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# 1409 Water Therapy?
Do you make a brocho when drinking water from a mineral spring that has therapeutic value and also has a good taste?...
# 1408 Closed Door Policy
8) Q. I would like to know the opinion of HaRav Miller shlita regarding the following matter:Sometimes I am at home with my father and grandmother (mother’s mother) – both not yet religious. If I ne...
# 1407 Don’t Get Carried Away
Are women allowed to carry a Sefer Torah?...
# 1406 Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov?
We say that the month of Av has a bad mazal. I have scheduled a necessary medical surgery on the third week of the month, should I postpone it for another month?...
# 1405 Plush Kiddush Rush
I offered to give a kidush in shul. Is there a special inyan to give it on Shabbos Nachamu?...
# 1404 A Shaila Amuka
How come on Tu Beav as the Talmud (end of Taanis) relates, the marriageable women would go out and dance in the vineyards and the attending males would choose the one they liked and took them as spous...
# 1403 I’ll Drink To That
What brocho do you make when drinking unflavored Metamucil?...
# 1402 Shouldn’t Happen To A Dog?
On question 1394 Horav Miller ruled you should not wash a dog’s clothing during the nine days. Can you wash the dog itself?...
# 1401 Hold Your Ears?
If I’m placed on hold on a phone call and while waiting, happy music is played, do I have to hang up during the 3 weeks?...
1400 Discovering Covering
Is it preferable to cover ones eyes with his talis [rather than his hand] when saying the first pasuk of shema? Is there any mekor for using a tallis?...
# 1399 Stop The Music
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, shlit"a My son has a waterproof bluetooth speaker that he can take in the shower and listen to music. This can be helpful in that the music makes him energetic in the morning. Is...
# 1398 Have An Itch
Can I use Afterbite on a mosquito bite on Shabbos? It is not medicine, but it relieves the itching? Can one anoint oneself with oil on Shabbos, for example rubbing oil on one’s arms?...
# 1397 One Door Closes, Another Opens
We just installed an 8 feet wide patio door. This door is a sliding door, (composed of a 4 feet stationary glass panel and the sliding 4 feet door). There is no middle column where to install a mezuz...
# 1396 A Change For The Better
This question came up over Shabbos, and got me thinking. Some mezuzos have Shem Hashem on the case. If such a Mezuzah is on a bedroom doorway, would it be assur to change in there? If so, would the sa...
# 1395 Don’t Get Behind
It is forbidden to walk behind a woman. Is it permitted to do so if it is one’s wife, and she is in her days of purity, since one is in any case permitted to entertain libidinous thoughts of her ...
# 1394 A Dog's Mazal
Are you allowed to wash a piece of clothing that you wrap around your dog before Tisha Beav?...
# 1393 If The Dress Fits
Can one wash during the Nine Days a dress that is clean, just for the purpose of having it shrink so it will fit? It will be worn on Shabbos Chazon....
# 1392 It’s Freezing Clean
Some of us instead of washing jeans and sweaters that fade and look worn out after only a few washes, place the pieces in the freezer for a day and it works just fine. See: hhtps. housekeeping. wonder...
# 1391 Sorry to Say
How come we read the pasuk of Eicha Essa on parshat Devarim and some read the Haftara also with the nigun of Megilat Eicha, is that not Avelut Befarhesia on Shabbat, that is prohibited?...
# 1390 Chazan-Not
Can you listen to tapes of chazanos of tefilos, during the three weeks, if you are interested in knowing the nusach and the nigunim, when you daven for the amud on Shabbos or Yomim Noraim?...