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# 243O An Ad-Nauseam Ad?
If a government Veteran Day advertisement poster that is not tzniusdik, as it shows a not well covered female army conscript (following Halacha standards) was placed in front of a shul, should one jus...
# 2429 Buyers Beware
I have seen in a number of supermarkets in town knives and eating utensils made of metal, imported from Israel with a hechsher that certifies they are exempted from tevila immersion on a mikva. That...
# 2428 Know From Memory
If someone after thirty days of saying Mashiv Haruach and even after repeating it 90 times, still catches himself as forgetting during the brocho. If he indeed was totally unaware if he said it or not...
# 2427 Dandruff Is Back
On prior question (2405) you quoted Rav Miller ruling that one should not shake off dandruff from his clothing during shemone essreh. Why not? If someone is addressing an important meeting, would you ...
# 2426 A Change for the Better
If one replaces a mezuza with a better one, does he have to say a brocho? What happens if he already had in his possession this new better mezuza for months and at the time the present mezuza to be re...
# 2425 Check is on the Door
When one removes a mezuza to be checked and the puts it back, does he have to make a brocho?...
# 2424 Tell a Good Story
Can someone read in a bathroom stories of tzadikim or Jewish history (kosher) seforim?...
# 2423 Is G-dliness next to Cleanliness?
Regarding the questions if Hashem is everywhere including impure places, (2412-13), does this mean that following the Hagra’s opinion, one cannot think of Hashem’s presence when in a bathroo...
# 2422 Labor of Love
Since learning Torah and doing mitzvos out of pure love for Hashem is the greatest and most elevated of all actions possible, should then, when possible a teacher of Torah shiurim refuse being paid, i...
# 2421 Buy On Time
Is it permitted to quickly buy a few seforim prior to davening Shacharis, such as in a yeshiva where seforim are for sale and one is concerned that if he davens first, someone else will take the sefor...
# 2420 Too Much Too Late
A person that usually says korbonos before mincha, if he davened in a shul where maariv follows mincha immediately, right after the shekia and because he was late was unable to say korbonos before min...
# 2419 Giving a Giving Education
A bachur who makes some money (such as when he leins or participates in a learning program) but is generally dependent on his parents for his sustenance, is he obligated to give maaser from the money ...
# 2418 A Gift for Gifts
Is there an obligation to give maaser kesafim (tithes of one tenth) of one’s earnings to the poor?...
# 2417 Till Death Do Us Part?
Thank you for giving me your email this morning. Soon after I married in 1984 my father bought a cemetery plot for myself and my wife in the... We divorced eleven years ago and I had forgotten abou...
# 2416 If It Looks and Smells...
(Re- question 2408). If someone underwent a polypectomy, to remove a polyp or small cancerous growth on the colon and is still bleeding, does the same Halacha apply?...
# 2415 Let The Dust Settle
On using talcum powder inside shoes or boots during Shabbos (see above question 2414). Would everyone permit if you put the talcum powder before Shabbos? If there us no eruv, is there a problem to c...
# 2414 Talc Talk
Can one sprinkle talc powder on the feet or shoes on Shabbos to keep them dry, specially on boots during the winter months?...
# 2413 Know Before Whom You Stand
In regard to the above question, 2412, is it not true that Gaon of Vilna maintained that the presence of Hashem is not universal?...
# 2412 Where Is Hashem?
On question 2373 you dealt with the presence of Hashem arriving to a shul only when there is a minyan of people present and the first ten to arrive are credited with bringing the presence of the Shech...
# 2411 Poor Little Rich Poor
Is there a chiyuv to give at least some tzedakah to every Jewish ani (poor) who asks? If yes, what about someone who appears very suspicious, for example, you sometimes have someone who says his car b...