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# 2378 A Late and Lonely Kol Nidrei
I’m a physician that has to be present the night of Yom Kippur at the operation of a patient that may be Jewish. I can’t refuse being there since I had already accepted doing it in that afte...
# 2377 Tough to Lock Neilah
May one daven Neilah at great length, pronouncing the words with great concentration and adding many requests and supplications, even though this will cause him to miss saying the selichos of Neilah a...
# 2376 Stop The Music
There is a type of music called EDM which is music made by a computer with no words. This type of music generally has a very fast and exciting beat. In the goyish world, this type of music is generall...
# 2375 Respect to Your Pay
One who is being paid to daven with a certain minyan and one day he came but there was no minyan (they didn’t have ten people), does he get paid for that day? What if the doors of the shul were...
# 2374 Rest Assured
Re- question above if one sleeping can be counted for a minyan. If he does count as one of the first ten, and he feels that he is falling asleep, should he better stay inside the shul, and not go to a...
# 2373 Sleep On This
A person who came to shul among the first ten, and upon arrival fell asleep at a shtender, and when he woke up at the beginning of davening, the beis medrash was full - does he get credit for being am...
# 2372 Mind Your Driving
What is the halacha regarding one who drives in a manner in which disregards traffic laws such as speed limits and stop signs, but he makes sure to be safe and respectful to other drivers?...
# 2371 Accounting For Tastes?
Does one recite a bracha on water if one is not thirsty, but has some enjoyment from the temperature of the water (such as one who drinks a nice cold cup of water or a very hot cup of water, where the...
# 2370 The Yom Kippur Pains
I daven in a shul that is frequented by baalei teshuva, and I have seen some very weird practices and customs that some adopted. Is it correct to place little stones or gravel on one’s tennis s...
# 2369 A File on Charges
I have an internet service that scheduled and charged my credit card on Saturday (or Yom Tov). Is that a problem? Can you respond quickly - not sure if I have to do anything? Thank you...
# 2368 Shiur on Shiurim
I was also wondering, one that can’t fast the complete day on Yom Kippur, but has an option of eating shiurim or small amounts from the morning on, and that will be enough for him to fast the who...
# 2367 Ransom which Tzom?
My elderly father has problems fasting, but he usually is able to fast. His doctor told him if he prepares and eats properly the weeks before, he can try even in full day fasts. The question arose on ...
# 2366 What a Brocho Teshuva Is
If one is certain that he is going to do teshuva on something wrong he did, does he make a bracha when making teshuva? What bracha? Does he say it when reciting viduy?...
# 2365 Is This Good for Kappores?
Q, We usually make kapparot with chickens. I have learned that if one’s wife is pregnant, one should procure for her two chickens and one rooster, in case the baby is a boy or a girl. Can you rel...
# 2364 Soften the Blow
A 5 year old child had a cold and stayed home on Rosh Hashana. He was very upset he couldn’t hear the shofar, his father borrowed a shofar and blew for him some kolos to make him happy. Is that c...
# 2363 Let Them Eat Cake?
The minhag of our family is to abstain from eating nuts the complete Aseres Yemei Teshuva, can I eat in a kiddush a cake that contains nuts?...
# 2362 Take your Seat
Why in some shuls the chazan begins singing Hamelech from his seat and then approaches the amud?...
# 2361 Nuts Over Nuts?
Regarding the minhag not to eats nuts during the aseret yemei teshuva (because the gematria of egoz is the same as that of cheit), to which nuts does this actually apply? Walnuts are called Egozei Me...
# 2360 Feast of Creation
Should a seudas hodoa or a festive meal be done for the newly converted?...
# 2359 Welcome to Your Home
What is the correct way to salute a newly converted Ger that one encounters after the immersion in the mikva? Does one have to say Shalom Aleichem? Does one have to recite Shecheyanu?...