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#1085 Counter Argument
I have a shaila for you. We are moving into a condo previously owned by a non jew.It could be close to a year vacant as the owner went into a nursing home many months ago.We are going to redo the kitc...
# 1084 Pray Tell, Should we Pray?
Can the gabay of our shule make a mi sheberach for a gentile (he is a good friend to one of our members) and is ill? Does it matter if he observes all seven Noahide mitzvos, or can yo recite if he i...
#1083 The Simchas Torah of Shavuos
Why don’t we rejoice and make hakofos on Shavuos as we do in Simchas Torah, after all that is the day of the giving of the Torah and the wedding itself?...
# 1082 Bring to Light
Is it better if one lights the yortzait candle usually used on the second day Yom Tov when they say Izkor, before Shabbos (you would need a 72 hour candle) since it is not really needed for Yom Tov?...
# 1081 Wick-ed Shayla?
When Yom Tov falls on Motzei Shabbos you make havdala at the end of the kidush adding the brocho of meorei haeish. Since you can’t light your regular havdala candle, because you can’t exting...
# 1080 Have Your Cheesecake And Eat It Too?
How come some eat milchig first night Shavuos, isn’t there a mitzvah of simcha the first night too, and you have to eat meat?...
# 1079 Lose Sleep Over This?
When Shabbos is Erev Shavuos can you sleep on the Shabbos afternoon if you don’t normally sleep then or sleep less, or is this a prohibited hachone (preparing) from Shabbos to Yom Tov?...
# 1078 Time is Many
What if someone constantly comes late because he gives a shiur to many people in another location, is it correct for the sake of the Torah of many, to skip P’sukei D’zimra? Thank you....
# 1077 A Long Time Coming
It is quoted in the name of Rav Chaim Kaniefsky Shlita (Sefer Ishay Yisrael) that when one comes late to shacharis, skipping parts of pesukei dzimra is only an option if it is somewhat a rare occurren...
# 1076 Cloth Encounters
If I spend some time sunbathing at a beach or swimming pool area, can I recite brochos and learn Torah with just my bathing suit on and my head covered?...
# 1075 Bury One's Body in the Sand
Re- question #1074, that Rashbi and his son when hiding in the cave put on their clothing for saying shema according to Tosafot. Is that correct?, I remember learning that reading shema is the same as...
# 1074 Keep On Davening?
The Halacha is that a person for whom Torah study is his occupation, he is exempt from prayer. An example of such a person is Rashbi [Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai]. And, yet, the Gemara in Shabbos tells us...
# 1073 A Close Shave for Shavuos?
What is the Halacha regarding using electric shavers? Does lift and cut make any difference? Thank you...
# 1072 Wash Your Step
My family’s minhag is to wash netilas yadayim before Kiddush. I sometimes go to a Kiddush on Shabbos morning and eat mezonos, and then I come home and want to make Kiddush again for my wife befor...
# 1071 Chaim B'Mayim
I feel I frequently need to drink water, but I find it difficult to drink much at a time or to drink it quickly, so I don’t usually say a brocha acharona. To make matters complicated, I like to s...
# 1070 The Rich and Famished
In the beginning of the Egyptian servitude at the start of Sefer Shemos, Rav Sa’adya Gaon (see Rav Kapach’s translation in Chumash Toras Mosad Rav Kook) says that "Ka’asher yianu oso......
# 1069 Finders Keep Rest
From the Shulchan Aruch Siman 266 Seif 13, I have the following question: If the event that one finds a lost object that is not muktzah in an area surrounded by an eruv where it is clear that it is...
# 1068 Deposit Slip
I would like to challenge a landlord’s decision to keep the deposit ($250) unrightfully. Do I have to go to a Beis Din or can a Posek give me permission to go to a goish court. The amount is so s...
# 1067 Ta'am why Flavour OK
8 months ago, my wife was cooking chicken for Shabbos. The food was being cooked in a cooking dish, made out of stoneware with the exterior made out of enamel. In the dish was a few pieces of chicke...
# 1066 Is There A Happy App...
This question came up in a shiur this week and I would like to know Rav Miller’s opinion. Who was the happiest person in Tanach?...