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# 2955 Keeping Apart?
It is brought down that a man should not walk between 2 women. Does that also apply to walking between one’s mother and one’s sister? or between one’s mother and one’s grand mother...
# 2954 Not a Womans Tool?
In regard to the prohibition of a woman to wear men’s garments, I heard that it applies also to using instruments or weapons that are designated for the use of men. If that is so can a strong wom...
# 2953 Not Cracking the Crocs
Can I (his mother) wear my son’s old crocs (that he’s grown out of), or is that beged ish? They could be used either for men or women: (navy blue with red stripes & a red maple leaf on the straps)....
# 2952 Gracing the Garnish
What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s opinion regarding bread croutons eaten with a salad. Do you have to wash hands and make Hamotzi?...
# 2951 A Fast Stand Fast?
When not able to step back due to people davening behind you, is there a shiur of how long you are mechuyev (obliged) to wait....
# 2950 Sage Advise
(See question 2949 above). Thanks for your fast and reasonable answer. We have an additional question. Before we bought our property, we were able to change the established zoning- by-laws to permit a...
# 2949 Kosher Fences Make Good Neighbors
We are a small orthodox shul in a small Midwest city. We recently bought a new empty large property to rebuild and expand our existing shul. It turned out that the also empty property neighboring ours...
# 2948 Doing it Right when Putting it Right
See question (2945) above. I understand from your reply that even placing back loose pieces of the wheelchair can be problematic. In our particular case the feet support plate gave in and father’...
# 2947 If it Looks Like Bread...
Crackers or wafers made from wheat and advertised as bagel crisps or slices of authentically toasted bagels, that indeed taste accordingly and look like rings cut from a bagel, is their brocho mezonos...
# 2946 Thought for Food
Someone ate more than a kezais of mezonos and other Shehakol food and drinks, and then decided that he will not eat anymore cake or mezonos, so he said the bracha ’Al Hamichya’ on the mezono...
# 2945 Getting the Fix on a Fix
My elderly father’s old wheelchair broke last Shabbos and since he strongly needed it to move around the house, we temporarily fixed it by using a few nylon cable zip ties that although they are ...
# 2944 Dressing Down?
If someone is wearing a medical dressing made of gauze or a cloth bandage for a wound that his doctor advised he should not remove, can he wear it and keep it on, when he goes to the mikva (for Tisha ...
# 2943 A First Glance
When no Cohen is present in shul, and when other favoring factors such as being a greater Talmid Chacham or an elder are not applicable, does a Levi get preference for a first aliya? How about for lea...
# 2942 A Light Touch
If someone forgot to kindle a Yohrzait candle on that day for a father or mother, what is the correct thing to do. Should one light two candles when he/she remembers? What happens if someone just reme...
# 2941 Testing the Tester
In reference to one of your recent teshuvos, I, an insulin user, requires a constant monitoring of my blood glucose level. Until now I was doing it by extracting blood samples, which you wrote, is a s...
# 2940 Hold Your Peace
See question (2939) above. Dear Rabbi, thank you for your prompt answer to our Beis Din shailah. Horav Miller’s permission to demand a lie detector test, did have great consequence on our case, s...
# 2939 The Truth Be Told
If a Beis Din strongly suspects that the defendant in a very significant monetary litigation is not telling the truth, but they can’t prove it, can they demand that the parties should be subjecte...
# 2938 A Fast Accident Waiting to Happen
Someone took off his tefilin on Rosh Chodesh before Musaf in a hurry and placed them without their cover on a slanted shtender next to him. Then someone else walked by and not expecting that tefilin w...
# 2937 Pressed The Right Button?
I read on a pamphlet published by Bikur cholim, that when during Shabbos one visits a patient on a high floor of an hospital, for the needs of the patient, when no other option is available one may as...
# 2936 Looking Under The Hood
I heard that Rav Shlomo Shlit’a does not permit wearing on Shabbos a raincoat with a hood, unless one is covering his head or hat with the hood. If left uncovered and there is no eruv, one would ...