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#5241 - Bless the Great Good Wife!
Kevod Moreinu Horav Shlit”a. Thank you for all your many great and very well accepted answers. We are planing on the last day of Hanuka to do a big hopefully beautiful and successful family and friend...
#5240 Love That Picture?
See question above. If permitted, are the parents and friends allowed to take a picture of them, since the will be benefiting from a Ner Chanuka?...
#5239 - Hold On to The Hold
See question above. Q. If it is correct, do they themselves comply with the mitzva?...
#5238 - Hold Out The Holding
My dear Rabbi. Our shul is planing to do a large Chanuka party inviting many neighbors that are not our usual attending youngsters and children, the aim is to bring them closer to keeping Torah and Mi...
#5237 The Chanuka Dance
My most very dear Rabbi Shlit”a and good friend. As you well know, my beloved family including my neighboring friends, B’H have a very nice great and friendly group of Yeshiva Torah learning children ...
5236 Chanuka Showtime
An elderly friend that is now constantly living in a retirement home, and always lit the menorah during Chanuka, wants to know if he can by turning on the florescent light next to his bed comply with ...
#5235 Choose Your Time?
I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the Misheyakir time quoted on the My-Zmanim chart for Toronto is incorrect. Is that true?...
#5234 Oil Rich?
Can I light my menorah with oil that was left open and some flies were there?...
#5233 Chanuka Geld?
Dearest friend and Rabino. My new home in Mexico City is right next to a store that sells many flammable items and the law is that they and their neighbors are not allowed to make a fire outside their...
#5232 Join In and Enjoy
Some of my Chasidishe neighbors have a tradition to make a seuda (special meal as the ones done on Shabbos) on every day of Hanukka and they also invite guest and friends including us. Is that a seuda...
#5231 Wrong Birthday Party
See question above. Is one allowed to sell Christmas decorations when working as an attendant in a store that does, and the refusal would have one fired? How about just wrapping the goods bought?...
#5230 False Advertising!!!
I work in a store that decorates at this time of the year with Christmas decorations and plays that music. What should I do?...
#5229 Tell all about Nitel
Q, We have an old tradition that we do not learn Torah on the night of Christmas, named Nitel. This year (24) it coincides with the first night of Chanuka. We usually celebrate Chanuka by making a...
#5228 A Lion Shailah
Can one use a menorah that has a silver lion holding the shamosh candle?...
#5227 A Mitzva With Strings Attached!!!
When we light Chanuka candles at home, Baruch Hashem we have a large family and many children including many of our neighbors that we encourage to join us to bring them closer to keeping mitzvos. ...
#5226 Love You, Love Your Dog?
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a, I think that you are the right Rabbi for this question. My neighbor left on a vacation for a week and left his dog in his adjacent backyard to watch the property. He also lef...
#5225 Relief the Real Grief !!!
Just out of curiosity (it happened a few years ago by us). What should one do if a neighbor passes away and there is no one at all that is present or seating shiva for her, there are just no family or...
#5224 A Consolation that Needs Consolation?
See question above. Does one comply with the mitzva of Nichum Avelim (comforting the mourners) if one just asks the secretary of the shul to place the add at the Notice Board of the Beit Knesset o...
#5223 - Just to Just Count on the Account?
See question above. Can one name a Shaliach (an agent) that represents him, and is traveling to where the shiva takes place and thus comply with the mitzva. Is the above better than just calling or se...
#5222 A Quick Comfort?
Dear Rov we just lost our aunt (and great-aunt) who you knew well. And since she lived in a different country, we have a number of questions. Can someone comply with the mitzva of Nichum Avelim ...