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# 2350 Judging Another on One's Own Merits
I bought a rather long list of items at a kosher store, and I was clearly cheated when being charged about ten dollars for something I did not buy. I didn’t notice until I got home and I was deba...
# 2349 Make No Mistake About It
Re - If the Baal Tokea keeps on making mistakes, can one demand from the congregation that another Baal Tokea should blow instead, or should one go to another shul if possible?...
# 2348 Who Blew It?
If the Baal Tokea on Rosh Hashana keeps on making mistakes in the shofar blowing is that considered to be a siman ra’a or bad omen for the congregation?...
# 2347 An Answer to a No Answer Question
I applied for a job at a frum school. I emailed the director at the personal email and then realized that because it was work related-that it should go out to the work email. I never got any respons...
# 2346 Forgive the Forget?
Re- question above. If one forgot and the vehicle battery was not disconnected before Shabbos, but no AC, lights, clocks or indicating dials turn on when opening the door, can one be lenient in case o...
# 2345 Shabbos Sleeping at the Wheel
Can one use a parked camper, motorhome, RV (recreational vehicle) or sprinter van or bus on Shabbos or Yom Tov, that has living quarters including bed, kitchen sink, fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, ...
# 2344 The More The Better?
Can the husband say kaddish together with the children, for his wife and their mother....
# 2343 Moving Rituals
2) (See re-interment question above, of a father buried in another city and being moved to Toronto.) So they basically wanted to know: (a) Does there have to be a shomer after the body is exhumed ...
# 2342 The Moving Spirit
1) Shalom Aleichem Rebbe: I was calling about a question someone asked me about re- internment of their father from F. to Toronto. She and her brother are not frum, but they want to have their paren...
# 2340 For The Not-Foreseeable Future
One who is undecided if to go ahead with a proposed shiduch and choose a marriage partner, and is emotionally very affected by the uncertainty and doubt. Is it recommended or even permissible to follo...
# 2339 Lots on Casting Lots
Q. Re- above question. Why is it permitted to flip a coin to establish who has rights or is the owner of a property. does that not contravene the prohibition of not divining the future or the positive...
# 2338 Two Sides of the Same Coin
Two friends who daven in the same shul are competing to acquire a High Holidays front seat, that for x reason they are both entitled to. They decided between them to flip a coin. But after the coin wa...
# 2337 Attention on Pay
A number of years ago I taught an older person, a Ba’al Teshuvah whose family wasn’t frum. After he was niftar, by the levaya I came over to his sons and told them that it is important that Kaddish be...
# 2336 Rebirth in Purity
Can a woman who is about to convert and go to the mikva, do so if she is a nidda? Or does she have to purify herself first? If she feels that she wants to be totally tahor and pure before accepting th...
# 2335 Flash in the Pan
If someone was making eggs in a not-ben-yomo fleishig frying pan, and the eggs were hot. At that time someone placed a piece of cheese on top of the eggs. It was immediately realized that it was a mis...
# 2334 Framing that Picture Frame
I’m confused regarding the digital picture frames discussed in previous questions.. I’m not sure where my type of screen fits in.. I have a picture frame that is connected to a specific emai...
# 2333 When News is Good News
Regarding the prohibition of relating sad news on Shabbos - may one relate sad news to his friend, in order to relieve himself of the tremendous emotional tension of holding it in, or in order to ask ...
# 2332 Send Back the Bring Back To Life?
1) If someone calls Hatzalah on Shabbos and then it turns out that everything is fine (for example a child choking and the food comes out), should he call back hatzalah to cancel the call?......
# 2331 Read Your Mind Aloud
On question 2320 and other previous ones (1849, 1850) you wrote that Horav Miller rules that one should be always be “Mosser Modoah” or declare, preferably in front of the beis din when he makes hatto...
# 2330 The Reality of Halacha
A friend asked another friend traveling to the states to kindly take for him a small suitcase. He did so but when they stopped to rest, the locked car was broken into and the suitcase was stolen. The ...