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# 3155 Earn Your Bread
Wheat flour which is soaked in order to extract the gluten and as such what is left is wheat starch, is bread that is made from the wheat starch Hamotzi like any other bread?...
# 3154 Leaving Much to be Desired?
Can a woman listening to Kerias Hatorah in shul, when needed by the necessities of her children or similar exit in the middle of the reading, especially in the Shabbosim with a double parsha, when the...
# 3153 Good to Hear This
Do women have to hear the reading of the Torah on Shabbos?...
# 3152 Let the Party Begin
We prepared a Zoom Lag Baomer party with a siyum followed by music and seating around a virtual fire. Since we invited children to join, we want to make it early Thursday evening. How early can we sta...
# 3151 Women of Torah Letters?
Is it true that Mishna Berura writes that women can receive an Aliya on Shabbat?...
# 3150 Read On
One who pronounces Hebrew and davens with Ashkenazi pronunciation and is given an aliya at a Sephardic shul, where the Baal Koreh (Torah reader) pronounces the reading of the Torah following that trad...
# 3149 Buried Treasures
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 can...
# 3148 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...
# 3147 Unwritten Rules do Rule
A person who learns in a Kollel where they have certain rules which he wasn’t aware of, such as that you have to say the late rabbi’s name before learning and no breaks allowed and if one ar...
# 3146 A Word on a Word
A friend offered to buy my house. We had a verbal agreement but the complete details were not put into the offer to purchase and I felt pressured to agree to a lower price than the market price and a ...
# 3145 First Matza on the Second Pesach
When is the correct time for eating matza this year, Monday day (Pesach Sheni) or Monday night? Thank you...
# 3145 Every Day Counts?
Re- regarding the question 3143 above on one undergoing an operation during sefira that will make him miss a day. Should he on the next day count also the day before that he missed?...
# 3144 Counting on One's Bad Memory
Re- question (3143) above regarding someone undergoing major surgery during Sefira that likely won’t be able to count at least one day of Sefira. How about someone that because of his bad memor...
# 3143 Bless Hashem for Being Able to Count
Someone who has to undergo a major medical operation during Sefira and likely won’t be able to count at least one day of Sefira, therefore, he will not comply with Temimot requisite. Should he st...
# 3142 Put them to Good Use
Can we place on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, since we have received lately better ones, (better print and condition, also more mefarshim), besides we nee...
# 3141 Be Grateful for Small Blessings
If one ate a full meal that included an appetizer, soup, main dish and dessert. Then recited Birchat Hamazon, but didn’t realize that the bread he ate was rice bread, did he comply with the Birch...
# 3140 Getting Our Act Together
On question 3119 you mentioned It would stand to reason that it is better to count Sefira after a Zoom shiur since Poskim write that on the onset it is better to count Sefiras Haomer together with a T...
# 3139 At the Earliest Convenience
What is Horav Miller opinion as the earliest time to count sefira? taking into account that if they don’t count in shul, some will likely forget....
# 3138 Forgivness For Coming Late
On question 3114 you mentioned that the Shira when properly said and with the true joy of someone having just crossed the sea and saved his own life and the life of his dear ones, the Shira gains forg...
# 3137 An Extended Blessing
How long after the birth of the baby girl can the mother still say Shehecheyanu? (See question 3133)....