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# 3206 No Alcohol Problem
Can one wash hands with alcohol sanitizer before davening or for benching? I have seen people do Mayim Achronim with left over scotch in a cup. Is this correct?...
# 3205 To Stand or Not To Stand
I am recovering from a leg injury. By the time I walk to shul on Shabbos, I find it painful to stand so I have been sitting through the entire service. As I heal, I can probably stand for some time...
# 3204 Water Clean Hands?
If your hands are dirty, are you supposed to wash your hands with soap first and then wash with the neggel vasser cup, or vice versa?...
# 3203 Dog's Water
If you had a neggel vasser cup out with water and you accidentally dipped your finger in it or your pet dog drank from it, does the whole cup need to be emptied or is it sufficient to merely add some ...
# 3202 In Mind to Recall
See question above 2) Should I have called Hatzalah and let the know it was B’H a false alarm and that they don’t have to come anymore?...
# 3201 Already Paid For?
I was walking with my elderly friend back from Shul last Shabbos and I saw he was walking very slowly and with difficulty. I asked him if he was OK and he said that he was just tired. He lives alone a...
# 3200 Thank Hashem for All Blessings
If someone takes a hot shower on a cold day or goes to a nice warm Mikva, can he thank Hashem in his mind as he always does for the pleasure received, while in a shower or Mikva?...
# 3199 A Grave Gift?
My husband told me that he bought a Kever (burial plot) for me. Should I be worried? Is it a bad siman or omen to buy a Kever when one is alive?...
# 3198 Is This a Good Day?
If someone needs a very delicate and risky eye operation and is planing to do it on the 23 of Sivan, (June 3, 21)., I have heard different and conflicting opinions as to the Mazal of that day. Should...
# 3197 Once a Cohen Always a Cohen?
I am single now, but I was married so I am not Kohein eligible. However, I recently met a Kohein who is not observant. I was wondering, wouldn’t Hashem prefer that he get married and lose his Koh...
# 3196 One Thanks for Many Things
Hi. I was wandering what is the Bracha Acharona when drinking grape juice, plus eating burekas, plus eating dates or a pomegranate. What Bracha Acharona should I say?...
# 3195 Cohen Hold your Liquor
A Cohen took part in a Kiddush after davening on Yom Tov and had some liquor. As he was going home, he was asked by a late minyan to say Birchas Kohanim for them, as they didn’t have any other Cohen a...
# 3194 One for the Holy Books
It says that if you leave a sefer open when you leave the room you are learning, it will cause forgetfulness. Does that apply also to one learning from a screen in a computer? Does one have to turn of...
# 3193 Your Very Own Enemies?
I daven in a Shul in which a Chasidic writer that writes and publishes constantly articles in the local press against Israel and its non-religious government, comes to join the minyan. Some people a...
# 3192 Outwitting the Smart Lights
I live in a building that uses in the halls a new type of electric bulbs. When one comes close to them they go brighter and then, as one walks away they dim. It is an individual process of each bulb. ...
# 3191 That is So Cool
I became aware that the cool water being pumped out of Lake Ontario and other major cities, before it reaches the treatment stages, is also used for cooling the pumps themselves and the motors that op...
# 3190 The Ring of Life
See question 3189 above. I heard that in Mexico City where armed street robberies are common, they permit carrying cash money on Shabbat in case one is assaulted and if he doesn’t have what to g...
# 3189 Are you Afraid of the Shots?
I heard that Horav Miller Shlit’a opposes carrying a gun on Shabbat, even on places where there is a valid safety concern, I don’t understand, doesn’t Sakanat Nefashot, or the danger to...
# 3188 Wait and Hear
On question 3187 above, even if one cannot comply with Tefilah, Shema or Brachot using using this technology, would he be able to use it on Shabbat just to communicate with his family?...
# 3187 Hearing Somebody's Thoughts
My father will because of cancer have his vocal cords removed. He will not be able to articulate any speech or words sound at all. Can he be yotze Keriat Shema and Tefilah by just moving his lips? Cou...