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# 3116 Affirming the Affikomem
I always wondered why do some people store a piece of the affikomen and keep it after Pesach, since the affikomen is symbolic to the Korban Pesach, should it not be completely consumed during that nig...
# 3115 Close to Closing Down
I am sharing an apartment with someone that has corona in separate rooms. very late at night there was a lady nurse that came in to see him so it was two men and a lady at night. what should I do?...
# 3114 Women's Song Deliverance
I learned in Bais Yaakov of the importance of the Shira and how when said with joy it redeems all sins. Does that apply to women also? What if due to the necessary dedication to my children. I can...
# 3113 The Children's Kerias Yam Suf?
The background of our family is Chasisdic and there was a minhag in the ’Alter Heim’ (the old country) that the Chassidim would during Sehvii Shel Pesach pour some water on the floor and the...
# 3112 Make it Count
If I have an option to daven Maariv at an early minyan and count sefira then which is already after an accepted Zeman, or to daven later and count after Rabbenu Ta’am Zeman, that I usually keep o...
# 3111 Mark Your Early Leave
When one wishes to leave in the middle of davening to go to another shul when they need help with the minyan, what is the earliest one may leave? May one leave after completing the quiet SE, if necess...
# 3110 Long Lean on the List?
I have list of cholim whose names I insert in Shmone Esrei.. How often do I need to ask if the people should still be on the list? What if I can’t contact the person who gave me the name? Are the...
# 3109 Is the Adding Adding Up?
I have a Chassidic friend that keeps in his home almost in every room a luach (calendar) of Sefiras Haomer to remind him and his children to count Sefira. Whenever he goes by any one of them, he count...
# 3108 Life From the Dead?
The Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine is about to become available in some locations. Since it relies on the use of material derived from human fetal tissue, which is prohibited, since one may not...
# 3107 Eat Away but Near
This Shabbos Erev Pesach, we will be eating our chometz chales on Friday night and Shabbos morning at our back porch. We plan to eat the meal inside at the already cleaned and ready for Pesach dinning...
# 3106 Hear This Well
Shalom U’Bracha Kevod HaRav! What’s the Halacha about wearing hearing aids on Shabbos? And next week that Shabbos is Erev Pesach -The batteries don’t last long, how can the person who ...
# 3105 HaZoom es Hakol?
Our elderly and ill grand mother is hospitalized and alone, since the family is not allowed to visit her. She is very distressed since this is the first year she will not be in the seder with her chil...
# 3104 Muktze Matza?
This year’s Shabbos Erev Pesach, one may not touch the Matza Shemura since one can not eat it. So how can one make the eruv for carrying beginning on this Shabbos that is placed for a Shabbos tha...
# 3103 Pesach Dishes for Shabbos Use?
I heard that during every regular Shabbat the utensils set aside for Pesach use are muktza. If one bought new utensils for Pesach and decides to use the old ones on Shabbat a week before Pesach, fo...
# 3102 Facing the Face Shields
Can one use during Pesach the plastic full face shields that one wears duacing the Face Shieldsring the year?...
# 3101 Under the Sanitizer Influence ?
Can one use during Pesach the hand sanitizer usually available in the shul that contains Ethyl Alcohol?...
# 3100 What Does it All Amount To?
If one has digestive problems and resulting inflammation that is debilitating, and (during the seder) it affects the ability to serve the meal to the rest of the family and guests, does one have to ea...
# 3099 A Juicy Meal?
Can one drink a reviis of grape juice for a bemakom seuda need on Shabbos or only wine? (Consumption of an extra reviis wine is considered in Halacha as having eaten a meal)....
# 3098 The Matter of the Juice
Does the bracha on grape juice include other beverages, or only wine?...
# 3097 Accounting for Tastes?
Can someone that was affected by Covid and l’a lost his sense of taste, eat on Pesach Seder maror (bitter herbs) with a bracha?...