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#204 Fasting when one has an illness that requires taking pills a couple times a day.
As the ninth of AV is a nidcheh this year is a person who has an illness and is required to take many pills a couple times a day required to fast?...
#203 - Taking pills on Shabbos Chazon in order that it should be easier to fast
May one take pills on Shabbos Chazon (either The Kollel’s Tylenol/Advil or Kali Tzom), in order that it should be easier to fast on Tisha B’Av? 　...
#202 - Exercising during the nine days
Someone who exercises every day may he continue to do so during the nine days? Such as using treadmill elliptic etc....
#201 - Wearing a freshly washed Sheital during the nine days.
Can one wear a freshly washed Sheital if its not a new wig?...
#200 - Washing Sheitals during the 9 days.
Can I have my sheital washed and set in the 9 days? A) Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a and other Poiskim’s opinion is that a woman’s wig is considered a piece of clothing. As...
#199 - Can one arriving late for a Siyum during the 9 days still eat Fleishigs?
If you are late and only arrived (to a flaishig siyum on the nine days) after the siyum was done, can you still join and take part in the seudah?...
#198 - Can one Dial-A-Siyum and then eat Fleishig?
If you learned together (a tractate of the Talmud) with a group but now are on vacation somewhere else, can you join (the siyum fleishig banquet during the nine days) via telephone?...
#197 - Two groups making a Siyum together
Can two totally different groups that learned different masechtos join together in one large siyum, or is it like making mitzvos chavilos?...
#196 - Who can join in a Fleishig Siyum during the 9 days?
Can people who didn’t learn join in a suyum and eat meat?...
#195 - Can a group dividing up a Tractate make a Fleishig Siyum during the 9 days?
Can a fleishig siyum be made if each one in the group learned only a few dafim leiluy nishmas a friend and then they joined for the siyum?...
#194 - Signing the "waver of conditions" during the three weeks or nine days.
On the process of buying a property, can someone sign the "waver of conditions" during the 3 weeks or the nine days? Can you sign up for a mortgage then? Does it make a difference if it is a residenti...
#193 - Correct Nusach for Bircat Hachodesh when Rosh Chodesh is on Eruv Shabbos.
Q) What is the correct way to say this Shabbat on Birchat Hachodesh, "Bayom Hashishi" or "Bayom Erev Shabbat Kodesh – Hava Alenu Letova" A) Most recorded and printed luchos and guides mention "B...
#192 - Giving presents during the three weeks.
Can you give a Bar Mitzva or birthday present that was already purchased before the 3 weeks? Thanks....
#191 - Buying a computer during the three weeks
Is it permitted to buy a new laptop needed for work during the three weeks?...
#190 - Fasting while in jail.
What is the rabbinic law regarding fasting while in jail? The issue is the depression of being in such a place....
#189 - Playing Torah tapes near an open bathroom or chamber pot.
If a Torah tape sometimes remains playing when the patient is already sleeping, is this permitted if in the room there is a full potty or the bathroom door is open, and no one else is listening? ...
#188 - In case of need, can one be Yozte his Tefilos through listening to a tape?
An elderly patient who wants to daven but because of his age finds it difficult to read, can you play a tape and he be yotze by listening to it?...
#187 - Mitzvah of Shiluach Hakan on a nest found outside one's home
Is there an issue when one finds a bird’s nest outside one’s home in regards to the Mitzvah of Shiluach Hakan?...
#186 - Destroying/removing a bird's nest
Are there any halachic issues with destroying/removing a bird’s nest that has appeared in a light fixture outside one’s home?...
#185 - Saying Piyutim in Davening Part 2
If [reciting piyutim - see earlier question] is based on the fact that few understand the language and meaning and that their time could be put to better use, why are we still saying the piyyutim we d...