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# 1369 Do Not Repeat After Me
A person who suffers from OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder) and repeats words in davening, and he was told by other people never to repeat words even if he knows that he said something wrong – may o...
# 1368 No Beef with this Beef
I was told that there is a problem for Noachides to eat regular treif meat, because it is stunned/killed and then cut up while it’s still moving (it is ever min hachai because it is still m’farchses)...
# 1367 Know Your Onions
2. See question above. (If I bought a red onion that is very big, and I cut only a piece of it…). A fish salad has sliced eggs on top/side, is it alright to eat the sliced eggs the next day? 3. I Al...
# 1366 A Cut Below The Rest
Hi Rabbi, I bought a red onion that is very big, and I cut only a piece of it. So here are my questions; 1. I read that it might be OK to leave the rest overnight if the outer skin is left on a sm...
# 1365 Kiss My What?
1) The other day, I ended up daveing mincha in a room where the lights went out., so people started daveing from the siddur on their phones. My question is, should they kiss their phone when they fini...
# 1364 Rain Check
On Shabbos, may one open his window when it is raining even though there are plants on or near the window sill, and he knows for certain that the rainwater will go on the plants if the window is opene...
# 1363 Could I Leave A Message?
Can someone record his own hesped to be played at his funeral? I do not mean a eulogy, where the deceased prizes himself (how crass), but rather a message to family and friends, to be played along the...
# 1362 Attention Pay
On a ta’anis, by Mincha, a guy spaced out and, forgetting that there is krias hatorah, said Hashem Sefasai Tiftach and Baruch ata Hashem (ie. he began SE). May/ should he stop, say lamdeini chuke...
# 1361 All Options Smell?
My son’s class is planning to spend Shabbos in Northern Israel (in the Golan) in the town of Nov. It is a nice place, where most of the best Hadassim in Israel are grown. I was once there and ...
# 1360 If The Shirt Fits.....
May a woman wear a man’s shirt? The difference is only the direction the buttons are buttoned....
# 1359 A Hot Answer
2) (See question above, on serving hot fleishig cholent on the same plate people ate their shmalzherring). Most important, since the cholent it is a hot solid dovor gush, why is it not mevashel th...
# 1358 Fish Gets Its Own Dish
1) Why is it that at many kidushin they usually serve hot fleishig cholent on the same plate people ate their shmalzherring, is that correct?...
# 1357 Cover Story
Can a man wear a wig?...
# 1356 Address The Uni-Dress
Q Can a man wear a unisex outfit?...
# 1355 Make Clothes For The Man
Is a man allowed to wear any clothing (a night gown) of a woman, when no one else is present or it is cold and he doesn’t have anything else to wear at night?...
# 1354 Open Secret?
Many people are very secretive about publicizing when they are expecting the birth of a child. Is there a inyan to do so for any point of the pregnancy? Also, many people don’t do any preparation...
# 1353 Save That Kidush!
I saw someone make kiddish on Shabbas day for many people at a "kiddish" at shul. He only took a very small sip of wine (for sure not a "maleh lugmov" (cheek-full). 1. If nobody else there drank a...
# 1352 Make My Day
I read that you can’t prepare on the 1st day of Yom Tov for the second, but something insignificant like taking a challah out of the freezer a few hours before the second day starts would be okay...
# 1351 The Stream Of Whipped Cream
Q 1. Re question 1331, the Rav permits icing a cake...with whipped cream from ..an aerosol can....I read somewhere that using such a can on Shabbos was forbidden due to the melacha of molid. Can the...
# 1350 For The Ages
My daughter is going to separate chalah and make a brocho on her Bas Mitzva party, as many others do this days. However, because the vacations start soon, we are making the party early and she will be...