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# 3275 Blessing the Freedom on Time
Do I as a father usually does, also say the bracha of ’Baruch Sheptarani’ (literally, blessed be the One who freed me from the punishment of this one), on Tisha Beav after my son gets his al...
# 3274 A Tisha Beav Initiation
My son is having his Bar Mitzva birthday on Tisha Beav and we have a number of questions. 1) Does he get an aliya laTorah, on that like all other Bar Mitzva boys? (We are planing to do Be’H a bi...
# 3273 An Answer to a Prayer Shaila
On this year that Tisha Beav is Motzei Shabbat, I heard that Horav Shlomo said that women should try to attend shul at night for Maariv. Why?...
# 3272 A Healthy Havdalah?
A man is ill and has to eat on Tisha Beav. As Halacha requires he will say Havdalah before he eats. Should his healthy wife listen to the Havdalah then as always or should she make her own on Sunday n...
# 3271 Sleep Like a Log?
Someone is camping out during the Three Weeks including Tisha Beav and sleeping on the ground the whole time. Should he on the night of Tisha Beav sleep directly on the floor without his sleeping bag?...
# 3270 The Smell Test
On Tisha Beav can a woman wear perfume or a man spray deodorant?...
# 3269 Tzitzis Emphasies
On Tisha Beav morning someone wearing his Taalis Kotton, should he kiss the tzitzis after Boruch Sheomar or Parshas Tzitzis?...
# 3268 Question Mark III
Re- questions 3258-59 on tattoos. Can one put on tefillin on top of a tattoo or is it a chatzitza (interposition)?...
# 3267 Safe Space
One whose minhag is to make his own Havdala due to concerns of spacing out or another reason, can he make his own in the Nine Days or better be yotze with someone else to minimize drinking wine in thi...
# 3266 Hearts and Flowers
May I give flowers to my nonreligious grandmother for her birthday during Nine Days?...
# 3265 The Able Avel II
Can an Avel get an aliya on Tisha Beav?...
# 3264 The Able Avel
Since Tisha Beav is called Moed or a Yom Tov, can an Avel siting Shiva go to shul and daven at the amud?...
# 3263 Keep on Eating
When someone bentches (recites Birchat Hamazon), before the Shekiah on Shabbos Chazon that is followed by Tisha Beav as it is this year (2021 - see question above), can he still eat after bentching un...
# 3262 Make it Interesting!
A Shul prepares Shalosh Seudos also on Shabbos Chazon that precedes Tisha Beav on Sunday, and the people stay after Mincha and eat there and stop eating as required before sunset. Is it better that th...
# 3261 Get in Tune with the Times
Is it correct to sing on Friday night - Shabbos Chazon the niggun of Lecha Dodi using the sad tune of E-li Tzion that we sing after Kinos on Tisha Beav? Is that not "Avelus Befarhesia" or a case of op...
# 3260 A Shabbos Without Flowers?
One that buys flowers for home every Friday Lik’vod (in honor of) Shabbos. Should he also do so for Shabbos Chazon, (Shabbos before Tisha Beav)?...
# 3259 Question Mark II
(See question 3258 above). If one is not obliged to remove tattoos one acquired when he was still a Gentile or was not frum, would the same apply to tattoos that express immoral messages and show libe...
# 3258 Question Mark
A friend of mine who used to be frum asked you a question regarding being buried in a Jewish cemetery when marked with tattoos. He would like to know what is the Halacha and if he needs to remove t...
# 3257 Buen Provecho
In certain countries like Mexico it is customary to greet a friend eating a meal with Buen Provecho, similar to Bon Apetite in french or Beteavon in Hebrew. One encountering friends eating and not gre...
# 3256 Say It and Spray It
Can one install a grass sprinkling system during the Nine Days?...