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# 2047 Counting On Your Chickens
I travel on business often to China, where I visit some companies in different far off cities, that don’t have any kind of Jewish communities. I noticed that the life chickens in the market place...
# 2046 Wine And Din
What is Horav Miller’s opinion in regards to pasteurized wine. Is it permitted as yain mebushal (cooked wine)?...
# 2045 An Early Mazal Tov?
If one hast to undergo an important medical procedure, it is generally recommended to do it during the month of Adar, since those are days of good mazal. Does that include the first day of Rosh Chodes...
# 2044 Helping the Troubled Waters
In places like Las Vegas and some counties in California where literally the treated water goes from the toilet to the tap, can you wash netilat yadaim with such water. Even if not contaminated, why s...
# 2043 The Works of Water Works
In some countries the city water is not connected directly to the taps, but is stored first in a water tank usually at the roof of the house. To avoid spilling the water once the tank is full, the wat...
# 2042 You Call That Work?
(See question 2041 above on water that was used to perform work). Why is water that "worked" by turning a water motor, different from any common water whose volume was measured by a water meter. After...
# 2041 Kosher Water Power
I own a water powered motor that I use to open and close the suka roof on Shabbath and Yom Tov. The water used is not wasted, it ends in a pool that we use as a mikva for men, (it is connected to a ra...
# 2040 Learning the Walk Before the Run?
Is one allowed to study other religions for the sole purpose of being able to be mekarev and bring back the ones that fell and converted to them?...
# 2039 With Gusto or Disgusting?
(see question above) If the majority of people consider the food repugnant, but to this individual it is not, can he eat it or would he transgress on the prohibition of bal teshaktzu?...
# 2038 No Harm No Foul
Is it permitted to sell or feed someone food that is healthy and not contaminated, but disgusting and loathsome by its origins, if the fellow that eats it is totally unaware of it? (e.g. food that a r...
# 2037 Knowledge on the Fruits of Trees for Women
Do women have the minhag of eating fruits on Tu Bishvat as men do (after all it is time dependent)?...
# 2036 Attent to the Tent
Re- questions 2034-35 above. Does a solid tent that meets size requirements and is used during the summer months at a cottage for additional sleeping quarters, require a mezuza? Does it matter if the ...
# 2035 Snowed Inn
My kids build almost every year an igloo to play, eat and enjoy there games with their friends. Since we live in Montreal, the igloo stays up for usually 3 months or more. We want to join them for fun...
# 2034 Shed Some Light
Does a shed used in the backyard for storing a lawn mower, bicycles, water hoses etc. require a mezuza? Do you say a bracha?...
# 2033 Old Wine in New Bottles
Wine decanters have become a popular gift for a Shabbos or Yom Tov table. The reason to use this specialized bottles is to decant an aerate the wine. (Many young wines can be tight or closed on the no...
# 2032 The Fire-Millionaire Questionnaire
Is it true what they say that after suffering a fire one acquires wealth? (Noch a sreifa vert men raich - Yidish)....
# 2031 Searching For An Intelligence Answer
My ex-yeshiva bochur friend, is a specialized forensic accountant that works for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He expertly searches and traces funds that could be used for terrorism purpos...
# 2030 Just Take a Look
Re- prior question 1985 - You also mentioned that the other side of a mechitza is not part of the shul, and people davening there are not part of the minyan. However, in many shuls men daven there whe...
# 2029 Silent Partners
On question 1989 you mentioned that" Rema (O.H. 156: 1) rules that Gentiles unlike Jews, who believe and serve G-d, are not proscribed from serving at the same time other gods, since they are not proh...
# 2028 Lost on Translation
In the beginning of Devarim is says that Hashem told Moshe to explain the Torah during the last forty days of his life in seventy languages. Why were they required to hear the Torah in all languages...