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# 2147 Favor the Festival Feast
On Chol Hamoed does one have to eat a seuda (Yom Tov meal) or two every day, eating matza too?...
# 2146 In Case You Have a Case on a Matzo Case
Dear Rabbi I’m in a dilemma. The other day while shopping for Pesach my friend texted me and asked me if I would pick up a few items for him including 10 pounds of hand Shmura matzah. I agreed and...
# 2145 Until The Bitter End?
(See question 2135). When the flavor of the maror is very strong, how long should one chew the maror in one’s mouth before swallowing, taking into account the strong stinging sensation involved?...
# 2144 Need some more Chometz?
Does one fulfill a mitzvah (of Biur Chametz) with every kezayis of chametz that is burned on erev Pesach?...
# 2143 The Law on the Tablets
Are regular medical tablets or capsules, permitted during Pesach, when they are seriously needed? Is there any special way that would make their consumption more acceptable?...
# 2142 An Alcohol Problem
If someone is asked in the office he works to contribute money to buy a bottle of scotch as a gift for a Non-Jewish co-worker and he finds it very difficult to say no, can he contribute during Pesach....
# 2141 Mixed- up Blessings?
If one ate karpas and made the required haadama bracha and then was masiach daath and the karpas slipped from his mind and was forgotten. However, as reading the Hagada took a lengthy time, he got hun...
# 2140 No Pass Over on Passover
When one is shopping in a store during Pesach, which contains both kosher and non-kosher foods, and one is approached by a fellow customer, who may or may not be Jewish, and that customer requests tha...
# 2139 Bottoms Up?
On Friday night we eat the bottom challa; is there reason to eat from the bottom Matzoh as opposed to the middle since this year Pesach and Seder coincide?...
# 2138 Selling Point
Are you allowed to sell with the chometz an open large bag of flour, if you are machmir not to sell chometz gomur?...
# 2137 Ill At Ease?
One who is lo alenu sick with a digestive system disease, and often gets nauseous, or in need to vomit and finds it hard to eat. If he eats a kezais of matza at that time does he comply with the mitzv...
# 2136 Every Bite Counts
(Re- questions 2122-23). To clarify - regarding the opinion of the Vilna Gaon that it is a mitzvah to eat matzah all seven days of Pesach, does this meant that one fulfills a mitzvah with every kezayi...
# 2135 Do me a little flavor
In order to be yotze with maror, how much of the flavor of the horseradish should be left, if it was left open?...
# 2134 Thought for Food
Is it necessary to eat by the siyum in order to eat later, and if so what is one to do if no food is provided, as the shul is already clean for Pesach?...
# 2133 Party Crasher?
By the siyum on erev Pesach, is it necessary for the bechor to understand what is said, or do they comply if they are not able to hear or to follow what is said?...
# 2132 Quick Sale
If one already sold his chometz and then acquires more, I heard That Rav Miller rules that it is not included in the mechira. Is it enough just to contact the Rov it was sold to and tell him about the...
# 2131 Not Under the Chometz Influence
People who sell all kinds of chametz liquors before Pesach to a Non-Jew, why do they abstain from selling beer to them?...
# 2130 Throw a Shaila on the Scale
Shalom Harav, We know one may not tend to there personal needs before davening; is it a violation of this halocho to go on a scale first thing in the morning which takes about 10 seconds. The reason ...
# 2129 First In Last Out
On Shabbos Hagodol if there is a Bar Mitzva, who has preference for maftir, the Rabbi who always receives the maftir, or the Bar Mitzva boy who is also a Cohen?...
# 2128 Happy Returns
Re- Above question on a kinyan (acquisitive act) for the matzos eaten at the seder by family and guests. Should that kinyan be done for them in mind, at the time the host buys his matzos? Does that ...