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# 2875 Keep on Rolling
(Re question 2874 above). Does it make a difference if the roll was attached to the wall of the house or the suka?...
# 2874 Roll for Cover
Q On Sukot, we use a roll of a plastic sheet as a shlack to cover the suka when raining. Does the width of the roll count for the tefach (10 cm.) needed to be spread out before Yom Tov?...
# 2873 Room For Doubt?
I saw the reply above (question 2868) regarding plastic shield separation for people seating in a suka. Our father, should be maarich yomim, who is a zoken and frail, is staying with us. and we want ...
# 2872 Doing it Right for the Left
On which hand does a lefty hold the lulav and the esrog? If he reverses does he also change the hadassim and the aravot?...
# 2871 A Heavenly Smell?
Is it permitted to use as schach for the suka, flowers that have a good smell?...
# 2870 Clean Up Act
It is common in our warm country to make the sucot on the central court yards of buildings. On those yards, sewage pipes are installed on the outside of the walls and connect to each apartment. Can a ...
# 2869 Sleep On This
Due to the fruit trees growing nicely on our back yard, we decided this year to make the suka on the front yard facing the street. The problem is that our neighborhood is lately not that safe anymore,...
# 2868 Together But Not Together
The minhag in our family is always to have guest for sukot, especially the ones that don’t have access to a suka. In our scary corona days, we want to continue our so important kiruv tradition. T...
# 2867 Beyond Relief?
Can someone that needs caffeine relief on Yom Kippur to be able to fast and daven properly, use a caffeine suppository that also contains Tylenol, even if that medicine is not needed?...
# 2866 Frum by Zoom
I give a parsha shiur that meets these days twice a week on zoom. We are all friends and neighbors that know each other for many years. As Yom Kippur approaches and we don’t meet this days face t...
# 2865 A Safe Pair of Hands
I was wondering when one touches his shoe or covered areas of the body with only one hand, does he have to was both hands as when one goes to the bathroom? This seems to be important on Yom Kippur whe...
# 2864 Be Good with Your Hands
When washing hands with sanitizer on Yom Kippur, as we do in these pandemic days, can you wash your whole hand or only up to your knuckles, as we do when we wake up?...
# 2863 Strike the Gold?
Re question above. I also heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women can wear in shul gold jewelry in Yom Kippur. Is that true?...
# 2862 Know Where You Stand
Some time ago I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women in shul do not have to stand up when the Aron Hakodesh is opened. Is that true?...
# 2861 A Clean Slate on Clean Hands
Is it allowed to use disinfectant cleaning fluid on Shabbos or Yom Kippur? Does it matter what kind of liquid it is?...
# 2860 Wipe Out the Wipes?
What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s p’sak re baby-wipes on Shabbos? (And Yom Kippur?)...
# 2859 Is the Shoe Fit?
I’m a nurse at a hospital close to me and although I tried, I can’t avoid having to put some hours during Yom Kippur to care for my patients, mostly Gentiles. I have often wondered, if I h...
# 2858 Forget the Forgive?
Dear Rabbi, I spoke some awful lashon haraa and divulged a bad secret of a friend of mine, when I was asked info. about him for a shiduch. But I felt I had to tell the truth. The shiduch would have be...
# 2857 Pay Back
A bochur took some money from someone and now wants to make teshuva and return it. He so did, he put it back and is sure that the owner didn’t notice that it was missing. Does he have to tell him...
# 2856 Holy Mask!
A friend of mine told me that in his shul, they are very careful with distancing and all attendants have to wear masks. The baal tokea had a mask on when he was blowing the shofar. How? Before Yom Tov...