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#681 Fire the Shot Glass?
Can you use for placing the menorah oil, small shot glasses that will be later used for liquor, which were not immersed in a Mikva yet?...
#680 How to Treat the Swap Meet
Is there any prohibition in swapping seasonal gifts that co-workers (mostly Gentiles) give to each other at a years end party?...
#679 A Fine End Line
If you forget after December the 4th (to recite Tal Umotor) and the sidur instructs that you should say it at shma kolenu, where do you say it and what are the words you have to mention?...
#678 Brocho on Rain, Come Back Another Day
What happens when an Israeli visits chutz la’aretz does he stop saying tal umotor while here?...
#677 Motor Travel Trends
When I traveled recently to Eretz Yisroel I said Tal umotor librocho in Shemoneesre like everyone else… Was I to continue the same when I came back, since it was still before December 4?...
#676 Travel Rain Check
When I traveled recently to Eretz Yisroel, I said Tal umotor librocho in Shemoneesre like everyone else. Was that correct?...
#675 Making Sense of Sensors
Does one have to be careful when walking down a street on Shabbos to not activate motion sensor lights? I would have to remember to cross the street to avoid one....
#674 Weighty Light Shaile
I’m doing my medical internship and I stay in the hospital overnight some days a week… Since I’m not married and I room alone, and I have an Internet security hook up with my residence, so I...
#673 In the Light That We Know
I’m doing my medical internship and I stay in the hospital overnight some days a week. Can I use a sodium battery powered lamp (sometimes used for medical examinations) for Chanuka lights? How ab...
#672 The Three Days Phase
Is it true that you are not allowed to visit a sick person during the first three days of his illness? Why?...
#671 Again and Again and No Gain
If someone is overly careful to pronounce the words of the shema properly and keeps on repeating them many times, trying to get it just right, is that not a hefsek? Thank you...
#670 Your Money or Your Strife?
Can one take advantage of a sale that is given on a non-Jewish religious holiday or is it as agreeing to the spirit of the celebration? How about Black Friday?...
#669 Enlightening the Lighting
I will be traveling overseas on vacation G-d willing during Chanuka with my family and I have a few questions… Can we appoint a shaliach back home to light for us? How about the time difference?...
#668 Shabbos – Chanuka Hotel
I will be traveling overseas on vacation G-d willing during Chanuka with my family and I have a few questions… What do we do on Shabbat? (Chanuka in a hotel, see previous question)...
#667 An Electrifying Shaile
I will be traveling overseas on vacation G-d willing during Chanuka with my family and I have a few questions In the hotel we will be eating our meals in the rooms or occasionally in an outside kos...
#666 The Flying Menorah
I will be traveling on vacation G-d willing during Chanuka with my family and I have a few questions When traveling by plane, if the flight departs on the late afternoon (we leave home before plag) ...
#665 The Ignoble Noble
If you are in a tzedaka appeal for a worthy institution where pledges are called out loud, are you allowed to pledge a very large sum to encourage others to give, when you don’t have the intentio...
#664 A Psak on a Hefsek
Does one have to wash his hands again with a beracha after going to the bathroom in the middle of a seudah?...
#663 Everything in the Kitchen Sink?
Shalom U’bracha, I think I heard a shiur some time ago from HaRav Shlomo Miller Shlita that on pesach you cannot use a kitchen sink, even for cold water, if you do not kasher it, because of a g...
#662 An Aliya for a Holy Neshama?
We find among the Rishonim the expression "Ben HaKadosh" in reference to someone who is a son of someone who was killed ’Al Kiddush HaShem’. I have attached a PDF file that contains some sou...