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# 1240 Risk Of Showers
Is there basis for being able to use hot water for showering on Yom Tov because in today’s times when people have the luxury of having hot showers in their homes it seems to have become much more “sha...
# 1239 Blessed Berries
What bracha do you make on cranberries and strawberries? What happens if you made the wrong brocho?...
# 1238 Bugged By Frozen Bugs?
Hi. I am wondering which frozen fruits/vegetables need a hechsher and which don’t. I know that frozen produce like mango and blueberries does not, but do frozen raspberries, strawberries, and bla...
# 1237 Enjoy Your Anniversary Meal
Is that seuda considered (a seuda on the fiftieth yortzait – see prior question) a seudas mitzva?...
# 1236 Kidush on Kadish?
Is there a source for making a special seuda at the fifty year yortzait?...
# 1235 Kadish Leolam?
Is it true what some say that you don’t have to recite kaddish on the yortzait more than fifty years?...
# 1234 Mystery Meat
(Re- above question on cultured kosher meat). Also what was the status of the meat that was created miraculously in Biblical and Talmudic times?...
#1233 Deceiving Appearances
Regarding the above question of kosher cultured meat, why is there no prohibition of ma’aris ayin? (wrong appearances)....
# 1232 Size up
One wants to replace an old pair of Tefillin (that was used for over 20 years) with a new pair. The new pair is smaller than the old one, but is more Mehudar (parshiyos, batim and retzhuos). Does t...
# 1231 The Crown Of A Good Name
If in a second marriage, there are 2 kids from a previous marriage named after the mother’s side and one kid from a previous marriage after the father’s side and then they have a daughter to...
# 1230 The Meat Of The Matter
Some time ago I sent this question and I didn’t get an answer yet, I would like to know the answer. Is artificial meat created by starting cells taken from live animals. They are put into a cul...
# 1229 Strangely Enough?
Who should recite viduy with a dying patient, a rabbi that does not know the patient or the patient’s son who is there constantly with him?...
# 1228 Let There Be Light
If on Erev Shabbos Chanuka it is already close to the shkiah, how many people is the minimum needed to light the shul menora with a brocho?...
# 1227 Bench on a Bench?
If someone is totally homeless and sleeps on a bench in the park, can he light his menora there?...
# 1226 Bring To Light
Someone vacationing cross country in a trailer, can he place his menorah by the window and keep travelling during the half hour, while it is lit?...
# 1225 Follow The Flame?
When we say that lechatchila the Chanuka lights should be lower than ten tefachim is that measure from the flame or from the base of the menora itself? How about for the above three tefachim minimum?...
# 1224 A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
Can you take a family picture next to a lit menora on Chanuka and then frame it, or would you be benefiting from the neros Chanuka? When travelling on Chanuka, can you comply with lighting the candl...
# 1223 Bright And Early
This year the first light of Chanukah was lit on Motze Shabbat. Is it correct and better to prepare before the beginning of Shabbat the menorah and place it on the living room so it will be ready afte...
# 1222 Is Gut Yom-Tov Gut?
Is Chanuka called a Yom Tov or Chag? When you write a Chanuka card can you mention that title?...
# 1221 Thoughts on Thoughts
New technology enables the totally invalid or paraplegic to drive a wheel chair only via their brain electrical waves. Electrodes connected to their head receive those waves and with some training all...