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#5717- Watch Out When You Open Your Mouth!
Dear Rabbi. I have friends form Panama that visit me often during the winter. Their kids are amazed, at the snowfall that for them is really unusual. An eight year old was wondering if he opens his m...
#5716 - Remains To Be Seen
Kevod Horav Shlit”a. As the Rov knows I give a daily Halacha shiur in our shul, and I thank you for answering the many shailos that I have sent you and to consult with Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a. Tha...
#5715 – Watch Those Kids!
Dear Rov Shlit’a. Baruch Hashem we have a large family with many children and grand children that visit us for the kindling of the Menorah on Chanuka. Since many of the children are young and keep on...
#5714 – The "Daring" Dread of the Dreidl?
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a is it permited to play a dreidl game and using candies instead of money? If permitted can youngsters play it on Shabbat?...
#5713 On the Bondi Bond?
Rabbenu Shlit’a, In our large family, we have a cousin that was injured with one of his children in the commotion of the terrorism attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. We usually make a large Ch...
#5712 – The Little Yom Kippur!
Following my question above. I wonder, is not the day before every Rosh Chodesh named Yom Kippur Katan (“Mini Yom Kippur”) and is usually kept by many, including myself as a day of introspection and r...
#5711 - Still on the Fifth Day of Chanuka!
Why is the night of the fifth of Chanuka so special for many of our neighbors?...
#5710 - The Fifth Day of Chanuka!
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I often attend your shiurim and I also much appreciate the openness of your questions and answers. My question now. In a shul I often attend they make a special kiddush on the day ...
#5709 – Say Cheese! on Chanuka?
See question above. I also heard that there is a tradition to eat on Chanuka cheese, why?...
#5708 – The Mater of the Milk?
See question above. What is the reason for the tradition to drink milk or milky foods on Chanuka?...
#5707 – Milk the Cheese for All it is Worth!
DEAR Rabbi Is there the minhag (tradition) to drink milk on Chanuka?...
#5706 - The Real Chanuka Story
Estimado Rabino. What is the source in our Bible for Chanuka?...
#5705 Take the Less Traveled Path
Kvod Harav. Last year I had this sad experience. If on Chanuka someones overseas flight was delayed until almost daybreak, until when can one still light the Chanuka candles....
#5704 More Hard Work!
See question above. Until what time do women have to avoid working on Chanuka nights?...
#5703 – So Hard to Define the Hard Work?
See question above. What kind of work is prohibited for women when the menorah lights are lit on Chanuka ? Does it apply also to unmarried women? Or girls?...
#5702- Don’t Women Always Work So Hard???
Dear Rabbi , What is the reason that some women don’t do any work when the menorah lights are lit on Chanuka?...
#5701 Need Better Early Lights
Dearest Rabbi I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. In need, how early c...
#5700 An Early Light?
– Q. I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. How early can you light Chan...
#5699 – Enlightening the Lighting
Kvod Harav Shlit’a. In our Shul we light the Chanuka candles between Mincha and Maariv. It is then mostly already after the Shekiah, yet sometimes not? is that correct, How about at home?...
#5698 The Weak Wick?
Estimado Querido Rabino, As we approach Chanuka, I have a number of questions. We recently expanded our house, as we were digging we discovered a n amount of Sheimot, also discarded Tefilin, Jewish ...