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#5635 A Breakfast Fast?
See questions above. Can one just fast on Beahab half a day and still recite the Selichot?...
#5634 Cast the Fast?
See question above. Is there a minhag to recite a special Mi Sheberach for the ones that fast? If someone answers Amen to the Mi Sheberah does he become obliged to fast?...
#5633 Don’t Blast the Fast!
What is the correct order for these fasting days, and why?...
#5632 A Fast Reason to a Fast
What is the reason for these above mentioned fasting days?...
#5631 Have a Beahab?
Kvod Horav Shlit’a. Is it true that people who don’t keep the fasting and the Selichot of Beahab, should still refrain from eating then meat and drinking wine? What exactly is the Beahab tradition ...
#5630 Oy Vay AI?
We recently had in some ways a quite a few similar questions relating to the constantly changing new AI technologies. One was an actually common one. If one forgot to turn off his cellular phone w...
#5629 Need a Goy for That Toy?
– - Q. See question above. If he is not allowed to play with it, how can we remove the toy from his room on Shabbat?...
#5628 – OY! What a Toy!
Dear Rabbi. My four year old child recently at his birthday was given a present of a snake described on the box as an: “Electric Smart AI Snake Toy Automatic Induction, Realistic Cunning Movement for ...
#5627 Our Most Blessing Women!
Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Do women also have to recite one hundred brachot every day?...
#5626 Drawing the Raffle?
Dear Rov Shlit’a as quoted in recent shailos, some times people in a shul disagree as to what Aliya and bracha for the Torah they should be receiving. If the disagreement and conflict can’t be set...
#5625 Support the Support!
If one davens (prays) next to a bookcase of Torah sefarim and when he reaches the amida he needs to help support himself a bit by leaning against the bookcase, so he removes a few of the sefarim to be...
#5624 The Time to Thank?
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. Was the exchange of the 1900 Palestinian prisoners and likely future terrorist for the 20 living hostages permitted? Can one stop now reciting special Tehilim or celebrate with a...
#5623 Blame the Name?
See question above. How about in a Ketuva or Tenaim? Do they have to be redone if the name of the month was as above misspelled?...
#5622 – The Best of all Months?
Dearest Rabbi shalita. I wonder what is the most correct way to write in a Matzeiva the name of the month we just started, Cheshvan or Marcheshvan?...
#5621 Acumen When No Amen
See question above: Since I’m due for an urgent medical operation and I will be spending from the afternoon onward, time in hospital, can I comply with the hundred brachot by answering Amen on th...
#5620 – Give and Receive a Hundred Blessings!
Kvodo Shlit”a. I make a great effort to recite a hundred Brachot (Blessings) every day. Since I’m due for a urgent medical operation and I will be spending from the afternoon onward, time in hospital...
#5619 – Choose The Rest of The Best
Dear Rabbi. Long Life. I have thanks to Hashem and my good friends recently become a “Baal Teshuva.” I have contacted you for guidance a few times, and I thank you much for your great help. Since I...
#5618 The Final Report Card!
– Q. Dear Rabbi as you mentioned “The very last posuk of the Torah finishes with the words; “Moshe performed before the eyes of all Israel”: Rashi explains that this refers to the incident where Mosh...
#5617 The Real Right Reading?
Subject: Birkas Kohanim - Omor Lahem (Bamidbar 6:23): Who should be the makre (reader)? Dear Rabbi SHELITA, Please ask HaRav Shlomo Miller the following: 1. When the Sheliach Tzibur is NOT a Koh...
#5615 Not a Happy Ending???
See question above. Dear Rov Shlit’a. I did suggest that to the above, yet they were unhappy since they explained that the Torah, for a number of reasons does not have a blessed delightful happy endin...