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#5006 Head on the Bread
Dear Rabbi. We have in our shul after Yom Tov lots of left over Chalos that were not used during the Yom Tov’s meals served in shul. If one has the choice to eat on Shabbos a complete challa that ...
#5005 – Calling Callers Calendar
I’m B’H married, settled and learning and teaching in a Kolel in Yerushalaim, so I only keep one day Yom Tov. I’m visiting my father in the States and since I daven for the amud for my recently d...
#5004 – An Early Start
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I usually keep Rabbenu Tam’s Zeman for ending every Shabbos, do I have to wait on the first night of Shavuos till then before we make kiddush?, After all we have guest and childr...
#5003 Accurate Timing
B’H I live in Yerushalaim, but I visit my parents often during Yom Tov. They have asked me why I keep two days Shavuos, or why they should even do so, since after all we counted the Omer with a broch...
#5002 The Correct Best Answer
Dear Rov Shlit’a. In the ancient shul I attend sometimes on Shavuoth (my parents daven there) they recite the verses of Akdamoth after the Cohen recites the first bracha on the Torah. When I protested...
#5001 Entitled to the Right Title
Why is the Sefer of Tanach called “Trei Asar”, in Aramaic, instead of the Hebrew “Shnaim Asar?...
# 5000 – Join The Greatest of Weddings!
Kevod Rabenu Shlit’a. Why don’t we make hakofos on Shavuos as we do in Simchas Torah? After all that is the day of the giving of the Torah and greatest joy as the wedding itself?...
#4999 A True Day of Distinction!
Why, what and when is this year the Yom Hameyuchas?...
#4998 Any Way AI?
Our shul complex (in the U.S.) is very large. We have three main praying areas besides also three large saloons for S’machot and Kiddushin. Usually during the weekdays to be able to serve energy w...
#4997 Kabbalath HaTorah?
K’vod Rabboseinu, I have never been introduced by my Torah mentors into the study of Kabbalah. Therefore, despite my curiosity, I have restrained myself from what might be a foolish endeavor. Ho...
#4996 Drive Safely
– Q. K’vod Rabboseinu, It seems that the idea of our observant women driving a vehicle in our Torah community is frowned upon. Do you have any idea why that could be? And if it a meritorious ap...
#4995 Sing Alone
K’vod Rabboseinu, A class of girls is traveling on a class trip, for which they chartered a bus. May the girls sing together on the bus, despite the presence of the male driver (as long as it do...
#4994 m A Gentle Touch?
Is it permissible for Gentiles to touch or hold any part of the Torah?...
#4993 Count for Something
A Gabbai, eager to start Mincha, wants to count the assembled to see if there is a Minyan, why does he not ask each present to put a coin or similar in a plate, for Tzedaka before davening. Is the ab...
#4992 Relations to Relations
Dearest Rabbi. As you know my wife and myself, are a first year married couple that thanks Hashem, became Baalei Teshuva. I learned recently on an Halacha shiur, that some people abstain from having m...
#4991 An Express Question
The question is: When vowelizing the Kinah of Maharam MiRotenberg on the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, (also connected to the death of the Talmidim of Rabi Akiva and the mourning dys of the Omer)...
#4990 A Real Chidush on Chidushim!!!
Is it true that on Shavuoth it is determined what are going to be the Chidushei Torah that one is going to learn and reveal for others during the coming year?...
#4989 The Way to World Eruv Info.
Hello Rav, I’m planing on being in PANAMA CITY, PANAMA during Shabbat. I use the eruv in Toronto and I’m wondering if the eruv there is valid. When I asked my Rav, he said he is not familiar...
#4988 A Last Letter?
Kervod Horav is the writing of the last letter of a Sefer Torah most special than others and considered like writing the whole sefer? Should it be valued more than all others?...
#4987 The Head Start
Is a seuda (meal) in which the group begins to learn a new Mesechta and officially and publicly start the learning with the first Mishna considered to be a Seudas Mitzva that should be attended by man...