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# 3016 Twilight Blessings
When making brachos during bein hashemashos, do they count for the previous day or the next day for meah brachos?...
# 3015 How Blessed Are We?
Is the reciting of a hundred brochos every day an obligation for all, a Mitzva or just a mihag or tradition?...
# 3014 Good to Hear Your Voice
The wife of member of our congregation is l’a chronically ill and mostly restricted to bed. She requires supervision, however due to the current crisis they can’t afford a caregiver. Her hus...
# 3013 At Cross Purposes
Dear Rabbi As you realize from my name. I’m an old friend and member of the Kehila in Mexico, your former community. I’m sadly hospitalized in a Catholic hospital in Mexico City and sufferin...
# 3012 Pure as the Driven Snow?
After attending a levaya or exiting a cemetery can one wash hands by sinking them in the snow? Does one have to do it three times? Can it be done in the same place?...
# 3011 A Smell Test
If someone due to contracting Covid lost his sense of smell and finds himself in a hospital room where the smell of the bathroom is obviously present, since other patients avoid it and say so. Can he ...
# 3010 Practice Makes Perfect
Q Because I am a descendant of the Pnei Yehoshua, I am a descendant of both Rabbeinu Tam and Rashi (as attested by the grandfather of the Pnei Yehoshua in Moginei Shlomo). Am I obligated to follow Mi...
# 3009 My Name is My Name
When a patient is so ill that a change of name is suggested, does he have to be consulted before or told that there will be or there was a shinui hashem or an addition of a name done for him? Maybe it...
# 3008 Not Good for You Not Good for Others?
Can I give my Rabbeinu Tam tefillin to be checked, painted and fixed to a sofer who doesn’t put on himself Rabbeinu Tam’s tefilin, since following his minhag they are not necessary, so he wi...
# 3007 Make a Name for Yourself
I would like to start saying the pasuk after the amida that contain the first and last letter of my name. (psukim lesheimos anoshim - noshim), since my father used to say it also. The problem is that ...
# 3006 A Double Blessing
If someone left his office and forgot making a bore nefashot after eating some fruits, but when he arrived home and was about to have a coffee, he remembered. Since there was a shinui makom or a chang...
# 3005 We All Daven Together
I have recently become the Rabbi of a small community. Until now, I have always davened with a Vasikin minyan. My community though, davens at a regular time. Is it more important for me to daven with ...
# 3004 The Complete Siyum
Kevod Harav Shlit"a, If a boy under the age of bar mitzvah completes an entire masechta and understands it. Should he also recite the kadish upon completion of the siyum?...
# 3003 Open 24 Hours?
Can Hatoras Nedorim (an act of absolution of wows done in front of a court of three people) be done at night after Maariv?...
#3002 Milk of Human Kindness?
An individual who was always careful and machmir (stringent) to eat only products of Cholov Yisroel, but due to the fact that he became unemployed during the pandemic crisis he can’t afford the h...
# 3001 Tough Answers to Tough Shailes
My neighbors father lost recently r’l his wife and a son to the covid curse. He became very depressed and is at a high risk of ending his own life. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital by his ...
# 3000 The Early Late Torah
Should one go to sleep early, at the expense of learning Torah, in order to wake up early and be from the asara rishonim the next day? (He will learn before Shacharis, but maybe learning more at night...
# 2999 Unmask the Mask
Is it permitted to go out on Shabbos with two masks, one for me and one for my friend whose Rav does not allow him to go out with a mask on Shabbos but will be attending a shul where they require it?...
# 2997 Support The Mask
There is now available a Face Mask Inner Support. It holds up the mask fabric around the mouth to create more breathing space when a mask is put on face. It is basically a concave plastic frame, that ...
# 2996 A Gut'n Erev Shabbos?
Can one wish on Shabbos morning after davening a ’Gut Shabbos,’ or is that improper? I have seen some people answer back, ’A Gutn Erev Shabbos’ as if the salute they received was i...