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# 2054 Traditions of Marriage
When a couple marries, they must separate from each other as if she were a menstruate after their first experienced marital relations. Is this true only if she was a virgin or regardless of her physic...
# 2053 An Accident not Waiting to Happen
Re - question 10 that; Harav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a is of the opinion that if someone is indeed in a car that spins out on the highway and miraculously does not get hit by another car, he does not reci...
# 2052 Fresh Start or Full Stop?
If the complete and full (shleimos) challos used for lechem mishneh on Shabbos, are stale and hard, can I just eat a bit from one of them to comply with the hamotzi, and then eat the rest of the neede...
# 2051 The Chosen One
Re- above question. I once heard in a shiur, that since the Gemorah teaches when a sickness is sent to a person, an oath is made with that sickness so it will not leave the person, only at an appointe...
# 2050 Doctors Orders?
Does Halacha permit a doctor called by one of his patients in the middle of the night for an emergency, to respond to the patient that he should call Hatzalah or 911?...
# 2049 The Book on Scraps
If one has pas palter (baked by a Gentile) that will spoil if left until motzoi Yom Kippur (even if frozen), and one does not eat it during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva, can one give it to one that does e...
# 2048 Looks Could Kill
Does the issur of looking at the face of a rasha (evil person) include looking at the picture, or only at the person?...
# 2047 Counting On Your Chickens
I travel on business often to China, where I visit some companies in different far off cities, that don’t have any kind of Jewish communities. I noticed that the life chickens in the market place...
# 2046 Wine And Din
What is Horav Miller’s opinion in regards to pasteurized wine. Is it permitted as yain mebushal (cooked wine)?...
# 2045 An Early Mazal Tov?
If one hast to undergo an important medical procedure, it is generally recommended to do it during the month of Adar, since those are days of good mazal. Does that include the first day of Rosh Chodes...
# 2044 Helping the Troubled Waters
In places like Las Vegas and some counties in California where literally the treated water goes from the toilet to the tap, can you wash netilat yadaim with such water. Even if not contaminated, why s...
# 2043 The Works of Water Works
In some countries the city water is not connected directly to the taps, but is stored first in a water tank usually at the roof of the house. To avoid spilling the water once the tank is full, the wat...
# 2042 You Call That Work?
(See question 2041 above on water that was used to perform work). Why is water that "worked" by turning a water motor, different from any common water whose volume was measured by a water meter. After...
# 2041 Kosher Water Power
I own a water powered motor that I use to open and close the suka roof on Shabbath and Yom Tov. The water used is not wasted, it ends in a pool that we use as a mikva for men, (it is connected to a ra...
# 2040 Learning the Walk Before the Run?
Is one allowed to study other religions for the sole purpose of being able to be mekarev and bring back the ones that fell and converted to them?...
# 2039 With Gusto or Disgusting?
(see question above) If the majority of people consider the food repugnant, but to this individual it is not, can he eat it or would he transgress on the prohibition of bal teshaktzu?...
# 2038 No Harm No Foul
Is it permitted to sell or feed someone food that is healthy and not contaminated, but disgusting and loathsome by its origins, if the fellow that eats it is totally unaware of it? (e.g. food that a r...
# 2037 Knowledge on the Fruits of Trees for Women
Do women have the minhag of eating fruits on Tu Bishvat as men do (after all it is time dependent)?...
# 2036 Attent to the Tent
Re- questions 2034-35 above. Does a solid tent that meets size requirements and is used during the summer months at a cottage for additional sleeping quarters, require a mezuza? Does it matter if the ...
# 2035 Snowed Inn
My kids build almost every year an igloo to play, eat and enjoy there games with their friends. Since we live in Montreal, the igloo stays up for usually 3 months or more. We want to join them for fun...