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# 2569 Have you Heard this One?
Many elderly use in our days hearing aids and follow the opinion of Poskim that they should read themselves from a kosher megilla when the megilla is being read in shul. Is it better if at that time t...
# 2568 Do You Hear Me?
Our megilla Baal Kore, with the passing of years, now needs a hearing aid. He can still hear without it, when you talk loudly to him. Can he still read the megilla in shul for all, or do we need some...
# 2568 Do You Hear Me?
Our megilla Baal Kore, with the passing of years, now needs a hearing aid. He can still hear without it, when you talk loudly to him. Can he still read the megilla in shul for all, or do we need some...
# 2567 Bring On the Wine
Does one comply with the mitzva of shalach manot on Purim, if one sends two wine bottles?...
# 2566 A Gift for Giving Gifts
Does one comply with the mitzva of shalach manot on Purim, if the gift is send to a neighbor one is not friendly with, since he may not be called "re’eihu"?. A, On question 2095 regarding if...
# 2565 The True Believer?
Does one comply with the mitzva of shalach manot on Purim, if the gift is send to a non-frum yet neighbor?...
# 2564 Looking Good on Shabbos
Can a shaatnez tester in case of need use a strong magnifying glass or compounded instrument to check for shaatnez during Shabbat?...
# 2563 Check on the Baby?
Does one have to check for shaatnez clothing given to a baby or a minor, when there is a possibility that it may have wool and linen? Can one be lenient since the baby or child does not have the mind ...
# 2562 Honest to G-d
A friend who is a shatnez tester and I consult him, requested that I ask the Rov, if from experience he knows that the cloth he is being asked to check is not likely to have any shaatnez. Does he have...
# 2561 Examine the Examination
Re- questions (2559-60) above. How much is one obliged to be concerned about the possibility of having shatnez in one’s clothing, to be machmir and pay for a bedika or shaatnez test?...
# 2560 Tailor Made Evaluation
Can you rely on a non-Jewish tailor, when he assures that there is no linen in the wool suits he makes for you, specially when you have been his client for many years and he is afraid to loose a custo...
# 2559 Look Out and Look in?
Do you have to check for shaatnez a suit that according to its label it 100% polyester etc. and does not contain any wool?...
# 2558 A Fresh Start
Should preference for reciting sheva brochos in the case above (Q. 2555) be given to the one that led the benching since he started with the mitzva?...
# 2557 Pray For The Medicine?
If someone keeps his medicines in the bathroom, can he say the tefila mentioned above (2556 - “Yehi ratzon milfanecha, Hashem Elo-hai, she’yehai eisek zeh li li’refuah ki rofai chinam atta," - May it ...
# 2556 Bless One's Medicine?
Does one say a special tefila or bracha before taking any medicine constantly taken with Hashem’s name? Does one say it on Shabbat or Yom Tov?...
# 2555 One's Cup of Wine
Is the case above any different than the common sheva brochos done in shul by shaleshudes during Shabbos? Is the cup of wine drunk before havdalah?...
# 2554 Chosen Celebration
If the newlyweds join the bris mila seuda (see question above) and they have fulfilled all of the requirements needed (extra food, their own place of honor, their own added people, and nigunim with so...
# 2553 Many Happy Simches
We have invited our just married cousins to the bris mila of our son. (There should B’H be many simchas by all). I was told that if we add some more food to the seudas habris, we can recite sheva...
# 2552 A Family United
Can a woman recite kiddush Friday night for her elderly father (who cannot say it himself) and for her daughters already bas mitzva, and other women guest, when her husband is not in town?...
# 2551 No Straps Attached?
The straps of my tefilin are only about ten years old. On the tefilin shel yad, at the top place, where it ties over the biceps and goes around the loop of the kesher, since I place them tight, the st...