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# 2127 It Pays to Pay
(Re- Above question on a kinyan (acquisitive act) for the matzos eaten at the seder by family and guests). Is it advisable that the guest pay a symbolic amount to the host for the matzos to be eaten l...
# 2126 Seder Assets
How do you handle during the Pesach Seder, the kinyan (acquisitive act) needed to have the matzos gifted to the family and guests, since matzos have to be owned by the eater?...
# 2125 Never Too Late to Learn
Re - Last question. (How do you arrange a minimal seder for an elderly lady that is mentally OK, but bed ridden at home). What is the minimal Haggada reading that has to be said for her? Does she have...
# 2124 Mind the Senior Moment
How do you arrange a minimal seder for an elderly lady that is mentally OK, but bed ridden at home. What is the smallest shiur of matza, and how do you prepare it with water?...
# 2123 Shemura Segula?
Is there a segula on eating shmura the entire Pesach?...
# 2122 Be Shomer the Shemura
Some people have developed a custom to eat only "shmura" matza the entire Pesach. Is there a basis for such a minhag considering even our "non shmura" is generally watched in a fashion that technicall...
# 2121 Is It Nice to See You?
Should one make an effort to see a president or a prime minister in our days?...
# 2120 Fake Brocho II
If one has the opportunity to see a president or a prime minister does he make a special blessing? If not should one recite without the name of Hashem?...
# 2119 Read One Right
A hospitalized person may be able to go down to the hospital shul on Parshas Zachor. If there is no minyan, can he with help, take out the Sefer Torah and read Zachor for himself even without a minyan...
# 2118 Search and Burn
One (such as a physician) who is doing bedikas chametz and knows that he might be unable to destroy what he finds the next day, as is customary, because the next day he might be osek in pikuach nefesh...
# 2117 Search Results
One who is doing bedikas chametz and knows that he will not find a crumb of chametz (and he doesn’t have anything to hide), should he refrain from blessing?...
# 2116 Motzo Matza
Our minhag is not to eat matzos thirty days before Pesach. Since I only eat shemura matzos during Pesach, can I eat now regular machine matzos. Can I eat gebrocht matzos in soup or matzebrai, since we...
# 2115 All of a Sudden Blessing
One who is in the middle of a Purim seuda and (unexpectedly) receives mishloach manos during his seuda, does he need to make a bracha on the food that he received? Does it make a difference if he was ...
# 2114 The Kosher Chazer?
Is the fact that our sages taught that the chazer-pig will become in the days of the Moshiach a kosher animal a reflection on the artificial meat that Horav Miller is said to be kosher and pareve. One...
# 2113 An Honest Opinion
I live in Israel. This week I was using a vending machine in the train station. Suddenly it started spitting out coins. After collecting them all, I had over 170 shekel. Do I need to return the mone...
# 2112 Dreams Come True?
One who does not read Hebrew and cannot follow along in a Chumash, etc. during Megillah - what is he to do? The mind wanders, and one is not yotzi!? Or is one still yotzi even if he daydreams....
# 2111 No Kavana - No Tefila?
If someone has problems concentrating and he knows he wont be able to concentrate even on the first bracha of the amida, is he exempt from tefila?...
# 2110 Beginning at the End
If someone has problems on concentrating during the complete amida, after having kavanah on the first bracha, should he put effort on concentrating on other complete brachos, even if they are few. Or ...
# 2109 A Paper's Trail
A very busy student deliberately (lo alenu) desecrated Shabbos by writing an essay because he thought he wouldn’t be able to do it unless he worked on Shabbos. He wants to do teshuva. Is he oblig...
# 2108 Fixed Blessings
If one accidentally said a wrong bracha and he wants to fix it, but he is not sure if it is within toch k’’dei dibbur, or it’’s too late, what should he do? Can someone say the c...