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# 2987 Amount to Nothing?
When we mention that chometz is prohibited ’Bemashehu,’ even to the smallest amount during Pesach, does that mean that the prohibition applies to molecules of chometz too?...
# 2986 A Joy to Behold
We learned recently in the daf that there is no Meila (a korban brought when someone unlawfully benefited from Hekdesh or the holiness of the Beis Hamidash or the sacrifices therein), when benefiting ...
# 2985 No Public Drinking
We B’H are celebrating after many years of trying to have children a Pidyon Habben this coming Friday afternoon that is also the Taanis of Asarah Beteves. Both my parents and in-laws are elderly ...
# 2984 Have a Merry Nittel
On the Christmas eve, for one that keeps the Nittel tradition of not learning Torah on that night but usually has a shiur on the evening, what hours exactly are the ones one should avoid learning?...
# 2983 Season's Greetings?
Q . I want to give my super a check and a Christmas card like all other tenants in our building do, as a thanks for the many favors given. Which is the correct way to do it?...
# 2982 Wake Up the Right Side
A bachur asked me to come to his room to wake him for vasikin. (Sun-rise minyan). I knew what room he was in, but due to the early hour and darkness when I entered the room I could not figure out what...
# 2981 Wake Up Call
Should one leave even before the start of davening to wake someone up (chessed) if requested to wake them at a certain time?...
# 2980 The Early Fast Days of Teveth
This year Nittel Nacht (the night of Dec 24) is after the Taanis of the Ninth of Teveth, mentioned in Shulchan Aruch. I always wondered if there is a connection between the two?...
# 2979 First Come First Saved?
(Re-question 2976). Rav Shlomo Miller paskened that one does not leave the status of being from the first ten if he leaves to use the bathroom or to fulfill a tefilla requirement. Now, Rav Miller said...
# 2978 Reach the Right Height
Why are the menoras of many shuls and Batei Midrashot higher than the ten tefachim (about 42in. - 1.m) required lekatchila by the Shulchan Aruch?...
# 2977 The Doubt of the Benefit
I pay for the lunch of workers fixing my house, and they usually order pepperoni pizza, or other foods and sandwiches that contain cooked meat and milk products. I lend them my credit card to pay for ...
# 2976 The Tenet of the Tenth Man
A person who came from the asara rishonim, may he leave to wake someone up for Shacharis, or will he lose the status of being from the asara rishonim? May one leave to get a drink of water, etc, or on...
# 2975 Life Of The Party
We know that unlike Purim we don’t eat seudos or special meals on Chanuka. Why not? We should make a Sedas Hodaah for the great miracles done to our forefathers and us?...
# 2974 Clear The Deck
Is it correct to make a Zoom Chanukah party, and play cards after finishing a shiur?...
# 2973 Proxy Blessings
I was asked by an unmarried neighbor friend who was hospitalized to go to his home and light his menorah, since he can’t do so with candles in the hospital. I accepted to do it, but I’m not ...
# 2972 All Raise and Praise
Do women say Hallel during Chanuka? Are they obliged as in the seder of Pesach?...
# 2971 The Early Light
I daven in a shul that davens Mincha close to the shkiah (sunset) and then people return for a shiur 8.00 PM followed by Maariv. Should they light the shul Menorah before Maariv or after Mincha, befor...
# 2970 Lead But Stay With Us
A shul that davens nusach S’fard (Ashkenaz) and in days when no tachanun is said, as in Chanuka, an Ovel does not usually daven before the amud (does not lead the services). This particular minya...
# 2969 Keep The Good Spirits Up
Can one use olive oil that was left uncovered overnight for lighting the Chanuka menorah?...
# 2968 Addressing the Window
Can one living in a basement, light his menorah by the basement window. This window is barely above the ground level outside the house. Since the menorah should be placed over 3 tefachim from the grou...