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# 1357 Cover Story
Can a man wear a wig?...
# 1356 Address The Uni-Dress
Q Can a man wear a unisex outfit?...
# 1355 Make Clothes For The Man
Is a man allowed to wear any clothing (a night gown) of a woman, when no one else is present or it is cold and he doesn’t have anything else to wear at night?...
# 1354 Open Secret?
Many people are very secretive about publicizing when they are expecting the birth of a child. Is there a inyan to do so for any point of the pregnancy? Also, many people don’t do any preparation...
# 1353 Save That Kidush!
I saw someone make kiddish on Shabbas day for many people at a "kiddish" at shul. He only took a very small sip of wine (for sure not a "maleh lugmov" (cheek-full). 1. If nobody else there drank a...
# 1352 Make My Day
I read that you can’t prepare on the 1st day of Yom Tov for the second, but something insignificant like taking a challah out of the freezer a few hours before the second day starts would be okay...
# 1351 The Stream Of Whipped Cream
Q 1. Re question 1331, the Rav permits icing a cake...with whipped cream from ..an aerosol can....I read somewhere that using such a can on Shabbos was forbidden due to the melacha of molid. Can the...
# 1350 For The Ages
My daughter is going to separate chalah and make a brocho on her Bas Mitzva party, as many others do this days. However, because the vacations start soon, we are making the party early and she will be...
# 1349 News To Me
The... Star newspaper has started randomly delivering their Saturday paper to several houses in the Clanton Park area. We never asked for it, it just started showing up. Although I plan to likely canc...
# 1348 Hair Today Hair Tomorrow
1. There are those that have "male pattern baldness," that choose to get rid of all the hair on their head in order to look cleaner/better. Since there is a prohibition in cutting the payos areas dow...
# 1347 On E-Autopilot
E-commerce & electronic transactions on Yom Tov (when unlike Shabbos the markets & banks are open): Although there’s already different contemporary Poskim ruled on the above, I’d very much ...
# 1346 A Delicate Condition
If one is offered something that is cholov stam, and he is not interested in explaining that he cannot eat it, or getting into an argument with someone who relies on Rav Moshe’s so-called heter*,...
# 1345 Shiva Shevuei Torah?
According to Rebi’s opinion on gemorah Shabbos, we have seven Seforim on the Torah, divided in this parsha, and the Halacha seems to follow him. Why is it then that we always mention five Chumshei Tor...
# 1344 A Walk In The Park
Can I carry items in a park inside a city that has an eiruv on Shabbos? Does it make a difference how big the park is? If it is surrounded by a fence and has gates? If it has benches, many trees or wa...
# 1343 Behind Closed Doors
Re- question 1327 on using a hotel key-card on Shabbos and the challenge this almost universal change now presents to the observant traveler, I heard from Rabbi M. Skobac an easy way out. It is to fas...
# 1342 Brocho To Barter?
My daughter, is about to return from learning in a seminar in Yisroel, and a friend of hers, that resides in Yisroel, and is well connected, asked for clothing, that she and her friends would not need...
# 1341 See The Daylight?
The Torah says: ’Vayehi erev vayehi boker" (mentioning night before day). The Talmud also starts out by discussing the dinim of krias Shema at night. Why, then, does the Shulchan Aruch begin with...
# 1340 Ruth The Moaviah or Ruth The Midyonite?
Why is Ruth called the Moaviah, and the Talmud Yebamos discusses whether she and King David, her offspring were permitted to intermarry with the Jewish nation. Rashi explains at the beginning of Megil...
# 1339 Sleep It Off?
If someone was staying up the learn the whole night of Shavuos, but then realized that he is too tired and went to sleep in his bed for an hour, when he comes back to continue learning, does he have t...
# 1338 Milk Of Kindness
The minhag to eat macholei cholov in Shavuos is very important in my family and I have always kept it. But now I’m in a very strict diet. Can I keep it by just drinking skimmed milk? If not do I hav...