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# 2168 Better Late than Whoever
If one usually davens at a later maariv minyan (follows Rabenu Tam’s time), should he preferable change during the sefira weeks to an earlier minyan (before Rabbenu Tam’s z’man)?...
# 2167 A Lonely Early Count?
Is it better to count sefira by oneself soon after the zeman begins to do zerizin makdimin and temimos, or wait until one davens maariv with a minyan later on?...
# 2166 Pay The Consequences
In the case where one knocked down a chametz bottle in a (liquor) store, (see question 2156), and the management is demanding that one pay for it, what should he do? If the management (short of help...
# 2165 No Partisan to the Simcha of Nisan?
I’m a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother to a Yom Hashoah act, that takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very ...
# 2164 In Some Measure...
Shulchan Aruch 505, 4, says that on Yom-Tov one may measure spices when he is cooking in order not to over-spice the food. Would this also apply on Shabbos if someone is making something like salad dr...
# 2162 Selling Point II
I assume the answer (on question 2138 that "dry flour that did not come in contact with water Poskim are lenient" and permit its inclusion in the chometz sale). is referring specifically to flour of w...
# 2161 An Answer of No Answer
What is one to do when taking a multiple-choice test and the answer that the test maker wants is kefira? May one fill out the bubble on the check-box corresponding to that answer even though it is kef...
# 2160 An Early Education
My son is of the age of chinuch, can he count sefirah with a brocho before the zeman, since his bed time is before the zeman?...
# 2159 Clean-Up Operation
Can an elderly patient wearing a diaper put on tefilin when he is wet?...
# 2158 Fall Short - Short Out
If someone davens maariv in a minyan that is too fast, and he can’t say the complete "Baruch Hashem Leolam" before beginning the amida betzibur, should he omit some or all of the psukim and just ...
# 2157 Singing to Sleep?
As our children grew up we spend now a long time saying divrei Torah at the seder table, something we all greatly enjoy. We do finish the seder very late, sometimes after 4.00 am. How important is to ...
# 2156 Why? Rye? Goodbye!
One who is in a liquor store on Pesach (for buying needed kosher wine, he was trying to get to the kosher wine by pushing with the back of his hand and arm the chometz bottle) and accidentally knocked...
# 2155 Don't Touch the Merchandise
If one goes to buy needed kosher wine to a liquor store that sells both kosher and non kosher wines during Chol Hamoed Pesach, is he allowed to to remove some chometz liquor bottles, in order to reach...
# 2154 Read the Right Part
This week in Eretz Yisroel we read Parshas Kedoshim and in America Parshas Acharei Mos. What is my chiyuv of shnaim mikra when I’m in America?...
# 2153 Sanctification not Education
(See question 2151) If one does perform a mitzvah by just sitting in a shul or beis medresh, would it be commendable to hold a lecture on health issues or other community needed or educational topics ...
# 2152 No Sleeping in Shul
If one does comply with a mitzva by just sitting in a shul or beis medrash, if one gets tired during learning and needs to stop, should he better remain in the beis medrash (rather than start walking ...
# 2151 Just a Sitting Mitzvah?
Does one perform a mitzvah simply by sitting in a shul or beis medrash, even when not davening or learning Torah? What would that mitzvah be? Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 151: 1) rules in regards to enteri...
# 2150 Can Hold One's Drink
What should an elderly person do to be yotze with the four cups in the Pesach seder, if she can’t have any wine or even diluted grape juice?...
# 2149 Man Does Not Live by One Bread Alone?
If one eats a seuda on Chol Hamoed (See question 2147 above), does one need lechem mishna (two matzos) as in Yom Tov?...
# 2148 Will a Meal?
Is there a mitzva during Chol Hamoed to eat meat and drink wine as there is in Yom Tov?...