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# 3175 Have a Number on Mind
We learned recently on the Daf that one should not count people directly. When making sure one has a minyan for davening, can one count the present attendants mentally, by just looking at them?...
# 3174 No Tears On a Tear
If someone touched his hair on his head or pulls or tears some hair from his head or beard, does he have to wash hands three times?...
# 3173 Earn One's Daily Bread Brocho
1) Q. In reference to question 3156, since the flour goes through a process and the result is only wheat starch, why isn’t it different than other starches or products that have totally changed t...
# 3172 Hair Splitting?
If someone touched his hair on his head or pulls or tears some hair from his head or beard, does he have to wash hands three times?...
# 3171 Get the Swing of This
Someone bought a nice swing for the young kids in his family that they much desired. It was delivered on Erev Shabbos a few hours before the shekia (sunset), Since the children so much wanted to have ...
# 3170 Listen Yisrael
When one reads Krias Shema and extends the word Echa’ad as required, does he say the elongated alef letter (Sefardi pronunciation) together with the ’chet’ or just by itself. I have hea...
# 3169 A Close Shave
I recently became a caregiver for a few elderly patients that require help and are high risk for Covid contamination. I have to use a double mask, but it is ineffective since I have a large beard that...
# 3168 A Long Short Cut
Hello Rav, If an adult gets a small cut on Shabbat and need to put a band-aid on, is it okay to add a bit of Antibiotic cream (e.g. polysporin) to the inside of the band-aid (ie. you are not smearing ...
# 3167 See The Light?
Hello Rav, On Shabbat, are we able to move the new kosherlamps (or any similar light) that have LED or CFL lightbulbs in them? I know fire (and thus incandescent bulbs) can’t be moved, but maybe ...
# 3166 Get the Name Right
The name on the Matzeiva of my cousin is different from the Hebrew name that her mother told me when I asked her. Which name should I use for remembering her at Izkor?...
# 3165 Women Count
I belong to a group of women that meets every night for a short zoom shiur on Lashon Harah, and we count Sefira at the end with a bracha. We have been criticized that it is not correct. Should we cont...
# 3164 Important Message!
How should we all react to the recent closing of schools and yeshivos?...
# 3163 Boo to the Zoo?
Can a pregnant woman visit a zoo?...
# 3162 Put an Animal Up
Re- question 3134 above on making sheheyanu on new and very expensive shoes during sefira. I thought that one does not say sheheyanu on products made of animal skins, since it involves their suffering...
# 3161 Unread Bread
Horav Tsvi Heber Shlit’a mentioned regarding question 3156, in which we wrote that Molino flour manufactured in Italy but distributed by Kemach Haaretz in Israel, that has a Hechsher from the ...
# 3160 Don't Touch
Re- question 3157 above on women not touching a Sefer Torah during their period. Can they touch it with a Siddur, as I have seen done in some synagogues?...
# 3159 Put Them to Good Use II
On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they ca...
# 3158 A Reality Check
My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at l...
# 3157 Don't Look
Is it true that a woman during her period, should not look at the letters of an open Sefer Torah?...
# 3156 The Life of Flour
Re- prior question. It is actually a flour mix in which 51% is wheat starch, the rest is made up of corn flour, corn starch, dietary fibres, This mix is then used like regular flour, adding yeast, s...