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# 1657 Into the Mouth of Babes
Is it permitted to give infants infant formula that contains chometz or lacks a kosher for Paysach symbol?...
# 1656 Small Fortune
We use in our minyan (when needed) a very small Sefer Torah, usually used in the house of avelim r’l. I noticed that due to the small size of the letters, the alef zeirah of parshas Vayikra is almost ...
# 1655 Talk the Walk
Hello Rav, Is it permissible for an adult male to participate in a marathon or a large walking event where large groups of people walk together for "a cause"? A couple potential issues would be the f...
# 1654 Licensing a Brocho by License Plates
Re- question 1650 - If you cannot say tehilim when facing a cross in an adjoining cemetery, how can you say kidush levana on the street, since all Ontario vehicle plates have a cross on them?...
# 1653 The No-Reason Reason
It is widely mentioned that the red heifer is a chok or law without reason, so why does Rashi in Chukas write that it comes to clean up after the golden calf. Let the mother clean up the mess of her s...
# 1652 Let’s Be Nice
A teenager leads and accompanies his grandfather suffering from Alzheimer to shul. But the grandfather because of his illness sometimes disturbs other mispaleleim. What is the correct thing to do for ...
# 1651 Holy Poroh!
Some say that Parshas Poroh is miduraisso (Biblical) the same as Parshas Zachor. I’ wondering, where is this mentioned in the Torah?...
# 1650 Cross Examine
Can you say tehilim and tefilos in a beis olam, where you can see the crosses on the non-Jewish cemetery across the fence?...
# 1649 Change of Scenery
Can you daven lekatchila in a shul that was once a Catholic church?...
# 1648 Women’s Rites?
Is there an inyan (or purpose) for women to go to shul and hear Parshas Para Aduma?...
# 1647 Noshn Lokshn
Is pasta prepared and packaged by non-Jews permitted?...
# 1646 Out of the Frying Pan...
Are potato chips sensitive to the halachos of bishul akum?...
# 1645 To Be Named Later
Can one give a Jewish name to an assimilated Jewish parent who didn’t have one, after his death and inscribe it on the matzeiva?...
# 1644 In One’s Name
A baal teshuva whose father was never given a Jewish name, although his father is Jewish - how should the baal teshuva be called up to the Torah, if he is extremely embarrassed to be called up by the ...
# 1643 Call Into Question
There is Canadian Federal legislation on the table requiring public servants to use transgender pronouns when addressing transgender people. Considering that, as I believe, perhaps erroneously, that ...
# 1642 Have Your Heart in Your Mouth
There are many references in tefila and in viduy to sins and transgressions that we have committed and we should be punished or even put to death for them. Since a person has to be very cautious with ...
# 1641 Reason To Listen
When someone has a guest on Shabbos day who did not make Kiddush Friday night (a not-yet-religous Jew), is it proper to say the full Kiddush on behalf of that person? If the person is not going to hav...
#1640 Aneinu Anyway
I have become a diabetic. I may not fast on any Taanis other than Yom Kippur. Does this mean I may never again say the Aneinu prayer like everyone else?...
# 1639 Quite a Bit
Can you use bitcoins for matanot laevyonim on Purim?...
# 1638 Frim Pirim?
Does a Purim seuda held in a large simcha hall require a mechitza, or is it OK to have people sit together with their families (men and women together)? If a mechitza is required, may one nevertheless...