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# 2558 A Fresh Start
Should preference for reciting sheva brochos in the case above (Q. 2555) be given to the one that led the benching since he started with the mitzva?...
# 2557 Pray For The Medicine?
If someone keeps his medicines in the bathroom, can he say the tefila mentioned above (2556 - “Yehi ratzon milfanecha, Hashem Elo-hai, she’yehai eisek zeh li li’refuah ki rofai chinam atta," - May it ...
# 2556 Bless One's Medicine?
Does one say a special tefila or bracha before taking any medicine constantly taken with Hashem’s name? Does one say it on Shabbat or Yom Tov?...
# 2555 One's Cup of Wine
Is the case above any different than the common sheva brochos done in shul by shaleshudes during Shabbos? Is the cup of wine drunk before havdalah?...
# 2554 Chosen Celebration
If the newlyweds join the bris mila seuda (see question above) and they have fulfilled all of the requirements needed (extra food, their own place of honor, their own added people, and nigunim with so...
# 2553 Many Happy Simches
We have invited our just married cousins to the bris mila of our son. (There should B’H be many simchas by all). I was told that if we add some more food to the seudas habris, we can recite sheva...
# 2552 A Family United
Can a woman recite kiddush Friday night for her elderly father (who cannot say it himself) and for her daughters already bas mitzva, and other women guest, when her husband is not in town?...
# 2551 No Straps Attached?
The straps of my tefilin are only about ten years old. On the tefilin shel yad, at the top place, where it ties over the biceps and goes around the loop of the kesher, since I place them tight, the st...
# 2550 The Branch of Olives
Q, We are learning about eating olives at the Daf. Is it true that the detrimental eating of olives that makes one forget his learning, does not apply to someone who is a Talmid Chcham? (It was so m...
# 2549 Bless The Hostess?
When a guest is reciting during Birchat Hamazon after a meal the blessing for his host, should he not include the hostess also? Why is she is not usually included in the established different nuschaos...
# 2548 A Very Blessed Trip
When someone is staying in a Jewish hotel or traveling El Al, should one say the blessing for the host after eating and reciting Birchat Hamazon?...
# 2547 The Place of Honor
(Re- question 2546 above). Where is the correct place for the guest to recite the blessing honoring and thanking his host after the meal, during Birchat Hamazon?...
# 2546 Thank G-d For Small Blessings
Why is it that only some of the guest bother to bless their hosts at the end of a Shabbat or other meal, with the extended bracha mentioned in the Gemara, and they say only a short Horachaman, mention...
#2545 Thanks But No Thanks
A gabay goes around the shul with a pushka during pesukei dezimara (by Vaiborech Dovid) to collect tzedaka for the shul. He often says yasher koach or thank you to the givers and he argues that it is ...
# 2544 Make a Name for Yourself
When reciting a mi sheberach for a sick person, we usually quote his mothers name. If he is a Cohen or a Levy, should the gabay say Hacohen or Halevy after his name or after the mothers name, as we us...
# 2543 Tefilah Multitasking
Re - above question (2542). When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos., otherwise the blessin...
# 2542 Are You Really Listening?
When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos. Since in our days it is unusual for someone to mai...
# 2541 Enjoy At The Right Time
Does the principle of choosing to make a brocho on "choviv" or the items one likes, apply to all foods being served? Would that mean that one should make the required brocho on the dessert one special...
# 2540 With Pleasure
When eating two different fruits of the same brocho and status, you are supposed to say the brocho on the "choviv" or the most liked one. Does that mean just pleasant because of its good taste, or doe...
# 2539 A Song in Your Heart
I recently became interested in becoming a baal tshuva. I was invited by some religious friends from college, to come and join them in the learning of Torah at a close by yeshiva. It was my first time...