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#560 Avoid Better, Night Learning Neder?
Do you have to make Hatarat Nedarim if you always learned the whole night and this year because of medical advice are not able?...
#559 Time to Light Shavuos Night
Two questions on Shavuot. When do you light candles the first night of Shavuot?...
#558 Bar the Shtar
Could the giving of the kesuva to the kalah be considered as kidushin?...
#557 To Tarry or to Marry?
(When the ring went missing… see prior question.) Would it not be better for the chosson to take a coin or any other object of his belonging and avoid the wait?...
#556 The Missing Ring
I attended a chupah where the chosson thought he had the ring in his pocket but at the crucial moment after the rabbi recited the first brochos, he remembered he left it home and he send urgently some...
#555 Getting Rid of the Proof
(Do you have to save articles of Torah…) How about the discarded proof prints from a printing shop?...
#554 Burn or Bury?
Does Hashem’s name or pesukim printed by non-believing Jews or non-Jews require genizah or can they just be thrown away in the garbage disposal?...
#553 How to Write an Invite
(Do you have to save articles of Torah…) How about wedding and bar mitzvah invitations that have pesukim in them?...
#552 Manichim P'sukim in Blue-Bin for Recycling?
Do you have to save articles of Torah in newspapers and magazines and discard them as shemos or can you just double wrap them in plastic bags and put them in the recyclables?...
#551 A Platitude Blessing on a Platypus?
Does one make the brocho of "meshane habrios" with the full name of Hashem when seeing first time a platypus?...
#550 Gam Zoo Letovo?
Is there an "inyan" or worthwhile purpose in visiting a zoo and watching the animals?...
#549 Flowers in the Night
Can you make the birchas hailonos at night seeing the flowers by artificial light?...
#548 A Passing Violation?
If one heard Kiddush, Hamotzi, or Havdalah; and the cup of Kiddush wine, piece of Challah, or Besomim, respectively, are passed around; is it a violation of "Ein maavirin al hamitzvoth" to pass the it...
#547 The Gravity of Gravity
On Question #514. (How do you hold the lulav in space where there is no gravity or only artificial gravity on a space station?). Q. Although it is gratifying to live in the same generation as a R...
#546 How to Wear a Flag
On #544 (Do you put tzitzis on a flag you wrap yourself with it?) Q. Doesn’t a piece of clothing only require tzitzis when two corners are in the front and two corners in the back, whereas...
#545 Interesting Query on Government Interest
I live in Israel (the relevance to the question of which will soon become apparent). Two years ago, like every year, we paid our Israeli income tax. Unfortunately, not all our charity receipts were ...
#544 A Kosher Flag?
During the Independence Day I saw a religious teenager wearing a kipa, wrap himself with an Israeli flag. Was this permitted, or did he have to put tzitzit on the flag?...
#543 Was it Funny?
On the first night of sefirah before counting, a joker asked the fellow next to him what day of the sefirah is it tonight? He answered, also as a joke: I’m not sure but I think it is the first da...
#542 Marking the Tattoo
A woman that became a baalat teshuvah and she has a tattoo that she is planning to remove or change, is it meantime a chatzitzah?...
#541 A Plan for One, a Plan for Many?
My doctor has a number of his patients, me included, on a certain diet plan. The designer of this diet is a doctor who has a website to which one can subscribe that will, among other benefits, afford ...