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# 2329 Men's Mezuza?
Can a woman living alone, place a mezuza on the entrance of her home?...
# 2328 Ask Forgiveness and Get Married
(See question 2327). Can we get married also in the days when selichos are said?...
# 2327 Elul Simches
We are arranging our wedding (small - second marriage), and would like to know if there is an issue not to get married during the month of Elul, because of the Days of Judgment? We need a fast answer ...
# 2326 Look In on the Look Out
Is using an image baby monitor, without voice the same as a voice monitor, or one can be more lenient?...
# 2325 Far Cry Baby
Can one use a voice baby monitor or room intercom, if it was left on before Shabbat began, and the controls are taped?...
# 2324 Flat Fee Match
Since so many negative issues and serious problems are created by shadchanim or marriage brokers who favor customers who are wealthy and pay a higher finding fee, should not the Rabbanim join forces t...
# 2323 A Hair-Raising Tradition?
I know that Rabbi Miller stresses keeping one’s family’s traditions very much. What would rabbi Miller say about a woman whose family custom is to leave a tefach of hair uncovered? should sh...
#2322 A Foot in the Door
Regarding the psak not to open the door for a mechallel Shabbos who carries, if one needs to enter or exit the shul and no other door is available, may one be lenient, or should one miss tefilla b...
2321 From and For a Firm Frum Froy
I’m a frum woman that attends an exercise class for women in a gym where the trainer is not Jewish. Is there an issue of tznius in front of non- Jewish men, since it is not one of the seven mitzv...
# 2320 Run To Help
In the shul I daven the tzedaka collectors sometimes don’t wait until you find some change to give them, since for them time is of the essence and they have to move along. After I do find the mon...
# 2319 Meet the Greet
I learned that an avel is prohibited in giving and even returning greetings. Is it permitted for the visitors to the home of one in mourning to greet each other? Is a comforting hug between non-aveili...
# 2318 Like Father Like Daughter?
If the wife is traveling and will not be at home during Shabbos, who should light the Shabbos candles, the husband or an unmarried daughter that is already bat mitzva?...
# 2317 Equal Candle Rights
A friend from my yeshiva days told me that the minhag in his family is that the husband also lights the Shabbos candles with a brocho! Is that possible?...
# 2316 The Mind on the Frame
Can one leave turned on a free standing smart frame photo display, that is on always during the week and looks like a regular picture frame on the furniture?...
# 2315 Real or Virtual Daf?
See question above. When one is travelling and due to today’s weight restrictions did not take seforim with him, can he leave his laptop on with the daf on the screen, so he can learn it during Shabba...
# 2314 Screening Shabbos?
If someone staying in a hotel, does not have the permitted battery or connecting incandescent lights with filament bulbs for Shabat. He also does not want to light real candles and is simply leaving o...
# 2313 Touch this Fire
Are glow sticks that were turned on before Shabbat and will light for a few hours muktza? Can one move them to another room?...
# 2312 Throw Some Light on this Light
In case of emergency, when electricity is cut off and the lights go off or when you are camping, can you use glow sticks on Shabbat or Yom Tov?...
# 2311 In Glowing Terms
When you travel or go camping and can’t light Shabbat candles because of the hotel restrictions or the wind that will turn them off, can you use glow sticks? Can you se them in Chanuka? (A glow ...
# 2310 Play the Middle Against Both Sides?
(See question 2309 above). One who is used to blow a wind musical instrument and does so in many simches. Can he blow the shofar with the middle of his mouth, as he does lehavdil, with a trumpet since...