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# 2947 If it Looks Like Bread...
Crackers or wafers made from wheat and advertised as bagel crisps or slices of authentically toasted bagels, that indeed taste accordingly and look like rings cut from a bagel, is their brocho mezonos...
# 2946 Thought for Food
Someone ate more than a kezais of mezonos and other Shehakol food and drinks, and then decided that he will not eat anymore cake or mezonos, so he said the bracha ’Al Hamichya’ on the mezono...
# 2945 Getting the Fix on a Fix
My elderly father’s old wheelchair broke last Shabbos and since he strongly needed it to move around the house, we temporarily fixed it by using a few nylon cable zip ties that although they are ...
# 2944 Dressing Down?
If someone is wearing a medical dressing made of gauze or a cloth bandage for a wound that his doctor advised he should not remove, can he wear it and keep it on, when he goes to the mikva (for Tisha ...
# 2943 A First Glance
When no Cohen is present in shul, and when other favoring factors such as being a greater Talmid Chacham or an elder are not applicable, does a Levi get preference for a first aliya? How about for lea...
# 2942 A Light Touch
If someone forgot to kindle a Yohrzait candle on that day for a father or mother, what is the correct thing to do. Should one light two candles when he/she remembers? What happens if someone just reme...
# 2941 Testing the Tester
In reference to one of your recent teshuvos, I, an insulin user, requires a constant monitoring of my blood glucose level. Until now I was doing it by extracting blood samples, which you wrote, is a s...
# 2940 Hold Your Peace
See question (2939) above. Dear Rabbi, thank you for your prompt answer to our Beis Din shailah. Horav Miller’s permission to demand a lie detector test, did have great consequence on our case, s...
# 2939 The Truth Be Told
If a Beis Din strongly suspects that the defendant in a very significant monetary litigation is not telling the truth, but they can’t prove it, can they demand that the parties should be subjecte...
# 2938 A Fast Accident Waiting to Happen
Someone took off his tefilin on Rosh Chodesh before Musaf in a hurry and placed them without their cover on a slanted shtender next to him. Then someone else walked by and not expecting that tefilin w...
# 2937 Pressed The Right Button?
I read on a pamphlet published by Bikur cholim, that when during Shabbos one visits a patient on a high floor of an hospital, for the needs of the patient, when no other option is available one may as...
# 2936 Looking Under The Hood
I heard that Rav Shlomo Shlit’a does not permit wearing on Shabbos a raincoat with a hood, unless one is covering his head or hat with the hood. If left uncovered and there is no eruv, one would ...
# 2935 All For One or One For All?
If there is a number of sons and daughters of a deceased father living together, does each one have to light a separate candle on the day of the Yohrzait, or is it enough with one?...
# 2934 Do The Honors
When the Torah reading is concluded, we put the Sefer Torah in a temporary box. When Shacharis is over, the Sefer Torah is transported by foot to another place to be stored securely. The shul has only...
# 2933 Interesting Interest
Someone borrowed a sefer, but kept it for a long time, then graciously to thank for the favor returns it with a bottle of wine as an act of thanks. Is that a question of ribbis or prohibited interest?...
# 2932 Shake Someone's Tree
Can a Cohen walk or stand underneath a tree branch by a cemetery, that is at that point less than a tefach (about 10 cm.)wide, if at the source of the branch, where it stands over a kever (grave), it ...
# 2931 What Day Is It?
Kvod Harav. On question above you quoted Talmud Yoma. Is it not the right pronunciation of that Gemara "Yuma" as everyone calls it and not Yoma as you did?...
# 2930 A Brunch of Olives?
The Gemara says (Horayos 13b) that one of the things that causes one to forget one’s learning is one who is "Rogil" with olives. Since I do not understand the way this works, I do not even know ...
# 2929 Carry but don't Fetch
See questions (2926-28) above regarding a prosthetic electronic arm. Can one wear and carry that electrically disconnected arm or hand in the street, on Shabbat when there is no eruv?...
# 2928 At Arm's Length?
See questions (2926-27) above. Can one use that prosthetic electronic arm hand on Shabbat? What if it is not connected to the batteries?...