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# 3107 Eat Away but Near
This Shabbos Erev Pesach, we will be eating our chometz chales on Friday night and Shabbos morning at our back porch. We plan to eat the meal inside at the already cleaned and ready for Pesach dinning...
# 3106 Hear This Well
Shalom U’Bracha Kevod HaRav! What’s the Halacha about wearing hearing aids on Shabbos? And next week that Shabbos is Erev Pesach -The batteries don’t last long, how can the person who ...
# 3105 HaZoom es Hakol?
Our elderly and ill grand mother is hospitalized and alone, since the family is not allowed to visit her. She is very distressed since this is the first year she will not be in the seder with her chil...
# 3104 Muktze Matza?
This year’s Shabbos Erev Pesach, one may not touch the Matza Shemura since one can not eat it. So how can one make the eruv for carrying beginning on this Shabbos that is placed for a Shabbos tha...
# 3103 Pesach Dishes for Shabbos Use?
I heard that during every regular Shabbat the utensils set aside for Pesach use are muktza. If one bought new utensils for Pesach and decides to use the old ones on Shabbat a week before Pesach, fo...
# 3102 Facing the Face Shields
Can one use during Pesach the plastic full face shields that one wears duacing the Face Shieldsring the year?...
# 3101 Under the Sanitizer Influence ?
Can one use during Pesach the hand sanitizer usually available in the shul that contains Ethyl Alcohol?...
# 3100 What Does it All Amount To?
If one has digestive problems and resulting inflammation that is debilitating, and (during the seder) it affects the ability to serve the meal to the rest of the family and guests, does one have to ea...
# 3099 A Juicy Meal?
Can one drink a reviis of grape juice for a bemakom seuda need on Shabbos or only wine? (Consumption of an extra reviis wine is considered in Halacha as having eaten a meal)....
# 3098 The Matter of the Juice
Does the bracha on grape juice include other beverages, or only wine?...
# 3097 Accounting for Tastes?
Can someone that was affected by Covid and l’a lost his sense of taste, eat on Pesach Seder maror (bitter herbs) with a bracha?...
# 3096 No Skin of One's Teeth
How does one clean his teeth on Shabbat this year when Erev Pesach is Shabbat?...
# 3095 A Soft Sell?
Can you zoom mechiras chometz or sell it on line? How does one do then the Kinyan?...
# 3094 Feels on Meals
I have some questions about the meals of Erev Pesach. Both my husband and I must have breakfast before the tefillah because health issues. We consider breakfast our second Shabbat meal, and lunch woul...
# 3093 In Deep Water?
Is it permissible to use regular bottled, filtered water for "mayim shelonu" to be mixed with the flour to make the matzah?...
# 3092 Thank You for Not Sharing
When staying in an apartment with a non-religious roommate, does one need to tell him to throw out (or keep separately) his chametz during Pesach, or may one allow him to store his chametz in the shar...
# 3091 An Early Start Solution
A few weeks ago in our morning minyan, the 10th man, fairly young, walked out of the minyan to the uproar of our daveners, some of whom are saying kaddish. He was coaxed back in and explained almos...
# 3090 Selling Point
We have organized in the last year a new shul, and this is the first time that we will be selling chometz. The shul has a significant amount of donated chometz liquor that we are selling. Although we ...
# 3089 Lose or Win One's Shirt?
Regarding what it says in the Mishna Berura not to wear the same clothing (shirt) multiple Shabbosim in a row due to Ezra Hasofer takana, may one be lenient if the shirt is still clean, or is it neces...
# 3088 Same Again
I f a person knows that he was exposed to the Corona virus for a brief time, is he obligated to immediately stop attending shul, or may he continue attending shul since there are many doubts involved ...