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# 3136 Saving Who's Life?
If an elder patient waiting for a life saving organ transplant is given a date, but he knows a young yeshiva bochur who needs the same transplant, can he offer his place in the list? (he will only be ...
# 3135 Hartzige Music During Sefira
What does the Rav hold regarding listening to Hartzige music "nigunei neshama" during sefira?...
# 3134 If the Shoe Fits Bless It
If someone bought some expensive shoes for Pesach that he usually makes sheheyanu on them, but did not use them then. Can he wear them on Shabbos after Pesach and say the brocho?...
# 3133 A Blessing Happy Mother
Does the mother say Shecheyanu on the birth of her daughter? Does she say it also during the days of Sefira?...
# 3132 Sefira Baby Blessings
If someone had a baby girl during the mourning weeks of Sefiras Haomer, should he recite the brocho of Shehecheyanu?...
# 3131 Adding or Subtracting?
On above question 3130: The Taalesim also had the unusual condition of having the small added corner patches on both sides of the cloth. Is that correct?...
# 3130 Make Whole the Hole
I received from Eretz Yisroel some Taalesim Ketanim that I requested. But they had the Tzitzis installed following the minhag of two adjacent openings and the tzitzis hanging in the front only. Since ...
# 3129 The Bottom of the Food Chain?
Should not all medical pills be permitted during Pesach or when from an non-kosher source during the whole year, since they are after all a non edible food that even dogs would not eat?...
# 3128 A Taste of One's Own Medicine
Would it be better for someone needing to take questionable pills on Pesach, or any other time if they could be non kosher, to wait and take them after a heavy meal when one is completely satiated. At...
# 3127 Didn't Remember To Remember
If one was asked by a friend who is unable to come to shul to say Izkor for his parents, but didn’t open the email or forgot the request. What should he do? Does he have to inform his friend that...
# 3126 A Hard Pill to Swallow II
On a question 3122 above regarding swallowing pills for someone who has to take them during Pesach that may contain Kitniyos, you answered that it is not permitted. I don’t understand isn’...
# 3125 Forgot the Remembrance Light
What should one do if one forgets to light an Izkor candle for parents as he always lights?...
# 3124 Can't Live by Matza Alone
During one of the days of Pesach I had left over a large piece of Shmura Matza from a meat meal; Next day I wondered if I could eat for breakfast cheese with the leftover Matza. Is that permitted?...
# 3123 Seeing Eye to Eye
In 2017 my optometrist, saw a hole in my left retina, and was able to book me in fast, to see a Retinologist, who in turn was able to seal the hole in my retina by laser on that very same day. Failure...
# 3122 A Hard Pill to Swallow?
Someone who has to take pills during Pesach that may contain Kitniyos (grain products that are not true chometz, but Ashkenazim prohibit). Should he preferably place his pill on a glass with water and...
# 3121 Everyone Has Their Praise
After a woman gives birth, does she bench Hagomel or can her husband say Hagomel for her....
# 3120 The Reason to Listen
Our grandfather is living at an old age care facility due to his sensitive health status. We, his grandchildren take turns to visit him and a this time count Sefiras Haomer with him. But sometimes he ...
# 3119 We All Count when We Count Together
We daven in our shul Maariv early after Plag and don’t count sefirah then as it is too early. I join later on a Zoom Daf and I’m trying to convince them to count at the end of the shiur, whe...
# 3118 Weak on the Weeks Too
On the last question, (3117 - when one mentions during the day the Sefira count without any intention to comply with the mitzva), if he also omitted the count of the weeks, will he still be yotze?...
# 3117 I Can't Remember What I Forgot
If I forgot to count sefiras Haomer on the second night, but during the day I commented to my friend how bad my memory is since already on the very second day I lost it. Now since I did mention that i...