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#5314 First Priority?
Dear Rov. Sorry we are so late, but we do need an answer before Shabbat (Parshat Mishpatim 2025) begins. We usually have a shiur before Mincha on Shabbat afternoon on Talmud and we prepare for a Siyu...
#5313 A Burning Shailah
What is the correct way to deal with a non-religious family member who wants to cremate the grandfather of a Baaeil Teshuva family, when he is in charge of the proceedings?...
#5312 – A Note on the Devote Vote!
See question above. Is there a mitzva to organize a group of elderly people or ill people to bring to them voting facilities?...
#5311 A Note on the Vote!
Dear Rabbi as we approach elections in our town and we keep on getting all kind of emails from Rabbinical and community leaders that it is an obligation to vote. Is that really true?...
#5310 – The Price of the Praise!
Dear Moreinu Shlit’a. We know that you are related to the Gestetner family. A group (in the N.Y. area) that also is family, wants to know what is Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion in our group org...
#5309 A Blessed Brocho?
Does the Mezonos bracha that one recites during a Shabbath Kidush, include and exempts from all the other foods included later in that kidush, such as cholent, potatoes or desert?...
#5308 The Battles of the Bottles?
Kevod Morenu Horav Shlit”a. If someone donated a large amount of soda bottles to his new shul for a large simcha, does he have to take care of the empty bottles? If there is a gift- promotion involve...
#5307 Mind your E-Mind?
- See questions above. Q. Will it make a difference if that implant is only biologically human or if it is an advanced electronic addition that can interconnect with the brain?...
#5306 Mind Your Mind?
See question above. People who maybe have or will soon undergo such medical treatment, even it is a small addition, does it alter the Halacha status of that individual, or is it just like the common c...
#5305 Don’t Loose Your Head!!!
Most Honorable Rabbi and Posek. I truly like and enjoy your most unusual, new and very interesting Halacha questions, that are also supported by other most meaningful Poskim. I’m a frum still yeshiv...
#5304 “Last” or “First” Letters?
I recently read that During his recent last visit to Washington, DC, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part in inscribing letters in the historic “Washington Torah ” - a most unusual and ...
#5303 Just Enjoy the Delicious Fruits!
Dear Friendly Rabino. Due to my sad medical circumstances I was hospitalized yesterday (Thursday) during Tu Bishvat (2025), and was unable to eat the fruits together with my family and friends and say...
#5302 - Walk the Walk?
Is it okay to pace and walk around while I am davening some of the brachas that require standing or don’t require sitting, aside from the shemona esrei?...
# 5301 – Amen to the Amen!
Someone in the conversion process was told that he can’t say amen to other people’s brachas. I thought they are supposed to follow all Jewish laws and customs with the exception of completel...
#5301 A New World - Really?
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I have an important question that Gedolei Hatorah have to address. Since genetically altered fruits and other food items are constantly becoming more common, does their particu...
#5300 A Real Newborn?
Dear Rabbi. A friend became religious late in life. An orthodox Rabbi was telling him that he should now have a real bar mitzvah. My friend was very offended and then asked if he should also repeat hi...
#5299 Honey, Don’t Pass the Milk!
Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. I have another shaila. If I we served at a simcha meal Chalav Yisrael. Yet someone noticed that one of the waiters poured a bit of left over milk from another simcha, that wa...
#5298 A Sefer Torah in Aramaic?
- The Talmud (Megila 9) mentions that according to the opinion that allows a Sefer Torah to be written in aramaic, the reason is because it says יפת אל’ ל•...
#5297 Make it in Aramaic?
Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. When Hashem spoke to the important people of Babel as, described in the Talmud and Midrashim, did he speak to them in Aramaic?...
#5296 The True Tu Bishvat
The people of our shul have a tradition to make a seuda for Tu Bishvat in which the customary fruits are served. Can they make the Seuda on the night (Wednesday this year 2025) or does it have to be d...