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#5414 Save Time and Shave on Time
Greetings Kvod Rabeinu and best wishes for Lag Baomer. When is it the proper time to shave and take a haircut on this year (2025) that Lag Baomer is on Friday?...
#5413 – The Real Milk of Lag Baomer
Kvod Moreinu Shlit”a: Is it true that there is a Minhag (tradition) for some to eat a milchig (milk) seuda on Lag Baomer?...
#5412 - The Second Always Follows the First?
I have a minhag (tradition) in our family that we only eat Matza Shemura in Pesach, does that imply that on Pesach Sheni I have to do the same?...
#5411 The First Matza on the Second Pesach
-The First Matza on the Second Pesach - Q. Dear Rov and friend Shlit’a. Tomorrow Monday 12 of May (2025) will IY”H be the day of Pesach Sheni (Second time to sacrifice the Pesach for those that wer...
#5410 Honor Our Mothers Today?
Is it permitted and recommended to celebrate Mothers Day? We Wrote the following Teshuva for fathers day: 5008 – Q. Is there anything wrong with celebrating the recent Father’s Day to honor and give...
#5409 To The Top of The Tree
Kevodo Shlita, firstly I want to thank you for the beautiful kiddush the Rov and Rebetzin gave last Shabbos at the Birchas Hailonot, it was really great and very well attended. I was just wondering...
#5408 An Early Party?
For those who have the tradition to do a Lag Baomer celebration and dance around the fire with music and divrei Torah. (A siyum as I advised them is also usually done), since this year (2025) that Lag...
#5407 Healing the Healing?
- See question above. Q. As mentioned above, my father Shlit”a is a great Talmid Hochom and the head of a Yeshiva, he has additional issues of doing a temporary avoidable Aortic Valve Replacement on...
#5406 – Don’t Lag the Lag Healing of Lag Baomer!
- See question above - Q. Thank you so much for your prompt answer. I’m still wondering if for someone who is very religious as my father, who is a great Talmid Hochom and the head of a Yeshiva would...
#5405 Don’t Lag the Healing of Lag Baomer
Dear Rov Shlita my father Shlit"a needs a Suture-less Aortic Valve Replacement that could be done in just a few hours. He can have it done on very early Lag Baomer (Friday this year 2025). He made the...
#5404 Cinco De Mayo Kiddush?
See question above. I have another question. Last Shabbat morning someone in shul offered a kiddush after prayers, and he said it was dedicated for Cinco de Mayo. Was that correct?...
#5403 – Hayom Chamisho Yomim BeMayo
Dearest Rabino mio. As we have been in contact for many years by me asking questions on Halacha, for myself and others in our community of Jewish Mexican immigrants to California. Im very thankful to ...
#5402 How Early is Early?
Dearest Rov Shlit’a . At this time of the year many of us daven an early Mincha and Maariv. How early can one already count Sefira?...
#5401 The Corelle Reality?
We have some Pesach dishes that we inherited from our parents many years ago and we’re not sure if they are dairy or meat. They are Corelle. Is there any way to use them? Also we have some Cho...
#5400 Really? - No Kidding?
Kvodo Shlit’a. Last year I saw in our neighborhood a group of Chasidim standing outside their Shtivel by the rain with their mouths open and letting drops of rainfall in them. Very surprised I ask...
#5399 Watch the Matza Shemura?
Is there importance to eat Matza Shemura of Shabbos after Pesach. How about during the week?...
#5398 Who's Counting?
Dearest Rov Shlit”a. I overheard someone asking in Shul to a friend, “Is it today so many days to the Omer”, and the friend answered “Yes it is”, can they still count then with a bracha?...
#5397 A Count that Does Not Count!
If a Baal Teshuva counts in Hebrew but does not understand what he is saying. Does he comply with the mitzva? Can he continue counting then with translation?...
#5396 Early to Vote – Be Wise and Rise!
Kvod Horav Shlit’a. I was wondering, since as the Rov wrote as there is a mitzva to vote, is there also a mitzva of “Zerizin Makdimin Lemitzvot” or one has to comply with this mitzva a.s.a.p. before d...
#5395 Earliest Convenience?
When counting Sefira is it better to attend an earlier minyan for Maariv which is on the proper time required, or wait to ones regular late minyan after his learning and count Sefira then?...