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# 2855 Biting More Than One Can Chew
One of my young children grabbed the shofar I use in our shul and was playing with it, putting it into his mouth and biting with his small but sharp teeth, the outside surface of the shofar. Is that a...
# 2854 Bowing Out?
My grandfather told me that in his shul in the ’alter haim’ (old country), when Rosh Hashana fell on Shabbos, they did not kneel on aleinu leshabeach. I have told to many including Rabbonim,...
# 2853 Have a Nice Day
Is there a mitzva of oneg Shabbat, when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat?...
# 2852 Ring, in the New Year?
How often does Rosh Hashana fall on Shabbath, as it does on this year (5781-2020) and we don’t blow the shofar, it seems so unusual?...
# 2851 One for the Books
Being that finding a correct fruit to say Shecheyanu on the second night of Rosh Hashana is in our times conflicting (since one can find them the whole year), can one say it on new seforim?...
# 2850 Let's Call it a Wash
Hello, a 2 year old was going through toilet training and urinated in a spot on our main carpet in a high traffic area in our small living room on Shabbat. We didn’t want people walking into it, ...
# 2849 All in Good Time
Good afternoon Rabbi. I have a kind of urgent question. My husband is davening at home and he has an early appointment with his specialist. Could he say selichot after maariv? The reason he wants to i...
# 2848 Add To or Add Up?
I met a Rabbi of an Orthodox congregation who says that he adds Piyutim, that were composed by the Rishonim but were never instituted by any congregation known today, to the davening, on various occas...
# 2847 Say Can You See?
I live on the penthouse of a tall building and I can see the sea from far. How close does one have to be to the water, to be able to say tashlich?...
# 2846 Test The Waters
Is it better to say tashlich by a flowing river if one has a choice or can it be said lekatchila by a lake or the sea?...
# 2845 Hazoom Es Hakol
(Re- above question) can one do tashlich via zoom, during the Aseret Yemei Teshuva in case of need....
# 2844 Blow One's Own Horn?
A high risk elderly patient was strongly recommended by his doctors to avoid going to shul on Rosh Hashana to avoid the danger of contamination and also because of his weakness and many health issues....
# 2843 So Far So Good?
Several congregations offer Hatarat Nedarim (annulment of vows and oaths) Erev Rosh Hashana to be done from far by zoom on this pandemic days. Is that permitted lekatchila (on the onset)?...
# 2842 Double or Nothing?
Is it true that in some years, the smallest of all parshios Parshas Vayelech is read twice a year? Is there a reason why?...
# 2841 Have You Seen This?
I was at a bris milah recently and I saw something I never saw before in my life. The mohel took the baby after he was brought in, and placed it on the bimah of the shul, where he was also prepared fo...
# 2840 Have You Heard This?
I go every year to blow shofar for people that cannot come to shul because of health or age issues. I go to a building where almost everyone on that floor is more or less frum. Because of the issue...
# 2839 Chop Chop Away!
Q . Regarding question above, since some accustom to chop eggs and raw onions on Shabbos by the table, for a number of reasons such as the chopping should be done ’samuch leseuda’ (right bef...
# 2838 Know Your Onions
We just learned on the Daf that eating onions is dangerous and can put the eater on sakana (danger of life). How come everyone practically eats onions with eggs on Shabbos, herring with onions, or jus...
# 2837 Checked this out Too
On question 2824 you wrote that "The Rov also added his opinion to those Poskim who maintain that no brocho is recited when replacing a mezuza that was removed for the purpose of having it checked." D...
# 2836 Clean as a Whistle
There was no one to blow the shofar after davening a few days ago, so I offered. The available shofar had been used by someone else recently. I used the hand sanitizers liquid to rinse the mouth and i...