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# 2470 Enlightening the Lighting
We will be traveling during Chanuka, and we are taking with us a few small tin menorahs with candles, for myself and the children. Can we on Shabbat use one of those menorahs to light the Shabbat cand...
# 2469 Scanning the Scan Room
When undergoing an X-ray or cat-scan which requires being alone in a room with the female technician, what should one do to avoid transgressing the prohibition of yichud? Even if one’s wife or fr...
# 2468 Praise the End
One that underwent a prostate operation and bleeds from his member, does he have to recite asher yotzar when he stops bleeding?...
# 2467 The Blessed Fruits
What brocho does one recite on dried cranberries?...
# 2466 Up In The Air?
What brocho does one make on hydroponically or aeroponically grown vegetables?...
# 2465 Intent Coffee
We know that one can drink water, coffee or tea before davening shacharis to help concentration, even with milk and sugar. My question is; if a person is accustomed to drinking black coffee, is it mut...
# 2464 Quiet Please
Does the issur of lashon hara apply to something that is public knowledge and that a person himself "shouts from the rooftops," so to speak? For example, a person who constantly walks around in the st...
# 2463 Is That Really True?
If loshon harah is spoken but the listener doesn’t believe the information to be true does this make the speech non loshon harah?...
#2462 Many Happy Chanuka Returns
My son is going to have his ninth birthday a few days after Chanuka and we want to give him as a present a silver menorah. Can he light that menorah during chanuka and then light it again during his b...
# 2461 Wow! Is That a Real Menorah?
Can one light a menorah made of sculptured ice, (the oil cups are glass)?...
# 2460 Nice and Quiet
Can one hug and kiss a young child that fell and hurt himself while in shul, to calm him and keep him from crying, when it is difficult to take him out somewhere else?...
# 2459 Goodbye to Kiss
Since it is prohibited to kiss children in shul, since we should only show in Hashem’s house love to Him, why do chasidim kiss the hand of their rebbes when in shul?...
# 2458 No Returns Accepted
Re question 2450 above. - One who forgot to request mashiv haruach, and he already passed the bracha of Retzei, and then went back only to Shema Koleinu and mentioned it there, is he yotzi?...
# 2457 A Light Touch
I usually prepare, set and light the menora candles of an elderly almana (widow) that is our neighbor. It is her menora and her candles is that correct? Can I make the brochos on her behalf?...
# 2456 Heavenly Attire
Should one who visits the sick wear Shabbos or better clothing, since he is doing a mitzva? (Re- question above)...
# 2455 Dress Up for the Occasion?
Should one wear a Shabbat or any jacket for lighting the Chanuka menorah or at least put on a hat?...
# 2454 One's Pride or One's Joy?
Should someone that gives shiurim and teaches Torah to a rabbim, travel out of town to the wedding of a good friend, if that would cause the bittul Torah of the many?...
# 2453 Buyers Beware III
Re-question 2434 and 2429, in regard to immersing utensils manufactured in Israel, but sold in a non-Jewish store. If the item was given on consignment to the Gentile store, does it still need to be t...
# 2452 Believe This?
Recently the Government of Canada turned down the tax-exempt status for the Atheistic Church. If they decide to sell properties, can one buy them or are they considered in Halacha as having been used...
# 2451 In Line with the Line
Kvod Harav, I appreciate your column very much, giving people the ability to stay anonymous for sensitive shailos. No Frills supermarket has a price match guarantee on any item in their store. Whic...