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# 1987 Totally Immersed in Nittel Nacht
I heard that some great Chasidishe Rebbes would not permit women to go to the mikva on nittel night. Is that true?...
# 1986 Tell the Intel of Nittel
Someone that has the minhag not to learn Torah on nittel nacht, is he allowed to learn the halochos of nittel nacht written in seforim like Nitei Gavriel?...
# 1985 Kadd-ishah?
You mentioned (on question 1979) that women should not recite kaddish in the women’s section behind the mechitza. What happens if a woman does recite and you hear her. Do you have to answer Yehei...
# 1984 The Party Line
Can I join an office New Year party if I seat together with other frum co-workers and we are served kosher food and kosher wine? Usually a sizable bonus is given to the ones who attend....
# 1983 Let There Be Light
The Talmud teaches (Pesachim 2a) that a person should go out on his way bechi tov when it is day. Should then someone avoid going to the hashkama minyan especially on Shabbath early morning when he...
# 1982 Take it With a Pinch of Salt
I seem to remember that I learned in the gemora that you are supposed to eat a bit of salt after having finished eating any meal. Since salt seems to be unhealthy these days, does the above still appl...
# 1981 Brocho Pursuit of Fruit
Re question (1980) above on one that ate mezonos and also fruits and a drink and then made "al hamichya" but not "bore nefashot," that the Rov ruled he can still take another drink without reciting a ...
# 1980 Don't Make me Say it Again
I ate mezonos and also fruits and a drink. If I made "al hamichya" but not "bore nefashot," can I still take another drink without reciting a "shehakol" bracha?...
# 1979 Can't Say For Sure
Does your minyan have a women’s section and accommodate women who say kaddish? I work at ... (nearby) and have yahrzeit Thursday evening and would like to say kaddish at the shul if acceptable. ...
# 1978 The Undiscovered Mitzva
( See above question 1977). How can someone comply with a mitzva if one is totally unaware of the mitzva being done?...
# 1977 Lighting for the Unenlightened
Re- prior question 1967, on an elderly single and bed-bound convalescent patient at a retirement nursing home or hospital, that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if there is a m...
# 1976 Always a Freilechen Chanuka
Regarding if Hanuka is a Yom Tov or not. Is there a Rabbinic mitzva of simcha and joy in Hanuka, after all we do greet each other with a Freilechen Hanuka? I know that there is no obligation to eat a...
# 1975 To Wait or not to Wait?
I recently began working in a kosher restaurant serving food to customers. What do I do on a fasting day like 10 of Teveth coming up. Is it permitted to serve food to Jewish customers that look health...
# 1974 Fast and Feast?
Can you have a wedding on the night of the Tenth of Teveth, since the fasting starts only in the morning?...
# 1973 Fast Talk
If someone undergoes periodical medical treatment and when it occurs on a regular taanis he was given a heter not to fast, exempting Yom Kippur and Tisha Beav, when he was told to postpone the treatme...
# 1972 Vacating Vacations?
Since Horav Shlomo’s Miller position is to avoid traveling during Chanuka, should there be an effort to have the schools change the days of vacation to before or after Chanuka?...
# 1971 Is Gut-Yom-Tov Still Gut?
On question 1222 you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that Chanuka is called a Chag and a Yom Tov as we find in Shulchan Aruch (Y. D. 217: 47) regarding a neder done exempting those da...
# 1970 Know Where You Stand
Re- question above. Often the glass cups use for Chanuka lights, are rounded on the bottom and can’t stand by themselves. Is that a problem?...
# 1969 The Silver Lining of a Menorah
Is it better to light a silver menorah using its own silver cups by placing the oil and wick in them, as was done in the menorah of the Beth Hamikdash. or can one use separate glass cups which is clea...
# 1968 Did We Strike Oil?
Is it permitted to light a menorah with olive oil or vegetable oil without a hechsher, when traveling and no other oil is available? Is it better to light then with candles?...