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# 1252 Still Need a Name
Re- above question: If a baby born with severe defects and is not expected to survive. If the answer is yes (to give a name), but the parents are not at all religious, could friends without their know...
# 1251 Shem and Hashem
A baby born with severe defects that is not expected to survive, should be given a Jewish name in shul? Does the halacha change if the baby survives thirty days?...
# 1250 Give It A Spin
Can you use a lettuce dryer on Shabbos? It works by turning a handle and spinning and it has a strainer inside. It has a mechanism for turning the strainer very fast so that the lettuce becomes dry....
# 1249 A Gentle Pray
Is one allowed to pray for a refua shelaima or wish a refua shelaima to a non Jew?...
# 1248 A Good Many
Is there a mitzvah to attend a pidyon petter chamor? (redemption of a first born donkey) Should one who is sitting and learning Torah stop learning to attend?...
# 1247 The Game's Up
A recent kuntros in Eretz Yisroel was published saying that playing a Rubik cube on Shabbos is a problem of borer. What is Rav Miller position on the issue? Thank you!...
# 1246 She'll Drink To That
In regards to the shayiles sent on mistakes done under the chupa, I was at a chupa where the mother of the kalah, when the cup of wine was given to her to give it to her daughter, by mistake she drank...
# 1245 Make No Mistake
4) See prior question 1242.What happens if when reciting the sheva brochos, Shehakol was said instead of Hagefen? Mesameach Chassan Vekala instead of Chassan Im Hakala?...
# 1244 Account Your Blessings
3) See prior question 1242. What happens if one of the sheva brochos was said with mistakes that change its meaning, such as instead of Shehakol Barah Likvodo in the first brocho, one said Shehakol ...
# 1243 Mixed Blessings
2) Re – See prior question 1242. What happens if one of the sheva brochos was said before the other, and the order was changed?...
# 1242 Trial By Error
In recent times more family members and friends are being honoured with reciting sheva brochos and some of them are not very learned to say the least. This gives rise to brochos said with mistakes or ...
# 1241 Clean Your Plate
Thank you for the answer (See question 1029, I was making an omelette in a milchik pan... ). If the eggs are made on butter with cheese (on a milchik pan), and you accidentally put them on a fleishik ...
# 1240 Risk Of Showers
Is there basis for being able to use hot water for showering on Yom Tov because in today’s times when people have the luxury of having hot showers in their homes it seems to have become much more “sha...
# 1239 Blessed Berries
What bracha do you make on cranberries and strawberries? What happens if you made the wrong brocho?...
# 1238 Bugged By Frozen Bugs?
Hi. I am wondering which frozen fruits/vegetables need a hechsher and which don’t. I know that frozen produce like mango and blueberries does not, but do frozen raspberries, strawberries, and bla...
# 1237 Enjoy Your Anniversary Meal
Is that seuda considered (a seuda on the fiftieth yortzait – see prior question) a seudas mitzva?...
# 1236 Kidush on Kadish?
Is there a source for making a special seuda at the fifty year yortzait?...
# 1235 Kadish Leolam?
Is it true what some say that you don’t have to recite kaddish on the yortzait more than fifty years?...
# 1234 Mystery Meat
(Re- above question on cultured kosher meat). Also what was the status of the meat that was created miraculously in Biblical and Talmudic times?...
#1233 Deceiving Appearances
Regarding the above question of kosher cultured meat, why is there no prohibition of ma’aris ayin? (wrong appearances)....