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# 2768 Spot Check II
Kvod Horav you once mentioned that Horav Miller permitted to remove embarrassing small stains on clothing using a moistened towel with a few drops of water or similar during the Nine Days. Did he perm...
# 2767 Washing Linen in Public
May one pick up from the cleaners during the 9 Days clothing that were brought in before Rosh Chodesh?...
# 2766 Don't Loose Sleep on This
Does a person say hamapil when going to sleep close to alos (daybreak - about two hours before alos) when he knows that it is hard for him to fall asleep and sometimes he cannot fall asleep until afte...
# 2765 Mitzva Segregation?
Q I just returned from the States to attend the wedding of my son, and I have to keep quarantine for 14 days. I can daven in a backyard minyan since I have access to an empty neighbor’s property...
# 2764 Calling in Question
If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of illness is not fasting a full day, can he be called to the Torah o this year when the taanis falls on a Thursday and the Torah would have...
# 2763 Are Those the Magic Words?
Regarding (last question) on the segulos for reciting Tehilim for the ill. I always wondered, is it not prohibited to use words of the Torah as a refuah or segulah?...
# 2762 Wake Up to the Smell of Coffee
If one drinks coffee or a tea and greatly enjoys the smell of them, should he also make a bracha on the smell?...
# 2761 Making Sense of Scent
When I eat a food that is both tasty and also has a very good smell and my intention is both to enjoy the smell and to eat the food. Should I make two brachot? Should the bracha on the smell be said f...
# 2760 The Sanctity of Odor
Q, If I put either one (of the mint oil and eucalyptus oil - see questions above 2758-59) into my nose, both to enjoy the smell and the cooling feeling they provide, but also because it clears the sin...
# 2759 Follow Your Nose?
If I put either one (of the mint oil and eucalyptus oil - see question 2758 above) into my nose, both to enjoy the smell and the cooling feeling they provide, but also because it clears the sinuses, d...
# 2758 The Smell Test
What brocho is said before inhaling mint oil and eucalyptus oil? If I put either one into my nose, both to enjoy the smell and the cooling feeling they provide, but also because it clears the sinuses...
# 2757 A Masked Answer?
Israel is experiencing a skyrocketing number of new cases of this virus; over 8500 new cases within the last 2 weeks. Nevertheless, there are some Rabbis that do not wear masks in public and tell anyo...
# 2756 Sure Cure
Tehillim Question: we set up a tehillim group for my daughter 2 weeks ago. BH she is stable and I was wondering when to stop the public tehillim. I will iy’H continue to say it in her Zechus fo...
# 2755 Exceptions Prove the Rules?
Israel is experiencing a skyrocketing number of new cases of this virus; over 8500 new cases within the last 2 weeks. Nevertheless, there are some Rabbis that do not wear masks in public and tell anyo...
# 2754 Shaking the Tree
Q On question 2738 you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion, as explained by Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a is that one should not leave a chair even slightly leaning on a tree...
# 2753 An Ounce of Prevention...
The Gemora tells us that we should daven that we should not get sick rather than daven for a recovery after getting sick, because one needs more merits to recover. Where in Shemoneh Esrei do we dave...
# 2752 A Lot Of Promise
Kavod Harav, I said that I will take off a chomesh (for maaser) if Hashem gives me a certain yeshua, which He did. However, due to corona, I am not getting paid as much as I was before and I don’...
# 2751 Beginning or the End?
A person who came to Mincha and after saying Hashem sefosai tiftoch and Baruch ata Hashem realized there are no asara mispallelim (minyan) present. May he say lamdeini chukecha and daven in a later mi...
# 2750 Garden Varieties
Kvod Harav. Thank you so much for all your divrai torah and yard hospitality. It is so good to be able to be back davening betzibur. I was listening to a shiur today by Rav Shachter shlita and he cal...
# 2749 The Letter On The Law
Referring tp Parshas Chukas. Is there a saying of Chazal that even the Mishpatim or the logical mitzvos are also Chukim or laws that we cannot understand?...