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# 3096 No Skin of One's Teeth
How does one clean his teeth on Shabbat this year when Erev Pesach is Shabbat?...
# 3095 A Soft Sell?
Can you zoom mechiras chometz or sell it on line? How does one do then the Kinyan?...
# 3094 Feels on Meals
I have some questions about the meals of Erev Pesach. Both my husband and I must have breakfast before the tefillah because health issues. We consider breakfast our second Shabbat meal, and lunch woul...
# 3093 In Deep Water?
Is it permissible to use regular bottled, filtered water for "mayim shelonu" to be mixed with the flour to make the matzah?...
# 3092 Thank You for Not Sharing
When staying in an apartment with a non-religious roommate, does one need to tell him to throw out (or keep separately) his chametz during Pesach, or may one allow him to store his chametz in the shar...
# 3091 An Early Start Solution
A few weeks ago in our morning minyan, the 10th man, fairly young, walked out of the minyan to the uproar of our daveners, some of whom are saying kaddish. He was coaxed back in and explained almos...
# 3090 Selling Point
We have organized in the last year a new shul, and this is the first time that we will be selling chometz. The shul has a significant amount of donated chometz liquor that we are selling. Although we ...
# 3089 Lose or Win One's Shirt?
Regarding what it says in the Mishna Berura not to wear the same clothing (shirt) multiple Shabbosim in a row due to Ezra Hasofer takana, may one be lenient if the shirt is still clean, or is it neces...
# 3088 Same Again
I f a person knows that he was exposed to the Corona virus for a brief time, is he obligated to immediately stop attending shul, or may he continue attending shul since there are many doubts involved ...
# 3087 Informing or Inculpating?
If one suspects that a certain person has corona (such as the person is coughing or appears to have a hard time breathing), is one obligated to immediately inform the Rav or Rosh Yeshiva and have that...
# 3086 Run and Eat
If someone eats in a kiddush or an after davening lechaim for a yohrzait, where mezonos are also served, and eats standing up is he considered as pasul leidus or unfit to testify?...
# 3085 Into the Drink?
Recently you posted a Q&A about drinking on Purim where ones parent has asked a child to not drink on Purim. In the answer you write that the boy should listen to his parents and not drink. However yo...
# 3084 Name your Dream
My partner (see question above) also had a dream were his mother told him that his true name is not just Moshe as he has maintained all his life, until the dream and as is written in his Kesuva. She r...
# 3083 Dream Away
If a partner of mine told me that his deceased mother came to him in a dream and told him that he owes me five thousand dollars and gave me an envelope with the cash. I went through our accounts and c...
# 3082 Leave in Peace
It says in the Mishna Berura not to leave until the end of davening (siman 55) unless he heard all the kaddeishim until aleinu. May one be lenient with this when leaving to go to another shul where th...
# 3081 Rise From the Dead
I was told that Horav Miller mentioned that one of the reasons for our terrible Covid Pandemic is related to the lack of honor given to the dead such as cremating the bodies. Did he really say that? W...
# 3080 Late or Up to Date?
This year (5781-2021) when Erev Pesach is on Shabbat, does one read the Haggada then or is it better to read it on the prior Shabbat as the Shabbat Hagadol drasha is also preceded to Parshat Vayikra?...
# 3079 Welcome Aboard
See question above. Can one invite a prospective Ger who is already in the process of conversion to the Pesach Seder?...
# 3078 Care and Share
Can one invite a totally irreligious relative, that one wants to be mekarev (bring close to Judaism) to the Pesach Seder?...
# 3077 More or Less?
If in a newly established minyan there is a disagreement whether to say yotzros (added tefilos for special dates) or not, what is the correct thing to do?...