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#5556 Make a Stand?
Dear Rov Shlit”a. Thank you and your group of Rabbis for your answers and the willingness to address so many different and often unusual and interesting new questions, and provide great and understand...
#5555 Grounds for Fasting?
We apologize for the delay. The following question, took a while to arrive into ours system, although, we receive many questions in different languages, especially in Spanish. Rabino Bartfeld ....
#5554 Sho-Far Sho Good?
Kvod Rabenu as mentioned above in question 5549, is it really correct to blow shofar at night?...
#5553 - More Motion Added to the last Motion
- We must add to the above question, what we wrote on Q. 3192, where we added the following: “Q. I live in a building that uses in the halls a new type of electric bulbs. When one comes close to...
#5552 - A Motion to Permit a Motion Detector
- Q, As we were discussing the above Shaila with our group of Rabbanim, the next Shaila became necessary to add to be added to the above one....
#5551 See The Light?
Hello, I’ve seen several articles discussing moving lamps on Shabbat and they clearly say that it is not permitted to move them when there is a need due to the light being categorized the same wa...
#5550 Making Sense of Sensors
Hello Rav, I’m looking into buying a video doorbell system. I believe it captures video and sends alerts to your phone when people are in front of it. What should I do with it on Shabbat? For...
#5549 Don’t Blow the Blow!
See questions above. How about If I can’t make it for Mincha,can I still blow by Maariv? In such situation, can one just hear see and hear the blowing on line?...
#5548 A Late Blow?
See question above. If I can’t blow for myself without a minyan, yet since I’m able to attend a shul for Mincha, if the people agree, can I blow the shofar then?...
#5547 Shofar So Good?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. Often, due to my occupation, I’m unable to attend davening in the morning with a minyan in our vicinity, so I daven on my own. Should I or can I also blow the shofar after my davenin...
#5546 Hashem’s Great Grace!
- Q - See questions above. Is it proper for one spending a night in a low class hotel on the highway, to leave on the image of the Kotel on his phone next to his bed for protection, since there is ...
#5545 Place the Kotel on the Wall?
- Q - See question above. If the above is permitted, some have inquired if this image can be displayed on a large screen on the Mizrach (eastern) side of the shul, so people will have more kavana du...
#5544 - See the Phone? Framing the Picture Frame
See question above. Is it proper also for someone traveling by car, who has to stop on the road to daven (pray) a Tefila, to turn on the image of the Kotel on his phone or screen and daven in fro...
#5543 The Contemporary Kotel?
See question above. If the Kotel image is permitted, can it be left on during Shabbat also? As it already is, the images are anyway constantly displayed on line, for all to see. (Even on their phones)...
#5542 Framing the Picture Frame?
Dearest Rabbi. Is it advised or even permitted to leave at home on the wall of the living room a large screen that displays the constant live image of the Kotel in Yerushalaim, as a Zecher Lechurban o...
#5541 – Have A True Ketiva Vechatima Tova!
- Q – My dearest Rav Shli”a, I thank the Rav for all the so many answers you have written to me and the others of my group throughout many years. I just attended a simcha in a new Shul in our neig...
#5540 Toss The Towel Again ?
- Regarding question 5537 above Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a added that if necessary one can rely on the fact that the hotel has one owner who has right of access to every room which may not require an...
#5539 Have a Real Good Shabbat Night
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I understand that Tu Beav is important since it marks the time the nights are longer and the time for learning Torah increases. Why is the Torah learning at night more important th...
#5538 Dance at the Right Wedding!
Dear Rav, as we approach Tu Beav this Shabbat I would like to understand more the real meaning of this day and how it is connected to getting married. Thank you so much....
#5537 Toss In The Towel?
See question above. I would also like to know if it is permitted to carry a towel on the hotel building and swimming pool area?...