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# 2398 Don't Tear Out Your Hair
Sometimes my glasses get stuck to a hair. Am I allowed to remove the glasses on Shabbos, even though I am pulling out a hair along with it?...
# 2397 Hang On to Your Own Hat
If one realizes during SE (Shemone Ezre) that he is wearing a hat that is not his own, what should he do? (accidentally took someone else’s hat) Should he leave during SE and put back the hat? Or...
# 2396 Question the Questionable Sukka
One who is eating invited by a family on Sukkos and upon arriving sees that their sukkah is not halachically valid or is questionable and he does not wish to eat in such a sukkah, what should he do? J...
# 2395 A Bite to Eat
Is it permitted on Simchas Torah to wash and have a small seuda (with bread and a little fish) before hakafos and Mussaf, in order to comply with Rav Miller’s opinion that the seudas Yom Tov shou...
# 2394 A Guest For a Rainy Day
If one was invited on Sukkos and when he arrives the family are eating in the house since at the time they started their meal it was raining, but now (when the guest arrives) it is perfectly clear, wh...
# 2393 Good Will or Asleep at the Wheel?
A mashgiach caught a few times daydreaming and being lax in his supervision of a shul’s kitchen was re-accepted if he would keep a number of takanot and improvements, such as being always on time...
# 2392 Doing The Honors
If one could not comply with this mitzva (Kabbolas Pnei Horav - visiting or calling on one’s Rov during a Chag - see question 2391 above), during Yom Tov, can one do so on Isru Chag (the day aft...
# 2391 In Respect to Paying Respect
Can one comply with the mitzva of Kabbolas Pnei Horav (visiting or calling on one’s Rov during a Chag) by calling on the phone during Chol Hamoed, when it was difficult to visit personally?...
# 2390 The Shade of Honor
Re- above question 2389. Would the Rov permit the use of a sukka as a family room or a toy room, where children play and rejoice together?...
# 2389 Swimming in the Sukka?
We enjoy warm climate during sukkos and we spend a good time at the pool and at our hot tub during chol hamoed. Since we are all dressed properly for swimming, would it be correct to build a suka cove...
# 2388 To Learn or To Dance?
Can a group that learns the daf daily do so during lengthy hakofes on Simchas Torah, after having had their hakofe, if the shiur is held in a separate room?...
# 2387 If it Ain't Broke...
A Sefer Torah that is constantly read on Parshas Pinchas and was found to have at least three letters where the ink cracked and fell turning the Sefer pasul, can you just fix the letters erased on tha...
#2386 Asking About Asking
Can one enter the unlocked suka of a friendly neighbor built on his front yard, without his knowledge (he is not home), to eat one’s own food and leaving everything as clean as it was?...
# 2385 Pictures Worth Some Words
My siblings want to interchange some family pictures from our grandfathers that we place as decorations in our sukkos. (We give them ours and take theirs). Is that permitted during Chol Hamoed?...
# 2384 A Cloud With a Silver Lining
I have learned that the Ananei Kavod would launder and press the clothing of the Bnai Yisroel while on the desert, how could then they exit their tents and go to the Mishkan on Shabbath?...
# 2383 Vital Concentration
(Re - question 2382.) Are the above intentions essential? If someone did not have kavana on the ananei kavod, did he not comply with the mitzva and has to repeat eating with a new bracha?...
# 2382 Paying Undivided Attention
In regard to the intention needed when sitting in the sukka , should one preferably have both kavanot together, clouds of honor and real sukkot, in his mind at the same time? or maybe they are contrar...
#2381 With the Best of Intentions
Since intention is a very important part of any mitzva, what is the right kavanah that one should have when making the bracha on the sukka? the intention to remember the Ananei Kavod (clouds of honor)...
# 2380 Spitting Image of a Spit In?
Is it really correct that Horav Shlomo said in a shiur that one may store and save his saliva for use during Yom Kippur to swallow necessary medical pills?...
# 2379 If You Can't Beam Them, Join Them?
Can one join two beams with plastic zip ties, to use them when placed across the width of a large Suka,(20 ft.), as a base for the schach? Would it be permissible to join them with bolts?...