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# 2927 A Helping Hand
Following question above when using a prosthetic electronic right arm , how should one wash netilat yadaim for eating bread, when he is wearing the artificial very realistic looking hand?...
# 2926 Give One's Right Arm
A close relative lost his right arm, from the elbow down, and was able to replace it with a prosthetic electronic arm. We have some important questions. Firstly, since he still has his complete right ...
# 2925 Drop the Other Shoe?
On question 2924 above you mentioned that historically some Talmidei Hachamim because of their devotion to constantly learn Torah, would sleep shortly with their clothes and shoes on during weekdays. ...
# 2924 Sleep on This
The Gemara in Yoma says not to sleep with shoes. Does this apply when falling asleep on a train, or at one’s shtender, or only in bed?...
# 2923 Too Sad For Words
We are not allowed to say sad news on Shabbos. This past Shabbos, would it be permissible to tell a gabbai making a mishabayrach for Rav Dovid (Feinstein) zatzal not to do so? (The Posek Hador was ni...
# 2922 No Electric Shock Sock
On question 2907 regarding wearing electric battery heated socks on Shabbos you wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is to permit their use only on need or when health issues are...
# 2921 There is Accounting for Taste
I received this week from my parents some very good tasting specialty dish that they know I much enjoy and therefore saved it to savor it during Shabbos and be mekayem (comply with) the mitzva of Oneg...
# 2920 A Dog's Life
Can one neuter a male pet dog by using a non-Jewish veterinarian?...
# 2919 A Late Early Meal
I have seen elderly people or the ill, who go to bed early while it is still Shabbat, recite Havdalah on Sunday morning. Can they also then eat something more for breakfast and have intention for the ...
# 2918 Grave Burial?
I have seen some people bury plastic bags full of shemos (leftover sefarim or their pages, such as sidurim, chumashim etc.) inside street excavations done primarily for fixing water or sewage pipes. T...
# 2917 Stop and Listen?
If one in the middle of Shemonesrei hears the laud answering by the congregation of the 13 Middos, should he momentarily stop his recitation and have in his mind answering with them as one is supposed...
# 2916 A Vort on a Vort
The minhag in our family is to avoid making weddings during the month of Marcheshvan. Does that include also making a vort (compromise)?...
# 2915 Spirit Away
Can one use peeled garlic cloves that are imported from China and packaged in vacuum sealed plastic bags, since the obviously stayed overnight peeled, which we avoid?...
# 2914 Reason to Listen
During the reading of the Torah on Shabbat, sometimes I loose concentration and miss hearing or paying attention to some words and even psukim of the leinning (reading). Was I yotze (complied with) th...
# 2913 Celebrating Dia de los Muertos?
Dear Rabbi; As you probably well know, in Mexico instead of Halloween, people celebrate the next day the "Dia de los Muertos" or the Day of Dead, which is remarkably different. Often candles, flowers...
# 2912 Good Things Come to those Who Wait
I have been learning in a Kolel in Yerushalaim for several years. I’m married with two small children and was offered a position as a rabbi and teacher for three years in a Latin American country...
# 2911 Missed the Boat?
Why is the ark of Noah called a Teiva. Considering its purpose would it not be more correct to call it, an Oniya, (as by Yona and Chiram) or the Targum’s S’finah, meaning a boat or ship?...
# 2910 This Is News to Me
I usually get my news from a usual Bnei Torah accepted news web site, that many frum people use. Yet recently there was a video posted of a speech given by the Israeli Prime Minister delivered during ...
# 2909 Happy Birthday
See question 2904 on birthday celebrations above. If one is allowed to, what would be a proper way of celebrating a birthday?...
# 2908 Catch Your Name
A bochur who became a Baal Teshuva and learns today in a yeshiva was born and raised as a Muslim and went to a Islamic Madrasah. When he became aware that his mother was actually Jewish and he also vi...