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# 2649 Hit The List
Can a kolel, shul or a tzedaka organization increase their email list of contacts by copying the addresses available on line from other similar institutions? Sometimes they may appear on the emails on...
# 2648 Pet Peeve?
These days when due to the virus endemic we are so isolated, many of us tend to acquire a pet for company. If you touch a pet cat or dog, do you have to wash your hands to make a brocho?...
# 2647 The Daven Maven
If one has the choice to daven in an outside minyan versus davening b’yechidus in a beis medrash that one has access to, which is better (as there is an inyan of davening in a closed area as well...
# 2646 Marriage Made in Heaven?
As Lag Baomer is approaching. Can one get married during these pandemic days? How?...
# 2645 Call It a Wash?
If you are constantly wearing disposable plastic gloves (these covid days). do you have to take the off for washing for bread or when you go out of the bathroom, or can you wash netila while wearing t...
# 2644 A Name That Travels Far
We are having a Zoom bris mila this week. The family and friends will not join us because of the pandemic attendance and travel restrictions, only a minyan will be present. Can just the name of the ba...
# 2643 Not Tying Knots?
Often when the weather permits during these covid days, I daven shacharis by myself on the porch as I find it inspiring to see the trees and listen to the birds. When the wind blows, as it often does,...
# 2642 Chosen Last Words
Re- question above. I have another question. The aunt of my friend, is herself not frum at all and never was. My friend by the way, is a great askan and mekarev of baalei teshuva. When meeting her tod...
# 2641 Auntie It's Me!
A friend’s elderly aunt is near death. She has no other close relatives in town and he was given permission during these pandemic times, to be with her for a short time while she is still conscio...
# 2640 A Blessing In a Disguise?
Does Rav Miller shlita permit walking outside on Shabbos (for fresh air - where there is no eruv) wearing the customary mask that is being worn in these covid days? Is there any tzad to be machmir? (A...
# 2639 Whether Permitting...
Re- prior question 2638 on the conditions Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a permits a front porch or backyard minyan. 1) is this a chiyuv, or only a heter, to participate in such minyanim? 2) how ...
# 2638 Rule and Divide
I heard that Horav Miller Shlit’a changed yesterday (4/19/20) his ruling in regard to minyonim in the backyard, is it true? What is the new ruling?...
# 2637 Where Were We?
Referring to the response of the Rov above - (2630), Is this response for Toronto or somewhere else? (Lakewood?) ....
# 2636 Passover Forever?
An elderly couple, has difficulty in removing all the Pesach utensils and packing them in boxes, as well as returning the chometz dishes and other needed equipment. The help they need will only be wit...
# 2635 Face The Music Again
May one listen to music during sefira to avoid depression due to the current (covid) matzav?...
# 2634 Home Away From Home?
Re- question 2617 regarding a frum physician working in a hospital that has also Jewish patients during the first or even the second seder as to how to make kiddush etc.. There was mention that the do...
# 2633 Forgotten But Not Forgiven
On Sunday the second day of Chol Hamoed Pesach, we took out the car from the garage and sadly discovered that there was a bag of leftover chametz crackers and cookies, destined to be thrown out to the...
# 2632 Drop A Line?
If I have to text or send emails during Chol Hamoed should I add a few words such as "kedushas Yom Tov", to make a change and establish the holiness of these days?...
# 2631 This Is News To Me
On Chol Hamoed, should one avoid reading the news, especially about who died, due to the mitzvah of vesamachta b’hagecha? If so, why are the Frum Jewish news sites still posting on Chol Hamoed? I...
# 2630 Covid's True Constancy = Change
My backyard adjoins other neighbours who wish to make a minyan across backyard fences in the way described as permitted by the Rov. Do I (and the other adult male members of my household) have an obl...