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#4945 My AI Counting Friend
I attend a zoom shiur every night and the attendants can see each other usually and also debate and ask questions. At the end of the shiur, these days we count sefirah when it is already the right tim...
#4944 Get the Mitzva, Yet Get This First
How can the father give by the seder to his sons or guest matzos, so they can comply with the mitzva since the matzos have to belong to them, is it not prohibited to make a Kinyan (acquisitive act on ...
#4943 Kashering Yet not Cracking it
We have a glass top stove. The stove was used for chometz in the past. Each year, we kashered it for Pesach by turning on the elements until they were red hot, as per COR guidelines. Since the glass b...
#4942 Split The Halacha Sea?
Dear Rov Shlit"a. Our family is staying for Pesach in a city and hotel we never went to.I was told that there is a Chasidishe shtibl nearby where they have a minhag to pour water on the floor of the s...
#4941 Find the HaMotzi - Matza
Our tradition is not to eat matza for thirty days before Pesach. Since this year we will be traveling right after Shabbos and we offer shaleshudes in shul for a simcha, and it will be hard to clean af...
#4940 Brace for the Braces
Shavua Tov, a gut voch. It was mentioned at shul today about preparing for Pesach with teeth braces. I have heard that no hot chametz 24 hours before and I would imagine a very thorough cleaning. Anyt...
#4939 Good News for Good News
Q Thank you! Quick question...I have been trying to say "Mizmor l’Soda" (Tehillim 100) after hearing good news for many years now. This morning, I had done my negel vasser (washing of hands after...
#4938 The Truth in Wine?
See question above. Kvod Harav. What is one does not enjoy that wine drinking? Is grape juice sufficient? What is the minimum of wine or grape juice one should drink and how diluted, to comply with th...
#4937 Wine and Dine
Does one have to eat meat and drink wine on every day of Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Passover) also? How much and how many times a day?...
#4936 Frozen Energy
– Q. Re-question 4932 above. My question is that since my family minhag is not to keep chometz gomur (real chometz) even when properly sold as the Rov also mentioned in Horav Miller’s name. Can I kee...
#4935 No Silver Alert
Does one have to do Haga’ala (process of making kosher) to a silver vase that one uses for netilat yadaim (washing hands before eating bread) for Pesach?...
#4934 Please Keep in Touch?
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. Although as you know, we are of of a mixed Ashkenasi and Sephardi background, yet our family tradition is not to eat Kitniyos during Pesach. We are to invite this Pesach s...
# 4933 Seder Assets
– Q. Since I learned that there is a requirement that the matza one eats at the sedder should be the property of the eater, what is one to do if he is invited or invites guest to the seder night?...
# 4932 Put the Freeze on the Freezer?
– Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a, Can I put away frozen chametz pastries in a deep freezer that I include in the selling of the chometz utensils and not real chometz products?...
#4931 Cast a Spell?
– Q. How do you write Passaic, New Jersey and Lakewood in a Kesuba or Get?...
#4930 The Ring is Ringing
Do women’s rings need Haga’ala before Pesach, since they touch the Chametz food during the whole year? How about the maids rings in a hotel where they prepare the food?...
#4929 Oy Vay AI?
See question above. Can one rely on the AI program above on Shabbat to call the doctor or emergency services, so he won’t do it himself, or should he be machmir (stringent) on Pikuach Nefesh (life dan...
#4928 Artificial Prayers of a Heart
– Q. Dear Rov I need an answer soon for this shaila. My elderly and ill father has a pacemaker attached to his heart. If the blood pressure or other factors change,the unit is connected to a phone...
#4927 Bless One’s Frame of Mind
– Q. See questions above. If when he changes the place of the mezuza to the other (inside) side of the door’s frame, he gives it to a sofer to check it, does that make a difference?...
#4926 Lord’s Word for Door to Door
– Q. See question above. If he is permitted to move the mezuza to the other side of the door, when he changes the mezuza does he make a blessing?...