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# 3007 Make a Name for Yourself
I would like to start saying the pasuk after the amida that contain the first and last letter of my name. (psukim lesheimos anoshim - noshim), since my father used to say it also. The problem is that ...
# 3006 A Double Blessing
If someone left his office and forgot making a bore nefashot after eating some fruits, but when he arrived home and was about to have a coffee, he remembered. Since there was a shinui makom or a chang...
# 3005 We All Daven Together
I have recently become the Rabbi of a small community. Until now, I have always davened with a Vasikin minyan. My community though, davens at a regular time. Is it more important for me to daven with ...
# 3004 The Complete Siyum
Kevod Harav Shlit"a, If a boy under the age of bar mitzvah completes an entire masechta and understands it. Should he also recite the kadish upon completion of the siyum?...
# 3003 Open 24 Hours?
Can Hatoras Nedorim (an act of absolution of wows done in front of a court of three people) be done at night after Maariv?...
#3002 Milk of Human Kindness?
An individual who was always careful and machmir (stringent) to eat only products of Cholov Yisroel, but due to the fact that he became unemployed during the pandemic crisis he can’t afford the h...
# 3001 Tough Answers to Tough Shailes
My neighbors father lost recently r’l his wife and a son to the covid curse. He became very depressed and is at a high risk of ending his own life. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital by his ...
# 3000 The Early Late Torah
Should one go to sleep early, at the expense of learning Torah, in order to wake up early and be from the asara rishonim the next day? (He will learn before Shacharis, but maybe learning more at night...
# 2999 Unmask the Mask
Is it permitted to go out on Shabbos with two masks, one for me and one for my friend whose Rav does not allow him to go out with a mask on Shabbos but will be attending a shul where they require it?...
# 2998 Rise to be First or to the Sunrise?
Is it better to be from the asara rishonim or to daven vasikin (but not possible to be from the first ten in the vasikin minyan, only in a regular minyan)?...
# 2997 Support The Mask
There is now available a Face Mask Inner Support. It holds up the mask fabric around the mouth to create more breathing space when a mask is put on face. It is basically a concave plastic frame, that ...
# 2996 A Gut'n Erev Shabbos?
Can one wish on Shabbos morning after davening a ’Gut Shabbos,’ or is that improper? I have seen some people answer back, ’A Gutn Erev Shabbos’ as if the salute they received was i...
# 2995 Say It, Don't Spray It
A new liquid product that can be sprayed onto cloth face masks is about to become available. The spray coating using electrostatic charges, captures COVID-19 molecules on the surface of the mask, pre...
# 2994 Shoelaces Knotty Issues
Why do people tie their shoelaces on Shabbat when they are wet as when it rains or they walked on snow. Is that not a case of schita or squeezing out the water absorbed in the shoelaces? Although, o...
# 2993 Uncovering the Uncovered
On question 2969 regarding if one can use olive oil that was left uncovered overnight for lighting the Chanuka menorah, and Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that after the fact, one...
# 2992 Good or Early?
(Re question 2981, regarding if one should leave even before the start of davening to wake someone up (chessed) if requested to wake them at a certain time. To what we answered; ’The proper proce...
# 2991 Let me Tell you, first of All
(Re- questions 2976,79). Why is it so important to be part of the first ten who make up the minyan?...
# 2990 Ask about Ask One Over
A person is looking for places to eat on Shabbos is there any prohibition to tell him which families tend to have guests or which ones don’t and it is better not to ask them?...
# 2989 No News is Good News?
Is it proper for a gabay in a shul were they usually say a misheberach for the sick on Shabbos, to include the name of a severely sick new covid patient, if the attendants will become very distressed...
# 2988 Accounting for Taste
Re - question 2987 above. I meant to ask on a water purification plant that prepares and serves the water to our community. I became aware that often the workers may eat their lunch or snacks close ...