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# 741 A Pesach Travelers Guide
A Pesach Travelers Guide Dear Rabbi Bartfeld re our conversation on writing a brief guide for the most common questions that people have when traveling to a hotel for Pesach; the following are some...
# 740 Krum Presume on the Philtrum?
Is there a source that the indented part of the top lip that people have today is a result of the malach hitting us on the lip in order that we forget the Torah we were taught in the womb by the malac...
#739 Bar the Early Bar Mitzvah
My son was born bein hashmashos on Thursday yud alef cheshvan. We asked a shaila when he was born and we were told to make his bris on Friday. B"H we are approaching his bar mitzvah. This upcoming y...
# 738 The Cohen Spock?
Can someone give a hand salute with fingers spread like the cohanim do when they say bircas cohanim? (as Nimoy and the Vulcans )?...
# 737 Ad D’lo Yoda What he Drinks
On the mitzvah of drinking on Purim does it have to be wine only? Can you drink some wine, like a cup and then other liquor?...
# 736 Purim Tehilim
Since Purim is a special day for tefillah, is one allowed to say tehillem on Purim night? Or is tehillem not allowed to be said by an individual at night?...
#735 A Time to Dance?
Why is there a custom to dance after saying kiddush levana?...
#734 Our Teacher Was a Real Angel
Does a malach teach a non-Jewish baby all of the torah? Or only the 7 mitzvos of Noach?...
#733 Interrupting Kidush II
What if someone says shalom aleichem to you while you are in the middle of the beracha (of Kidush Levana) can you respond?...
#732 Peace to All?
Can one say it (Shalom Aleichem at Kidush Levana) to one person or it needs to be said to three different people?...
#731 Rav Shalom Im Yareach
Why do we say shalom aleichem (in kiddush levana) three times?...
#730 Moon Greetings
Why do we say shalom aleichem in kiddush levana?...
#729 The Law of the Tablets
A non-Jewish co-worker gave me as a present his last year model tablet when he bought a new one, which is far better than the one I have. I use mine for learning the Daf and for davening Mincha, since...
#728 Reserved Parking Permit
Is one able to reserve a public parking spot? For example I am supposed to meet someone at a certain venue and I get there first and parking is tight. I see a parking spot open up and I go and sit dow...
#727 New Name Claim
If a person is born with a certain name (Hebrew) and does not like the name and tells everyone to call them by a different name and changes their name legally, does that have any Halachic binding. For...
#726 Laud And Drear
I am frequently distracted during davening by others who daven audibly (during the Amidah) or who daven significantly louder than the rest of the congregation during the parts (like psukei d’zimra) th...
#725 Don’t Don Tefilin on Yom Shabboson.
I would like to know the opinion of the rav, shlita, what one should do if he was mekabel Shabbos at Plag HaMincha on Friday afternoon, and then remembered that he did not put on tefillin (for Friday)...
#724 Pointless Tosefes?
I would like to know the rav’s opinion, if a person can daven Mincha erev Shabbos in such a way that by the time he finishes, it will already be after shkia? How would one fulfill the mitzvah o...
#723 Pareve Chale?
If I cut bread with a clean (from the dishwasher) fleishig knife can I eat that bread with cheese?...
#722 Blended Family Benching
When someone from a blended family is benching, does Ves Zarrei include children from a spouses previous marriage? If not, should some other text be said or do the spouses children get omitted?...