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# 2107 Lost in the Wash?
If you touch new shoes that were never worn, or shoes in a store do you require netilas yodaim?...
# 2106 Stepping Into a Dead Man's Shoes
A recently deceased relative left a number of shoes that she never wore in life. Can they be used or given to the needy?...
# 2105 Life Out of One's Car
Electric cars have become in recent years very efficient and as fast as the ones driven by gas. Since when driving a common gas consuming car during Shabbos one commits a constant repetitive Torah pro...
# 2104 With the Best of Intentions
Someone who volunteers daily for meals on wheels delivery of kosher meals to the sick and needy and also donates daily to a pushka of tzedaka for the poor, if he does that also in Purim does he keep t...
# 2103 Don't Gum Up the Works
My child wants to know if one is yotze shalachmones by giving a box of chewing gum? A, On question 1749 we write that contemporary Poskim disagree whether a blessing must be recited before che...
# 2102 Experience the Best Teacher
A teacher that receives shalachmonos from her students during Purim, and when receiving her shalachmonos returns also to them, does she comply with the mitzva by giving to children? Does her husband a...
# 2101 Read His Lips?
If someone reads the megilla for an elderly person who may not be able to concentrate for the complete reading, should he ask the elder to read with him from the megilla?...
# 2100 Water in Deep Water
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos by giving a soda bottle? How about an expensive plain mineral water?...
# 2099 The Purim Baby Bottle
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos if one of the items is a small bottle of grape juice (about six oz.) or is this too small?...
# 2098 There is Truth in Wine?
Can one be yotzi mishloach manos by giving two kinds of wine? What about wine and grape juice?...
# 2097 Purim Toil
I’m an accountant so this is my busy time of the year in this country. I always tried to avoid working on Purim. Can I work during the night after the reading of the megillah?...
# 2096 Know This about "Ad Delo Yoda"
If one sends his shalachmonos or the gifts to the poor via a shaliach, and at the time of delivery the sender was already at a stage of "ad delo yoda" or asleep, does he comply with the mitzva?...
# 2095 Magnanimous Anonymous
If one sends shalachmonos and forgot to put a senders card, it fell out or he simply wants to send it anonymously, is he yotzeh?...
#2094 Club the Kiddush Club?
If someone davens every Shabbath in a minyan that finishes late (after chatzos), and therefore, due to his medicinal needs, he privately makes a fast kiddush after shacharis and eats just a kezais mez...
# 2093 Keep It Under Your Hat
A person is walking in the public territory on Shabbos. He stops. He puts his hand in his pocket and - whoops - there is a pocket siddur in his pocket. What should he do? Drop it on the ground? No mak...
# 2092 Carry On
If little pieces of food that usually require flossing are stuck in the mouth and teeth after eating, can he go out with them to the street if there is no eruv? What if one has a loose tooth or a fi...
# 2091 Spit it Out?
How concerned does one need to be about walking on Shabbos in a busy street, with an accumulation of saliva and phlegm in his mouth that he has to spit out. Can he continue walking in a reshus horabim...
# 2090 The Chicken Came Home?
A friend’s wife does not usually prepare supper for her husband. Therefore, he takes care of his own supper by eating in yeshiva or elsewhere. One day, he comes home and his wife has prepared a b...
# 2089 Cut a Break
In a case that Rosh Chodesh falls on Thursday and Friday, is one to get a haircut and cut nails on Wednesday? Due to Rebbe Yehuda Hachassid’s will....
# 2088 The Right Path
On question 2069 you mention that Horav Miller permits to shovel a path in the snow during Shabbos when in need. Does that mean that one is allowed to shovel the snow into the grass area of the house,...