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# 2087 Filling the Gaps
I read that Horav Shlomo Miller shlit’a permitted to spread salt or sand on paved, cemented or concrete surfaces covered with snow or ice in Shabbos, (see question 2073) if there is a need. Later...
# 2086 You Can Do This in Your Sleep
When someone sleeps over food, there is a ruach ra’a or evil spirit that rests on the food and it should not be eaten. Does that apply also to a non-Jew sleeping over food, as the cook taking a s...
# 2085 Making Your Hair Curl?
Our custom is to have long peyos and that they should hang down in front of the ear instead of being curled above and around the back of the ear. My son’s peyos (he is above Bar Mitzvah) refuse ...
# 2084 A Fast Name for a Speedy Refuah
A baby girl born prematurely was placed in an incubator, does one wait for name giving and saying sheheyanu until she is out?...
# 2083 Run and Eat?
Regarding what Rav Miller said, to start the (Shabbat) day seuda before chatzos, does this same apply to Yom Tov? What about Rosh Hashana?...
# 2082 No Danger In These Nails
Some people are careful to burn or bury the nails cut, or at least to swipe them and remove them and not step on them, since there is danger. Does that apply also when they are the nails of a goy (fou...
# 2081 Yes or "Snow"?
Can a child throw snowballs on Shabbos or make a snowman? Can one use snow to block high winds from blowing through the bottom of a side door that does not close properly, during a very windy Shabbos...
# 2080 Is it Mine or "Your"Zheit?
If someone who does not regularly attend this minyan, shows up and claims that he has yohrtzheit, should he be given priority to daven for the amud, or do the avelim who constantly daven there take pr...
# 2079 Shecheyanu Every Day
This question may seem zany, but I always wondered if G-d creates the world every day as we say in davening; hamechadesh bechol yom tomid maaseh bereshis, why is it then that we don’t say every d...
# 2078 A Dog in Wolf's Clothing?
I enjoy going dog sledding with the family in winter. I noticed that not all dogs used are always huskies, sometimes one or two white wolf dogs breeds are added to the pack. Is that a problem since on...
# 2077 What's in a Name?
When describing someone to someone else is it Loshon Hara to use phrases or descriptors such as ... “she’s /he’s a little heavyset “ to get the person to recall who you are speaking about. Or other o...
# 2076 Get In Somebody's Hair
Hello Rav, I was at the Jewish barber the other day and wondering if he is allowed to cut Jewish peoples payos area extremely short if they request? it would appear that he cuts the hair of many non-...
# 2075 Is This a Mitzva? Really?
is it true that the Chasam Sofer says that not saying tachanun on Purim Kattan is a mitzva of the Torah?...
# 2074 A Clean Brake?
Can you wash your hands netilas yodaim by immersing them in snow, as when exiting the house after touching boots or shoes?...
# 2073 Some Opinions of the Salt of the Earth
Can one scatter salt or sand on the snow during Shabbos to prevent people from falling?...
# 2072 Insides On Stressed Out
Re - question above. If one is allowed to violate Shabbos when one is under extreme mental and emotional pain and stress?...
# 2071 Taking Great Pains with Great Pains
Does extreme pain such as a severe tooth cavity qualify as pikuach nefesh or danger of life to violate Shabbat and drive to a dental clinic?...
# 2070 Slack on the Black Widow?
Q, I understand that a widow whose two previous husbands died is called a Katlanis, literally "a killer", a woman who is dangerous to marry or forbidden to marry (not sure which). I understand that t...
# 2069 Snow Alert
Regarding a recent shiur given by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a addressing shailos in snow related activities during Shabbos, it is worthwhile to present them to the many readers of this forum worl...
# 2068 Aliyas Neshama on Purim
Regarding one that has yortzait on Purim and wants to make a siyum, Horav Shlomo Miller advised that if possible, in this leap year, he should make a siyum on both days of Purim, as one does with reci...