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#5487 - Plant a Seed of Doubt in Your Mind?
Kvodo Shlit’a. I have a question on the summer days we buy flower pots and also use planters. My kids like to plant on some big ones and planters, different types, of even small fruit plants and trees...
#5486 Get a Big Head!
See question above. If indeed the are to big can I just use the parshiot. It seems possible that they would fit in mine?...
#5485 A Big Ask?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. As you know my father A.H. passed away last month. He left me a beautiful pair of Tefilin that he spend a lot on them, and they are very mehudar in many ways. There is only one probl...
#5484 A light-bulb Moment?
-- Could we not have complied with the electric light we had in the room?...
#5483 Calling in Question
If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of old age he does not know if he will be fasting a full day, can he be called to the Torah on this year in the morning as he always is? He...
#5482 A Canada Day Siyum???
Dear Rabbi. This coming Tuesday July 1 (2025) I have the first yohrzait for my father ZT”L, and I’m offering a kiddush in Shul after davening. Since in my minyan there are attendants that are...
#5481 Didn’t Catch that Name!
Rabbi, my young son just asked me how can we have a parsha named after an evil Rasha like Korach, what should I tell him?...
#5480 Meals on Wheels?
Rav, Can one who usually eats on Rosh Chodesh a meal with meat and wine, comply tomorrow Friday Rosh Chodesh (2025), with that meal with the Seudas Shabbos if he makes an early Shabbos?...
#5479 Divide and Conquer!
See question above. Moreinu Shlit”a, I usually give my monthly maaser money mostly to yeshivot and support for Torah learners. Should I now give it to our neighbors in their time of crisis and special...
#5478 - A Constant Thanks for All Miracle of Miracles?
See question above. Moreinu Shlit”a, as we walk around our awfully hit and damaged neighborhood in Artzenu, we constantly see and notice the miracles that occurred for our people saved by Hashem. ...
#5477 The Everlasting Miracle of Miracles?
Moreinu Shlit”a. I’m planing, with Hashem’s help to be able to return to Toronto soon, and join you again. I much miss your great Friday night meals and Divrei Torah, that I have enjoyed and participa...
#5476 Medical Food?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. One that suffers from protein deficiency in his system and it causes illnesses in him. He was told by his doctor to eat some special chocolate bars that contain high protein content ...
#5475 Back to Egypt?
Kvod Rabenu Shelit’a. As people are already beginning to travel in and out of Israel as always by plane, now (end of June 2025), we still have tickets that we acquired before to travel out of Egypt. ...
#5474 Swim Along
Can someone teaching Non Jewish children how to swim continue doing it during the Nine Days?...
#5473 Take My Son Too? (See question above).
. As the rabbi certainly remembers, I have a son twenty one years old, that is learning in a Yeshiva and also going to a pre-med program since he wants to become a physician. Since he is after all t...
#5472 - Can’t Help It! I Must Go and Help?
Dearest Rabbi. As you very well remember me, since you even performed my wedding ceremony, and we have met from time to time. As you know I became a computer and artificial intelligence expert wit...
#5471 A Vort on the Vort
Kvod Horav Shlit’a. I’m planing to get married (second marriage) on Wednesday the 2nd day of July (2025), I heard that it may be problematic is that true?...
#5470 Need ‘Mucha Ayuda’ Please!!!
Querido Rabino, D-s lo proteja y lo ayude. As I spoke with you, my parents are trying very hard to come to Israel for the wedding of their daughter. You know my family well from your Mexico days a...
#5469 Cuddle Up with the Book?
See question above. Does the youngster have to be holding the chumash in his hands the whole time? Thanks you so much for answering promptly and so clearly all our questions. Hashem bless you!...
#5468 Is It All in the Book?
See question above. Does the youngster have to be carrying the Chumash the whole time, or can he place it on a table and just hold on to it?...