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# 2270 Donkeys Welcome?
Is it proper to perform a Pidyon Peter Chamor ceremony (redemption of a firstborn donkey) in a shul....
# 2269 The Priors New Clothes
May one don a brand new suit during the Three Weeks prior to Rosh Chodesh if the sheheyanu was already recited soon after acquisition (one did not actually make a sheheyanu on the beged, but rather ha...
# 2268 The Law of the Tablets
Does a pill-splitter used to cut tablets in half require immersion in a mikva?...
# 2267 The Book Cover Shaila
One who lives with non-frum parents who might or will confiscate a sefer if they see it, may he place goyishe books on top of his seforim so that his parents won’t see it? Similarly, one who com...
# 2266 Coating the Tzitzis
Which is better - to wear one’s long (but old) weekday tzitzis on Shabbos, or wear Shabbos tzitzis that have a proper shiur and which are clean and new, but the Shabbos tzitzis are too short to b...
# 2265 The Score on Settling
There is a couple transitioning to live in Israel. Next year they are there a month straight, the next year six months, coming back to visit the rest of the time. At what point are they Halachically c...
# 2264 Mixed Message
Re- above question on creating a message using unattached Scrabble letters: Is there a problem with borer, (choosing - one of the prohibited actions on Shabbos), since one is choosing the letters now,...
# 2263 The Law of the Letter
Re- Question 2259 - Playing Scrabble on Shabbos; Can one place a message for his family or guests on a table by using Scrabble letters not attached to anything, but covered with a heavy glass utensil...
# 2262 Come Heaven or High Water
One who everyday is tovel in the mikva, and owns a cottage where he uses the lake for his daily tevila before davening. If a proper eruv is placed on the lakefront of the cottage and the eruv of the p...
# 2261 A Little Knowledge of a Dangerous Thing
Is there a issue of mayim megulim like the opinion of the Pri Chadash in North Miami Beach? I noticed lizards in my rental home (one fell on my head in the house) and a snake in the backyard maybe the...
# 2260 Game Over
A relatively old-new toy creates drawings and words on a handheld screen, by magnetically pulling on small metal balls, sometimes of different colors. A pencil magnet is placed on that point, and it m...
# 2259 Spreadable Scrabble
Is playing Scrabble allowed on Shabbos?...
# 2258 Dress the Ship?
If someone lives in a houseboat or a large boat, does he have to place mezuzos?...
# 2257 Coming In into His Boat
(Re- questions 2254, 2255 above) What if the person lives on a houseboat or a boat year round or just in the Summer? Does he have to have an eruv built around the boat to carry in and out?...
# 2256 A Point of Honor
Does one have to honor a Cohen with the mitzva of Vekidashto, to be first when entering a room, or to take food first when no mitzva is being performed?...
# 2255 Don't Rock the Boat?
Can someone enter a boat that is tied up to a dock on Shabbat?...
# 2254 Resorts for a Resort
Hi, we are going to Gibraltar for Shabbos and they have a hotel there that’s called the Sonburn Hotel. It is a boat that used to be in use. Now they took out the engine and they docked it with me...
# 2253 Buoys and their Toys
Are water toys like tubes, floats and inflatable mattress that are outside the water muktze on Shabbos? Since their primary use is for swimming inside the water, which is not allowed on Shabbos can y...
# 2252 Panic Button Help
An apartment next to a hospital, donated (to Bikur Cholim) primarily for providing necessary lodging of family staying with patients during during Shabbos, has two bedrooms permitting the stay of indi...
# 2251 Oh Say Can You Sing?
B"H Shalom, Dear Rabbi, Would it be ok to use the tune of the American national hymn (or the Canadian) for davening, such as Lechah Dodi or any other part of davening? (Perhaps as Hakarat hatov, c...