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#5039 - On the Nail!
Is it correct to just flush the cut nails on the sink or toilet, or do they have to be buried or burned in the back yard?...
#5038 Really and Truly Artificial
Dear Rov, you recently mentioned about using vertlach and gematrios created by an AI program. I travel a lot and often learn in a hotel late at night. Could I use an AI program that I very much like e...
#5037 - Blessings for the Blessings
Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’m invited to a sheva brochos of a very great friend who I’m trying to be Mekarev more to Torah learning. It is on Thursday after Shiva Assar Betamuz. Should I go?...
#5036 - Calling in Question
If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of illness 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 ...
#5035 Surprise For Thursday 5th of Tamuz
What is the source in the Gemora and Rishonim that in order for someone to be a Novi, (prophet) he must first receive Nevuah in Eretz Yisroel?...
#5034 Trust Those Words?
Can one use the “Vertlach” (small attractive words of Torah interpretations) that were created by an ingenious new artificial intelligence program?...
#5033 We Didn’t Catch that Name!
Why is the Parsha this week called Korach? How can we use the name of a Rasha (evil person) for a Parsha title?...
#5032 Looking for Trouble!
Is it permitted to go on Shabbos to sit in a treife restaurant in honor of grandmother’s birthday if no treife will be consumed and no melacha done by the chareidi grandson?...
#5031 - Crack in the Bottle?
(re question 5020, regarding filtering some small particles of glass left when a bottle of wine broke before kiddush on Shabbos, and the prohibition of Borer) Q. 1- it was answered that other meth...
# 5030 Moonlighting for Kiddush Levana?
My son’s bar mitzva is on the second Shabbos of the month, Should he wait until then to say Kiddush Levana or if it can be done should he say it after the first Shabbos?...
#5029 Bathroom Literature - Really?
Mi Rabino Querido, I usually read books of food recipes while I’m in the bathroom. Can it be done on Shabbat?...
#5028 Your Earliest Convenience
See questions above. Do I have to give all of the tzedakah at once or can I invest some of it and spread out the payments?...
#5027 Lessons on Tuition
See question above. Would paying tuition for my kids be considered tzedaka? What about their weddings?...
#5026 Charity Begins at Home
How does one calculate tzeddaka (Maaser) on the sale of a house? I’m assuming that some expenses could be deducted such as mortgage and taxes and maintenance but not consumables such as gas and e...
#5025 - Giving a Giving Education -
Dear Rov, As you well know, I’m one of the younger mispalelim that attends your shul from time to time. If I earn some money during the summer by helping in boys camp I attend. Since I’m supported by ...
#5024 Lighting the Candle
See question above. I have a single blind grandmother that lives in Mexico and has a maid that takes care of her, can she ask her maid to hold her hand and she would then light the candle and recite ...
#5023 The Faith of the Blind
My elderly grandmother due to old age and disease lost her eyesight and can’t see at all, can my grandfather light the Shabbos candles and she should recite the blessings? It provides to her a tremend...
#5022 The Light of Seeing
See question above. Dear Rov and colleague. We joined together yesterday at the Kabolas Ponim and welcoming of the Gedolei Yisroel in their historic visit to Toronto to establish the Keren Olam Hatora...
#5021 Beat the Brains?
Kvod Horav Shlit’a. As far as I remember you were the first to address the question of electronic brain implants that connect directly to the brain and permit someone to see and read, and if that typ...
#5020 - What Are You Drinking?
Dearest Rov, Last Shabbat we were enjoying at a kiddush in shul for an Oifruff. Then when it came to reciting Kiddush the only wine available was a real truly expensive wine bottle and since they were...