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# 2736 Cast a Spell
Can you please tell me what the proper Hebrew spelling for Newmarket would be? And when writing it on a Kesubah, would it be proper to identify Newmarket (Ontario, Canada), as הסמ...
# 2735 A Pearl On Wisdom
Why is the bracha on the amida of Atta Chonen, on which we pray for wisdom and understanding, be said before the bracha of Hashivenu Letoratecha or returning and keeping the Torah? Should not the obse...
# 2734 Forgive But Don't Forget
In the Shemoneh Esrei, there is an optional prayer for forgiveness where you confess your willful sins since childhood. I thought our slate was wiped clean every Yom Kippur and upon marriage, so why ...
# 2733 The Making of a Name
Teshuvos Betzel Hachachma (3:41) writes that one shouldn’t name a shul or other holy place after a mechalel shabbos, for example, if a frum person wanted to donate a shul in memory of his parents...
# 2732 Find Your Holy Tongue
the Piskei Teshuvos siman 154 os 37 says that it is a problem to write names of donors inside a shul in any language other than lashon hakodesh - is this really a problem? Would it make a difference i...
# 2731 Stone Deaf and Mute?
Do you need to eulogize the departed one at the time of the unveiling of the matzeva? How about if the deceased did not like at all speeches and eulogies?...
# 2730 More Fast Talk
I heard in a shiur that some people fast on Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas and unlike other ta’anesim that depend on the day of the month, this one does not have a specific date, but it has to do wi...
# 2729 Blessings Without Disguise
If one eats a meal in a public park with his children, when benching what harachaman should one say?...
# 2728 A Monumental Cover Up?
What is the source for the ceremony of placing and dedicating a matzeva, is it an obligation? If the ceremony was postponed (see question above), does the monument have to stay covered until the cerem...
# 2727 A New View on the Birds
Since Rav Miller paskened (ruled) that you can do shiluach haken on a nest with geese eggs, can various people do it, each taking just one egg? When they return them as you wrote, can someone else als...
# 2726 A Stone With a Heart
I ordered a matzeva for my aunt who doesn’t have any children in Canada. Because of the traveling restrictions they will not be able to gather together for a while. Can the ceremony of dedication...
# 2725 Back Answer
Can a man rest on a hammock since he is laying parkedon or on his back which is assur?...
# 2724 Value of the Deutsche Mark
Re- Questions (2722 - 2723) above If it is recommended to remove tattoos, does that apply also to the numbers that were tattooed by the Germans ym’s?...
# 2723 Mind The Gap?
See question (2722) on tattoos above. Are they a chatzitza for the tevila of women....
# 2722 Question Mark II
Re- questions on tattoos,(2707 - 2708). Thanks so much for the information. A ger who had tattoos done in his early days before he converted, does he have to remove them now that he became Jewish? The...
# 2721 Zoom In
If we do a siyum by Zoom and each person eats his own food with his family, is that considered a seudas mitzva?...
# 2720 A Clean Break
When we are davening on the backyards is there a concern with droppings of animals such as raccoons, cats, birds, etc.?...
# 2719 A Blessing Wife
(Regarding questions 2693 and 2694, regarding if a wife can be motzi her husband with elokay neshomo and hamaavir sheino, during Shavuos morning, which are part of the birchos hashachar or morning ble...
# 2718 Not The Longest Aliya
Now that we B’H can return to daven is shul, do we have to lein all the parshios we missed? If we do. can we divide the parshios missed, since they are so many, into two or three Shabossim?...
# 2717 Face to Face
Q, When davening in the backyard, if the Sefer Torah is kept on an aron inside the family room that has a door open to the porch and can be seen from there, do you fall tachanun on your face then?...