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# 4865 Honor Your Words
See questions above. What would be an example of an improper Sheimos burial?...
# 4684 Words to Honor
See questions above. How about other printed articles that contain some words of Torah or p’sukim, can they just be discarded?...
#4683 A Visa for the Geniza
See question above. What are the others items of Kedusha that we also call shaimos and how do we dispose of them?...
# 4682 A Very Grave Grave
I am connected to a shul that has a large amount of shaimos. Must shaimos be buried in a cemetery or can they be placed under the foundation of a building? if yes, then must the building be a Jewish/f...
# 4681 Goodbye to Goodbye?
Can one that is travelling immediately after davening Shacharis and won’t be able to say goodbye then to his nearby friends in shul, give his farewell greetings and wishes before davening?...
# 4680 Broccoli Brocho
If one was making a bracha on raw broccoli in front of some friends and they had a debate over whether it should be ha’adama or shehakol. They said there used to be the same shailah on carrots bu...
# 4679 Same Name Again?
I’m dating someone whose mother had my Hebrew name as a nickname. Is this an issue? Can he call me a Hebrew nickname instead?...
# 4678 A Blessed Purim Kattan?
Rov. Another question for a Happy Purim Katan. Is it true that the spirit of the great Purim also rests on the small one? Should one great another on Purim Kattan with the blessing of a “Frailechn Pur...
#4677 Really! or only a Purim Wit Vert’l?
Is it true that the Chasam Sofer says that not saying tachanun on Purim Kattan is a mitzva of the Torah?...
#4676 Purim Kattan Costume Custom
.Q. Our dear Rabino. As you recommended we are making a seuda (small and fast) on Purim Kattan Be’H this Friday morning and we are inviting our very happy neighbours to join us with their children. ...
# 4675 - Gentile Kindness II
See question above: Can one receive Tzedaka from a Non- Jewish organization?...
# 4674 Gentile Kindness I
I was told that we’re not supposed to give tzedaka to a Gentile. Those that include any type of money, food, clothes, other help, etc.? What is the source?...
# 4673 Address the Dress for Success
During these parshiot in which we learn about the way the Cohen Gadol and other regular Cohanim were dressed for performing the Avodah in the Beit Hamikdash, I have seen seffarim included also in the ...
# 4672 - Purim Shiurim
I have Yohrzait on Purim Katan for my mother A’H. The minhag of our family is to fast on a Yohrzait for parents, but on this occasion I was told I should not fast. Would it be correct then to fast on ...
# 4671 Oy! Now - No Joy!
Rov. Another question for a Happy Purim Katan. Is it true that the spirit of the great Purim also rests on the small one? Should one great another on Purim Kattan with the blessing of a “Frailechn Pur...
# 4670 Small Purim Big Deal Meal?
See question above. I wonder do you have to make a seuda on Purim Katan on Friday or since it is Erev Shabbat, should it not be better in the night? How about the people that dwell in a city were Shus...
# 4669 The Big Purim Kattan
On question 4662 above the Rov Shlit”a wrote regarding Purim Kattan this year (2024), that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if the participants say Divrei Torah and sing songs of prize to...
# 4668 Torah about Learning Torah
See question above. How about when one learns Torah. Is it every word one says or thinks or maybe even letters a separate mtzvah that requires intention?...
# 4667 - So, So, Many Mitzvos!!!
When someone wears Tzitzith, either a Taalith Gadol or Kattan, does he comply with a separate mitzva every second or even a fraction of a second he is wearing it? That would be about 86400 mitzvoth ev...
# 4666 A Hint on the Drop
Is the fluid that drips from the nose of some elderly considered like the mucous from ones nose that requires washing of hands when one touches it before one can recite brochos and learn Torah?...