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# 841 Float Your Boat?
Is it permitted to take (during the Nine Days) a boat ride on the lake without getting wet? Is it permitted if you do it for the children?...
# 840 Stealing Your Mind with Fake Flowers?
Can you place (during the Nine Days) an outside planter and plant it with artificial flowers? (Is that permitted the whole year, or is it gneivas daas?)...
# 839 Roll Out the Green Carpet?
Are you allowed (during the Nine Days) to spread on the deck a carpet made of artificial grass without nailing it?...
#838 All Hands Off Deck
Is it permitted to wash the house floor during the nine days? How about the deck outside if dirty?...
# 837 Crazy Cooking
If the caregiver asks one of the halachic shote patients above to turn on the stove, is that bishul akum for others?...
# 836 Sombre Shote
A patient who is so depressed that becomes irrational, is he a halachic shote at that time?...
# 835 Did he Find his Mind?
If he (a patient that has lost most of his memory) regains some memory only from time to time and only then is rational, is he liable on mitzvos when he is well?...
# 834 Maybe Confused But No Shoiteh
A few questions concerning elderly patients. A patient that has lost most of his memory but is still rational and understands and can follow a conversation, is that patient considered a shote and is h...
# 833 No-Name Bracha II
Re: Question (810) about Mekadeish Shemo Borabim Q. I pray Nusach Ashkenaz-Minhag Frankfurt where the Nusach for that Bracha is "Mekadeish Es Shimcho Borabim." I have noticed that it is unlike ...
#832 Talk To Him
Why when we say a brocho we begin by speaking directly to Hashem, as in Baruch Ata (blessed be You) and when we end the bracha we speak of Hashem in third person, as in Bore Pri Haetz (who created the...
#831 Lip Service?
I wonder constantly why do we say every day three times a day in the amida in the bracha dedicated to the coming of Mashiach, the words “ki lishuat’cha kivinu kol hayom,” or “since we hope for Yo...
# 830 Mama Rochel Cry
Is there relevance for what some say that we should not name our newborn baby girl Rochel? (need answer urgent)...
# 829 Picture Perfect Food
Can one leave on recording security cameras on Shabbos for the purpose of kashrus, bosor shenisalem, bishul akum on a house with a caregiver or in an shul where kidush is served and there is no mashgi...
# 828 Yichud's Kodak Moment
Can the security cameras remain on during Shabbos just to save the patient from yichud (seclusion) prohibitions when left alone with the female care-giver? Horav Nissim Karelitz Shlit”a (quoted in ...
# 827 Candid Camera Care
An elderly person is under the constant care of a female non-Jewish caregiver. Can the family maintain on Shabbos the recording security cameras to ensure that he is given proper care?...
# 826 Wave Gut Shabbes to the Camera?
At a bris mila done on Shabbos, the security camera on the entrance to the hall was left on. Can the family now use the recording to keep a memento and make a recording of the occasion?...
# 825 Come Again?
After a Ger converted (and was advised to avoid constant contact with his parents that could be spiritually detrimental to the Ger and his family) what frequency of visits is considered to be constant...
# 824 Step Parents?
A Ger who converted many years ago was told not to maintain constant contact with his parents as before his conversion. Now that his mother is aged, ill and alone and requires continual care, and no o...
# 823 Nu! a Lender Be
If thirty days is the time for repayment for borrowing money. If I lend an object such a tool or a book is the term also 30 days?...
# 822 Pringles Do Grow From the Ground?
Pringles Do Grow From the Ground? Q. Good morning Rabbi Bartfeld, Attached is the Daf Hakashrus with article on bracha on pringles. Could you please clarify with Rav Miller what is the correct...