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# 1597 Let Them Eat Cake
See question above - What bracha would you make? (on tincture - a liquid concentration of the marijuana plant. You just put a few drops on the tongue)....
# 1596 A Certified Kosher Pot?
Does the now available tincture require a hechsher? (It is a liquid concentration of the marijuana plant. You just put a few drops on the tongue; see question above)....
# 1595 High or Spirited?
Now that the use of recreational marijuana became legal here in California (or is about to, as in other states), is there a Halacha issue for not using it, even when not in a smoke? Why should it be d...
# 1594 Stay Tuned
The cantor in my synagogue tends to sing rather slowly, emphasizing every musical note. When it comes to parts of the prayers for which he has no melody, he whispers them to himself, and quickly. Our ...
# 1593 Find One’s Voice
In regards to the blind reading shnaim mikra using Braille, could the mute (by the removal of the voice cords) read shnaim mikra by using a voice vibrator that creates words. For that matter, can the ...
# 1592 Milk and Baloney?
If one is attending a bris milah that is going to be milchigs, may/ should one bring his own meat in order to fulfill his obligation according to all opinions (including Magen Avraham), or is this hau...
# 1591 Enjoy Your Meal
Does one comply with the mitzvah of seudas bris milah when serving a dairy seuda, without wine, as is the custom? Or should one serve meat and wine, as is appropriate for a seudas mitzvah?...
# 1590 Sing a Different Song?
We were having a Chanukah party and we were singing this song, "Leshana HaBaa Birusholayim". Unlike the passage in the Haggadah shel Pesach, where this phrase ends there, the song has an added word: "...
# 1589 A Touching Question
What is Horav Miller’s opinion on a blind person reading the parsha (shnaim mikra) in Braille, is that considered reading? Is it better than listening to someone else reading?...
# 1588 Translation To Follow....
Is someone does not understand the Hebrew or the Targum, does he comply if he listens to a tape? or even if he just reads it from the chumash, without knowing what he is saying?...
# 1587 Read, The Answer
What should the blind or the mute do in regards to the shnaim mikra mitzva? Are they obligated at all? Should they listen to someone else reading or even to a tape?...
# 1586 Reason To Listen
Can someone comply with shnaim mikra if he listens to a tape while he is driving?...
# 1585 Then Again
Does an avel sitting shiva read the parsha shnaim mikra, since he is prohibited in Torah learning?...
# 1584 Let’s Do It Again
There is a well known remez on the beginning letters of the word Shemos for reading the parsha every week twice mikra (text) and once targum, (Aramaic translation). Why is the allusion here at the be...
# 1583 Burial in De-Nile?
How come Yosef was placed in a coffin and then sunken into the bottom of the Nile, is that not a bitul of the mitzva of kebura, since you cannot bury in water?...
# 1582 The Brake-Bread Fix
On Shabbos, if an individual (invited) at the meal has a dietary restriction and can only eat certain special types of bread (e.g., gluten free, spelt), should the special loaf (even if it is not whol...
# 1581 A Rain Check
The Eida Chareidis in Yerusholayim posted an announcement that the population should begin saying the addition of "Va’aneinu Borei Olam" in the Bracha of Shomei’a Tefilah, since the dearth o...
# 1580 All Year Round
I heard from a chasidisher fellow that even if you answer daily to a “gut morgen” greeting in Yidish, a “gut yohr,” as many do, on New Year’s day you should avoid saying it, because of the connotation...
# 1579 A Promise Is a Promise
If I made a shevuah and use Hashem’s name A’’D, but I pronounce it as adinoy. i.e. (The daleth was pronounced with a chiriq). I am obligated to keep the shevuah – is this a shevuah according to the To...
# 1578 A Cover Story
Can one get undressed or have marital relations in a room were seforim or English Torah magazine articles are kept in a closed night-table drawer?...