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# 2935 All For One or One For All?
If there is a number of sons and daughters of a deceased father living together, does each one have to light a separate candle on the day of the Yohrzait, or is it enough with one?...
# 2934 Do The Honors
When the Torah reading is concluded, we put the Sefer Torah in a temporary box. When Shacharis is over, the Sefer Torah is transported by foot to another place to be stored securely. The shul has only...
# 2933 Interesting Interest
Someone borrowed a sefer, but kept it for a long time, then graciously to thank for the favor returns it with a bottle of wine as an act of thanks. Is that a question of ribbis or prohibited interest?...
# 2932 Shake Someone's Tree
Can a Cohen walk or stand underneath a tree branch by a cemetery, that is at that point less than a tefach (about 10 cm.)wide, if at the source of the branch, where it stands over a kever (grave), it ...
# 2931 What Day Is It?
Kvod Harav. On question above you quoted Talmud Yoma. Is it not the right pronunciation of that Gemara "Yuma" as everyone calls it and not Yoma as you did?...
# 2930 A Brunch of Olives?
The Gemara says (Horayos 13b) that one of the things that causes one to forget one’s learning is one who is "Rogil" with olives. Since I do not understand the way this works, I do not even know ...
# 2929 Carry but don't Fetch
See questions (2926-28) above regarding a prosthetic electronic arm. Can one wear and carry that electrically disconnected arm or hand in the street, on Shabbat when there is no eruv?...
# 2928 At Arm's Length?
See questions (2926-27) above. Can one use that prosthetic electronic arm hand on Shabbat? What if it is not connected to the batteries?...
# 2927 A Helping Hand
Following question above when using a prosthetic electronic right arm , how should one wash netilat yadaim for eating bread, when he is wearing the artificial very realistic looking hand?...
# 2926 Give One's Right Arm
A close relative lost his right arm, from the elbow down, and was able to replace it with a prosthetic electronic arm. We have some important questions. Firstly, since he still has his complete right ...
# 2925 Drop the Other Shoe?
On question 2924 above you mentioned that historically some Talmidei Hachamim because of their devotion to constantly learn Torah, would sleep shortly with their clothes and shoes on during weekdays. ...
# 2924 Sleep on This
The Gemara in Yoma says not to sleep with shoes. Does this apply when falling asleep on a train, or at one’s shtender, or only in bed?...
# 2923 Too Sad For Words
We are not allowed to say sad news on Shabbos. This past Shabbos, would it be permissible to tell a gabbai making a mishabayrach for Rav Dovid (Feinstein) zatzal not to do so? (The Posek Hador was ni...
# 2922 No Electric Shock Sock
On question 2907 regarding wearing electric battery heated socks on Shabbos you wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is to permit their use only on need or when health issues are...
# 2921 There is Accounting for Taste
I received this week from my parents some very good tasting specialty dish that they know I much enjoy and therefore saved it to savor it during Shabbos and be mekayem (comply with) the mitzva of Oneg...
# 2920 A Dog's Life
Can one neuter a male pet dog by using a non-Jewish veterinarian?...
# 2919 A Late Early Meal
I have seen elderly people or the ill, who go to bed early while it is still Shabbat, recite Havdalah on Sunday morning. Can they also then eat something more for breakfast and have intention for the ...
# 2918 Grave Burial?
I have seen some people bury plastic bags full of shemos (leftover sefarim or their pages, such as sidurim, chumashim etc.) inside street excavations done primarily for fixing water or sewage pipes. T...
# 2917 Stop and Listen?
If one in the middle of Shemonesrei hears the laud answering by the congregation of the 13 Middos, should he momentarily stop his recitation and have in his mind answering with them as one is supposed...
# 2916 A Vort on a Vort
The minhag in our family is to avoid making weddings during the month of Marcheshvan. Does that include also making a vort (compromise)?...