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# 2637 Where Were We?
Referring to the response of the Rov above - (2630), Is this response for Toronto or somewhere else? (Lakewood?) ....
# 2636 Passover Forever?
An elderly couple, has difficulty in removing all the Pesach utensils and packing them in boxes, as well as returning the chometz dishes and other needed equipment. The help they need will only be wit...
# 2635 Face The Music Again
May one listen to music during sefira to avoid depression due to the current (covid) matzav?...
# 2634 Home Away From Home?
Re- question 2617 regarding a frum physician working in a hospital that has also Jewish patients during the first or even the second seder as to how to make kiddush etc.. There was mention that the do...
# 2633 Forgotten But Not Forgiven
On Sunday the second day of Chol Hamoed Pesach, we took out the car from the garage and sadly discovered that there was a bag of leftover chametz crackers and cookies, destined to be thrown out to the...
# 2632 Drop A Line?
If I have to text or send emails during Chol Hamoed should I add a few words such as "kedushas Yom Tov", to make a change and establish the holiness of these days?...
# 2631 This Is News To Me
On Chol Hamoed, should one avoid reading the news, especially about who died, due to the mitzvah of vesamachta b’hagecha? If so, why are the Frum Jewish news sites still posting on Chol Hamoed? I...
# 2630 Covid's True Constancy = Change
My backyard adjoins other neighbours who wish to make a minyan across backyard fences in the way described as permitted by the Rov. Do I (and the other adult male members of my household) have an obl...
# 2629 So Far and Yet So Near
Re- questions 2610 and 2624 regarding a group of five neighbors that share different sides and corners of their back yards, with one standing in the middle, that want to organize a minyan during these...
# 2628 No Place Like Home
My father became ill and tested positive to the corona virus. However, since his case is until now B’H mild, his doctors were not convinced that his best option is to be hospitalized. Since he li...
# 2627 Glory In Non Glorious Days
In our critical times, (Pesach 2020), when we are all davening at home without a minyan, do we say hallel the first and second night of Pesach after maariv?...
# 2626 Touch Base
Can one return from the curb the garbage bins that were collected during Yom Tov? (this is important since in streets where non frum or Gentile neighbors dwell, they are bothered by the apparent disre...
# 2625 Differences of Opinion
Recently we have heard different viewpoints from our Gedolim and Rabbonim regarding the Heavenly reasons for these difficult covid times. What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?...
# 2624 Way Out Entry
I heard that the Rov permitted a minyan in a backyard in his neighborhood (during the current pandemic), could that be correct?...
#2623 Mind Your Language
As in this critical mageifa (pandemic) days we all daven at home, if someone is used to add his own private prayers for his needs during shemoneesre in English, can he still do so when he davens witho...
# 2622 Don't Have an Alcohol Problem
Can one use during Pesach this year the sanitizers that contain alcohol, that could be chometz?...
# 2621 If you Can't Burn Them, Join Them
I heard that Horav Miller Shlit’a ruled that if you are burning little pieces of chometz that may not contain each separate one the full size of a kezais as required, you should place all those s...
# 2620 The More The Better?
If one has many pieces of chometz left, is it better to burn them all, or is it enough to just burn a kezais and the rest he can throw out or flush down?...
# 2619 Moves on Cloves
(See question 2618 above - regarding a person that is prone to seizures). I also started eating cloves ie tziporen because has been B’H helping me with stopping the seizures from starting. Can ...
# 2618 Why Not Kitniot?
Can I (a person that is prone to serious seizures) get a heter for buckwheat and or quinoa and or chick peas during Pesach. Because I eat buckwheat every day and its a part of kitniot. I was told by ...