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# 2538 Clearing Made Clear
An elderly patient with prostate cancer not uncommon at that stage of life, is presented by his doctors with two equal choices for treatment; one is surgical removal of the gland and the other is clea...
# 2537 Help Is Here
Thank you very much. Just to clarify, if I take off maaser when I earn the money as you pasken, and then I invest it in stocks or put in an IRA, do I then calculate the maaser yearly - or just when I ...
# 2536 A Gentile's Expiration
On question above (if a Cohen physician that unintentionally ended the life of a patient, can continue reciting Birchas Cohanim), does it matter if the patient was not Jewish?...
# 2535 A Blessed Death?
A physician who is also a Cohen and learns the Daf, recently became aware that a Cohen whose hands have spilled blood can not rise them and perform Birchas Cohanim. He is wondering with honesty about ...
# 2534 Be a Party to the Party?
The seuda - meal offered after the chalaka or the traditional cutting of the hair when a boy becomes three years old, is it considered to be a seudas mitzva? (for the purpose of the effort in attendin...
# 2533 Cutting Off Some Cutters
Is it permitted for women to also cut a bit of the hair of a boy when he becomes three years old? Is it correct, what many do after the chalaka, that they take the child to a non-Jewish barber and he...
# 2532 The Barbershul?
Is it proper to the chalaka or the traditional cutting of the hair when a boy becomes three years old in a shul?...
# 2531 Your Earliest Convenience
If I am putting a certain percentage of my salary into an IRA or other retirement account and I won’t be using the money for many years, when do I take maaser? Before I put it in? If I have to ta...
# 2530 Feed The Dogs
Do you keep a mitzva when you buy a can of dog food that contains meat of neveilos and treifos, and you feed it to your dog? Is just feeding your pet a mitzva, especially when you give it the food bef...
# 2529 A Dog's Chance
Although our pets are an important and uniting part of our family, should my more frum siblings and I try to have my parents give them up? Is there a musar or Daas Torah, problem in keeping them? Or ...
# 2528 Refuse the Refuse?
Some other related questions. Our dogs share a large litter box with our cat. The box is usually cleaned four times a week and is placed in a corner of our family room, and does not usually have a bad...
# 2527 The Naked Truth
I’m a yeshiva bochur in a choshuve yeshiva, thanks to my Zaidy shlit’a. My parents are a bit liberal and we have two large male dogs at home that roam around at their will all over the plac...
# 2526 Keep On Davening
Dear Rabbi, I was distracted today (Rosh Chodesh Shvat), and right after kaddish before Musaf I started davening shmoneh esrei with my tfillin on. I said the first brocha all the ways until "Elokein...
# 2525 Made by the Maid
Our maid, without consulting us disconnected the cholent crock pot before she left after cleaning Friday night. On the morning when she returned, she again on her own, reconnected it again. Is it perm...
# 2524 A Stiff Drink
If someone has for the Shabbos night meal only one challa or non at all, can he beshas hadechak and in need, make kiddush on the mezonos (cakes, doughnuts, etc.) he is using for lechem mishne, (see qu...
# 2523 Let Them Eat Cake
When traveling we realized that for the Shabbos day meal we only had one challa. Can one in such a case use a cake or doughnut as the adjoining lechem mishna?...
# 2522 Still Immersed in the Immersion Question
Thank you for answering (question 2510). Re the last paragraph, my question was concerning fancy glass or metal dishes that are definitely meant to be reused. Can one eat directly from them if such a ...
# 2521 Parevenu?
Good afternoon Rabbi. I saw this (see attached picture) in the grocery store and I was thinking, I could make Kosher cheeseburgers. Is there any prohibition to do this? (Attached is an image of a pa...
# 2520 An Open Book to Forgetfulness
I have seen that when some people stop learning in the beis hamedresh to go temporarily outside, they turn the sefer being learned around, so the upside now faces the top of the table, is that proper?...
# 2519 Siyum Partners in Torah
We are celebrating an important Siyum Hashas for our group of lerners in a few days. We have invited a large crowd to a catered seuda that is also a fundraising event essential for our shul. Sadly l...