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# 2617 You'll Drink to That
I’m a frum physician working in a hospital... (See question 2616 above). I probably will have to be working in the hospital, during the first or even the second seder this week. I’ll probabl...
# 2616 Man Alive!
I’m a frum physician working in a hospital that is very busy these days and I have a few shailos. There is a significant number of Jewish patients that I with the rest of the staff attend to. Due...
# 2615 Let All the Hungry Come and Eat?
May one invite someone for the seder or Yom Tov meals if the guest does not have any symptoms and would have nowhere else to go, due to everyone else’s reluctance to invite people during this tim...
# 2614 A Peace of the Moon
when saying kiddush levana, if you are by yourself as we mostly are in this (covid) crisis, can you call a friend by phone and say shalom alechem to him? Can you tell it to your wife?...
# 2613 Disposal At Your Disposal
Is it true that Rav Shlomo Shlit’a paskened (ruled) that one can dispose of the chometz by just throwing it out on the garbage containers when they will be collected during Pesach? Really!!...
# 2612 The Party Line?
What to do about the siyum Erev Pesach? Can it be done by phone, online or zoom?...
# 2611 The Longest Aliya Ever?
When the Eibeshter will have rachamnus (compassion) on us and the shuls will be able to resume, should we lein (read) all the missed parshiyos?...
# 2610 The Neighboring Minyan
A group of five neighbors that share different sides and corners of their back yards, with one standing in the middle. He wants to organize a minyan during these critical covid times. Since each famil...
# 2609 Have a Healthy Shabbos
Can someone that does not usually take vitamins, take them now even during Shabbos, to build resistance to the Corona virus?...
# 2608 What's In a Name?
Should the custom be not to call this (Coronavirus) disease by name as is the custom with other dreaded diseases?...
# 2607 Travel Light
Is it true that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a just prohibited this year yeshiva bachurim to come home for Pesach? We have 3 boys learning in yeshivos in the States. where can they go? Can you urgen...
# 2606 And The Name Is...
A few days ago Beezras Hashem my wife gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl. We follow the Rov’s instructions and we don’t go these days to shul. My question is what do we do with givi...
# 2605 Lashon Hatov?
If a friend confided to me that he tested positive to the Corona virus illness, but he doesn’t want other people to know, and I should keep it to myself. Should I tell others? Would that be lasho...
# 2604 Turn Shabbos On
Can I leave on my computer during Shabbat, without sound just to read if any emergencies are happening with the coronavirus pandemic?...
# 2603 Sever Relations in Severe Times?
During these difficult times should people abstain from conjugal relations, as the Talmud teaches in regard to times of hunger?...
# 2602 Can I Help You?
In our city, we still have a few meshulachim collecting from door to door. This goes on even when they have been given community help and support, to avoid them collecting since they may be prime carr...
# 2601 Words Of Honor
I have yohrzait tonight, and I have access to a minyan that meets in a back yard close to my house, should I go?...
# 2600 The Right Crowd?
In these covid 19 days, when we are asked to daven at home, is there a hiddur (enhancement) for several people (sons and father) davening at the same time and same place, even though there is no minya...
# 2599 Recovering Information
My parents contracted the CoronaVirus. B’chasdei HaShem, their symptoms, though difficult, are not overwhelming and they are quarantined at home. When, B’ezras HaShem, they recover, and the...
# 2598 Rise And Shine
How much effort should one put in to daven (shacharis with the) neitz, (sunrise) when unable to daven with a minyan due to the covid epidemic?...