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# 2007 Promises, Promises
If a neder works by forbidding an item onto oneself; why does the world say "Bli neder" to avoid some kind of commitment? wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say bli shavoua?...
# 2006 In His Name or Our Name?​
According to Minhag Ashkenaz, at the end of Birkas HaMazon, we say "HoRachamon Hu Yishlach Lanu Es Eliyah HaNavi Zachur LaTov, Vivoreich Osanu Kol Echad V’Echad Mimenu Bishmo." What is the mean...
# 2005 No Blue Strings Attached
See question 2004 above. Why shouldn’t everyone have the blue wool techeiles-thread added to their tzitzis, since there is no downside and there is nothing to lose if one uses it out of doubt?...
# 2004 Out Of The Blue
I have two questions in regards to using a blue techeiles thread in one’s tzitzis. 1) Is it recommended or permitted for one who doesn’t have that minhag in his family to start wearing tzit...
2003 Amen to That?
Someone who is careful not to recite a brocho unless there is someone present to listen to it and answer amen, would the amen responded by a Gentile who understands or is explained before the meaning ...
# 2002 Reality Check
Does one have to check tefilin and mezuzot using a computer program as it is done in our times with a Sefer Torah?...
# 2001 A Mincha Halacha
Hello Rav, One day a week I work until after sunset and will need to daven mincha during work during most of the winter. There is a mincha in an office building that is a 5 min jog away that davens at...
# 2000 Now Hear This!
(Re- question 1891). Is it important to conclude our recitation of Y’hei Sh’mei Rabbo before the Chazan begins Yisborach, so that we can concentrate on hearing the words that the Chazan is ...
# 1999 Don't Get Carried Away
If one is in a place over Shabbos where there is no eruv, are they permitted to carry an EpiPen since it is pikuach nefesh (life danger)?...
# 1998 Do I Have to Answer That?
On a prior question (1985) you mentioned that it is not obligatory to answer amen on hearing the bracha of a woman. Is that true for all brachot women say?...
# 1997 An Important Date
If one eats dates and an apple (a shiur of both) and nothing else, can the after-bracha for the dates cover the apple thus no borei nefashos would be required?...
# 1996 A Bitter Pill To Swallow
I have to take a pill after meals preferable with milk or other pareve non-acidic drink because of my sensitive stomach. I usually take one after shaleshudes, before benching. Sometimes I forget and r...
# 1995 Made to Order
Shalom Aleichem What comes first in limud haTorah, if one is behind in a mishnayos commitment for a shloshim or shanyim mikrah vechad targum?...
# 1994 Don't Free Yourself
Considering that it is better to spend money on a mitzvah than to get it for free, is it better for one to have his own Shabbos seuda (even if he is sitting by himself) than to join someone’s els...
# 1993 No Yale Veyavo?
Can one use a Yale T-shirt that has the emblem of the university bearing the words Urim Vetuim written in Hebrew stamped on the front, when you entering a bathroom?...
# 1992 A Hundred Brochos to My Daughter
My daughter wants to know if she is obligated like men to make 100 Brachos per day. Even though she davens Shacharis and Mincha daily, she does not daven Arvis and does not know of many righteous wome...
# 1991 No Wash and Wear...Ever?
Someone removed in Shabbos a stain on his jacket by rubbing it with a wet towel, he did this intentionally because of being ashamed of having a stain on his clothing. Since he did a melacha bemezid (i...
# 1990 Need a Silent Partner
If I have a choice to take as a partner in a business a Jewish non-believer (apikores) investor or a religious catholic one, which one should I choose?...
# 1989 Is There a Jewish Doctor in the House?
If I have a choice to be treated by a Jewish non-believer (apikores) medic or a religious Catholic one, which one should I choose?...
# 1988 Bring Up-To-Date?
Why do the ones that keep Nittel do so on the Goishe date and not in the Jewish one as we do with everything else?...