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# 1697 Just Hang Up
What should one do when he picks up the phone on a Friday afternoon and, to his horror, discovers that the caller is a non-religious Jewish family member who is now in a part of the world where Shabbo...
# 1696 A Wonder on A Wonder
My daughter works in the Yonge & Finch area and since it was a nice day she was sitting on a bench in a small park when the van that killed and harmed so many people run some feet in front of her. A p...
# 1695 A Fortunate Soldier
I’m joining the army as a chaplain. What should I do with lighting candles before Shabbos inside an army camp? The lighted candles can not be left unattended....
# 1694 Boot Camp
I’m joining the army as a chaplain. Can I carry inside the building or inside the fenced army camp during Shabbos?...
# 1693 Special Forces
I’m joining the army as a chaplain. Can I have the cook warm my special double wrapped kosher food on Shabbos? He knows it is for me....
# 1692 Bad Hair Day
Hello Rabbi I am waiting for a response about my shailoh of lo yilbosh for a man dyeing his hair nowadays....
# 1691 Double Check
If someone was visiting in Eretz Yisroel when they were reading a different parsha that Shabbos (Tazria – Metzora) and in Chutz Laaretz (Shemini). And then returns and will listen a second time the ne...
# 1690 Walking on Eggs
I have a non-Jewish neighbor who is very friendly and does us many favors. He offers every year to my children Easter chocolate eggs. They don’t eat them because they don’t have kosher certification. ...
# 1689 Not That Social
What is Horav Miller opinion in signing into Facebook, Linkedin or Whatsapp? Are there issues of lashon horah and rechilus involved?...
# 1688 Seek and Hide?
Recently, I went on a shidduch date. When I came in the apartment, the mother of the young lady was present, as were her two daughters. However, her husband was at work. Is this a yichud situation? I ...
# 1687 Aneinu Anyway II
Re - question 1640 in regards to someone who became a diabetic and cannot fast anymore reciting Aneinu, we wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one can still say Aneinu, but omit t...
# 1686 No News is Good News
Is there a prohibition on listening, reading or repeating news that may be fake?...
# 1685 Speak for Yourself
Are Gentiles included in the speaking lashon horah prohibition?...
# 1684 See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil
Can one speak lashon horah on a Gentile? If not, can you speak on a Gentile if he also speaks lashon horah on others?...
# 1683 Wash for Lavash?
What is the correct brocho for lavash flatbread which is very thin and "floppy"? Is it the same brocho for any thin wrap?...
# 1682 Dip In
See question above. Can someone that does not eat gebrochts (matza or matza flour dipped or mixed with water on Pesach) dip matza in wine or another alcoholic beverage (Kosher Lepesach)?...
# 1681 No Broch on Gebrochts
Can someone that does not eat gebrochts (matza or matza flour dipped or mixed with water) on Pesach dip or spread matza with mayonnaise? How about butter or jam?...
# 1680 A Storm in a Wine Cup
Re- Question 70 on what is one supposed to do after the seder with the wine from the Kos Shel Eliyahu, where we mentioned that Nitei Gavriel (Pesach 2: 101: n.21) quotes that Horav Yaakov Landau zt’...
# 1679 Ahead Of One’s Time
My daily minyan davens maariv immediately after the shekiah. Which is the earliest time we can count sefira after the shekiah? When people don’t count in shul they tend to forget....
# 1678 Sorry Money
If someone Hashem forbid, looses his father and at the same time receives from him a large inheritance, I remember that he has to recite Dayan Haemet for the death and Shecheyanu for the inheritance. ...