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# 3166 Get the Name Right
The name on the Matzeiva of my cousin is different from the Hebrew name that her mother told me when I asked her. Which name should I use for remembering her at Izkor?...
# 3165 Women Count
I belong to a group of women that meets every night for a short zoom shiur on Lashon Harah, and we count Sefira at the end with a bracha. We have been criticized that it is not correct. Should we cont...
# 3164 Important Message!
How should we all react to the recent closing of schools and yeshivos?...
# 3163 Boo to the Zoo?
Can a pregnant woman visit a zoo?...
# 3162 Put an Animal Up
Re- question 3134 above on making sheheyanu on new and very expensive shoes during sefira. I thought that one does not say sheheyanu on products made of animal skins, since it involves their suffering...
# 3161 Unread Bread
Horav Tsvi Heber Shlit’a mentioned regarding question 3156, in which we wrote that Molino flour manufactured in Italy but distributed by Kemach Haaretz in Israel, that has a Hechsher from the ...
# 3160 Don't Touch
Re- question 3157 above on women not touching a Sefer Torah during their period. Can they touch it with a Siddur, as I have seen done in some synagogues?...
# 3159 Put Them to Good Use II
On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they ca...
# 3158 A Reality Check
My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at l...
# 3157 Don't Look
Is it true that a woman during her period, should not look at the letters of an open Sefer Torah?...
# 3156 The Life of Flour
Re- prior question. It is actually a flour mix in which 51% is wheat starch, the rest is made up of corn flour, corn starch, dietary fibres, This mix is then used like regular flour, adding yeast, s...
# 3155 Earn Your Bread
Wheat flour which is soaked in order to extract the gluten and as such what is left is wheat starch, is bread that is made from the wheat starch Hamotzi like any other bread?...
# 3154 Leaving Much to be Desired?
Can a woman listening to Kerias Hatorah in shul, when needed by the necessities of her children or similar exit in the middle of the reading, especially in the Shabbosim with a double parsha, when the...
# 3153 Good to Hear This
Do women have to hear the reading of the Torah on Shabbos?...
# 3152 Let the Party Begin
We prepared a Zoom Lag Baomer party with a siyum followed by music and seating around a virtual fire. Since we invited children to join, we want to make it early Thursday evening. How early can we sta...
# 3151 Women of Torah Letters?
Is it true that Mishna Berura writes that women can receive an Aliya on Shabbat?...
# 3150 Read On
One who pronounces Hebrew and davens with Ashkenazi pronunciation and is given an aliya at a Sephardic shul, where the Baal Koreh (Torah reader) pronounces the reading of the Torah following that trad...
# 3149 Buried Treasures
On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they can...
# 3148 A Reality Check
My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at l...
# 3147 Unwritten Rules do Rule
A person who learns in a Kollel where they have certain rules which he wasn’t aware of, such as that you have to say the late rabbi’s name before learning and no breaks allowed and if one ar...