use a hand held disposable pepper grinder during Yom Tov?...
# 3371 Abandon Ship?
Is it correct for someone of the essential ten composing the minyan, to leave the shul because of the closeness to the Plag Hamincha and daven somewhere else?...
# 3370 Showing Feelings for Others
We have a maid that comes to help doing house work. She carries a necklace with a crucifix, can she enter like that to clean the Suka?...
# 3369 We Can Accept This
Should one avoid accepting Shemini Atzeres early because then he loses out on the mitzvah of Sukka? Could one just be mekabel the issur melacha?...
# 3368 An Honest Mistake
By mistake in our shul on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukot we took out two Sifrei Torah as is usually done on Chol Hamoed Pesach, instead of only one, as is done on Sukot. However, we only read as i...
# 3367 The Real Beauty of a Mitzva
If someone is offered to buy at a good price a very beautiful silver box for his Esrog should he go for it? He did spend already a large sum on the Esrog itself....
# 3366 Honoring the Decorations?
If someone builds the Suka weeks before Yom Tov, should he also place the decoration early?...
# 3365 Right on the Time
It says that one should begin putting up the Suka on the night at the end of Yom Kippur and then finish it on Friday. Can one do fixing of the Suka Erev Shabbat after Chatzos (midday)?...
# 3364 Bright and Early
One who accepts Shabbos an hour early (for the Segula of Tosefes Shabbos, which brings bracha), should the same be done for Yom Tov? Are there any exceptions? Is accepting Shabbos an hour early a Nede...
# 3363 Let's Have a Good Look
I have seen some people who seem very Frum check their Esrogim with a magnifying glass. Is that really necessary or even recommended?...
# 3362 Election Day
Tomorrow is Election Day. In past elections you wrote that Horav Miller Shlit’a said it is a mitzvah to vote. If one is pressed in time with building his Suka, does that take precedence over voting? ...
# 3361 The Best Pray Deal
Would davening Vasikin (praying at sunrise) in a minyan of 13 people on Yom Kippur override being from the Asara Rishonim (First Ten) in a Yeshiva minyan where 500 people will come after me?...
# 3360 Lots of Promise?
Can you say Kol Nidrei if you were already mekabel (accepted) Yom Kippur. (As when saying Tefilas Zakah before)?...
# 3359 To Eat or Not to Eat
Is it better to accept and begin Yom Kippur earlier (since Tosefes Yom Kippur, or the acceptance and adding to the day is a Biblical mitzva), or is it preferable to eat as long as possible. (Since eat...
# 3358 Close and Personal
Can one ask someone else to do Kappores for him as a shaliach (agent) on a chicken?...
# 3357 When Do We Eat?
Is there a mitzva for women to eat on Erev Yom Kippur as men do, or is it a ’Time Depending Mitzva’ and therefore women are exempt. They should just eat for the purpose of being able to fast...
# 3356 Be Right on the Money
Can I use my Maaser money for Kappores?...