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# 1749 Chew This One Over
Does Rav Miller Shlita also hold that you don’t make a brocho on flavored chewing gum (as in Listerine strips see prior question 1739)? Don’t you eat and enjoy the flavoring agents and sweet...
# 1748 A Drinking Problem
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, Can you please ask HoRav Miller Shlit’a if it is best to refrain from scotch in sherry casks due to the isur hanaah (prohibition of deriving benefit) of stam yayin (non-koshe...
# 1747 Amen? Ken!
If my minhag is not to say Baruch Hashem l’olam in Maariv (due to concerns of hefsek between geula and tefilla), should I also avoid saying Amein to this bracha?...
# 1746 See The Light?
I will fly be"h Sunday June 3 from JFK to Moscow flight time 1:05 AM scheduled to arrive in Moscow 5:20 P.M. local time. Moscow is 7 hours ahead of NY when should I daven shacharis?...
# 1745 A Perfect Stranger?
A Shadchanit called me about a shiduch and we went on a date. She told me that everything was okay with the boy, but on the date I had a feeling that he was somehow "distant", and some of his respons...
# 1744 Have a Gezunt Gut Shabbos
As I mentioned yesterday I have lately some respiratory problems and I am waiting to see a specialist (takes too long). I cannot walk long time,, cannot climb stairs and very often I have some cough...
# 1743 Don't Trip on that Trip
Is one permitted to leave Eretz Yisroel to visit an ailing parent who has intermarried?...
# 1742 Not New - No Sheheya-nu
I live in Eretz Yisroel where varied fruits are not available all year. Rather, they appear in the stores as they are harvested. Around now, after Shavuos, is when ripe sweet grapes are being sold, co...
# 1741 Conflicts in Interest
Question regarding Ribbis. If one jew lends money to another jew and the other jew who is not observant wants to pay back the favor with money or a sizable gift. The lender explains to the the the oth...
# 1740 Sometime One Time is Just Fine
Regarding what Rav Miller wrote that one may attend a university class, etc. on Shabbos, why is it not a Chillul Hashem? Even the goyim understand that for Jewish people Shabbos is a day of rest. And ...
# 1739 Thresh the Bracha on Fresh Breath?
Do you make a bracha on Listerine strips?...
# 1738 A Brocho in a Nutshell
If I made a mezonos brocho on a cracker with peanut butter and I have left some of the peanut butter on the knife I used and want to eat it the leftover by itself, do I have to make a shehakol? What ...
# 1737 Prisoner with Conscience?
Is there a mitzva of Pidyon Shevuim to try to free a Jewish convicted murderer who has been imprisoned for 28 years? He now puts on tefilin and is a hopeful complete baal teshuva. Should money be coll...
# 1736 In the Swim of Things
I’’m thinking about working as a baby swim instructor but have to go on an 8-day retreat to complete the training. I will be only listening to instructions and be in the swimming pool. Can I...
# 1735 Waiter! Where Is My Worm?
(See above question 1734) Does this apply to other foods and liquids besides fruits and vegetables, like tequila?...
# 1734 Worm One's Way In
Is it true that if I find a worm inside a fruit that did not crawl out from the inside of the fruit, it is kosher and one may eat it? Does that mean it can be just picked up, with or without a piece o...
# 1733 Call In Your Chips?
B"H - Shalom Dear Rabbi, In Sweden, many people have started to use microchip implants to replace car keys, credit cards and ID Cards. 1. Based on Daat Torah, Is that permissible? 2.In case it...
# 1732 Checking the Check
Can a defendant under house arrest wear his ankle monitor (it constantly checks and transmits to police his whereabouts), when permitted to go to shul on Shabbos (no eruv)?...
# 1731 Time to Call it a Night
Hello Rav, Q. I’ve learned in the past that if I go to sleep and night and then wake up in the middle of the night and want to learn Torah (even just reading silently), then I would need to mak...
# 1730 Teshuva on a Loss
I was on the train and found a wallet that, based on the ID inside it, belongs to a non-Jew. After considering what I should do and consulting with a few rabbis, some of them recommended that I return...