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#641 A Vort from the Convert
Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul…. can he be invited to say a dvar Torah on ...
#640 Gentle Gentiles
Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul, ….If he owns a lulav and esrog can he do h...
#639 Convert''s Course
Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul, Can he be dance with the Torah on Simchas ...
#638 Gratuitous Gratifying
If you travel by car is there schar pesios?...
#637 Stepping or People?
What is better to attend a shul that is further away and there is schar pesios, or to daven in a shul where there are more people berov am?...
#636 A Shaile on a Kashe
What Bracha does one make on buckwheat cakes, HoAdama or Shehakol?...
#635 How to Raise Praise on the Rice
Before eating rice cakes, does one make Borei Pri HoAdama or Mezonos (because the pieces are stuck together)?...
#634 An Egg or a Yom Tov? II
I am beginning to learn Maseches Beitzah. While reviewing your information below in answer to a past query of mine, (question 517) I realized that none of the information really answers the question, ...
#633 Swinging a Shaile
Can my children use a tire swing on Shabbos? The rope is attached to a metal hook that protrudes from a tree. When a child swings on the swing the tree branch it does sway but only very slightly....
#632 Is one head better than two?
At one of the wards with a measurable Jewish population two frum councilor candidates are running for election this month. Is it proper for them to do so or since they are splitting the vote shouldn’t...
#631 Permitted Child Labor?
Can you tell a koton to put the schach lechatchila if his father is there? Does he have to be present the whole time or is it enough only at the beginning?...
#630 Sleeping in the Rain
Would a weather forecast predicting rain during the night make one patur from sleeping in the succah or must one go out to sleep and only go inside once it actually starts to rain?...
#629 The Non-Suka Suka
If one has a plastic cover over the schach when it rains is it better to eat in the Suka or in the house? Thanks...
#628 When it Rains it is Potur
If it rains during Sukos, if one is wearing a large protective hat and raincoat that covers him and the food too is he allowed to be machmir if he doesn’t mind to sit and eat in the rain in the S...
#627 A Matter of Record
I am a student in a secular university. They have a policy of religious accommodation and if requested, they record classes given on religious holidays so that the religious student can listen to the ...
#626 Rainy Day Amendment
If someone was placing the schach on the sukka and it started raining and he continued to place the schach in the rain, is that a problem because it may be similar to putting the shach on the sukka wh...
#625 A Cut to Soon?
The Mishna Berurah recommendation to cut your hair on Erev Rosh Hashanah begins at the eve after Maariv or only in the morning after Shacharis?...
#624 Kidush Before Yom Kippur?
If you are in doubt as to what the weather will be like motzei yom kippur, should you say kidush levanah before Yom Kipur?...
#623 A Straight Pretzel Shaileh
Does the chumra with regard to refraining from "pas palter" this week apply to standard pretzels sold in packages at food stores?...
#622 Standing Selichos
I use an Artscroll Slichos, and it says that the 13 Middos are recited while standing, implying that there is no need to stand while saying the other paragraphs of slichos. I have always seen people s...