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# 2337 Attention on Pay
A number of years ago I taught an older person, a Ba’al Teshuvah whose family wasn’t frum. After he was niftar, by the levaya I came over to his sons and told them that it is important that Kaddish be...
# 2336 Rebirth in Purity
Can a woman who is about to convert and go to the mikva, do so if she is a nidda? Or does she have to purify herself first? If she feels that she wants to be totally tahor and pure before accepting th...
# 2335 Flash in the Pan
If someone was making eggs in a not-ben-yomo fleishig frying pan, and the eggs were hot. At that time someone placed a piece of cheese on top of the eggs. It was immediately realized that it was a mis...
# 2334 Framing that Picture Frame
I’m confused regarding the digital picture frames discussed in previous questions.. I’m not sure where my type of screen fits in.. I have a picture frame that is connected to a specific emai...
# 2333 When News is Good News
Regarding the prohibition of relating sad news on Shabbos - may one relate sad news to his friend, in order to relieve himself of the tremendous emotional tension of holding it in, or in order to ask ...
# 2332 Send Back the Bring Back To Life?
1) If someone calls Hatzalah on Shabbos and then it turns out that everything is fine (for example a child choking and the food comes out), should he call back hatzalah to cancel the call?......
# 2331 Read Your Mind Aloud
On question 2320 and other previous ones (1849, 1850) you wrote that Horav Miller rules that one should be always be “Mosser Modoah” or declare, preferably in front of the beis din when he makes hatto...
# 2330 The Reality of Halacha
A friend asked another friend traveling to the states to kindly take for him a small suitcase. He did so but when they stopped to rest, the locked car was broken into and the suitcase was stolen. The ...
# 2329 Men's Mezuza?
Can a woman living alone, place a mezuza on the entrance of her home?...
# 2328 Ask Forgiveness and Get Married
(See question 2327). Can we get married also in the days when selichos are said?...
# 2327 Elul Simches
We are arranging our wedding (small - second marriage), and would like to know if there is an issue not to get married during the month of Elul, because of the Days of Judgment? We need a fast answer ...
# 2326 Look In on the Look Out
Is using an image baby monitor, without voice the same as a voice monitor, or one can be more lenient?...
# 2325 Far Cry Baby
Can one use a voice baby monitor or room intercom, if it was left on before Shabbat began, and the controls are taped?...
# 2324 Flat Fee Match
Since so many negative issues and serious problems are created by shadchanim or marriage brokers who favor customers who are wealthy and pay a higher finding fee, should not the Rabbanim join forces t...
# 2323 A Hair-Raising Tradition?
I know that Rabbi Miller stresses keeping one’s family’s traditions very much. What would rabbi Miller say about a woman whose family custom is to leave a tefach of hair uncovered? should sh...
#2322 A Foot in the Door
Regarding the psak not to open the door for a mechallel Shabbos who carries, if one needs to enter or exit the shul and no other door is available, may one be lenient, or should one miss tefilla b...
2321 From and For a Firm Frum Froy
I’m a frum woman that attends an exercise class for women in a gym where the trainer is not Jewish. Is there an issue of tznius in front of non- Jewish men, since it is not one of the seven mitzv...
# 2320 Run To Help
In the shul I daven the tzedaka collectors sometimes don’t wait until you find some change to give them, since for them time is of the essence and they have to move along. After I do find the mon...
# 2319 Meet the Greet
I learned that an avel is prohibited in giving and even returning greetings. Is it permitted for the visitors to the home of one in mourning to greet each other? Is a comforting hug between non-aveili...
# 2318 Like Father Like Daughter?
If the wife is traveling and will not be at home during Shabbos, who should light the Shabbos candles, the husband or an unmarried daughter that is already bat mitzva?...