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# 3315 Beauty is on the Mouth of the Blower
My father bought me an Israeli shofar that has a decorative silver covering. Can I use it on Rosh Hashana....
# 3314 Have Your Shofar and Eat Too
Can women who always are careful to come to the blowing of the Shofar, eat before? Do they have to make Kiddush?...
# 3313 Have a Good Night
I heard that some Sefarim rule that a Shofar is muktza on the night of Rosh Hashana and cannot be handled when you are not allowed to blow it. Is that correct?...
# 3312 Patience with the Patient
Someone visits periodically a chronic old age patient in an Old Age Hospital. The patient is intubated and can’t communicate verbally, but his mind seems fine and answers with signs and smiles. C...
# 3311 Smell Test
If someone stores in the garage smelly garbage cans, that often contain diapers too, is that garage exempt from a Mezuzah?...
# 3310 Bribe Away?
I own a Kosher restaurant in a small town. The Kashruth certification is given by the local Rabbi. Is it correct for me to pay for that service directly to the Rabbi, as there is practically no other ...
# 3309 Head-On John
Re- question 3295 regarding the permit for someone traveling by plane to face the bathroom wall or door while davening. Does the same Heter (permit) apply for someone facing in the street or his windo...
# 3308 Flies Away
Can one sleeping in a Suka on Shabbat and Yom Tov wear the recently available watches or bands that emit ultrasonic waves to repel mosquitoes, bees and other harmful insects?...
# 3307 Sho-Far So Good
I go every year to blow shofar to people residing in a Old Age institution. It happened a number of times that when I enter a room, the occupant tells me that he already heard the Shofar by listening ...
# 3306 Turn a Deaf Ear
3) See questions above. I’m considering using a cochlear implant will that be any different? Should I install it only on one ear?...
# 3305 Long Time No Hear
2) See question above: If he can only hear with a hearing aid can he still be a Baal Tokea?...
# 3304 A Dialogue On The Deaf
I have been a Baal Tokea blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashana for over thirty years. I have now become hard of hearing and have therefore a number of shailos. 1) Can someone hard of hearing be a Baal...
# 3303 As Far As I Can See?
Someone who follows the tradition to make the bracha of ’Ose Maase Bereshith’ when seeing the sea from a plane. At what distance from the sea can he make that bracha?...
# 3302 The Responsible Party
I’m a caregiver for an elderly woman residing in an Old Age Home. I noticed that my client had scratches and bruises on her. Out of years of experience, I was reasonably certain that they were in...
# 3301 Show How Much You Care
A Rov teaches a shiur in a Yeshiva and lost his father and is still within the year of Avelus. One of his close disciples is getting married in the near future and he feels that it is very important ...
# 3300 The Double Pocket
Can someone carry in his pocket pages of Divrei Torah or a Siddur when he enters a bathroom?...
# 3299 Not Enough Room
I have divided my garage in two and created an area of about 4 x 8 feet that had a separate door. I also keep there besides other items the garbage cans that are not always covered and there is also a...
# 3298 It Has Your Name On It
My son’s wife when she became a Baalas Teshuva, she was a teenager and didn’t know what her Hebrew name was, so she choose her own name as Rachel Leora - her parents recently discovered when...
# 3297 Say it Right
A person drank wine and didn’t have in mind other drinks that were not on the table. He then made a Shehakol on soda. Does he need to bless both al Hagefen and Bore Nefashos?...
# 3296 No to the Noise
A person is davening and a moment after he started Shemone Essre, all the people in the minyan decided to go to a different location to daven because of noise disturbances, may he also go there? Does ...