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# 2550 The Branch of Olives
Q, We are learning about eating olives at the Daf. Is it true that the detrimental eating of olives that makes one forget his learning, does not apply to someone who is a Talmid Chcham? (It was so m...
# 2549 Bless The Hostess?
When a guest is reciting during Birchat Hamazon after a meal the blessing for his host, should he not include the hostess also? Why is she is not usually included in the established different nuschaos...
# 2548 A Very Blessed Trip
When someone is staying in a Jewish hotel or traveling El Al, should one say the blessing for the host after eating and reciting Birchat Hamazon?...
# 2547 The Place of Honor
(Re- question 2546 above). Where is the correct place for the guest to recite the blessing honoring and thanking his host after the meal, during Birchat Hamazon?...
# 2546 Thank G-d For Small Blessings
Why is it that only some of the guest bother to bless their hosts at the end of a Shabbat or other meal, with the extended bracha mentioned in the Gemara, and they say only a short Horachaman, mention...
#2545 Thanks But No Thanks
A gabay goes around the shul with a pushka during pesukei dezimara (by Vaiborech Dovid) to collect tzedaka for the shul. He often says yasher koach or thank you to the givers and he argues that it is ...
# 2544 Make a Name for Yourself
When reciting a mi sheberach for a sick person, we usually quote his mothers name. If he is a Cohen or a Levy, should the gabay say Hacohen or Halevy after his name or after the mothers name, as we us...
# 2543 Tefilah Multitasking
Re - above question (2542). When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos., otherwise the blessin...
# 2542 Are You Really Listening?
When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos. Since in our days it is unusual for someone to mai...
# 2541 Enjoy At The Right Time
Does the principle of choosing to make a brocho on "choviv" or the items one likes, apply to all foods being served? Would that mean that one should make the required brocho on the dessert one special...
# 2540 With Pleasure
When eating two different fruits of the same brocho and status, you are supposed to say the brocho on the "choviv" or the most liked one. Does that mean just pleasant because of its good taste, or doe...
# 2539 A Song in Your Heart
I recently became interested in becoming a baal tshuva. I was invited by some religious friends from college, to come and join them in the learning of Torah at a close by yeshiva. It was my first time...
# 2538 Clearing Made Clear
An elderly patient with prostate cancer not uncommon at that stage of life, is presented by his doctors with two equal choices for treatment; one is surgical removal of the gland and the other is clea...
# 2537 Help Is Here
Thank you very much. Just to clarify, if I take off maaser when I earn the money as you pasken, and then I invest it in stocks or put in an IRA, do I then calculate the maaser yearly - or just when I ...
# 2536 A Gentile's Expiration
On question above (if a Cohen physician that unintentionally ended the life of a patient, can continue reciting Birchas Cohanim), does it matter if the patient was not Jewish?...
# 2535 A Blessed Death?
A physician who is also a Cohen and learns the Daf, recently became aware that a Cohen whose hands have spilled blood can not rise them and perform Birchas Cohanim. He is wondering with honesty about ...
# 2534 Be a Party to the Party?
The seuda - meal offered after the chalaka or the traditional cutting of the hair when a boy becomes three years old, is it considered to be a seudas mitzva? (for the purpose of the effort in attendin...
# 2533 Cutting Off Some Cutters
Is it permitted for women to also cut a bit of the hair of a boy when he becomes three years old? Is it correct, what many do after the chalaka, that they take the child to a non-Jewish barber and he...
# 2532 The Barbershul?
Is it proper to the chalaka or the traditional cutting of the hair when a boy becomes three years old in a shul?...
# 2531 Your Earliest Convenience
If I am putting a certain percentage of my salary into an IRA or other retirement account and I won’t be using the money for many years, when do I take maaser? Before I put it in? If I have to ta...