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# 2828 Mixed Blessings
Q I take food for seudat shlishit to a friend’s home. The food is all my contribution. When it comes to benching, what is the correct Horachaman to say "Harajaman Hu Yebarech et Ba’al haBay...
# 2827 When It Rains it is still Yours
I daven in a backyard minyan and I also blow the shofar after davening. Last week it began drizzling when I was about to blow. I was wondering, if that would occur during Rosh Hashana, (we are plannin...
# 2826 Blowing Away the Grief
My brother and I are respectively the baal tokea and baal makrei (the announcer of the tekios to be blown), in our minyan for over 20 years. We recently lost our dear mother a.h., and we are going to ...
# 2825 Shelf Life
I ate a blueberry muffin yesterday and today my wife brought back a package of fresh blueberries from the grocery store. They were imported from Argentina. Do I make a bracha of ’shehechiyanu...
# 2824 Falling into Hard Times?
(Re - question 2823 above on a mezuza that almost fell). How about if the mezuza totally fell and was not replaced for at least two months (we were away), do you make a brocho when you replace it?...
# 2823 Getting the Hang on a Mezuza Shaila
Somebody stumbled and hit on my mezuza, and it remained barely hanging only from one single mostly detached nail. It looks as if it can just fall off completely anytime. If I nail it back in place, do...
# 2822 Be Larger Than Life
A severely ill person who has deteriorated lately and now lays in bed constantly and requires help from his spouse even for menial things, such as going to the bathroom. He is a Talmid Hacham and alwa...
# 2821 Answering the Door
Someone who decided not to rely anymore on the city eiruv and is thus placing a tzuras hapesach on his front yard (two posts with a wire on top, that resemble a door frame and thus permit carrying ins...
# 2820 Nuptial Zooming
Can an ovel (mourner) during shloshim (first thirty days) attend a Zoom wedding and wish his close and dear family members his best wishes?...
# 2819 Judging the Judges
Re question 2815 above. Following Horav Miller’s response, why when we do Hatoras Nedarim on Erev Rosh Hashana we address even a Beis Din arranged together from the most simple people present in ...
# 2818 On the Fast Track
A friend of mine is undergoing heart surgery on the Friday before Yom Kippur and won’t be able to fast this year. Since he is very disturbed and upset by this, (it will be the first time in his l...
# 2817 Out of Tune?
I witnessed a baal tokea place a mask over the shofar’s open end when he was blowing to avoid spreading the virus. Is that correct to do?...
# 2816 The Blood Will Tell
Should one suffering from diabetes and has to undergo multiple finger pricks each day including Shabbos to show current sugar level, make an effort to obtain a Continuous Glucose tester. This tester u...
# 2815 Give a Good Name?
In our shul since there are many learners and kollel people that attend, to avoid embarrassing anybody, when we call for aliyos to the Torah, we name everybody "harav." Since we also have members tha...
# 2814 Timing Is Everything
A couple planning their wedding (a small wedding since it is a second marriage for both and these are still corona times) in the next weeks. Is it better to do the wedding on the third or the last wee...
# 2813 Have a Crack at this Shailah
We were about to blow shofar for the first time this Elul, when the Baal Tokea realized that there was a split or crack of about two inches on the shofar he was given, at the wide end. We were davenin...
# 2812 Pay Attention Now!
If during tekias shofar during the days of Elul one notices someone that is seating down, should he admonish him and tell him to stand up....
# 2811 Don't Blow It
We daven in a backyard minyan these covid times. Some of our neighbors are not very friendly and often complain unjustly to the noise. Now that we are going to start blowing shofar, they probably are ...
# 2810 Teach a Man to Fish
We have a large aquarium at home. If a fish perishes on Shabbat and puts in danger all the other fish. Can one take it out?...
# 2809 Room For Compromise?
If a person is in a yichud situation, (being in the same room with a woman), may he text his friend where he is and tell the friend (who is a few blocks away) to feel free to come over at any time and...