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# 1737 Prisoner with Conscience?
Is there a mitzva of Pidyon Shevuim to try to free a Jewish convicted murderer who has been imprisoned for 28 years? He now puts on tefilin and is a hopeful complete baal teshuva. Should money be coll...
# 1736 In the Swim of Things
I’’m thinking about working as a baby swim instructor but have to go on an 8-day retreat to complete the training. I will be only listening to instructions and be in the swimming pool. Can I...
# 1735 Waiter! Where Is My Worm?
(See above question 1734) Does this apply to other foods and liquids besides fruits and vegetables, like tequila?...
# 1734 Worm One's Way In
Is it true that if I find a worm inside a fruit that did not crawl out from the inside of the fruit, it is kosher and one may eat it? Does that mean it can be just picked up, with or without a piece o...
# 1733 Call In Your Chips?
B"H - Shalom Dear Rabbi, In Sweden, many people have started to use microchip implants to replace car keys, credit cards and ID Cards. 1. Based on Daat Torah, Is that permissible? 2.In case it...
# 1732 Checking the Check
Can a defendant under house arrest wear his ankle monitor (it constantly checks and transmits to police his whereabouts), when permitted to go to shul on Shabbos (no eruv)?...
# 1731 Time to Call it a Night
Hello Rav, Q. I’ve learned in the past that if I go to sleep and night and then wake up in the middle of the night and want to learn Torah (even just reading silently), then I would need to mak...
# 1730 Teshuva on a Loss
I was on the train and found a wallet that, based on the ID inside it, belongs to a non-Jew. After considering what I should do and consulting with a few rabbis, some of them recommended that I return...
# 1729 Lessons to be Learned
I would like to know Horav Miller’s daas Torah in regards to someone who has limited time for learning. Since learning Torah with effort and exertion is most important, what takes priority? Learning...
# 1728 A Good Old Hand
A group visits an elderly ill patient in a retirement home. He sits on a wheelchair, while they put tefilin on him, and have him read shema. Is it enough to clean his hands with a wet paper towel? Doe...
# 1727 Clean Question
Re- question 1723 regarding washing hands after entering a bathroom. A most common case of bathrooms in offices and other public places, are small one room bathrooms with a toilet and sink only, that ...
# 1726 A Potluck Shaila?
Do Teflon coated metal pots and pans require tevila?...
# 1725 The Ways of the Throwaways
Do disposable aluminum pans require tevila?...
# 1724 In Deep Waters
Do new scissors used for cutting poultry need tevila in a mikva?...
# 1723 Lost in the Wash?
Is someone puts his hand inside a bathroom just to turn off the light, does he require washing netilas yodaim?...
# 1722 Living Memory
Since remembering Kabbolas Hatorah is a mitzva every day and not doing so is a negative prohibition (Ramban), Why don’t we actually read that parsha every day as we do with Yetzias Mitzraim?...
# 1721 It’s All in the Name
My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me; 2) Why does the Gemore refer to Shavuos as Atzeres, isn’t that the name in the Torah for the last day of Sukos?...
# 1720 Quiz Kid
My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me; Q. 1) if we eat milchigs on Shavuos because they didn’t have the opportunity to prepare kosher meat on that same day, why wasn’t the milk ...
#1719 Meal Plan
We usually eat a milchig meal during the first day (lunch) of Shavuot and meat in the night meals. This year since it is after Shabbat and we already ate meat, is it possible to change and eat milchig...
# 1718 Brocho Achrono
There are those whose family Minhag restricts their female members from reciting a Bracha on Sefiras HaOmer lest they miss at least one day. Suppose one of them does count every night of the first 4...