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# 1967 Let The Light Shine for Everyone
Re- question 1966 above, on an elderly single and bed-bound convalescent patient at a retirement nursing home or hospital, who has no possibility of lighting or being present at the lighting of a Meno...
# 1966 A Nixed Blessing?
An elderly single and bed-bound convalescent patient at a retirement nursing home or hospital, who has no possibility of lighting or being present at the lighting of a Menorah. can he make the bracha ...
# 1965 How's The Family?
My uncle married a woman. She became my aunt. I am now disqualified from testifying on her behalf. They had 3 children. The couple divorced. Am I still disqualified from testifying on her behalf beca...
# 1964 It's All Greek To Me
Re- question 1963 above. I’m wondering if you can provide an actual case where Greek philosophy contributed something of value to the Torah? Q. Ancient Greek philosopher Plato was a student...
# 1963 Beware of Greeks Bearing Spiritual Lifts
Why do we attack so much the Greek philosophy during Hanuka, did not the Rambam study and wrote much about Aristotle? The Talmud in Megila also sponsors learning Greek wisdom, since Noach blessed Ye...
# 1962 Guessing the Guest
Our family is going to visit our parents for Shabbos Chanuka and be staying there until Motzei Shabbos. Our home is close by and we are leaving after the plag. We heard that there are different opinio...
# 1961 A Shaila on Shoalim
If someone prayed maariv after plag but before the shkia on December 4, and forgot that you have to start saying that night veten tal umatar, but since it was not yet really night, does he have to rep...
# 1960 The Prominence of a Shamash
On question 684- 685 in regards to creating a variety of colors in the lights of the menorah by adding different chemicals to the oil, or adding aromatic drops to the oil, since the effect is quite at...
# 1959 Is It Worth the Candle?
Is there a special inyan to light candles or oil lamps at the amud in a shul? Not that many shuls do that these days, why?...
# 1958 Figure of Speech
Of the five oral tools from which speech emerges, throat, palate, teeth, tongue, lips, why is it that in the 24 Books speech is most often referred to in association with the tongue and the lips?...
# 1957 The Character of the Characters
Our minhag, following Minhag Chasam Sofer, is to write our Sifrei Torah, Tefilin, and Mezuzos in Kesav Beis Yosef, except that the top-right section of the Tsadi is written as it appears in Kesav Ari....
# 1956 Shed Some Light
Can you light the shul menorah on Chanuka from a shul yohrtzait candle? How about a cigarette from a yohrtzait candle?...
# 1955 Gift Ideas
How could Yaakov who kept the whole Torah send a gift to Eisav, is that not prohibited because of Lo Techanem?...
#1954 Halachah of Hakdamah - Torah or Tefilah?
A man has a daily schedule to daven shachris btzibur attend a daily shiur and then go to work. One morning he wakes up late. There is a later minyan he can go to but he will miss his shiur. He can dav...
# 1953 Ahav es HaVav
I believe I asked this question in the past but did not receive a reply. Nowadays, most Sifrei Torah, their pages are "typset" and arranged according to a standard configuration where every page, ex...
# 1952 It All Comes Out in the Wash
If a pareve metal pan covered with enamel was accidentally run through a meat dishwasher that has not been used for over a day, is it still pareve? What if it was washed with the fleishike utensils? C...
# 1951 Here We Go Again
Re- question 1933. Is there also a hetter not to stand more than once or twice a day for any elder?...
# 1950 Behold the Old
On shaila 1933 you wrote that Rav Miller says "That in our days, due to the fact that people live longer lives, reaching the age of seventy is common and does not seem to be a major achievement anymor...
# 1949 What Are You Drinking?
When no wine or beer are available at the chupa, (the chupa took place at a hall out of town), should liquor be used or nothing at all and no shehakol brocho should be made?...
# 1948 The Law of the Spirit
Re- above question. It is still unclear to me which is the best way to follow. Should the mesader kiddushin drink from the wine cup or not?...