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# 1021 What Did He Say?
In shul do the rabbi or the gabay have to explain the meaning and translation of Parshas Zachor before the reading, so the attendants who don’t know the Hebrew will understand?...
# 1020 Remember to Get Well
If someone is hospitalized, can one bring a Sefer Torah to his room so he can at least read Parshas Zachor from the Sefer. If not should he read it from a Chumash?...
# 1019 Physical or Spiritual Workout?
Can one use the gym and a trainer before shacharis ?...
# 1018 Purim Hair Dressing
Can you take a haircut or go to the hairdresser on Purim?...
# 1017 Singled Out?
I’ve been told that single people’s mitzvos don’t count. Any validity?...
# 1016 Grammer Manners
In Keddusha deSidra, the Targum Onkelos of “Hashem reigns forever” is “Hashem, His kingdom rules forever.” Why is the verb “rules” masculine when its subject is “kingdom” is feminine?...
# 1015 Chocolate Musings
Hi Rabbi Bartfeld, I hope all is well. Two questions the Rabbonim in LA wanted to know Rav Miller’s position: Q1. Liquid Chocolate (not hot) that is poured on Ice Cream and when it comes in ...
# 1014 Careful - Hot Water!
If you are staying Shabbos in a hotel, can you use the hot water from the cafeteria that was warmed by the dining-room attendants on Shabbos to make yourself a coffee? What about a Pesach Hotel?...
# 1013 A Perfect Ten
In order to fulfill the mitzvah of tefilla b’tzibbur, is it necessary to have 10 men davening S"E (Shmone Ezreh), or is it enough to have six of them davening S"E while the other four are just st...
# 1012 Water Wonders
Is there an Isur of Bishul Akum on water? If not, if my gentile butler boils himself a kettleful of water on Shabbos, may I drink what he leaves in the kettle after he’s taken whatever he needed...
# 1011 The Rights of Copyrights
I borrowed a cookbook from the library. Can I photocopy a recipe from it?...
# 1010 The No Answer - Answer
I borrowed a car and had an accident that damaged the bumper of the car to the extent that the bumper had to be replaced. The car was leased and was going to be returned just a week after when the acc...
# 1009 You Buy It - You Brake It?
If someone while shopping at a frum food store places items into the shopping cart provided by the store, does he acquire the items when he picks them up or when he places them in the cart? If not a...
# 1008 Transplant Ponder
If someone due to an accident, had to undergo a penis transplant from a non-Jewish uncircumcised cadaver source; 1) Does he have to wait for the bris until he regains complete sensation on the organ...
# 1007 Question Mark
If one has a problem cleaning himself after a bowel movement - no matter how much he cleans, he is still dirty, whether with excrement or excrement mixed with blood - may he daven and learn? If one di...
# 1006 Time is of the Ess'n
Also, (see prior question) how much time does he have to eat the egg’s volume of bread?...
# 1005 Turn Up or Turn Down The Volume?
Al netilas yadayim is recited when eating an egg’s volume of bread; less than that, one washes without a bracha. What if one is not sure how much bread he will eat?...
# 1004 You Must Hear This
Can you give an aliya to a mute individual?...
# 1003 Torah for the Untaught
Is one permitted to receive an aliyah if one cannot (does not know how to) read along with the baal koreh?...
# 1002 I See The Answer
Can we call to the Torah a blind person?...