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# 2188 Need a Lawyer?
A college student is taking a math class that is very difficult for him, so he paid his brother to do the homework assignments for him. (His major is law, but they require taking this math class). Did...
# 2187 The Purim Lag Cust-omer
Shulchan Aruch (428) writes that Lag Baomer is always the same day of the week a Purim. (Siman P’lag). What is the connection between them?...
# 2186 An Eye On the Eyes
A talmid chacham who has a minhag to remove his spectacles from his face whenever he goes outside to avoid seeing forbidden sights - what should he do when he walks in the reshus harabbim on Shabbos? ...
# 2185 A Close Shave?
Is it better when Lag Baomer falls on a Thursday to wait to cut hair and shave until Erev Shabbos?...
# 2184 Son with a Gun
This may seem as a strange question, but it is important to my young sons. They learned of the tradition of playing with arch and arrows on Lag Baomer, but we could not find one set that is safe for t...
# 2183 Won't See You in Church
Can a caterer accept to cater a religious event (non-Jewish) in a church? The caterer will deliver the food there and will not be entering that place....
# 2182 Hold on Fast
One that is getting married on Lag Baomer late afternoon, does one have to fast the traditional fast of chasan kallah if one finds it difficult?...
# 2181 Fight for Life
A family member is tending to an elderly patient that according to his doctor became suddenly susceptible to blood clots and may suffer from a possible heart attack. If that would happen and CPR is ne...
# 2180 Cross Examine
Q Can a bakery bake cakes or cookies in the shape of non-Jewish religious symbols (like a cross) for orders they receive from non-Jewish customers?...
# 2179 Don't Put this On Ice
Does a metal ice-cube tray maker (the tray filled with water you place in the freezer, for making ice cubes) require tevilah? does the glass ice-cubes container and tongs you place on the table requir...
# 2178 Is The Adding Adding-Up?
In some shuls it is customary that the rabbi or the gabbai, at the end of shacharis recite without a bracha the sefira of that day. Is this not a case of b’al tosif or prohibited adding to a mitz...
# 2177 A Monumental Pesach Sheni
I Had the first yortzait this week for my husband a’h. Can I do the Hakomas Matzeva ceremony on Pesach Sheni...
# 2176 A Storm In a Cup?
What should one do if he is a guest by someone’s house, or comes to someone’s simcha, and the host makes Kiddush on a small cup of schnapps, as is the Chassidic custom? May one rely on this ...
# 2175 Crash the Party?
As Pesach Sheini is this Sunday, we invited the whole extended family for a Matza meal and BBQ in our backyard. But the question arouse if you can roast meat, hamburgers and hot dogs on Pesach Sheni, ...
# 2174 The Third Pesach Seder
I overheard that there an inyan (point) on eating maror and an egg on Pesach Sheni with the matza is that true?...
# 2173 The Moon Flew Over the Trees
Can you make birchat hailonot by the light of the moon, if you can see the trees clearly? Can you make the bracha if you see them through a window or the windshield of a car?...
# 2172 Make Yourself at Home
An Ashkenazi became frum in Israel and lived there for many years. his nusach tefillah is like the minhag of Israel (sim shalom on mincha of Shabbos, doesn’t say v’shamru before shmoneh esra...
# 2171 A Shailah on a Knife's Edge
Can you use a single sharpener to sharpen knives fleishig and milchig? How about giving them to sharpen to a non-Jewish company?...
# 2170 Kindling the Sparks
Re- last question (2168) regarding Frum people that have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. You mentioned the b’al tashchis c...
# 2169 Permitting to Permit the Permitted
Kevod Horav. Many Frum people have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. They argue that once any question was raised you have to di...