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# 2277 The Beginning of the End
In our times when many terminally ill patients facing an imminent death are likely to be unconscious or wearing a mask connected to a breathing machine or are intubated to a ventilator, when does the ...
# 2276 The Score on Settling II
(See question 2265 regarding a couple transitioning to live in Israel). Does this mean that in year two, one should be most of the year, does it have to be every year 6 months in a row dafka? there co...
# 2275 Toss a Cohen?
Can a Cohen visit Kever Rachel? Can a Cohen enter the burial cave of the Sanhedrin?...
# 2274 The Just Don't Get It
Can a Cohen visit the historical kevarim of tzadikim (graves of the just) from centuries ago, if they are separated from a cemetery?...
2274 Fast or Feast?
If someone always makes a seuda with meat on every Rosh Chodesh, can he also do so on Rosh Chodesh Av? Especially when it falls, as in this year on Friday and Tisha Beav is nidche?...
# 2273 Have an Early Night
Does one need to be machmir for the halachos of the nine days starting from shekiyah or only from nightfall? Maybe one could argue that it is a question of a Rabbinic law where we are often lenient. T...
# 2272 Who Am I?
I’m a Yeshiva bochur learning successfully in a well known Yeshiva and I plan to stay in learning after I get married. I became aware since I became bar mitzva that I’m an adopted child, an...
# 2271 Lamdanut on the Coconut
What bracha you make when drinking the coconut water, when served as a mixed drink in the coconut itself?...
# 2270 Donkeys Welcome?
Is it proper to perform a Pidyon Peter Chamor ceremony (redemption of a firstborn donkey) in a shul....
# 2269 The Priors New Clothes
May one don a brand new suit during the Three Weeks prior to Rosh Chodesh if the sheheyanu was already recited soon after acquisition (one did not actually make a sheheyanu on the beged, but rather ha...
# 2268 The Law of the Tablets
Does a pill-splitter used to cut tablets in half require immersion in a mikva?...
# 2267 The Book Cover Shaila
One who lives with non-frum parents who might or will confiscate a sefer if they see it, may he place goyishe books on top of his seforim so that his parents won’t see it? Similarly, one who com...
# 2266 Coating the Tzitzis
Which is better - to wear one’s long (but old) weekday tzitzis on Shabbos, or wear Shabbos tzitzis that have a proper shiur and which are clean and new, but the Shabbos tzitzis are too short to b...
# 2265 The Score on Settling
There is a couple transitioning to live in Israel. Next year they are there a month straight, the next year six months, coming back to visit the rest of the time. At what point are they Halachically c...
# 2264 Mixed Message
Re- above question on creating a message using unattached Scrabble letters: Is there a problem with borer, (choosing - one of the prohibited actions on Shabbos), since one is choosing the letters now,...
# 2263 The Law of the Letter
Re- Question 2259 - Playing Scrabble on Shabbos; Can one place a message for his family or guests on a table by using Scrabble letters not attached to anything, but covered with a heavy glass utensil...
# 2262 Come Heaven or High Water
One who everyday is tovel in the mikva, and owns a cottage where he uses the lake for his daily tevila before davening. If a proper eruv is placed on the lakefront of the cottage and the eruv of the p...
# 2261 A Little Knowledge of a Dangerous Thing
Is there a issue of mayim megulim like the opinion of the Pri Chadash in North Miami Beach? I noticed lizards in my rental home (one fell on my head in the house) and a snake in the backyard maybe the...
# 2260 Game Over
A relatively old-new toy creates drawings and words on a handheld screen, by magnetically pulling on small metal balls, sometimes of different colors. A pencil magnet is placed on that point, and it m...
# 2259 Spreadable Scrabble
Is playing Scrabble allowed on Shabbos?...