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# 2530 Feed The Dogs
Do you keep a mitzva when you buy a can of dog food that contains meat of neveilos and treifos, and you feed it to your dog? Is just feeding your pet a mitzva, especially when you give it the food bef...
# 2529 A Dog's Chance
Although our pets are an important and uniting part of our family, should my more frum siblings and I try to have my parents give them up? Is there a musar or Daas Torah, problem in keeping them? Or ...
# 2528 Refuse the Refuse?
Some other related questions. Our dogs share a large litter box with our cat. The box is usually cleaned four times a week and is placed in a corner of our family room, and does not usually have a bad...
# 2527 The Naked Truth
I’m a yeshiva bochur in a choshuve yeshiva, thanks to my Zaidy shlit’a. My parents are a bit liberal and we have two large male dogs at home that roam around at their will all over the plac...
# 2526 Keep On Davening
Dear Rabbi, I was distracted today (Rosh Chodesh Shvat), and right after kaddish before Musaf I started davening shmoneh esrei with my tfillin on. I said the first brocha all the ways until "Elokein...
# 2525 Made by the Maid
Our maid, without consulting us disconnected the cholent crock pot before she left after cleaning Friday night. On the morning when she returned, she again on her own, reconnected it again. Is it perm...
# 2524 A Stiff Drink
If someone has for the Shabbos night meal only one challa or non at all, can he beshas hadechak and in need, make kiddush on the mezonos (cakes, doughnuts, etc.) he is using for lechem mishne, (see qu...
# 2523 Let Them Eat Cake
When traveling we realized that for the Shabbos day meal we only had one challa. Can one in such a case use a cake or doughnut as the adjoining lechem mishna?...
# 2522 Still Immersed in the Immersion Question
Thank you for answering (question 2510). Re the last paragraph, my question was concerning fancy glass or metal dishes that are definitely meant to be reused. Can one eat directly from them if such a ...
# 2521 Parevenu?
Good afternoon Rabbi. I saw this (see attached picture) in the grocery store and I was thinking, I could make Kosher cheeseburgers. Is there any prohibition to do this? (Attached is an image of a pa...
# 2520 An Open Book to Forgetfulness
I have seen that when some people stop learning in the beis hamedresh to go temporarily outside, they turn the sefer being learned around, so the upside now faces the top of the table, is that proper?...
# 2519 Siyum Partners in Torah
We are celebrating an important Siyum Hashas for our group of lerners in a few days. We have invited a large crowd to a catered seuda that is also a fundraising event essential for our shul. Sadly l...
# 2518 Pull Down a Chair?
Does a son inherit the seat acquired by his father, or assigned to him as a tribute to his eminence, after the death of his father? (See question 2517 above)....
# 2517 On The edge of Your Seat
Is it permitted for a son to seat himself on the place assigned to or acquired by his father in shul, when the father is not attending?...
# 2516 A Mohel "Mit a Farmachten Moil"
Could an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) be the mohel at a bris, if no one else is available?...
# 2515 Figure that Speech
Can an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) partake at the seuda (meal) of the bris of his grandchild? If yes can he be asked to speak publicly. (See question 2514 above)....
# 2514 A Sad State of Fair
Can an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) be a sandak at the bris of a grandchild?...
# 2513 A Shaila In Hot Water?
Is it permitted during Shabbos to open or increase the water dripping into a humidifier connected to the heating furnace. The warm air rushes by a metal net or mesh, that spreads the droplets of water...
# 2512 Add And Adapt Adam?
We are B’H a baal teshuva family, and Hashem just graced us with a baby boy. We want to know if we can give the name of a dear deceased grandfather named Adam to our newborn. Adam was always of g...
# 2511 It's All In Your Mind
We recently learned in the daf that the intention for doing a mitzva deuraisa (Biblical) is essential in the compliance of the mitzva. Since during the day we do many mitzvos such as learning Torah or...