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#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?...
#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?...