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#5777 A Vort on a Vort
Dear Rov, as I asked by email, we Be’H are about to do theVort (engagement) for our daughter. I heard that it should better not be done on the Seventh day of Shevat, that corresponds this year to this...
#5776 – Tell It the Best!
See question above. I also have the family tradition to say Parshas Haman repeated twice and followed by the Aramaic Targum translation. Should that also be repeated on the night after?...
#5775 – A Better Late Than Never Parsha?
Kvod Rabeinu Shlit’a. If someone usually says Parshas Haman and the accompanying tefilos on Tuesday, yet he was traveling and could not say them until the night, is it OK to say it then?...
#5774 - Man Parsha - Always “Heaven On Earth”
Dear Rabbi Long Life. I just got an email from our shul that we should say on this Tuesday, the Parsha of The Man, as a great Segula for having good Parnassah. I just so happens that I say that chapte...
#5773 - A Storm of a Shailah?
Dear Rov. I truly wonder if one is allowed to make people come to shul to fulfill the ten needed for a minyan, when there is a powerful snow storm and it may put some people in danger. Is that correct...
#5772 - Need New Pesach Teeth?
Moreini Horav O”Y. (Orech Yomim). We have, in our shul, a tzedaka group that collects every year to help the families unable to meet the needs for Pesach. We have an elderly retired man who needs a c...
#5771 - Blessing Shecheyanu on esrog jam
Can you make Shecheyanu on jam made from Ethrogim on the second night (of Rosh Hashonoh)?...
#5770 – A Froge on the Esrog?
Dear Rabbi. I was able to save by refrigeration the Esrog from last Sukot to eat on Tu Bishvat. Does one make a Shecheyanu on that Esrog? What if I also kept some of it as a jam?...
#5769 - A Tree Here There, Everywhere???
Shalom Rov Shlit’a. I know that there is a Minhag Mitzva to plant a tree on Tu Bisvat. Is that also outside of Israel?...
#5768 - Q. A Very Early Celebration?
Dear Rabbi. How come we celebrate in Canada and in most of the U.S. and Europe, Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees and their fruits, when we are surrounded by frost and often covered by snow. Is it no...
#5767 - Kadish Leolam Olmaya – Really Forever?
See question above: On the one hand, I understand that I had taken on this obligation to say Kaddish for this person and therefore it is an ongoing annual occurrence and obligation, however now that ...
#5766 – Kadish Leolam – Forever?
Dear Ask-the-Rabbi,- Rabbi. For several years now, I’ve been saying Kaddish on my wife’s behalf because she had the chiyuv to say Kaddish for her mother. Now that my wife has passed and no longer has...
#5765 - The True Tu Bishvat.
Kvod Horav. When is the correct time to make our seuda of Tu Bishvat, on the night before or on the day?...
#5764 – A Blessed Rosh Chodesh!
Dearest Rov and Halacha leader Shlit’a. In a few days will Iy”H Rosh Chodesh Shvat and I heard that this Rosh Chodesh carries special Bracha and great blessings. My child requires an important medica...
#5763 T’u Bishvat - The Labor on One’s Fruits
Ask Bo 86. Q. Rov Shlit’a. You explained last year very nicely in the Shul Shiur the way how to comply with the tradition of eating fruits on Tu Bishvat, I won’t be is Shul this year could you pleasi ...
#5762 – More Intimate Purity Cure Needed
See question above. Another explanation to the above question is because Shovavim falls after the winter solstice, which is when the days start to get longer. This relates to a story recounted in Avo...
#5761 – Intimate Purity Cure
Honorable Rabbi. Thank again so much for your fast answer. I have another question. I have noticed that the knowledgeable people in our shul refer to the above chapters as a cure for thoughts of sexu...
#5760 On The Right Time?
Honorable Rabbi. Thank you so much for your fast answer. I still have some more questions. First one; What is the reason Shovavim is kept at this time of the year?...
#5759 -The Shovaim Meaning
Honorable Rabbi. In our new shul we have a number of different groups that have joined together and have different traditions and customs. Many disagree as to what to do during the Shovavim period. Fi...
#5758 – Learning about the New Torah Learning?
See question above. Could Torah learned by such artificial new methods be used on Shabbat? What if it cannot be disconected or removed?...