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#5367 – Make Room for the Bloom!
Can one make the bracha on the fruit trees when seeing the new buds on the trees or does one have to wait until the buds turn into flowers?...
#5366 – Up a Tree on Blessing the Tree?
See question above. I still don’t understand why we notice that so many Gedolim and Tzadikim made such a big deal and placed so much effort on getting together a significant group to recite the blessi...
#5365 – Hey Kid! Finnish your Vegetables Now!
I have always wondered, how come we make such a big deal of reciting the blessing for the fruits of trees and we totally ignore a bracha for vegetables and grain plants, that are even more essential a...
#5364 Blessing On and Also the Shabbat!
– Q. Another tree question Dear Rabbi please. Is it better to wait until Shabbat to recite this blessing on the trees?...
#5363 An Inyan for a Minyan?
I have seen that in some shuls a minyan gathers to recite the bracha on the trees. Do you really require a minyan?...
#5362 A Blooming Shaila!
In Gibraltar, they are saying Bircat Ha’ilanot after minchah today! When should we say it?...
#5361 - Searching a Good Hotel?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. You know us well as I daven often in your shul. This is the first year, due to health issues that we will spending Pesach in a Hotel, and I have a number of questions. Do I have to d...
#5360 The "No Mas Atlas of Muchas Tortillas"
Estimado Honorable Rabino. Are tortillas made of corn that is kitnioth permited when care is taken to make them and bake the as one would do with Matza Shemurah? Why should Kitniot that is only pr...
#5359 A Blessed Sale?
Someone that is traveling away for Pesach and will be selling the complete house with all the food included on a transaction that will take place, as organized by a competent Rabbi before the night of...
#5358 All Menchen Must Have Intention!
If as Poskim write that one complies with the mitzva of “Tashbisu” or destroying the chometz already thirty days before Pesach, then one should have the intention of complying with this mitzva when ea...
#5357 Very Busy with Sushi?
See above question. As we already asking about sushi what is the correct brocho on sushi. We have heard different opinions. What is Horav Shlomo Shlit’a opinion?...
#5356 A Kashi on the Sushi?
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We have a great family of friends that need to be invited for Peisach and are having a difficult time getting an invitation. We would love to invite them and their children. An...
#5355 The Brocho of Gebrochts?
We usually invite guest for the Peisach Seder that may not be very Frum yet, as we are trying to be mekarev them while complying with the mitzva of Hachnasat Orchim. It is not unusual to see our g...
#5354 Invite the Real Hero?
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. We are preparing for the Pesach seder and the guest we want to invite and we are considering our choices. Is it a greater mitzva to invite a bochur who learns in Yeshiva and ...
#5353 Address the Dress!
From what age on do the girls who come to shul have to be dressed with Tznius?...
#5352 One More Hagada Question?
Dear Rov, I heard that there is a special Mitzva when one is invited to a Seder on Pesach to bring your own Hagada, which is basically very similar to the ones being offered by the host. Is that true?...
#5351 Joys Of Spring?
Dearest Rabbi. As our family is traveling away for Pesach and we are staying with one of our children, when, if and how, do we have to comply with the ceremony of searching for the chamets, as we do a...
#5350 Small Sefer – Big Reading?
In the case when one can not attend shul early enough, should one take out after davening the sefer Torah and just read it as is, without a minyan?...
#5349 Never Heard This?
If someone did not have any intention at all when listening to the parsha of Parah we are going to read this coming Shabbat (2025), does one comply?...
#5348 Par up for Parshat Parah?
– As the Rabbi knows, we have established a new minyan an we are wondering if we have to publish a letter and remind our members including women to attend this coming Shabbat to hear the Parsha of Pa...