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# 1729 Lessons to be Learned
I would like to know Horav Miller’s daas Torah in regards to someone who has limited time for learning. Since learning Torah with effort and exertion is most important, what takes priority? Learning...
# 1728 A Good Old Hand
A group visits an elderly ill patient in a retirement home. He sits on a wheelchair, while they put tefilin on him, and have him read shema. Is it enough to clean his hands with a wet paper towel? Doe...
# 1727 Clean Question
Re- question 1723 regarding washing hands after entering a bathroom. A most common case of bathrooms in offices and other public places, are small one room bathrooms with a toilet and sink only, that ...
# 1726 A Potluck Shaila?
Do Teflon coated metal pots and pans require tevila?...
# 1725 The Ways of the Throwaways
Do disposable aluminum pans require tevila?...
# 1724 In Deep Waters
Do new scissors used for cutting poultry need tevila in a mikva?...
# 1723 Lost in the Wash?
Is someone puts his hand inside a bathroom just to turn off the light, does he require washing netilas yodaim?...
# 1722 Living Memory
Since remembering Kabbolas Hatorah is a mitzva every day and not doing so is a negative prohibition (Ramban), Why don’t we actually read that parsha every day as we do with Yetzias Mitzraim?...
# 1721 It’s All in the Name
My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me; 2) Why does the Gemore refer to Shavuos as Atzeres, isn’t that the name in the Torah for the last day of Sukos?...
# 1720 Quiz Kid
My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me; Q. 1) if we eat milchigs on Shavuos because they didn’t have the opportunity to prepare kosher meat on that same day, why wasn’t the milk ...
#1719 Meal Plan
We usually eat a milchig meal during the first day (lunch) of Shavuot and meat in the night meals. This year since it is after Shabbat and we already ate meat, is it possible to change and eat milchig...
# 1718 Brocho Achrono
There are those whose family Minhag restricts their female members from reciting a Bracha on Sefiras HaOmer lest they miss at least one day. Suppose one of them does count every night of the first 4...
# 1717 Troubled Waters?
I know that according to some, there is an issue with drinking liquids that were left uncovered for a period of time. I’’m wondering if the same issue applies to water that will be used for ...
# 1716 Can't See the Flowers of the Trees?
Can the blessing for the new fruits on the trees be said at night, if there is light?...
# 1715 Changing Times
The Mishna Berura writes that one is obligated to say kaddish yasom after aleinu in shacharis, he mentions a reason because there are pesukim in alenu. However, he doesn’t similarly mention kaddi...
# 1714 Have It Your Way
I go to learn daily in a Beis HaMidrash in the Old City of Jerusalem that is situated in the Chatzar Galicia compound above the Moslem Quarter. In order to get there in a safe manner, I must walk on a...
# 1713 A Matter of Time
Can women say the brocho on the flowering trees outside, since they don’t say kiddush levana (the blessing on the new moon) outside because of tzniut? Is it also not a mitzva shehazman gramma?...
# 1712 Shake Someone’s Tree
If a tree belongs to a Gentile, and you are not entering his property, but just standing next to his tree while he is watching you. do you need his permission to make a brocho on his tre? Can you ma...
# 1711 Dance To Another Tune
Is it permitted to attend or to teach dancing classes during Sefira? (For women only in an only girls schoo)...
# 1710 An Easier Act to Follow
A woman who counts Sefira and does not do melocho until she counts during the whole sefira until Shavuos. Recently she got married, and her husband only maintains the restrictions of sefira only until...