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# 2410 Your Name Again?
Re- question 2401. Regarding geirim having ruach hakodesh (like parents) when choosing their name. That Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it stands to reason that if a ger has th...
# 2409 Taxing Future Gains
If I know I will be getting a wages cheque at the end of the month or any other future income, can I give the maaser money already now to the poor and have it count for future moneys not yet earned?...
# 2408 Blood Check
Is someone underwent a prostate examination (biopsy) or a removal operation and is bleeding anally or in his urine, can he daven or recite brochos?...
# 2407 Say his Pray
There is a person who is not able to daven on his own because he r"l had a stroke and it takes him very long to say the words. Therefore, the eitza that is done is someone stands next to him by Shmone...
# 2406 Dress for Success
Re- question above regarding the removal of dandruff or dust from clothing. Does the above also apply to a woman teacher? Is she also included in the obligation that a talmid chacham’s clothing s...
# 2405 Shakes The Flakes?
A teacher or a Rabbi who has severe dandruff problems and the dandruff constantly falls on his clothes, sometimes making it significantly dirty, is it a violation (the talmid chacham’s clothing h...
# 2404 Major Minor Question
Re- question 2403 above. What happens if the minor is going to become bar mitzva during the shloshim of his father. Is he then obliged to sit shiva or keep the other traditions of avelut after he beco...
# 2403 A Shiva Teshuva
My young husband died R’L recently leaving our two children not yet bar mitzva. I was told that they don’t have to sit shiva. Why isn’t there a mitzva of chinuch do educate them as ther...
# 2402 Don't Marry the Grandparents
I’m a frum young woman that is having a hard time finding a shiduch. Hopefully Hashem send me the right kind of possible chosson that actually meets most of my expectations. He is a Ben Torah tha...
# 2401 What's in a Name?
Do geirim have ruach hakodesh (like parents) when choosing their name?...
# 2400 Sukka Trained Pet?
Re - 2390. Would it be permitted to have pets, such as dogs and cats, to come in to the succah? What if someone is very attached to them?...
# 2399 The Gift of Giving Gifts
I purchased the first inaugural paroches at two different minyanim... and dedicated them in memory of grandparents. Both times, the person in charge made an announcement that they are seeking a donor...
# 2398 Don't Tear Out Your Hair
Sometimes my glasses get stuck to a hair. Am I allowed to remove the glasses on Shabbos, even though I am pulling out a hair along with it?...
# 2397 Hang On to Your Own Hat
If one realizes during SE (Shemone Ezre) that he is wearing a hat that is not his own, what should he do? (accidentally took someone else’s hat) Should he leave during SE and put back the hat? Or...
# 2396 Question the Questionable Sukka
One who is eating invited by a family on Sukkos and upon arriving sees that their sukkah is not halachically valid or is questionable and he does not wish to eat in such a sukkah, what should he do? J...
# 2395 A Bite to Eat
Is it permitted on Simchas Torah to wash and have a small seuda (with bread and a little fish) before hakafos and Mussaf, in order to comply with Rav Miller’s opinion that the seudas Yom Tov shou...
# 2394 A Guest For a Rainy Day
If one was invited on Sukkos and when he arrives the family are eating in the house since at the time they started their meal it was raining, but now (when the guest arrives) it is perfectly clear, wh...
# 2393 Good Will or Asleep at the Wheel?
A mashgiach caught a few times daydreaming and being lax in his supervision of a shul’s kitchen was re-accepted if he would keep a number of takanot and improvements, such as being always on time...
# 2392 Doing The Honors
If one could not comply with this mitzva (Kabbolas Pnei Horav - visiting or calling on one’s Rov during a Chag - see question 2391 above), during Yom Tov, can one do so on Isru Chag (the day aft...
# 2391 In Respect to Paying Respect
Can one comply with the mitzva of Kabbolas Pnei Horav (visiting or calling on one’s Rov during a Chag) by calling on the phone during Chol Hamoed, when it was difficult to visit personally?...