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# 4665 The Signs of Times
If ones tradition is to hang a sign by the door that expresses our mitzva of rejoicing during the month of Adar. (Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha). Should one use it to cover the memorial on the ent...
# 4664 A Doggone Shailah
I heard that in a kibbutz woman was killed by Hamas during the Oct 7, when she stayed behind to protect their dog. The rest of the family was already hiding in a safe room and survived. In Halacha. ...
# 4663 The Adar Radar
Shalom Rav Shlit’’a. As we spoke on the phone we are starting a new minyan in a new town in the outskirts of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) and we need and have our own Chevra Kadisha to take care...
# 4662 Urim on Purim
Dear Rabino Purim Katan Is coming, is there something we should do to celebrate this precious day?...
# 4661 See Beyond your Nose
Is the fluid that emerges from a runny nose from elderly people considered like mucous and one has to wash hands when touching it?...
# 4660 Hint the Lint
See question above. Also, could I clean out the lint trap as that is my custom as I tend to forget when I put a load in or is that stuff muktza?...
# 4659 Do Not Call it a Wash!
I’m (a single woman that) was staying in my friend’s place and came home two hours before Shabbos to a lay on the bed. I put everything in the laundry but forgot to take it out of the dryer befor...
# 4658- It is all for Free!
Thanks again for all your great and short answers, but Rov is not free of me yet! How wet does the garment really have to be when Shabbos begins in order to remain muktza for the rest of Shabbos?...
# 4657 –Laundry List
Thank you Rov Shlit’a, sorry to bother you again, it is still me and more in the list. I don’t understand. why is wet laundry muktza and yet the wet towels that one can still use when washing hands be...
4656 Washing Laundry in Public! A Shailah
Dear Rov Shlit’a. If my most dearest wife left a piece of my washed needed wet laundry to dry hanging indoors in the bathroom at the start of last Shabbos, could i have used it when it dried as expec...
# 4655 - A Great Minor Embarrassment?
Our kids were acting up in a carpool. I finally lost my temper and said something to the ringleader in front of the other kids. I tried to apologize the next day but he would not talk to me. What shou...
# 4654 Room For Compromise?
I’m a Frum woman that has a Jewish girlfriend, and she has a Jewish male tenant who lives in her house. Would it be Yichud for me to sleep over in her home on Shabbos? She is divorced so there is no h...
# 4653 This Week Reading Three Parshios? Really!!!
I heard in Shul during this last Shaleshudes that this year (2024) we will be reading actually on Mishpatim three different parshios. Is that really true?...
# 4652 We Must Really Truly Be in Love!
I have always really wondered. Where is there in our Holy Torah mentioned a Mitzva of loving our Torah itself? I have looked and searched widely and never yet found a source for it. How can that re...
# 4651 The Right Feelings
When recently I was travelling a relative short Europe trip. Then our flight was cancelled and was stuck in a real foreign airport for a full day. Since I had expected to return home at night, I didn’...
# 4650 Nailing the Coffin?
Kvod Horav Shlit’a. We recently had in a levaya in Mexico, and as you likely remember when the cadaver is transferred from various different locations to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mexico Cit...
# 4649 The Maximal Animal
See question above. If in any way we can diminish the pain suffered by the animals involved. As by giving them pain killers even when they are costly and time consuming, should it be done?...
# 4648 Put the Animal Out of Our Pains?
I’m a biologist and medical technician involved in medical research, and in the common daily work we do, we put in danger and terminate different animals as rabbits and mice. I often feel really bad f...
# 4647 The Preaching Convert
See above question 4644. Can a Ger (Convert) recite that Bracha Acharona or Birchat Hamazon for others?...
# 4646 Out of the Hole
Kavod Harav: One has a hole in his (jacket) pocket and a muktza coin fell through all the way down into the lining. Only way to get it out is with the hand. What should one do, especially if one is a...