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# 2609 Have a Healthy Shabbos
Can someone that does not usually take vitamins, take them now even during Shabbos, to build resistance to the Corona virus?...
# 2608 What's In a Name?
Should the custom be not to call this (Coronavirus) disease by name as is the custom with other dreaded diseases?...
# 2607 Travel Light
Is it true that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a just prohibited this year yeshiva bachurim to come home for Pesach? We have 3 boys learning in yeshivos in the States. where can they go? Can you urgen...
# 2606 And The Name Is...
A few days ago Beezras Hashem my wife gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl. We follow the Rov’s instructions and we don’t go these days to shul. My question is what do we do with givi...
# 2605 Lashon Hatov?
If a friend confided to me that he tested positive to the Corona virus illness, but he doesn’t want other people to know, and I should keep it to myself. Should I tell others? Would that be lasho...
# 2604 Turn Shabbos On
Can I leave on my computer during Shabbat, without sound just to read if any emergencies are happening with the coronavirus pandemic?...
# 2603 Sever Relations in Severe Times?
During these difficult times should people abstain from conjugal relations, as the Talmud teaches in regard to times of hunger?...
# 2602 Can I Help You?
In our city, we still have a few meshulachim collecting from door to door. This goes on even when they have been given community help and support, to avoid them collecting since they may be prime carr...
# 2601 Words Of Honor
I have yohrzait tonight, and I have access to a minyan that meets in a back yard close to my house, should I go?...
# 2600 The Right Crowd?
In these covid 19 days, when we are asked to daven at home, is there a hiddur (enhancement) for several people (sons and father) davening at the same time and same place, even though there is no minya...
# 2599 Recovering Information
My parents contracted the CoronaVirus. B’chasdei HaShem, their symptoms, though difficult, are not overwhelming and they are quarantined at home. When, B’ezras HaShem, they recover, and the...
# 2598 Rise And Shine
How much effort should one put in to daven (shacharis with the) neitz, (sunrise) when unable to daven with a minyan due to the covid epidemic?...
# 2597 Choosing a Place Of Choice
Given that there is a mitzvah to daven in a shul even without a minyan, may/ should one come to shul to daven there even if there cannot be a minyan due to the virus?...
# 2596 Messirah on Tefillah?
In these Covid times, is it mesira to report minyanim that are still functioning? Should one avoid informing others of such minyanim?...
# 2595 And The Help Goes On
Kavod HaRov Q. As the situation changes rapidly, I wanted to know whether at this time TorontoGrapevine should allow posts of items for sale and for giveaways - putting social distancing criteria in...
# 2594 Take Stock of Your Stock
We B’H have five young children in our family, and with the tense and worrisome corona virus situation we are undergoing, we have to stock up food supplies. We don’t sell chometz gamur on Pe...
# 2593 Saving Time
I have terrible stomach issues and I spend between 2 and 3 hours a day in the men’s room. Is there any way shape or form I can learn in there or listen to a shiur?...
# 2592 Special Delivery
Beezras Hashem we hope that by the time Shabbos Hagadol arrives, the covid virus crisis may be in decline, and we may be able to have a Shabbos Hagodol drosho in shul as usual. In case it doesn’t...
# 2591 Lonely Times
My spouse tested positive to the corona-virus but B’H is recuperating. We have three energetic young children that can’t stay at home the whole day. We reside in a condo and I fill terrible ...
# 2590 Way Out?
Is someone sees in a permitted gathering of a few people, someone who is a sick with the apparent coronavirus symptoms, or knows that the person was sick and is probably still a carrier, and after as...