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# 2176 A Storm In a Cup?
What should one do if he is a guest by someone’s house, or comes to someone’s simcha, and the host makes Kiddush on a small cup of schnapps, as is the Chassidic custom? May one rely on this ...
# 2175 Crash the Party?
As Pesach Sheini is this Sunday, we invited the whole extended family for a Matza meal and BBQ in our backyard. But the question arouse if you can roast meat, hamburgers and hot dogs on Pesach Sheni, ...
# 2174 The Third Pesach Seder
I overheard that there an inyan (point) on eating maror and an egg on Pesach Sheni with the matza is that true?...
# 2173 The Moon Flew Over the Trees
Can you make birchat hailonot by the light of the moon, if you can see the trees clearly? Can you make the bracha if you see them through a window or the windshield of a car?...
# 2172 Make Yourself at Home
An Ashkenazi became frum in Israel and lived there for many years. his nusach tefillah is like the minhag of Israel (sim shalom on mincha of Shabbos, doesn’t say v’shamru before shmoneh esra...
# 2171 A Shailah on a Knife's Edge
Can you use a single sharpener to sharpen knives fleishig and milchig? How about giving them to sharpen to a non-Jewish company?...
# 2170 Kindling the Sparks
Re- last question (2168) regarding Frum people that have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. You mentioned the b’al tashchis c...
# 2169 Permitting to Permit the Permitted
Kevod Horav. Many Frum people have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. They argue that once any question was raised you have to di...
# 2168 Better Late than Whoever
If one usually davens at a later maariv minyan (follows Rabenu Tam’s time), should he preferable change during the sefira weeks to an earlier minyan (before Rabbenu Tam’s z’man)?...
# 2167 A Lonely Early Count?
Is it better to count sefira by oneself soon after the zeman begins to do zerizin makdimin and temimos, or wait until one davens maariv with a minyan later on?...
# 2166 Pay The Consequences
In the case where one knocked down a chametz bottle in a (liquor) store, (see question 2156), and the management is demanding that one pay for it, what should he do? If the management (short of help...
# 2165 No Partisan to the Simcha of Nisan?
I’m a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother to a Yom Hashoah act, that takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very ...
# 2164 In Some Measure...
Shulchan Aruch 505, 4, says that on Yom-Tov one may measure spices when he is cooking in order not to over-spice the food. Would this also apply on Shabbos if someone is making something like salad dr...
# 2162 Selling Point II
I assume the answer (on question 2138 that "dry flour that did not come in contact with water Poskim are lenient" and permit its inclusion in the chometz sale). is referring specifically to flour of w...
# 2161 An Answer of No Answer
What is one to do when taking a multiple-choice test and the answer that the test maker wants is kefira? May one fill out the bubble on the check-box corresponding to that answer even though it is kef...
# 2160 An Early Education
My son is of the age of chinuch, can he count sefirah with a brocho before the zeman, since his bed time is before the zeman?...
# 2159 Clean-Up Operation
Can an elderly patient wearing a diaper put on tefilin when he is wet?...
# 2158 Fall Short - Short Out
If someone davens maariv in a minyan that is too fast, and he can’t say the complete "Baruch Hashem Leolam" before beginning the amida betzibur, should he omit some or all of the psukim and just ...
# 2157 Singing to Sleep?
As our children grew up we spend now a long time saying divrei Torah at the seder table, something we all greatly enjoy. We do finish the seder very late, sometimes after 4.00 am. How important is to ...
# 2155 Don't Touch the Merchandise
If one goes to buy needed kosher wine to a liquor store that sells both kosher and non kosher wines during Chol Hamoed Pesach, is he allowed to to remove some chometz liquor bottles, in order to reach...