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# 2390 The Shade of Honor
Re- above question 2389. Would the Rov permit the use of a sukka as a family room or a toy room, where children play and rejoice together?...
# 2389 Swimming in the Sukka?
We enjoy warm climate during sukkos and we spend a good time at the pool and at our hot tub during chol hamoed. Since we are all dressed properly for swimming, would it be correct to build a suka cove...
# 2388 To Learn or To Dance?
Can a group that learns the daf daily do so during lengthy hakofes on Simchas Torah, after having had their hakofe, if the shiur is held in a separate room?...
# 2387 If it Ain't Broke...
A Sefer Torah that is constantly read on Parshas Pinchas and was found to have at least three letters where the ink cracked and fell turning the Sefer pasul, can you just fix the letters erased on tha...
#2386 Asking About Asking
Can one enter the unlocked suka of a friendly neighbor built on his front yard, without his knowledge (he is not home), to eat one’s own food and leaving everything as clean as it was?...
# 2385 Pictures Worth Some Words
My siblings want to interchange some family pictures from our grandfathers that we place as decorations in our sukkos. (We give them ours and take theirs). Is that permitted during Chol Hamoed?...
# 2384 A Cloud With a Silver Lining
I have learned that the Ananei Kavod would launder and press the clothing of the Bnai Yisroel while on the desert, how could then they exit their tents and go to the Mishkan on Shabbath?...
# 2383 Vital Concentration
(Re - question 2382.) Are the above intentions essential? If someone did not have kavana on the ananei kavod, did he not comply with the mitzva and has to repeat eating with a new bracha?...
# 2382 Paying Undivided Attention
In regard to the intention needed when sitting in the sukka , should one preferably have both kavanot together, clouds of honor and real sukkot, in his mind at the same time? or maybe they are contrar...
#2381 With the Best of Intentions
Since intention is a very important part of any mitzva, what is the right kavanah that one should have when making the bracha on the sukka? the intention to remember the Ananei Kavod (clouds of honor)...
# 2380 Spitting Image of a Spit In?
Is it really correct that Horav Shlomo said in a shiur that one may store and save his saliva for use during Yom Kippur to swallow necessary medical pills?...
# 2379 If You Can't Beam Them, Join Them?
Can one join two beams with plastic zip ties, to use them when placed across the width of a large Suka,(20 ft.), as a base for the schach? Would it be permissible to join them with bolts?...
# 2378 A Late and Lonely Kol Nidrei
I’m a physician that has to be present the night of Yom Kippur at the operation of a patient that may be Jewish. I can’t refuse being there since I had already accepted doing it in that afte...
# 2377 Tough to Lock Neilah
May one daven Neilah at great length, pronouncing the words with great concentration and adding many requests and supplications, even though this will cause him to miss saying the selichos of Neilah a...
# 2376 Stop The Music
There is a type of music called EDM which is music made by a computer with no words. This type of music generally has a very fast and exciting beat. In the goyish world, this type of music is generall...
# 2375 Respect to Your Pay
One who is being paid to daven with a certain minyan and one day he came but there was no minyan (they didn’t have ten people), does he get paid for that day? What if the doors of the shul were...
# 2374 Rest Assured
Re- question above if one sleeping can be counted for a minyan. If he does count as one of the first ten, and he feels that he is falling asleep, should he better stay inside the shul, and not go to a...
# 2373 Sleep On This
A person who came to shul among the first ten, and upon arrival fell asleep at a shtender, and when he woke up at the beginning of davening, the beis medrash was full - does he get credit for being am...
# 2372 Mind Your Driving
What is the halacha regarding one who drives in a manner in which disregards traffic laws such as speed limits and stop signs, but he makes sure to be safe and respectful to other drivers?...
# 2371 Accounting For Tastes?
Does one recite a bracha on water if one is not thirsty, but has some enjoyment from the temperature of the water (such as one who drinks a nice cold cup of water or a very hot cup of water, where the...