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# 2629 So Far and Yet So Near
Re- questions 2610 and 2624 regarding a group of five neighbors that share different sides and corners of their back yards, with one standing in the middle, that want to organize a minyan during these...
# 2628 No Place Like Home
My father became ill and tested positive to the corona virus. However, since his case is until now B’H mild, his doctors were not convinced that his best option is to be hospitalized. Since he li...
# 2627 Glory In Non Glorious Days
In our critical times, (Pesach 2020), when we are all davening at home without a minyan, do we say hallel the first and second night of Pesach after maariv?...
# 2626 Touch Base
Can one return from the curb the garbage bins that were collected during Yom Tov? (this is important since in streets where non frum or Gentile neighbors dwell, they are bothered by the apparent disre...
# 2625 Differences of Opinion
Recently we have heard different viewpoints from our Gedolim and Rabbonim regarding the Heavenly reasons for these difficult covid times. What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?...
# 2624 Way Out Entry
I heard that the Rov permitted a minyan in a backyard in his neighborhood (during the current pandemic), could that be correct?...
#2623 Mind Your Language
As in this critical mageifa (pandemic) days we all daven at home, if someone is used to add his own private prayers for his needs during shemoneesre in English, can he still do so when he davens witho...
# 2622 Don't Have an Alcohol Problem
Can one use during Pesach this year the sanitizers that contain alcohol, that could be chometz?...
# 2621 If you Can't Burn Them, Join Them
I heard that Horav Miller Shlit’a ruled that if you are burning little pieces of chometz that may not contain each separate one the full size of a kezais as required, you should place all those s...
# 2620 The More The Better?
If one has many pieces of chometz left, is it better to burn them all, or is it enough to just burn a kezais and the rest he can throw out or flush down?...
# 2619 Moves on Cloves
(See question 2618 above - regarding a person that is prone to seizures). I also started eating cloves ie tziporen because has been B’H helping me with stopping the seizures from starting. Can ...
# 2618 Why Not Kitniot?
Can I (a person that is prone to serious seizures) get a heter for buckwheat and or quinoa and or chick peas during Pesach. Because I eat buckwheat every day and its a part of kitniot. I was told by ...
# 2617 You'll Drink to That
I’m a frum physician working in a hospital... (See question 2616 above). I probably will have to be working in the hospital, during the first or even the second seder this week. I’ll probabl...
# 2616 Man Alive!
I’m a frum physician working in a hospital that is very busy these days and I have a few shailos. There is a significant number of Jewish patients that I with the rest of the staff attend to. Due...
# 2615 Let All the Hungry Come and Eat?
May one invite someone for the seder or Yom Tov meals if the guest does not have any symptoms and would have nowhere else to go, due to everyone else’s reluctance to invite people during this tim...
# 2614 A Peace of the Moon
when saying kiddush levana, if you are by yourself as we mostly are in this (covid) crisis, can you call a friend by phone and say shalom alechem to him? Can you tell it to your wife?...
# 2613 Disposal At Your Disposal
Is it true that Rav Shlomo Shlit’a paskened (ruled) that one can dispose of the chometz by just throwing it out on the garbage containers when they will be collected during Pesach? Really!!...
# 2612 The Party Line?
What to do about the siyum Erev Pesach? Can it be done by phone, online or zoom?...
# 2611 The Longest Aliya Ever?
When the Eibeshter will have rachamnus (compassion) on us and the shuls will be able to resume, should we lein (read) all the missed parshiyos?...
# 2610 The Neighboring Minyan
A group of five neighbors that share different sides and corners of their back yards, with one standing in the middle. He wants to organize a minyan during these critical covid times. Since each famil...