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# 2756 Sure Cure
Tehillim Question: we set up a tehillim group for my daughter 2 weeks ago. BH she is stable and I was wondering when to stop the public tehillim. I will iy’H continue to say it in her Zechus fo...
# 2755 Exceptions Prove the Rules?
Israel is experiencing a skyrocketing number of new cases of this virus; over 8500 new cases within the last 2 weeks. Nevertheless, there are some Rabbis that do not wear masks in public and tell anyo...
# 2754 Shaking the Tree
Q On question 2738 you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion, as explained by Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a is that one should not leave a chair even slightly leaning on a tree...
# 2753 An Ounce of Prevention...
The Gemora tells us that we should daven that we should not get sick rather than daven for a recovery after getting sick, because one needs more merits to recover. Where in Shemoneh Esrei do we dave...
# 2752 A Lot Of Promise
Kavod Harav, I said that I will take off a chomesh (for maaser) if Hashem gives me a certain yeshua, which He did. However, due to corona, I am not getting paid as much as I was before and I don’...
# 2751 Beginning or the End?
A person who came to Mincha and after saying Hashem sefosai tiftoch and Baruch ata Hashem realized there are no asara mispallelim (minyan) present. May he say lamdeini chukecha and daven in a later mi...
# 2750 Garden Varieties
Kvod Harav. Thank you so much for all your divrai torah and yard hospitality. It is so good to be able to be back davening betzibur. I was listening to a shiur today by Rav Shachter shlita and he cal...
# 2749 The Letter On The Law
Referring tp Parshas Chukas. Is there a saying of Chazal that even the Mishpatim or the logical mitzvos are also Chukim or laws that we cannot understand?...
# 2748 Save That Vav
I was leining at Shabbos Mincha and didn’t see the traditional Vav Keti’a in the Sefer Torah. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the Sofer had merely used his knife and cut the very bottom o...
# 2747 The Spreading Firestorm
Some people connect the burning of the sefarim in Paris on 1242 to the fire on Notre Dame last year. Is there anything to that? (See questions 2730 and 2746)...
# 2746 That Really Burn Us Up
(See question 2730). Thank you for explaining that unusual fast of Erev Shabbos Chukas. Although I understand the remez (allusion) in the Targum, still what connection does the burning of the sefarim ...
# 2745 Casual Dress?
The Gemara in Pesachim 112 says not to wear clothing for eight days after they were laundered. But there is a takana of Ezra Hasofer to launder on Thursday to have clean clothing for Shabbos (a day la...
# 2744 A Halfway House?
I am learning about money management from a secular book. It suggests leaving the house to your children from the first marriage. What does Jewish law say about this if you’re in a second marri...
# 2743 Noach Would Be Proud
My fourth question is: How far can this go? We know that when someone is going through the process of giyur, they are supposed to begin observing all hilchos Shabbos, but still have to do one melacha ...
# 2742 The Best of All Fasts
My third question is:(See questions 2740-41 above): If that is OK, could they then accept upon themselves some restrictions. For example, it is popular today for people to do a "media fast" where they...
2741 Shoimer Sabbath Koidesh
(See question 2740 above). The second question is one that I am constantly being asked by Bnai Noach. It involves to what degree they may observe Shabbos. Until now, I have been advising people that ...
# 2740 No Returns?
1) June 23 Chukas B. Q. My first (question) is regarding a situation I was asked about from a ger tzedek. He heard that there is talk about conversions being annulled. So, I wanted to ask for hi...
# 2739 Goodbye Kiss?
I’m always makpid (careful) to kiss my tzitzis during shema. Now I’m wearing a mask during davening as recommended for my age. How can I kiss the tzitzis when all I’ll be doing is kissi...
# 2738 Lean and Mean
On question 2712 you wrote that on Shabbat one can lean on the tree slightly, when not moving it. but one can’t place a siddur on a tree. Can one leave his chair leaning slightly on a tree on an ...
# 2737 The Bird that Flew Away
When one wants to do the great mitzva of shiluach haken, does he actually have to take hold of the bird and then send it away? What happens if as he was approaching the nest, it just flew away, was he...