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#5877 – Coned by the Count?
Kevod Horav. Is it true that if the Rabbi of a Shul forgot due to the difficult travel circumstances of our times, to count one day of Sefira, and he still wants to continue for all in Shul as he alw...
#5876 – Count When It Counts!
Kvod Horav. I often take part in a women’s shiur on line and at the end of class they count Sefira. If I actually repeat the words said is that OK? How about if my husband also takes part or my chil...
#5875 – Listen to Why Hearing is Not Really Listening!
Rabbi Shlit”a. Thanks for your constant help. If someone is listening to a daily Shiur online, and these days at the end of the shiur, they count the sefira of the day, does one comply by just listen...
#5874 Don't Spill the Spell!
Dear Rabbi. I am looking for the correct spellings of a couple names for Sheryl’s Matzeva that I’m currently working on. Sheryl’s parents are Moshe Matis and Ita Rachel but apparently there are a cou...
#5873 - Q.Getting in Somebody's Hair
Dear Rov Shlit’a. I wasn’t able to take a haircut before Pesach as the barbers were closed. My long hair is bothering me and my family too; it also may be an issue with the tefilin. Can I take one no...
#5872 A REAL ENDING?
Rav, Can one make a siyum after ending a complete tractate of the Talmud on the Ein Yaakov version, which only has the more interesting and attractive Hagadot parts?...
#5871 - A Woman’s Omer Opinion
See question above. Rabbi, Is it Commendable for Women to Count the Omer? What do learned women opine?...
#5870 - The Blessing Blessed Women!
As we asked on the Rabbi’s well and very popular shiur on line, Is it better for women to count the Omer without a Beracha, since they may forget?...
#5869 - Remembering the Remembrance Day?
- Rabbenu Shlit’a. As I asked the Rov in Shul, should I, and can I attend, to comply with the mitzva of Kibud Av Vaem, a Yom Hashoa Remembrance Act, even in Nissan, since my parents are strongly aski...
#5868 - Is this the Counting of the Rabbis?
See question above- Q. Kevod Horav Shlit’a . Many Poskim maintain that after the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, Sefirat HaOmer changed and is only a Rabbinic obligation. Is that the reason for wo...
#5867 Women Also Count!
See question above- Q. Honorable Rov. I have another question. Why do we assume in principle that the counting of the Omer is a positive time bound mitzvah from which women are exempt, more than the ...
#5866 Be In for the Count?
Rabbi. Is it commendable for women to count the Omer? What is Horav Miller’s opinion? Does it make a difference in our days when we can wear an actual electronic reminder with the date to count?...
#5865 - Who is Counting?
– See question above - Q. I have some more questions. Is it true that the Ramban maintains that women have to count the omer? Should one try to also follow his opinion?...
#5864 - A Counting for Women?
- #5864 – Q. Hon. Rav Shlit’a. Some of my friends in our Bais Yaakov type of school for Frum girls, also count like me Sefirat Haomer every night. I know that some avoid counting Sefira least they fo...
#5863 - The Best Shemini Time
When is the best and most meaningful time to read Parshas Shemini?...
#5862 - The Key to the Kinds of Kitniyos
Rabeinu Shlit"a. Does one have to actually wait until one gets sick in order to consume medicine made of Kitniyos, or can one take it as a preventive means to avoid getting ill....
#5861 – Shure Shemira for Shemura?
Hon. Rabbi Shlit”a. We baked our Shemura Matza for Pesach this year a few months ago. In order to keep it fresh we froze the matza inside a Pesach freezer. Is there a problem to use it now?...
#5860 – The Mexican Aficoman? -
Querido Rabino, larga vida. In our town in Mexico many complain on the tradition of stealing the Afikomen by the children at the Seder of Pesach. Since we are constantly engaged in teaching our child...
#5859 – Once Again Giving Gain to Gone Gebrochts
See questions above: Kvod Rabenu Shlit’a, one more question for now. If one does not eat gebrochts on Pesach, does a piece of it become Muktza and prohibited to touch?...
#5858 - Again Giving Gain to Gone Gebrochts
See questions above: Kvod Rabenu Shlit’a. Thank you so much for your prompt answers One more question on this topic for now please. If one does not eat gebrochts on Pesach, how does it then fit into ...