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# 3087 Informing or Inculpating?
If one suspects that a certain person has corona (such as the person is coughing or appears to have a hard time breathing), is one obligated to immediately inform the Rav or Rosh Yeshiva and have that...
# 3086 Run and Eat
If someone eats in a kiddush or an after davening lechaim for a yohrzait, where mezonos are also served, and eats standing up is he considered as pasul leidus or unfit to testify?...
# 3085 Into the Drink?
Recently you posted a Q&A about drinking on Purim where ones parent has asked a child to not drink on Purim. In the answer you write that the boy should listen to his parents and not drink. However yo...
# 3084 Name your Dream
My partner (see question above) also had a dream were his mother told him that his true name is not just Moshe as he has maintained all his life, until the dream and as is written in his Kesuva. She r...
# 3083 Dream Away
If a partner of mine told me that his deceased mother came to him in a dream and told him that he owes me five thousand dollars and gave me an envelope with the cash. I went through our accounts and c...
# 3082 Leave in Peace
It says in the Mishna Berura not to leave until the end of davening (siman 55) unless he heard all the kaddeishim until aleinu. May one be lenient with this when leaving to go to another shul where th...
# 3081 Rise From the Dead
I was told that Horav Miller mentioned that one of the reasons for our terrible Covid Pandemic is related to the lack of honor given to the dead such as cremating the bodies. Did he really say that? W...
# 3080 Late or Up to Date?
This year (5781-2021) when Erev Pesach is on Shabbat, does one read the Haggada then or is it better to read it on the prior Shabbat as the Shabbat Hagadol drasha is also preceded to Parshat Vayikra?...
# 3079 Welcome Aboard
See question above. Can one invite a prospective Ger who is already in the process of conversion to the Pesach Seder?...
# 3078 Care and Share
Can one invite a totally irreligious relative, that one wants to be mekarev (bring close to Judaism) to the Pesach Seder?...
# 3077 More or Less?
If in a newly established minyan there is a disagreement whether to say yotzros (added tefilos for special dates) or not, what is the correct thing to do?...
# 3076 Eat One's Matza and Have It Too?
Someone that has a minhag not to eat matza thirty days before Pesach, can he eat then shemura matza left overs from last Pesach that were likely placed on a chometz table during the year and he would ...
# 3075 Shabbos Purim Seuda?
A Q. Someone was eating the Purim Seuda last Friday and drank wine and time went by fast, (he didn’t fall asleep). Then he realized that it was already Shabbos (he davened Mincha before the seud...
# 3074 Giving Trouble
Does one comply with Shalach Monos when giving chomentashn or cakes to a diabetic?...
# 3073 Smell the Shalach Manos?
I have a dear friend that is in hospital and is being fed intravenously as he can’t digest any food. I would like to send him Shalach Manot to rise his spirits this Purim. He complained to me tha...
# 3072 What a Place!
Dear Rabbi I’m a Shaliach that collects for an important Torah institution and I visit Mexico City usually once a year. I read recently and also checked it out, that the downtown of that city is ...
# 3071 That's a Shame
One went to a shul to wish mazel tov to a Rav for a simcha. One planned to stay only a short while at the kiddush, since one has a guest in his house who is waiting for him. However, as one prepares t...
# 3070 Directions for the Phone Directory
Is a phone book muktze during Shabbos? Could it be used then by youngsters to keep the score on games played, (by turning the numbered pages to the desired number), such as Scrabble?...
# 3069 An Eye on Your Apple
If someone recited Haetz bracha on an apple or any other fruit and there was apple sauce in front of him but he did not have in mind to include it, does he have to say a Shahakol bracha on it?...
# 3068 Checking the Bags
I was wondering, when I open my Tefilin bag, as all others I recall seeing, the zipper opens from right to left. The Tefilin Shel Rosh (head Tefilin) are placed on the right and since the Shel Yad (ha...