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# 1689 Not That Social
What is Horav Miller opinion in signing into Facebook, Linkedin or Whatsapp? Are there issues of lashon horah and rechilus involved?...
# 1688 Seek and Hide?
Recently, I went on a shidduch date. When I came in the apartment, the mother of the young lady was present, as were her two daughters. However, her husband was at work. Is this a yichud situation? I ...
# 1687 Aneinu Anyway II
Re - question 1640 in regards to someone who became a diabetic and cannot fast anymore reciting Aneinu, we wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one can still say Aneinu, but omit t...
# 1686 No News is Good News
Is there a prohibition on listening, reading or repeating news that may be fake?...
# 1685 Speak for Yourself
Are Gentiles included in the speaking lashon horah prohibition?...
# 1684 See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil
Can one speak lashon horah on a Gentile? If not, can you speak on a Gentile if he also speaks lashon horah on others?...
# 1683 Wash for Lavash?
What is the correct brocho for lavash flatbread which is very thin and "floppy"? Is it the same brocho for any thin wrap?...
# 1682 Dip In
See question above. Can someone that does not eat gebrochts (matza or matza flour dipped or mixed with water on Pesach) dip matza in wine or another alcoholic beverage (Kosher Lepesach)?...
# 1681 No Broch on Gebrochts
Can someone that does not eat gebrochts (matza or matza flour dipped or mixed with water) on Pesach dip or spread matza with mayonnaise? How about butter or jam?...
# 1680 A Storm in a Wine Cup
Re- Question 70 on what is one supposed to do after the seder with the wine from the Kos Shel Eliyahu, where we mentioned that Nitei Gavriel (Pesach 2: 101: n.21) quotes that Horav Yaakov Landau zt’...
# 1679 Ahead Of One’s Time
My daily minyan davens maariv immediately after the shekiah. Which is the earliest time we can count sefira after the shekiah? When people don’t count in shul they tend to forget....
# 1678 Sorry Money
If someone Hashem forbid, looses his father and at the same time receives from him a large inheritance, I remember that he has to recite Dayan Haemet for the death and Shecheyanu for the inheritance. ...
# 1677 Tune Out?
Can you listen, sing or play sad tunes and music during sefira?...
# 1676 On Who Are We Counting?
Why do we say on the Leshem Yichud recitation before counting sefiras haomer, the phrase “kemo shekosuv BaTorah” (as it is written in the Torah), after all in our days the counting is only miderabana...
# 1675 The Kneidlach Emergency
Kneidlach on the last day of Pesach is a very important minhag in our family. When can you cook kneidlach this year when the last day of Pesach is Shabbos (for those who only eat or make gebrochts (ma...
# 1674 Let It Lay?
Shalom Aleichem Harav. What should one do if they forgot to lean for the 3rd cup (at the Pesach seder)?...
# 1673 The Karpas Breaks
Can one talk in-between washing for Karpas and eating it?...
# 1672 Where Are We Again?
What is Horav Miller’s opinion in regards to writing: 1) Haverstraw (NY) in hebrew for kesuva purposes? 2) Mount Ivy, (NY.) in a Kesuva? 3) What do you write in the Embassy Grand at Brampton On?...
# 1671 In Brief
Is it correct for someone who can daven mincha in a minyan where they repeat the complete chazoras hashatz, to instead daven at a choich shemone ezreh minyan, when he has the time to do so, and there ...
# 1670 A Cut Above the Rest
Given the choice, is it a bigger mitzvah to get a haircut erev Shabbos HaGadol or erev Pesach? (We are not talking about someone who is desperately in need of a haircut, but just in general, if one ha...