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# 1061 Quinoa or Not
What is HoRav Shlomo Miller’s opinion on quinoa products on Pesach? Is quinoa cooking oil permitted? If you consider quinoa to be kitnios, can you use plates that were used to serve them when the...
# 1060 A Blessed Reunion?
I very much enjoy reading these questions/answers! Here is my first question: What should be done with a mezuza that gets accidentally knocked or is found already knocked down on Shabbat or Yom Tov? …...
# 1059 Mazal of a Mezuza
Hello. I very much enjoy reading these questions/answers! Here is my first question: What should be done with a mezuza that gets accidentally knocked or is found already knocked down on Shabbat or Yom...
# 1058 Dress Up & Bless Up
In many hotels everywhere the balconies face the beach or a swimming pool. Early in the morning, when no one is out yet, is there a problem davening or saying brochos facing an area where usually peop...
# 1057 Start and End Trend
In Shemone Esre we say Ata Chonen Chochma Bina Veda’at, but at the end we only say only Chonen Hada’at. Why do we omit Chochma and Bina. Thanks....
# 1056 Ashkenaz Bird?
Shalom Rav, I have two questions. I own a small parakeet, we usually feed him a mixture of seeds. Can I feed him in Pesach clean sunflower seeds?...
# 1055 Split The Waters
At the hotel we were Pesach they placed a high and proper mechitza separating the very large swimming pool into separate areas for men and women. Yet the mechitza didn’t reach into the water itse...
# 1054 Don’t Sweat The Matza-Ball Stuff
We spent Pesach by the coast and the humidity was very high. We are always very makpid and careful on gebrochts, but because of the high humidity the shemura matza became soft and lost its crispiness....
# 1053 Fell Asleep While Counting Slip
I was falling asleep two nights ago and in the last minute, I remembered that I didn’t count sefira yet. I was so tired that I counted right there, and fell asleep. Next night I remembered what h...
# 1052 Stick And Bake
3- (See prior questions - If I don’t have a Shlisel Chala) Can I just buy a regular chalah and stick a knife into it, then introduce the key and the re-bake on a fire the opened incision, as we ...
# 1051 Keybread Shortcuts
Q 2. (See prior question) If I don’t bake the shlisel chalah this year, do I have to be “matir neder” since we have kept this minhag so many years?...
# 1050 The Key To the Shlisel
We have a minhag in our family that we bake a chalah for the Shabbos after Pesach and we place a key inside that chalah, (shilsel chalah) This year due to a simcha my wife will be travelling and not ...
# 1049 Illuminating Seder
Kavod Harav I will be conducting the seder in the house of a non-religious Jew (both nights). The problem is that they will be turning on the lights during Shabbos, and certainly during Yom Tov. ...
# 1048 Watch Out!
I tend to walk along the area of Bathurst & Lawrence a lot. I find the boys from the Yeshiva at Bathurst and Lawrence especially when the weather is nice, zoom down and I mean zoom down the sidewalk o...
# 1047 Mix and Watch
During the year, can you use just one of the four burners of a glass top stove for milchig and the others for fleishig? Can you use them at the same time?...
# 1046 Hidden Afikomen Gift
Can I use a gift certificate or card to reward on Yom Tov the child that finds the Afikomen?...
# 1045 Top of the Glass
How does one kasher a glass top stove for Pesach? What if the glass is scratched or was damaged or has aluminum (foil paper) stains imbedded into it?...
# 1044 Hagalah Bizman Kariv
Can you kasher pots and pans or cutlery by just placing them in an oven and running a self cleaning cycle? (a much easier task than immersing each item separately in a boiling pot) Can those items be...
# 1043 If the Glove Fits
If I use plastic gloves for holding on to the pots and cutlery being kashered for Pesach use in a large pot with boiling water, do the gloves become non kosher? Do I have to get new ones for every use...
# 1042 Azoy Shine?
How about a slightly tarnished silver kidush cup. Does the cup have to be totally polished and shiny before Pesach kashering?...