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# 1649 Change of Scenery
Can you daven lekatchila in a shul that was once a Catholic church?...
# 1648 Women’s Rites?
Is there an inyan (or purpose) for women to go to shul and hear Parshas Para Aduma?...
# 1647 Noshn Lokshn
Is pasta prepared and packaged by non-Jews permitted?...
# 1646 Out of the Frying Pan...
Are potato chips sensitive to the halachos of bishul akum?...
# 1645 To Be Named Later
Can one give a Jewish name to an assimilated Jewish parent who didn’t have one, after his death and inscribe it on the matzeiva?...
# 1644 In One’s Name
A baal teshuva whose father was never given a Jewish name, although his father is Jewish - how should the baal teshuva be called up to the Torah, if he is extremely embarrassed to be called up by the ...
# 1643 Call Into Question
There is Canadian Federal legislation on the table requiring public servants to use transgender pronouns when addressing transgender people. Considering that, as I believe, perhaps erroneously, that ...
# 1642 Have Your Heart in Your Mouth
There are many references in tefila and in viduy to sins and transgressions that we have committed and we should be punished or even put to death for them. Since a person has to be very cautious with ...
# 1641 Reason To Listen
When someone has a guest on Shabbos day who did not make Kiddush Friday night (a not-yet-religous Jew), is it proper to say the full Kiddush on behalf of that person? If the person is not going to hav...
#1640 Aneinu Anyway
I have become a diabetic. I may not fast on any Taanis other than Yom Kippur. Does this mean I may never again say the Aneinu prayer like everyone else?...
# 1639 Quite a Bit
Can you use bitcoins for matanot laevyonim on Purim?...
# 1638 Frim Pirim?
Does a Purim seuda held in a large simcha hall require a mechitza, or is it OK to have people sit together with their families (men and women together)? If a mechitza is required, may one nevertheless...
# 1637 Champions Of Breakfast
Is there a mitzva to eat two seudos on Purim day, the first one before chatzos?...
# 1636 Easy Meat
Does one have to eat meat on the seuda of Purim?...
# 1635 The Name of the Game
Is this true that Rav Miller forbids playing with a Rubik’s Cube on Shabbos due to borer? Is this a chumra, or me’ikar hadin it is assur? An additional shailah. Since the cube can be taken...
# 1634 Let The Good Times Begin
We say mishenichnas Adar marbim besimcha, when Adar begins we are have to increase our joy. For one that doesn’t have a court case with Goyim, is in good health and always does try to do mitzvos with ...
# 1633 More Minor Details
Re- question 1616 - Rav Miller shlita paskened to me not to count a katan for a minyan under any circumstances. I would like to kindly request a clarification: If I am in a place where they are in f...
# 1632 One To Many
Re- prior question (1631) on two classes of judgment. Since we always say that the power of the community and Klal Yisroel as well as the din horabbim or communal judgment supersedes and preempts the ...
# 1631 Judgment Call
Why are we being judged on our Yamim Tovim on different items, such as grain during Pesach, fruits on Shavuot and water during Sukkot? Were we not all already judged in the Yemei Hadin of Rosh Hashana...
# 1630 Bread And Butter Shailah
I live in the Clanton Park area but I frequent a bagel store in the Bathurst/Lawrence area. I recently noticed that they have a sign that says their garlic breadsticks are dairy. Apparently they are s...