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# 2510 Immersed in this Immersion Question
I received a gift of prepared desserts, meant to be eaten straight from the individual glass jars that they came in.. I was told by the store personnel that the jars were already toiveled. I was advis...
# 2509 More Intents and Purposes
Referring back to the previous question (2496), davening before neitz standing versus sitting in the car after neitz. If there would be no difference in kavana, what would be the better option?...
# 2508 Know This Like The Back Of Your Hands
Often people pour down water during Netilat Yodaim on the top of their hands over their wrist, to properly cover with water the complete hand. However, as the hands are bend downward into the sink, th...
# 2507 Right On The Right Time
I see often that people when they wash hands say the bracha of "Al Netilat Yadayim" at the time they are drying their hands. Is that correct? Is it correct or commendable for one to hold the towel or ...
# 2506 Don't Hold Your Breath
Can one use on Shabbos the new CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) automatic apnea respirator machines that produce a soft, steady jet of air with enough pressure to keep the airway open?...
# 2505 Testing One's Own Medicine
New Jersey lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill to eliminate most religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren. This shot is being forced now in NJ schools. What does HoRav S. Miller say ...
# 2504 Perls At Your Own Peril
I’m a frum teenager and have always wanted to join Shomrim or the volunteer firefighters in our community, since they urgently require more participants. Yet my parents are very much against it a...
# 2503 Calculating a Calculated Risk
I was invited to give a shiur for young people who are interested in becoming Baalei Teshuva and I seem to be promisingly successful. A good part why is that the area we are able to meet for the conve...
# 2502 Shall we Call On a Prayer Shawl?
As a Chaplain I visit and tend to the needs incarcerated individuals. I brought a taalis to a Jewish inmate, and then his Gentile roommate also wanted one. As this may be an issue of chilul Hashem, an...
# 2501 Three Strikes And In
There are 3 consecutive days of fasting in the month of Tevet. Besides Asara Betevet, on the eight the Greek translation to the Torah was done, and on the ninth it is the yohrzait of Ezra. Since after...
# 2500 Wash Off Hands?
Hello Rav, If someone speaks after saying "Al Netilat Yadayim" and saying Hamotzee, do they actually need to repeat the washing (without a bracha). It seems that many have this custom, but this just ...
# 2499 Dancing to Another Tune
Are we allowed to dance during Kiddish Levona when it is done on the night preceding Asarah Beteives or would it be assur to do so as it is similar to making a wedding which Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach...
# 2498 Fast To The Very End
Do a bride and groom to be married on the night after Assara Beteves have to fast until the chupa, as is usually done, which may be hours after the fast has finished for all others?...
# 2497 The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Hello Rav. I heard in a shiur that one (of many) segulot for parnasa is to leave over bread on the table. It wasn’t clear if this meant just for Birkat Hamazon or if we should ALWAYS leave bread...
# 2496 For All Intents and Purposes
A woman has the option of davening before neitz (sunrise) standing with more kavana or after neitz sitting in a car with less kavana. Which is the better option?...
# 2495 Twice A Fast
Do a bride and groom to be married on the eve of Assara Beteves have to fast during the day before the chupa, on the ninth of teves also?...
# 2494 Taste Blood
Since one is required to fast when taking some types of blood tests, can one do it during a taanit such as Assara Beteveth that according to some opinions is more severe than others....
# 2493 A Hefsek Psak
Before davening Shacharis in shul, I made a shehakol on a cup of water. After Shacharis, they brought out tikkun (vodka) because it was the yartzeit of the rav’s father. Do I need to make a new s...
# 2492 Saving the Life Jackets
If life jackets that are commonly found on boats contained shatnez, would one be permitted to wear it while out on the water?...
# 2491 Torah Bitul on a Nit'l
I’m from Chasidik background and avoid learning Torah on Nit’l night. Should I also not learn on the ninth of Teveth since according to some it is the day that yoshke was born?...