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# 2317 Equal Candle Rights
A friend from my yeshiva days told me that the minhag in his family is that the husband also lights the Shabbos candles with a brocho! Is that possible?...
# 2316 The Mind on the Frame
Can one leave turned on a free standing smart frame photo display, that is on always during the week and looks like a regular picture frame on the furniture?...
# 2315 Real or Virtual Daf?
See question above. When one is travelling and due to today’s weight restrictions did not take seforim with him, can he leave his laptop on with the daf on the screen, so he can learn it during Shabba...
# 2314 Screening Shabbos?
If someone staying in a hotel, does not have the permitted battery or connecting incandescent lights with filament bulbs for Shabat. He also does not want to light real candles and is simply leaving o...
# 2313 Touch this Fire
Are glow sticks that were turned on before Shabbat and will light for a few hours muktza? Can one move them to another room?...
# 2312 Throw Some Light on this Light
In case of emergency, when electricity is cut off and the lights go off or when you are camping, can you use glow sticks on Shabbat or Yom Tov?...
# 2311 In Glowing Terms
When you travel or go camping and can’t light Shabbat candles because of the hotel restrictions or the wind that will turn them off, can you use glow sticks? Can you se them in Chanuka? (A glow ...
# 2310 Play the Middle Against Both Sides?
(See question 2309 above). One who is used to blow a wind musical instrument and does so in many simches. Can he blow the shofar with the middle of his mouth, as he does lehavdil, with a trumpet since...
# 2309 Left to the Right
As we are about to start the shofar blowing, a baal tokea that is a lefty, on which side of his mouth should he blow?...
# 2308 Every Once in a While?
In Summertime we travel and often stay in hotels that provide a kitchenette. If we bought a new pan for cooking, I’ve often heard that you can use it the first time without tevila, is that correc...
# 2307 Amounts to Much?
(See prior question 2306). If one ate a full shiur amount of the raw kernels what bracha acharona does one recite?...
# 2306 Blessings in the Raw
We went camping in an area where wild cereal plants grow around the camping grounds. What bracha does one make when eating raw wheat or barley seeds?...
# 2305 Clinched and Etched in One's Hearth
Why do we not see a shul, beth hamedresh or schools having a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh)? Should not these institutions give the example for others to follo...
# 2304 Don't Hit The Ceiling!
I once visited a friend in a small apartment and I saw that he had his zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh), on the ceiling. Is that correct?...
# 2303 Memories in the Home Away from Home
Does one have to leave a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh) in a cottage?...
# 2302 Reminder in All Shapes and Sizes?
If the house I own does not have enough space over an inside second entrance door to leave a full amah by amah zecher lechurban square, can the amah by amah required be rectangular instead, having exa...
# 2301 Committed to Memory
I learned that if someone buys a house that is already painted, he does not have to remove the paint of a square amah, as a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh). Sho...
# 2300 A Short Vort on a Vort
Can one make a vort (engagement celebration) on the night after Tisha B’av, when it was pushed off from Shabbos to Sunday (nidche) with some music?...
# 2299 Make Merry Medical Miracle
Can one make a seudas hodaah for a medical miracle that occurred recently during the month of Av, or should one better wait until next month?...
# 2298 Choosing Right
If someone removed an insect from the lettuce leafs of a salad when rinsing it in water on Shabbos, can one eat that salad that day?...