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# 2867 Beyond Relief?
Can someone that needs caffeine relief on Yom Kippur to be able to fast and daven properly, use a caffeine suppository that also contains Tylenol, even if that medicine is not needed?...
# 2866 Frum by Zoom
I give a parsha shiur that meets these days twice a week on zoom. We are all friends and neighbors that know each other for many years. As Yom Kippur approaches and we don’t meet this days face t...
# 2865 A Safe Pair of Hands
I was wondering when one touches his shoe or covered areas of the body with only one hand, does he have to was both hands as when one goes to the bathroom? This seems to be important on Yom Kippur whe...
# 2864 Be Good with Your Hands
When washing hands with sanitizer on Yom Kippur, as we do in these pandemic days, can you wash your whole hand or only up to your knuckles, as we do when we wake up?...
# 2863 Strike the Gold?
Re question above. I also heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women can wear in shul gold jewelry in Yom Kippur. Is that true?...
# 2862 Know Where You Stand
Some time ago I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women in shul do not have to stand up when the Aron Hakodesh is opened. Is that true?...
# 2861 A Clean Slate on Clean Hands
Is it allowed to use disinfectant cleaning fluid on Shabbos or Yom Kippur? Does it matter what kind of liquid it is?...
# 2860 Wipe Out the Wipes?
What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s p’sak re baby-wipes on Shabbos? (And Yom Kippur?)...
# 2859 Is the Shoe Fit?
I’m a nurse at a hospital close to me and although I tried, I can’t avoid having to put some hours during Yom Kippur to care for my patients, mostly Gentiles. I have often wondered, if I h...
# 2858 Forget the Forgive?
Dear Rabbi, I spoke some awful lashon haraa and divulged a bad secret of a friend of mine, when I was asked info. about him for a shiduch. But I felt I had to tell the truth. The shiduch would have be...
# 2857 Pay Back
A bochur took some money from someone and now wants to make teshuva and return it. He so did, he put it back and is sure that the owner didn’t notice that it was missing. Does he have to tell him...
# 2856 Holy Mask!
A friend of mine told me that in his shul, they are very careful with distancing and all attendants have to wear masks. The baal tokea had a mask on when he was blowing the shofar. How? Before Yom Tov...
# 2855 Biting More Than One Can Chew
One of my young children grabbed the shofar I use in our shul and was playing with it, putting it into his mouth and biting with his small but sharp teeth, the outside surface of the shofar. Is that a...
# 2854 Bowing Out?
My grandfather told me that in his shul in the ’alter haim’ (old country), when Rosh Hashana fell on Shabbos, they did not kneel on aleinu leshabeach. I have told to many including Rabbonim,...
# 2853 Have a Nice Day
Is there a mitzva of oneg Shabbat, when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat?...
# 2852 Ring, in the New Year?
How often does Rosh Hashana fall on Shabbath, as it does on this year (5781-2020) and we don’t blow the shofar, it seems so unusual?...
# 2851 One for the Books
Being that finding a correct fruit to say Shecheyanu on the second night of Rosh Hashana is in our times conflicting (since one can find them the whole year), can one say it on new seforim?...
# 2850 Let's Call it a Wash
Hello, a 2 year old was going through toilet training and urinated in a spot on our main carpet in a high traffic area in our small living room on Shabbat. We didn’t want people walking into it, ...
# 2849 All in Good Time
Good afternoon Rabbi. I have a kind of urgent question. My husband is davening at home and he has an early appointment with his specialist. Could he say selichot after maariv? The reason he wants to i...
# 2848 Add To or Add Up?
I met a Rabbi of an Orthodox congregation who says that he adds Piyutim, that were composed by the Rishonim but were never instituted by any congregation known today, to the davening, on various occas...