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# 1489 What Are You Driving At?
In order to get a break for driver license insurance from the insurance company and to be allowed to take the test 8 months after taking the permit test instead of a year later they require new driver...
# 1488 ID Or No ID
Is a father of a newborn baby allowed to wear the hospital ID on the bracelet in a place where there is no eiruv? Is it similiar to the case of a prisoner wearing chains in 301:19 or similiar to the c...
# 1487 Don’t Be In Such A Rosh!
A Yeshiva Bochur accidentally dropped his Tefilah Shel Rosh (out of the plastic box etc.). What is the proper Hanhaga nowadays, as he presumably would not be able to fast whilst adhering to his regula...
# 1486 Safer Sefer
If one sees a sefer lying on the ground, but one’s hands are unclean (whether from food or for some other reason), what should one do? On the one hand, one cannot pick up the sefer with dirty han...
# 1485 Shick Or Treat?
We have some Modern Orthodox neighbors that let their kids join the others in the block (many Jewish) and go around collecting candies on Halloween, is that permitted? Should we advise them not to do ...
# 1484 Mind Your Own Busyness?
I have seen my very busy neighbor arrive home by car past candle lighting time is it permitted to drive at this time, if so until when may one drive after candle lighting time? Similar question: Do...
# 1483 Flip The Cohen?
(This Shailah was supposedly already asked to the Rosh Kollel, but I would love to actually read his answer). In our small Minyan, there was only 1 Kohen on Shabbos morning & he had Yahrtzeit the upco...
# 1482 Learn To Daven Or Daven To Learn
A person has a choice: to daven in a normal minyan and then learn Torah, or to daven in a minyan where the chazzan is a tzaddik yesod olam mamish from a different dor and probably one of the lamed-vav...
# 1481 Can I Help You?
If a person who finished davening is learning Torah, and there are people who need him to help with a minyan, is he obligated to go and help them, even though he will lose time from his learning (beca...
# 1480 Vote Of Confidence
Is there a source in our literature for elections of schul officers, gabbai, etc., or is it a concept entirely borrowed from the gentiles?...
# 1479 Don’t Get All Exercised
The local women’s only gym has been adding fitness classes run by male instructors to its roster, although initially only women were allowed into the gym. Additionally, instructors have been obse...
# 1478 A Modest Answer
When learning about tznious and their halachos sometimes I come across the category Das Yehudis. Can you kindly explain if this is derrobonim, doreisa? What is its status and how can I understand wh...
# 1477 The Promised Learned
If a person pledged on Simchas Torah to learn a certain masechta by a certain deadline, and within the masechta there are some parts that he does not understand (difficult Gemaras), how should he comp...
# 1476 Aliyah Yeah – Aliyot Not
Our shul does not have the custom of everyone having an Aliyah on Simchas Torah. Our minhag also requires only having 6 Aliyos from the first Sefer Torah (including Chosson Torah). This past Simchas...
# 1475 Wrong Yom
A stroke patient. His family was instructed that he may not fast on Yom Kippur. Fearing he would not listen if he knew it was Yom Kippur, they did not tell him when it was Yom Kippur. However, sometim...
# 1474 The Rights Of Copy Rights II
Can one borrow records, in good condition, for converting to mp3 (our copies are in rough shape, or the titles aren’t for sale anywhere, for those legitimately concerned with copyright), or on CD...
# 1473 Care To Dance?
If a person wants to learn during hakafos, is that wrong, as the mitzvah at that time is to dance and not to learn? The same way that a person cannot learn instead of (or during) davening, he should n...
# 1472 Pay A Visit?
Can you sell chosson Torah or Bereshis to someone visiting from Eretz Yisrael?...
# 1471 One For Two
Can you give the same person, who is donating a very large sum much needed for the shul, both chosson Torah and chosson Bereishis?...
# 1470 Two for One
A minyan that has only one sefer Torah for leinning on Simchas Torah, can they call two cohanim or a son after a father for chosson Torah and Bereishis?...