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# 2478 Know the First Thing About the Second
If someone forgot to say Al Hanisim in the amida of Chanuka, it says that he can say it in Elokay Netzor, before Yehi leratzon imrei pi, is that the first or second time one repeats that phrase?...
# 2477 In The Right Place
In a shul that usually the menorah is placed on the south side and the one lighting the menorah stands in the back of the menorah facing north and begins lighting from the west towards the east. If f...
# 2476 Better Late Than Whatever
I’m invited to a Chanukah party in another section of town and I’m being picked up about a half an hour before the shekia to be able to attend. Should I light candles before I leave or after...
# 2475 Make Yourself At Home
One who is invited Shabbos Chanuka to a friend’s simcha and will be eating with them at the night seuda, while he will be sleeping with another family and eating the day’s seuda in the shul&...
# 2474 Easy Money
How much is the amount of money to be contributed when one is yotze menorah lighting by joining his host?...
# 2473 Not Sleeping Away
If a person is not eating or sleeping on one of the nights of Chanukah, (he is staying up the whole night learning in a beis medrash), does he still light in his house, even though he is not using his...
# 2472 There Is No Place Like Home
I have three options of where to light erev Shabbos Chanuka: 1. by my parents, with whom I live during the week 2. by my Shabbos host where I will be eating the Friday night seuda 3. by my host...
# 2471 How Did That Turn Out?
We usually extinguish the Chanuka lights in shul after maariv since people go home and it may be dangerous to leave lighted candles on. Is it better to ask the security man to extinguish them after a ...
# 2470 Enlightening the Lighting
We will be traveling during Chanuka, and we are taking with us a few small tin menorahs with candles, for myself and the children. Can we on Shabbat use one of those menorahs to light the Shabbat cand...
# 2469 Scanning the Scan Room
When undergoing an X-ray or cat-scan which requires being alone in a room with the female technician, what should one do to avoid transgressing the prohibition of yichud? Even if one’s wife or fr...
# 2468 Praise the End
One that underwent a prostate operation and bleeds from his member, does he have to recite asher yotzar when he stops bleeding?...
# 2467 The Blessed Fruits
What brocho does one recite on dried cranberries?...
# 2466 Up In The Air?
What brocho does one make on hydroponically or aeroponically grown vegetables?...
# 2465 Intent Coffee
We know that one can drink water, coffee or tea before davening shacharis to help concentration, even with milk and sugar. My question is; if a person is accustomed to drinking black coffee, is it mut...
# 2464 Quiet Please
Does the issur of lashon hara apply to something that is public knowledge and that a person himself "shouts from the rooftops," so to speak? For example, a person who constantly walks around in the st...
# 2463 Is That Really True?
If loshon harah is spoken but the listener doesn’t believe the information to be true does this make the speech non loshon harah?...
#2462 Many Happy Chanuka Returns
My son is going to have his ninth birthday a few days after Chanuka and we want to give him as a present a silver menorah. Can he light that menorah during chanuka and then light it again during his b...
# 2461 Wow! Is That a Real Menorah?
Can one light a menorah made of sculptured ice, (the oil cups are glass)?...
# 2460 Nice and Quiet
Can one hug and kiss a young child that fell and hurt himself while in shul, to calm him and keep him from crying, when it is difficult to take him out somewhere else?...
# 2459 Goodbye to Kiss
Since it is prohibited to kiss children in shul, since we should only show in Hashem’s house love to Him, why do chasidim kiss the hand of their rebbes when in shul?...