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# 1808 Let The Music Begin
On the night after the end of Tisha Beav (when Tisha Beav falls on Shabbos) I know we can’t eat meat yet until the morning, but can you already listen to music?...
# 1807 Fast After Fast Heal
Someone that can’t fast even on the night of Tisha Beav, should he say havdala immediately, or wait until he has to take his medicine with some food? Thank you so much....
# 1806 A Mixed Blessing
During shaleshudes (whenTisha Beav falls on Shabbos), in our shul we stop eating five minutes before the shkia, but we continue with zemiros and divrei Torah. Do we better bench immediately using a ko...
# 1805 Serving Mitzvos or Feeding Klippos?
Kvod Harav. When someone finds himself in a compromising situation where he is likely to transgress an issur and he can’t get away, such as traveling in a packed subway or car being surrounded by pe...
# 1804 Stop At Nothing
I’m learning the MB (Mishna Berura) 104:5, sif katan 17 where it discusses; where in the Amidah to re-start if you made a hefsek (stop or interruption) of a certain length. It seems that there ar...
# 1803 Tzitzis with Strings Attached
I understand that I may not buy, during the Nine Days, a new, complete pair of tzitzis, i.e. with the strings already attached. However, may I buy the four-cornered garment and the strings separately...
# 1802 Have a Great Yom Tov II
Since Tu Beav is such a great Yom Tov, does one have to eat meat and drink wine on that day?...
# 1801 Bundle The Joy
The Mishna Berura (551,1), says that "Mishenichnas Av Memaatin Besimcha" (When the month of Av begins we should reduce joy), applies until Rosh Chodesh Elul. Does that mean that one should continue wi...
# 1800 Open This Window
Can someone that works creating and assembling stained glass windows and selling the commercially do so during the 3 weeks? What happens if the customers are non-observant Jews?...
# 1799 Unveiling a Shaila
In case of need, as the son traveling from far, is in town only on that day, can you arrange a matzeiva unveiling on Tu Beav? (15 of Av)....
# 1798 Take a Shine to this Shaile
Can you polish silver items during the 9 days? is it permitted even for weekdays use? Can you ask a domestic helper to do it?...
# 1797 Strange To say
Is there a source for the strange minhag that some have to say shnaim mikro and once targum on Parshas Vaeschanan, while wearing taalis and tefilin?...
# 1796 More Answers To Answering
(Re question above) Do all Poskim agree that one listening to the sheliach tzibur and the tzibur answering Amen, Kedusha, Kaddish, Barchu, etc, has to stop learning and is required to answer?...
# 1795 An Answer To Answering
Hello Rav, I recently read a halacha in the "Torah Tavlin" weekly publication discussing the obligation (or lack of) to answer Amen, Kedusha, Kaddish, Barchu, etc, etc when you are learning Torah and ...
# 1794 A Taalis Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
A taalis brocho question: At... a makeshift shul... , including a chazzan’s amud on wheels that has an opening door... I kept my (new) Shabbos Taallis inside of the amud zipped shut in a standar...
# 1793 Ban The Flames?
Thank you so much for your prompt answer (on the screen use during the 3 weeks and on Shabbat). You wrote that the Horav Miller "permits leaving on during Shabbos the picture displayed on the screen, ...
# 1792 Moving into a New Home Sweet Home-Page
Can one create a new web site during the 3 weeks? It is not a business need, which I assume would be permitted, but a family one. We use it to keep our large and extended family, now living in differe...
# 1791 Screen This Screen
Kvod Horav. We have in our family room a very large screen that serves as a virtual picture frame. It changes according to the times we program it, into different scenes, images and pictures of natur...
# 1790 If You Can Feed Them Join Them
Can women, family or friends, invited to a yohrtzait siyum (see question above), take also part in the siyum and eat meat during the 9 days, even if they are not helping to set up?...
# 1789 See-You at the Siyum
If someone was invited to a yohrtzait siyum during the Nine Days but arrived after the siyum, can he still partake, eat meat and drink wine? Does he have to eat bread or at least mezonot?...