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#661 A Matter of Record II
One more question. A while ago you wrote about recording a class / lecture (question 627 Q. I am a student in a secular university. They have a policy of religious accommodation and if requested, they...
#660 And All your Deeds Are Recorded II
Thank you very much. I would like to clarify something that you wrote in [answer 648(b)]. You wrote that the camera records whether you are in front of it or not. Many of the new cameras have a ...
#659 Perpetual Reprisal
When we express, either through writing or speaking, the Tefillah "Hashem Yinkom Damo", what are we asking for? That the murderers be punished? What if the murderers are already dead or have been kill...
#658 Pray Tell, What Did I Say?
I have, as everyone else already said Mashiv Haruach more than thirty days, but I still find myself when I lose concentration saying Morid Hatal (I davn sefard), If I can’t remember what I said, ...
#657 Kashes on the Keshes.
Is there a minimum shiur of rainbow that has to be seen in order to make the beracha… (in regards) to the number of colors?...
#656 A Rainbow Shiur
Is there a minimum shiur of rainbow that has to be seen in order to make the beracha or is any small amount enough (in length or in number of colors)?...
#655 A Sharp Shaile
Can I use a metal or stone knife sharpener for fleshig and milchig knifes? Do they require tvila?...
#654 Moving the Mourning
If one’s non-frum close relative dies, such as a mother or father, and their home is not an appropriate place to sit Shiva, due to the lack of understanding of the laws of mourning, may one sit S...
#653 The Eruv Tefilos
If one mixes up his Shabbos Shemoneh Esreis, between Maariv, Shacharis, and Mincha, is he still yotzei?...
#652 The Uber Eruv?
I have heard that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a advises against using the eiruv. Is this true? What is the reason for this?...
#651 Two for the Praise or Only One?
What is the reason that two of the berachot of the sheva berachot are basically the same beracha - yotzair ha’adam? Why the repetition?...
#650 Don't Get Even Get Tikun
Our Sages teach us that we should walk in HaShem’s ways. Just as He is merciful, so should we be? However, HaShem is also avenging. Why should we not also be avenging?...
#649 Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk
If one goes to a shul and there is a lot of talking, is it better to leave and go to another a minyan or better to stay as some may be insulted if you left?...
#648 And All Your Deeds Are Recorded
"As a matter of record" Shalom U’bracha, I enjoy reading your shailos and cant wait for you to iy"h publish a sefer with all these teshuvs. I would like to know what the halacha is with...
#647 Mourning the Mumar?
(I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) And assuming he does not leave his wife before his death and insists upon being buried next to her (she is still alive), do...
#646 A Gentile Burial?
(I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) If he does die without making this stipulation, do we let him get buried in a gentile cemetery? Should we make efforts to b...
#645 Nay Never the Kever
I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile. We mentioned to him recently that he never wrote in his will that upon his death he should be buried in a Jewish cemetery. He...
#644 Not a Lot Left of Lot's Wife's Lot
There are two brachot that are said when seeing the salt pillar of Lot’s wife as mentioned in Shulchan Aruch. Does that apply today? Do we really know with enough certainty to make a bracha that ...
#643 An Egg or a Yom Tov? III
(Re- prior questions 517 & 634.) It is interesting that the Ben Yehoyadah says that a chicken lays an egg daily. The Tosfos Rid on the first Amud of the Masechta avers that if a chicken laid an egg ev...
#642 Ladies First?
A Widowed husband that lives with his daughters, should he light the Shabbat candles or one of his daughters?...