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#5221 Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder?
Dearest Rabbi and friend for so many years. As you know I still live in Mexico and I read your truly most interesting questions every week as many many others do. As you well know Mexico is the “S...
#5220. The True Extreme Brochos?
(See the questions 5213 -16 above). Is there a special meaning or Brocho for someone that Hashem gives this most unusual beautiful opportunity to light the Menorah during the same Yom Tov, at both co...
#5219 Need a Hearing Aid?
Someone who uses a removable hearing aid during the week but not on Shabbos, and forgot to take it off before the beginning of Shabbos, can it be removed during Shabbos ? How?...
#5218 A Freilech’n Chanuka?
Should an Avel who davens for the Amud do so during Chanuka?...
#5217 Enlight Others With Your Lighting
Rov, since I know that there are other Jewish friends and coworkers with us that are also partaking in our work and business team, although they are not frum at all, should I invite them to the Menora...
#5216 – Really? More Real Pirsume Nes Shailos???
A s mentioned I will be traveling to the extremes north and south of the continent, although my wife and son will be with me, should I better ask someone in my home town in Canada to light for me at m...
#5215 More Real Pirsume Nes Shailos
See question above. Are there any other valid and better opinions?...
#5214 The Real Pirsume Nes Shailos
See question above. It is likely that for my business promotional requirements I will come to my knowledge some very amazing questions. If when I will be traveling in the north of Canada and even re...
#5213 It’s About Time
I will be traveling a lot during Chanuka for my business requirement, and have some important questions. What is the minimum time that the Chanuka candles have to stay on?...
#5212 Did We Strike Oil?
See question above. What is better to light the menorah with olive oil or vegetable oil without a hechsher, when traveling and no other oil is available? Is it better to light then with candles?...
#5211 The Style of Kosher?
Does one have to use Kosher olive oil for lighting the Chanukah menorah?...
#5210 The Head Light Bulb Was Off?
Dear Rabbi. A Sephardic frum widow, that is about to remarry, when she was trying on the new dress for the important occasion, the woman helping her tore a bit of her dress by her chest. The bride...
#5209 The Real Best Kiddush
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. If someone that has yohrzait for his father donated the kiddush of this Shabbos morning as he usually does every year, however, this year after the petirah (death) this week of H...
#5208 Hashem Helps Who Help Themselves?
If one is in the middle of the amida and does not remember if he said the right words, can he pray to Hashem to remind him?...
#5207 The Say of the AI
Does one praying by listening to an AI program for davening or reciting brochos, have to repeat the words being heard?...
#5206 Turn the AI Vay to a Great Way!
See question 5203. Is it recommended that the AI program an ill person uses for keeping company, should also be programmed to monitor the patients bio-readings and medicine consumption? Does the on...
#5205 The Best Season Greetings
Dear Rabbi Shlita. I join the thousands that thank you for answering promptly the thousands of very difficult new and most unusual questions we face today and being addressed with the collaboration of...
#5204 Face the Music and the Lights?
Can one enter a store or mall at the Christmas season when the music and decorations pertain to Christian religious origins? Should one use hearing plugs that play Jewish music then and also wear dark...
#5203 The AI Vay Way
Dear Rabbi this is a question that is right for you, as you were one of the first Rabbis to address AI questions and Halacha. I have a dear elderly uncle that lost recently his wife after being ...
#5202 Our Good Smelling Parsha
On Parshas Toldos we read “Reeh Reiach b’ni kereyach sode asher beracho Hashem” See that the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that Hashem blessed.” Talmud (Taanis 29b) explains that ...