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# 2067 Of Biters and Pickers
May a nail-biter or a skin-picker swallow the nails or the little pieces of skin he bites off, due to the prohibition of eating human flesh or disgusting things? Is it permitted to do so in a day of ...
# 2066 My Cup Runneth Away
If someone left a small closed cup of common commercial yogurt on a table in the communal kitchen of a Torah institution. He then left the room and when he came back, he found a similar cup on another...
# 2065 First Come, First Served or on Second Thought?
I have been a member of the local Chevra Kadisha for over twenty years. Recently we relocated to another city and I also joined their Chevra Kadisha. In the past, whenever there was a leap year. the m...
# 2064 Davening For or Before Food
If the available davening is late and the seuda will be close to chatzos or after, can one eat fruit, yogurt or cheese before davening?...
# 2063 Meals on Wills
If one made Kiddush (Shabbos morning after Shacharis or Musaf) and ate a kezayis of cake, or drank a cup of wine, is it OK to delay the actual seuda after chatzos? Or should one in all cases wash and ...
# 2062 An Early Drink?
Regarding the time of the Shabbos day seuda- is it OK to have a drink of water before davening and then start the seuda after chatzos? Or only b’dieved?...
# 2061 Export Permit
Recently a Sephardi Rabbi (Yonatan Halevy) posted on Facebook that Fruits and Vegetables from Israel grown for markets outside Israel do not require Terumah and Ma’aser according to the rulings of Rab...
# 2060 The Doubt of the Benefit
Can I rent a property to a non-Jewish restaurant that constantly serves cooked milk and meat dishes, since I would be benefiting from isurei hanaah or items prohibited in benefit when they pay their r...
# 2059 We Know Moshiach Now!
I once read that Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky responded to a query about when Moshiach was going to arrive, "Those who know don’’t say and those who say don’’t know." How does that sta...
#2058 A Value Judgment
(Re- question 2057 above). On a second but connected question. Can Shimon have a claim that Reuven made his property go down in value. Let’s say Shimon had an offer on his house for $500k but aft...
# 2057 Have Your Day D-in Court?
Is one allowed to appeal a decision by the planning board or does he have to go to Beis Din first? You have two parties. Reuven and Shimon. Reuven applied to be able to build a building next door to ...
# 2056 A Word on Honor
Hello Rav, I started learning at the Toronto Kollel in the mornings. As I’m learning, several young rabbis also walk by and come into the room to learn. I’m wondering if I should be standin...
# 2055 An Answer to an Answer
Re- question 2000 (on answering Yehei Shmei correctly during kaddish). The Gemara says whomever answers Y’hei Sh’mei etc. with all his Koach, they tear up etc. The Gemara uses the words "Kol...
# 2054 Traditions of Marriage
When a couple marries, they must separate from each other as if she were a menstruate after their first experienced marital relations. Is this true only if she was a virgin or regardless of her physic...
# 2053 An Accident not Waiting to Happen
Re - question 10 that; Harav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a is of the opinion that if someone is indeed in a car that spins out on the highway and miraculously does not get hit by another car, he does not reci...
# 2052 Fresh Start or Full Stop?
If the complete and full (shleimos) challos used for lechem mishneh on Shabbos, are stale and hard, can I just eat a bit from one of them to comply with the hamotzi, and then eat the rest of the neede...
# 2051 The Chosen One
Re- above question. I once heard in a shiur, that since the Gemorah teaches when a sickness is sent to a person, an oath is made with that sickness so it will not leave the person, only at an appointe...
# 2050 Doctors Orders?
Does Halacha permit a doctor called by one of his patients in the middle of the night for an emergency, to respond to the patient that he should call Hatzalah or 911?...
# 2049 The Book on Scraps
If one has pas palter (baked by a Gentile) that will spoil if left until motzoi Yom Kippur (even if frozen), and one does not eat it during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva, can one give it to one that does e...
# 2048 Looks Could Kill
Does the issur of looking at the face of a rasha (evil person) include looking at the picture, or only at the person?...