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# 2728 A Monumental Cover Up?
What is the source for the ceremony of placing and dedicating a matzeva, is it an obligation? If the ceremony was postponed (see question above), does the monument have to stay covered until the cerem...
# 2727 A New View on the Birds
Since Rav Miller paskened (ruled) that you can do shiluach haken on a nest with geese eggs, can various people do it, each taking just one egg? When they return them as you wrote, can someone else als...
# 2726 A Stone With a Heart
I ordered a matzeva for my aunt who doesn’t have any children in Canada. Because of the traveling restrictions they will not be able to gather together for a while. Can the ceremony of dedication...
# 2725 Back Answer
Can a man rest on a hammock since he is laying parkedon or on his back which is assur?...
# 2724 Value of the Deutsche Mark
Re- Questions (2722 - 2723) above If it is recommended to remove tattoos, does that apply also to the numbers that were tattooed by the Germans ym’s?...
# 2723 Mind The Gap?
See question (2722) on tattoos above. Are they a chatzitza for the tevila of women....
# 2722 Question Mark II
Re- questions on tattoos,(2707 - 2708). Thanks so much for the information. A ger who had tattoos done in his early days before he converted, does he have to remove them now that he became Jewish? The...
# 2721 Zoom In
If we do a siyum by Zoom and each person eats his own food with his family, is that considered a seudas mitzva?...
# 2720 A Clean Break
When we are davening on the backyards is there a concern with droppings of animals such as raccoons, cats, birds, etc.?...
# 2719 A Blessing Wife
(Regarding questions 2693 and 2694, regarding if a wife can be motzi her husband with elokay neshomo and hamaavir sheino, during Shavuos morning, which are part of the birchos hashachar or morning ble...
# 2718 Not The Longest Aliya
Now that we B’H can return to daven is shul, do we have to lein all the parshios we missed? If we do. can we divide the parshios missed, since they are so many, into two or three Shabossim?...
# 2717 Face to Face
Q, When davening in the backyard, if the Sefer Torah is kept on an aron inside the family room that has a door open to the porch and can be seen from there, do you fall tachanun on your face then?...
# 2716 Follow Out?
I am staying BE"H in a bungalow colony and there is only one minyan and they daven early. I’m obliged to daven with them, and also start Shabbat early?...
# 2715 Apron Strings
In summer days when the husband davens early Kabbolas Shabbos, and as mentioned in last question, if it is done for convenience, he does not impose Shabbos restrictions on his wife. Can she do work f...
# 2714 Bright and Early Shabbos
In summer days when the husband davens early Kabbolas Shabbos, does his wife have to abstain from doing melochos at that same time and light candles then?...
# 2713 An Offer One Can Refuse
Thanks for your answer that shows both expertise and common sense. I have another question, I was offered the position of president of my synagogue and it is possible that I can be effective in better...
# 2712 Live In a Tree?
Can one place a siddur on a tree or lean on the tree without moving it?...
2711 Why Not Pick Up?
Re - question 2710 above. How about if the siddur fell on some delicate flowers, can one also pick it up? If not, what should one do with it?...
# 2710 Don't Let the Siddur Down
If someone is davening outside and he dropped on Shabbos his siddur on some plants on the edge of the grass and can’t pick it up without moving the leaves of the plant, can he pick it up? How tal...
# 2709 Growing Pains
As we many of us daven these days on the backyard minyanim, if there is some flowerpots growing outside on the edge of the fence of the deck facing the grass, can someone stand bellow the pot while da...