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# 2309 Left to the Right
As we are about to start the shofar blowing, a baal tokea that is a lefty, on which side of his mouth should he blow?...
# 2308 Every Once in a While?
In Summertime we travel and often stay in hotels that provide a kitchenette. If we bought a new pan for cooking, I’ve often heard that you can use it the first time without tevila, is that correc...
# 2307 Amounts to Much?
(See prior question 2306). If one ate a full shiur amount of the raw kernels what bracha acharona does one recite?...
# 2306 Blessings in the Raw
We went camping in an area where wild cereal plants grow around the camping grounds. What bracha does one make when eating raw wheat or barley seeds?...
# 2305 Clinched and Etched in One's Hearth
Why do we not see a shul, beth hamedresh or schools having a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh)? Should not these institutions give the example for others to follo...
# 2304 Don't Hit The Ceiling!
I once visited a friend in a small apartment and I saw that he had his zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh), on the ceiling. Is that correct?...
# 2303 Memories in the Home Away from Home
Does one have to leave a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh) in a cottage?...
# 2302 Reminder in All Shapes and Sizes?
If the house I own does not have enough space over an inside second entrance door to leave a full amah by amah zecher lechurban square, can the amah by amah required be rectangular instead, having exa...
# 2301 Committed to Memory
I learned that if someone buys a house that is already painted, he does not have to remove the paint of a square amah, as a zecher lechurban (Remembrance of the Destruction of the Bais Hamikdosh). Sho...
# 2300 A Short Vort on a Vort
Can one make a vort (engagement celebration) on the night after Tisha B’av, when it was pushed off from Shabbos to Sunday (nidche) with some music?...
# 2299 Make Merry Medical Miracle
Can one make a seudas hodaah for a medical miracle that occurred recently during the month of Av, or should one better wait until next month?...
# 2298 Choosing Right
If someone removed an insect from the lettuce leafs of a salad when rinsing it in water on Shabbos, can one eat that salad that day?...
# 2297 It's a Dogs Life
I reside in a town where it is illegal to feed stray animals including dogs. There is a stray dog that from time to time shows up in our front yard and definitely looks as starving. I have called the ...
# 2296 Food for the Birds
A pair of pigeons have made a nest on the windowsill of my roofless but enclosed porch and the two eggs have already hatched into the cutest pair and fastest-growing little pigeons I have ever had the...
# 2295 Stay Tuned
Parshas Devarim is usually read before Tisha Beav or as in this year on Tisha Beav that is nidche, since there is no avelus in Shabbos. Why do many read on kerias Hatorah the posuk of: "Eicha essa leb...
# 2294 A Mixed Blessing
At a bris the mohel had a bit of a cold, so he asked someone else present to do the mitzva of metzitza (oral suction of the blood). What should be done then when reciting the Horachaman by the end of ...
# 2293 Show Why we Don't Show the Door
On Shabbos, in a reshus harabbim, (no eiruv), there is a Jew who is standing outside a shul because he does not know the password to open the door. The Jew is holding a bag (a mechallel Shabbos r"l). ...
# 2292 Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
One who is being driven to the mountains and suddenly remembers that he did not daven Maariv yet, and he can tell the driver to pull over and wait 15 minutes while he davens with a minyan (the last av...
# 2291 Eyes to the Feast
Can one eat meat\chicken Motzei Tishah B’av this year since the fast is a nidche?...
# 2290 Baby Blues?
Can you make a Sholom Zochor for a newborn baby on Shabbos Chazon that is also Tisha Beav (nidche) as in this year....