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#5099 – Hazoom Es Hakol?
See question above. In our special situation, can we maybe just zoom a blowing of the shofar, since after all it is only for a remembrance act?...
#5098 Blow the Blow?
Dear Rabbi. We are still traveling with our family and friends camping by the lake on our summer vacation trip. Be’H we plan to be back at the middle of next week. Since we Bechesed Hashem actually ha...
#5097 Words of Honor
– Q. See question above. Can one celebrate a Siyum on that day or should preferably postpone it....
#5096 The Pogrom Program
Rabenu Shlit’a. Is the 17th of Av a day for mourning?...
#5095 Prepared Properly for Party
A Bride that has a family tradition on the day of her wedding to daven a special long mincha before entering the Chupa, if she thinks she will be too busy and engaged in the las minute details before ...
#5094 Dance at the Right Wedding!
Kvod Horav Shli”a. Should one choose when possible to get married on Tu Beav? Is there a special meaning and importance on getting married then?...
#5093 - Marry Up?
Is there an inyan (reason) of making a seuda on Tu Beav for women that are looking for a Shiduch. Our a bit modern shul would like to organize one, if yes how should it be done?...
#5092 Have an Early Night?
See question above. Does the same apply for one who davens Maariv after plag. If he learns after davening Maariv is that considered as learning at night?...
#5091 Call It a Day?
See question above. Dear Rov, I asked the same question above also to other Rabbis and they stressed more the importance of learning Torah at night, even in my stressful condition. Are they really w...
#5090 Have a Good Night
I wonder if I have the opportunity to learn before davening in the morning, or to do it by attending a shiur at night when I’m already a bit tired, which is preferable? I usually do so in the morn...
#5089 Have a Great Gut Yom Tov
Rabenu Shlit’a tonight is TU BEAV and as we heard in shul it is a very great Yom Tov. I know that we go to work on that day and there is not really any special mitzvot or tefilot said on that day as f...
#5088 The True Honoring of One’s Father
They are selling at our large shul the important Haftara of Shabbat Nachamu. As they are a number of Yohrzait candidates that would like to read , yet I have also yohrzait for my father ZT”L then, How...
#5087 The Sooner the Better
I’m getting married next week for a third time, with a chupa done in a small Shul. Is it best to wait until after T’u Beav is over, or is it sufficient just after Shabbat Nachamu or even after t...
#5086 The Last Drink?
Can one drink diluted fruit juice at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins)? It is very helpful for me. Can one take then a Lechaim zip?...
#5085 – Sure Care to Cure?
Rabbi I need help urgent. Never in my life (B”H), I had to take any medicine on a day of fasting. Now I need to take antibiotics. Which is the best Halacha way to swallow them on Tisha Beav? (need urg...
#5084 Fastest Fasting
I’am a mother and B’H I have several young children. For serving my children on Tisha Beav fasting day, can I just taste a bit of the food and then spit it out, just to see if it is not too salty or t...
#5083 Kashes on Ashes?
Does one have to dip only the bread at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins) in ashes or one should also put some ashes on the single cooked food permitted, commonly a hard boiled eg...
#5082 We Welcome the Well Wear?
A good friend left his raincoat in shul during last week or maybe it was on Friday night. I found it. Can I wear it home on a the early sunny Shabbos afternoon to return it to him, or should I be con...
#5081 Say How You Can See
My wife went to the eye doctor because she was having vision problems. The doctor gave her a new prescription for her lenses and she ordered a set of new frames and lenses. For various reasons she cou...
#5080 Our Best Friends
Rabbi. Is it true what I heard, that you mentioned that the only real AI entity, that has and will ever exist as an independent entity is the Beth Hamikdash? How could you say something like that???...