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# 1769 A Material Question
Is it better to use a taalis made of silk that is of an impure worm sheretz origin or better use rayon which originates from cellulose from permitted wood and plants? Can you use Lanital artificial w...
# 1768 A Mesh in the Flesh
Is a mesh taalit kattan, probably synthetic, kasher and can you make a bracha on it?...
# 1767 Guests Of Honor
It is said that ancestors are present at the weddings of their descendants. Is there a source for this tradition? Which are the ancestors that come and do they need an invitation?...
# 1766 Do Lose Sleep Over This
Dear Rabbi, I’m going to be going on a very long (about 1000 mile) drive for business during the three weeks - during the nine days in fact. I find it difficult to drive such a long distance wi...
# 1765 Enlightening the Light Travel
If one is traveling and space and weight are of the essence, does one have to take with, both his Shabbos and weekday taalis, or can he wear his Shabbos taalis for all prayers? If one is medakdek (ca...
# 1764 The Man Makes The Clothes
A person who can afford only one suit (jacket) and he would like to wear it both on Shabbos as well as when he davens during the weekdays, is this OK, or does it take away from the honor of Shabbos to...
# 1763 All Things Must Come to a Good End?
Why does ending with a good topic not apply to one ending a daily daf or any shiur on a sefer?...
# 1762 Finishing Touched
(See question 1761 above). How come some Parshios (like Kedoshim, Balak and others) do end with a wrong done?...
# 1761 Off To a Good Start
How important is when calling someone to the Torah to start with a good subject as we are so careful when finishing the aliya? Is it equally important?...
# 1760 That's Only The Half of It
How come we recite the half pasuk "Al Pi Hashem Beyad Moshe," (that is the way most people say, and the way it is printed in the Artscroll sidurim) during hagbaha. Is that not only half of the pasuk,...
# 1759 A Living Image?
Re- question above (1751) on pointing a finger towards the Sefer Torah during hagbaha, some questions. Q. If you don’t see the front of the Torah, but since the parchment is thin (sh’li...
# 1758 Table Talk
When a minyan meets in a home such as in a shiva, is there a need to have a table in the room during tefilah, even in the days that the Torah is not read, since it represents the mizbeach and that was...
# 1757 Early Shabbos Kiddush
I thank the Rov for giving all the opportunity to hear the Daas Torah from one of the Gedolei Hador Horav Miller shlita, easily and anonymously. Someone donated a Kiddush (we are a shul in the US) as...
# 1756 Park Your Thoughts
A Jew is reciting the Amidah when he remembers that he forgot to put money in the parking meter, and he sees through the window that there is a police officer in the street who will soon give him a ti...
# 1755 Blessings For Big Thanks
Can one who is not obligated to recite the hagomel brocho, recite it for someone else who is present and cannot say it himself, and be motzi him with the brocho?...
# 1754 What Are You Drinking?
It occurred to me that even those (Poskim), such as Horav Shlomo Miller, who are meikel (lenient) regarding sherry cask whiskeys, would think it appropriate to be machmir (stringent) in a situation wh...
# 1753 Transfusion Confusion
Does G-d allow his followers to get blood transfusions/transfers? (An additional question asked). If you have an opportunity to receive a transfusion should you choose from a fellow Jew?...
# 1752 Convert Alert!
Thank you for getting back to me, let me rephrase the question. A non-Jew that was a very religious dedicated Catholic for many years (actually a priest) and decided to convert to Judaism, since he ...
# 1751 A Shaila Wound Around Your Little Finger
Is there a source for the minhag that some people have to point with their little or pinky finger to the Torah when hagbaah is done? Why that finger?...
# 1750 Keep Alive the Food's Good Spirits
Is someone had some food in his pockets and entered a cemetery, can he eat the food after he goes out? Is there an issue of ruach ra (bad spirit) involved?...