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# 3027 In a Hole?
Re- last question (3026) on Horav Miller’s stringent opinion regarding the Shabbat puncturing of the small orifice opening of a cardboard ’juice box’ container using the plastic straw p...
# 3026 An Open Question
Is one allowed to puncture in Shabbos the small orifice opening of a cardboard ’juice box’ container using the plastic straw provided?...
# 3025 Looks Matter
Re- Halochos for Tu B’shvat by Toronto Kolel stating that eating cooked/roasted whole wheat or a barley kernel, the Brocha you make on it is Boreh Pri H’adomah. Kvod Harav , Wouldn’t cooked barl...
# 3024 A Piece of Cake Shaila
If I make a mezonos brocho on a piece of cake and also eat some rice products that are included in that brocho, when I say the bracha acharona (blessing after eating) of al hamichya, does it also incl...
# 3023 Ponds to Ponder
Q Lekavod Harav Shlit’a, during these times where access to some of the keilim mikva were restricted, there has been various opinions regarding the status of ponds and rivers. For example there ...
# 3022 For All Intents and Purposes
Re- questions 3015,16,17, 3021, above regarding Meah Brochos. Do brachot that were said without proper intention, such as when someone davens the Amida and only has kavanah at the first bracha, still ...
# 3021 Count Your Blessings
If someone received Shabbos early (after Plag) and davened Maariv then, does the tefilah count for Shabbos meah brochos or for Friday? How about on Shabbos shaleshudes when benching after the shkiah?...
# 3020 What a Great Party!
We have a minhag that on the Purim Seuda during the normal time we invite the complete family and their children, as well as many guest that don’t have where to be for the seuda. In this part...
# 3019 Next Question Please
A bochur contemplating finding a shiduch, should he prefer a Bas Yisroel to a Bas Levy or a Bas Cohen, to be able to comply with the mitzva of Pidyon Haben. (He is an Yisroel)....
# 3018 A Dose of One's Own Medicine
A new spray is about to be marketed. When sprayed into the nose or/and mouth. it greatly helps to protect against infection by COVID-19. It stops the absorption and growth of micro-organisms such as v...
# 3017 A 100% of 100 Brochos?
If one lost track on Shabbos of where he is holding in meah brachos, should he make brachos until he knows without any doubt that he has a hundred, or is it not necessary since the mitzvah is rabbinic...
# 3016 Twilight Blessings
When making brachos during bein hashemashos, do they count for the previous day or the next day for meah brachos?...
# 3015 How Blessed Are We?
Is the reciting of a hundred brochos every day an obligation for all, a Mitzva or just a mihag or tradition?...
# 3014 Good to Hear Your Voice
The wife of member of our congregation is l’a chronically ill and mostly restricted to bed. She requires supervision, however due to the current crisis they can’t afford a caregiver. Her hus...
# 3013 At Cross Purposes
Dear Rabbi As you realize from my name. I’m an old friend and member of the Kehila in Mexico, your former community. I’m sadly hospitalized in a Catholic hospital in Mexico City and sufferin...
# 3012 Pure as the Driven Snow?
After attending a levaya or exiting a cemetery can one wash hands by sinking them in the snow? Does one have to do it three times? Can it be done in the same place?...
# 3011 A Smell Test
If someone due to contracting Covid lost his sense of smell and finds himself in a hospital room where the smell of the bathroom is obviously present, since other patients avoid it and say so. Can he ...
# 3010 Practice Makes Perfect
Q Because I am a descendant of the Pnei Yehoshua, I am a descendant of both Rabbeinu Tam and Rashi (as attested by the grandfather of the Pnei Yehoshua in Moginei Shlomo). Am I obligated to follow Mi...
# 3009 My Name is My Name
When a patient is so ill that a change of name is suggested, does he have to be consulted before or told that there will be or there was a shinui hashem or an addition of a name done for him? Maybe it...
# 3008 Not Good for You Not Good for Others?
Can I give my Rabbeinu Tam tefillin to be checked, painted and fixed to a sofer who doesn’t put on himself Rabbeinu Tam’s tefilin, since following his minhag they are not necessary, so he wi...