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#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...
#5347 Have You Heard, Really?
Kvod Harav Shlit”a, how come we don’t comply with the obligation for hearing Parshas Parah when we read it as the regular custom is in shul on Parshas Chukas?...
#5346 The Atara of the Parah?
Honorable Rabbi. How important is it for a woman to go to shul and listen to Parshat Parah, since I’m a bit indisposed? I would certainly go to hear Parshas Zachor even in my condition....
#5345 Lean to Clean and Begin!
Rov, is there a mitzva or an obligation to begin cleaning ones home thirty days before Pesach?...
#5344 Learning How to Learn?
See question above. Can we just ask the people to download the shiurim on Halachot of Pesach on line, and the choice is great and good, or just read them?...
#5343 The True Time Topic!
Dear Rabbi. We have a very interesting Shul shiur in Hashkafa and Jewish values, that many attend. Do we have to change it now to learning about Pesach. Can we just dedicate just a few minutes to...
#5342 Remeber Pesach is Very Soon!
Kevodo Shlit’a. I’m very thankful to the Rov and the Rebetzin for inviting me to the real most delicious Purim Seuda in your home. I enjoyed with the others the program and words of the Rov, yet I...
#5341 Motzo Matza -
Dear Rov Shilt’a. Since we have a minhag to eat only Shemura Matza during the whole Pesach, is it permitted for us to eat now before Pesach regular machine matza?...
#5340 An Early Wedding?
5340 – An Early Wedding? - Q. Can a couple that engaged recently to be married during the summer, send Shalach Manot this Purim to each other?...
#5339 A Truly Happy Shabbos!
– Q. Rabenu Shlit”a, I have another Friday Purim shailah. Since it is written that on Shusan Purim or the day after Purim one should celebrate and eat more than regular. Yet on this year the day aft...
#5338 Friday Cleaning?
Dear Rov as I have mentioned in prior question, we are concerned with the potential Chilul Shabbos, for those who are not careful when Purim is on Friday. One important issue is the cleaning of the fa...
#5337 An Even Greater Purim?
See questions above: As the Rov mentioned all the above in his shiur, and that there may be other new ones. I wonder what are the other new “traditions” that people keep on on this year (2025) that Pu...
#5336 The Greatest Purim?
See questions above: On this year (2025) that Purim is on Friday, and my great good neighbor invited my family and other neighbors to celebrate a most beautiful Seuda of Purim together, as he often do...
#5335 Purim Hair Dressing
This year (2025) that Purim is on Friday can one shave and cut nails as one does every Erev Shabbos?...