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# 3146 A Word on a Word
A friend offered to buy my house. We had a verbal agreement but the complete details were not put into the offer to purchase and I felt pressured to agree to a lower price than the market price and a ...
# 3145 First Matza on the Second Pesach
When is the correct time for eating matza this year, Monday day (Pesach Sheni) or Monday night? Thank you...
# 3145 Every Day Counts?
Re- regarding the question 3143 above on one undergoing an operation during sefira that will make him miss a day. Should he on the next day count also the day before that he missed?...
# 3144 Counting on One's Bad Memory
Re- question (3143) above regarding someone undergoing major surgery during Sefira that likely won’t be able to count at least one day of Sefira. How about someone that because of his bad memor...
# 3143 Bless Hashem for Being Able to Count
Someone who has to undergo a major medical operation during Sefira and likely won’t be able to count at least one day of Sefira, therefore, he will not comply with Temimot requisite. Should he st...
# 3142 Put them to Good Use
Can we place on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, since we have received lately better ones, (better print and condition, also more mefarshim), besides we nee...
# 3141 Be Grateful for Small Blessings
If one ate a full meal that included an appetizer, soup, main dish and dessert. Then recited Birchat Hamazon, but didn’t realize that the bread he ate was rice bread, did he comply with the Birch...
# 3140 Getting Our Act Together
On question 3119 you mentioned It would stand to reason that it is better to count Sefira after a Zoom shiur since Poskim write that on the onset it is better to count Sefiras Haomer together with a T...
# 3139 At the Earliest Convenience
What is Horav Miller opinion as the earliest time to count sefira? taking into account that if they don’t count in shul, some will likely forget....
# 3138 Forgivness For Coming Late
On question 3114 you mentioned that the Shira when properly said and with the true joy of someone having just crossed the sea and saved his own life and the life of his dear ones, the Shira gains forg...
# 3137 An Extended Blessing
How long after the birth of the baby girl can the mother still say Shehecheyanu? (See question 3133)....
# 3136 Saving Who's Life?
If an elder patient waiting for a life saving organ transplant is given a date, but he knows a young yeshiva bochur who needs the same transplant, can he offer his place in the list? (he will only be ...
# 3135 Hartzige Music During Sefira
What does the Rav hold regarding listening to Hartzige music "nigunei neshama" during sefira?...
# 3134 If the Shoe Fits Bless It
If someone bought some expensive shoes for Pesach that he usually makes sheheyanu on them, but did not use them then. Can he wear them on Shabbos after Pesach and say the brocho?...
# 3133 A Blessing Happy Mother
Does the mother say Shecheyanu on the birth of her daughter? Does she say it also during the days of Sefira?...
# 3132 Sefira Baby Blessings
If someone had a baby girl during the mourning weeks of Sefiras Haomer, should he recite the brocho of Shehecheyanu?...
# 3131 Adding or Subtracting?
On above question 3130: The Taalesim also had the unusual condition of having the small added corner patches on both sides of the cloth. Is that correct?...
# 3130 Make Whole the Hole
I received from Eretz Yisroel some Taalesim Ketanim that I requested. But they had the Tzitzis installed following the minhag of two adjacent openings and the tzitzis hanging in the front only. Since ...
# 3129 The Bottom of the Food Chain?
Should not all medical pills be permitted during Pesach or when from an non-kosher source during the whole year, since they are after all a non edible food that even dogs would not eat?...
# 3128 A Taste of One's Own Medicine
Would it be better for someone needing to take questionable pills on Pesach, or any other time if they could be non kosher, to wait and take them after a heavy meal when one is completely satiated. At...