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# 1907 Open To Question
(Re- question 1906). In the above case, if someone purchased pesicha as an honor, does he have to comply with his promise and pay his donation if the doors could not be opened, but you can see the sef...
# 1906 An Open or Closed Door?
The Aron Hakodesh in the shul I daven, has a proper paroches curtain. The doors behind them are made of artistic bars that permit seeing the sifrei torah inside the ark. Often they are locked with a c...
# 1905 A Kuck to this Tire
On Shabbos police chalked my car tire so that they could come back later and ticket me for parking for more than three hours. Is there permissible way for me to clean off the chalk?...
# 1904 Count One's Blessings
I’m wondering if it would be permissible to listen to a mussar shiur (on mesilat Yesharim) in the morning while getting dressed,etc. (before having said the birkat HaTorah. I think I’ve lear...
# 1903 Mystery Meat
Where does the Gemara say a Ben Pakua is Mutar to eat?...
# 1902 Easy on the Eyes
Re- last answer (1901) that eye ailments can be considered life threatening. Does one recite the hagomel bracha after an eye cataract operation?...
# 1901 An Eye on an Eye
Can eye drops be used in Shabbos after a cataracts operation?...
# 1900 The Empty Nest?
The Rashbo (Teshuvos 5: 115) offers a most novel third interpretation on the meaning of "Koneh Shamaim Vaaretz" (14: 18). He claims it means a nest, as in "ken tzipor." Does that not contradict what i...
# 1899 Abraham Hacohen?
How come there is no mention that Avraham Avinu, who kept all mitzvos, made a pidyon habben when Yitzchok was born?...
# 1898 Under Cover
Can the cover of the challos on Shabbos be transparent such as a plastic bag?...
# 1897 Everything About the Kitchen Sink
With a large family and a moderate size sink, we need the Friday night Shabbat dishes out of the sink after the meal, so we pack them into the dishwasher. (Usually we will not need these plates again ...
# 1896 From Cover to Cover
Hello Rav, I heard in a shiur that you are suppose to have 2 tablecloths on your table on Shabbat, so that when you remove one to switch it, or to shake it off, the table will always still be covered ...
# 1895 A Minor Honor
Can you honor a minor with pesichat Aron Hakodesh? (As in Avinu Malkenu, Shema Kolenu or Shir Hamaalot, or when someone else takes out the Sefer Torah)...
# 1894 We'll Drink to This
I made a bris on Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos. The milah itself was done in my house and the kiddush was at the neighbors sukka. Can the person making the brocho drink from the wine since it is not bemo...
# 1893 Mount an Olive Shaila
Shalom, In an online search, this site came up, but I can’t find a way here to search for the relevant post... I was asked if there’s a mekor to say that the Gemara in Horios re olives, is...
# 1892 Does This Add Up?
A person who is davening Maariv on motzoi Shabbos 50 minutes past sunset, and his custom is to prolong Shabbos for 72 minutes, or longer, should he skip ata chonantanu in SE, because once he says this...
# 1891 An Answer to an Answer
It says that one should answer Yehe Shmei Rabba with all his might, so he can answer louder than the one saying kaddish, does that include the Amen also?...
# 1890 Amein Restrain
When someone is in a kiddush and he hears someone else making a brocho at the same time he is also saying one, should he answer Amen? If he does is it a hefsek?...
# 1889 This is the Answer
If one did not hear the bracha being said, but he realizes what it was, as when people bow down for moddim or one has an apple in his hand that he is about to eat, can he answer Amen?...
# 1888 An Under Oath
Since we are to avoid making nedarim and oaths, can someone sign a document that ends with the following statement? "I solemnly declare that the foregoing statements are to the best of my knowledge a...