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# 1269 What Makes Your Spirit Fly - El or Al?
What is the correct pronunciation of the first two words of Kaddish? yisgadEl viyiskadAYsh or yisgadAl viyiskadAsh?...
# 1268 Jarring Experience
When I empty a glass pickle jar or the like, in order to store other food items in it, do I need to toivel the jar or is it considered as if a Jew created a new jar? Does it make a difference if I am ...
# 1267 Hay There
Is there any problem with feeding a guinea pig, (store bought) hay on Pesach?...
# 1266 Do You Read Me?
A baal teshuva who B’H has made great progress in learning, especially in the realm of practical Halacha, but he does not read Hebrew or even know the aleph-beis so well. Which is preferable: that he ...
# 1265 Here We Go Again?
Due to their strained relationship, a wife refrained from going to the Mikvah. After 5-6 years, the couple made peace and returned to happily being married. When the wife returns to the Mikvah and the...
# 1264 Better Late Than No Prayer
Dear Rabbi, Q. What is the correct course of action if one woke up very late on Shabbos morning, but it was not because of an oness, but was because, for example, you stayed up too late? Say one wak...
# 1266 Seller Beware
Can a salesman on a Judaica store sell tefillin to a woman, when from her questions it is apparent that she plans to wear those tefilin herself?...
# 1265 Don't Don
If a woman wants to wear tefillin, is there any reason to object? Thank you....
# 1264 Trust-us Citr-us
I once read an article where someone was saying there was a problem with orange juice (even with a hechsher) because of "scale bugs" on the peels. I am just wondering if this potential issue would cau...
# 1263 Beat The Heat
2) (Re- Electric space heaters in above question) A case: The heater is set to go on and off during the course of Yom Tov or Shabbat and a child was playing with the heater while it was on and turned ...
# 1262 Heat With Feet?
Heat With Feet? Q. I have some questions regarding electric space heaters we use to heat some rooms in our house and to heat our sukkah. 1) Can they be moved (change position/direction) on Yom T...
# 1261 Love Over The Clove
Is there a mitzva to eat garlic on Friday night for women? What happens if the garlic smell bothers the spouse, is it still a mitzva?...
# 1260 Smell To Heaven?
The Mishnah Berurah (O"H 280:1) says that it is obligatory to consume garlic on Friday or Friday night. How is the garlic supposed to be prepared and how many cloves should be ingested?...
# 1259 To-bel Or Not To-bel
I recently bought a Keurig coffee maker and realized that I might need to toivel it. The instructions say it should not be submerged in water. What is Rav Shlomo Miller’s opinion on it? Thank ...
# 1258 Honour Thy Father and Thy Chavrusa
My elderly father recently moved in with me. Although he has care providers during regular business hours, I am his primary care-giver during the rest of the day. For several years now, I have had a r...
# 1257 Must Read This
Hello... There is a prohibition against reading the caption under a picture on Shabbat. A Rav once mentioned that this could apply to reading children’s books on Shabbat. These books have a big ...
# 1256 Fruits of One's Flavor
Dear Rabbi. Q. On Tu Bishvat when should one eat the fruits, at the beginning of the seuda or at the end? If there is a new fruit that requires shecheyanu, should one eat it before the rest, even ...
# 1255 Party Time
For the people who have the minhag to make a special seuda on Tu Bishvat, eat shivas haminim fruits and sing the fifteen shir hamaalos, on this year that it falls on Shabbos, should this be done earli...
# 1254 Sherry Shomyain?
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, Can you please ask Rav Miller if it is best to refrain from scotch in sherry casks due to the isur hanaah of stam yayin. Thank you....
# 1253 In Heaven's Name
Is there a special name to be given to a child who was born with severe birth defects and not expected to survive?...