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# 2114 The Kosher Chazer?
Is the fact that our sages taught that the chazer-pig will become in the days of the Moshiach a kosher animal a reflection on the artificial meat that Horav Miller is said to be kosher and pareve. One...
# 2113 An Honest Opinion
I live in Israel. This week I was using a vending machine in the train station. Suddenly it started spitting out coins. After collecting them all, I had over 170 shekel. Do I need to return the mone...
# 2112 Dreams Come True?
One who does not read Hebrew and cannot follow along in a Chumash, etc. during Megillah - what is he to do? The mind wanders, and one is not yotzi!? Or is one still yotzi even if he daydreams....
# 2111 No Kavana - No Tefila?
If someone has problems concentrating and he knows he wont be able to concentrate even on the first bracha of the amida, is he exempt from tefila?...
# 2110 Beginning at the End
If someone has problems on concentrating during the complete amida, after having kavanah on the first bracha, should he put effort on concentrating on other complete brachos, even if they are few. Or ...
# 2109 A Paper's Trail
A very busy student deliberately (lo alenu) desecrated Shabbos by writing an essay because he thought he wouldn’t be able to do it unless he worked on Shabbos. He wants to do teshuva. Is he oblig...
# 2108 Fixed Blessings
If one accidentally said a wrong bracha and he wants to fix it, but he is not sure if it is within toch k’’dei dibbur, or it’’s too late, what should he do? Can someone say the c...
# 2107 Lost in the Wash?
If you touch new shoes that were never worn, or shoes in a store do you require netilas yodaim?...
# 2106 Stepping Into a Dead Man's Shoes
A recently deceased relative left a number of shoes that she never wore in life. Can they be used or given to the needy?...
# 2105 Life Out of One's Car
Electric cars have become in recent years very efficient and as fast as the ones driven by gas. Since when driving a common gas consuming car during Shabbos one commits a constant repetitive Torah pro...
# 2104 With the Best of Intentions
Someone who volunteers daily for meals on wheels delivery of kosher meals to the sick and needy and also donates daily to a pushka of tzedaka for the poor, if he does that also in Purim does he keep t...
# 2103 Don't Gum Up the Works
My child wants to know if one is yotze shalachmones by giving a box of chewing gum? A, On question 1749 we write that contemporary Poskim disagree whether a blessing must be recited before che...
# 2102 Experience the Best Teacher
A teacher that receives shalachmonos from her students during Purim, and when receiving her shalachmonos returns also to them, does she comply with the mitzva by giving to children? Does her husband a...
# 2101 Read His Lips?
If someone reads the megilla for an elderly person who may not be able to concentrate for the complete reading, should he ask the elder to read with him from the megilla?...
# 2100 Water in Deep Water
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos by giving a soda bottle? How about an expensive plain mineral water?...
# 2099 The Purim Baby Bottle
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos if one of the items is a small bottle of grape juice (about six oz.) or is this too small?...
# 2098 There is Truth in Wine?
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos by giving two kinds of wine? What about wine and grape juice?...
# 2097 Purim Toil
I’m an accountant so this is my busy time of the year in this country. I always tried to avoid working on Purim. Can I work during the night after the reading of the megillah?...
# 2096 Know This about "Ad Delo Yoda"
If one sends his shalachmonos or the gifts to the poor via a shaliach, and at the time of delivery the sender was already at a stage of "ad delo yoda" or asleep, does he comply with the mitzva?...
# 2095 Magnanimous Anonymous
If one sends shalachmonos and forgot to put a senders card, it fell out or he simply wants to send it anonymously, is he yotzeh?...