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# 4645 Bless the Right Miracle Blessing
Dear Rabino amigo. As I have already mentioned, I have a brother that visited our family in a settlement close to Gaza before the massacre of Shemini Atzereth – Simchath Torah last year, and was actu...
# 4644 So Praised by the Children
See question above. Can a mother recite “Al Hamichya” on behalf of the boys in her group and for the cakes that they ate, if they are already Bar Mitzva...
# 4643 - So Blessed by Women
Can a woman recite for other women after kiddush on Shabbat or another Simcha were food was served the blessing of so each one would not have to recite it by themselves, specially if the do not know i...
# 4642 – Sing All With Joy!!!
Should the Baal Koreh (reader of the Torah) on this Shabbat Shirah read the Shirah with much joy and Simcha?...
# 4641 Remember To Remember?
On this Shabbos Parshas Beshalach, should we have in mind when reading or listening to the Amalek parsha at the end of the Torah Parsha, the mitzva of “Remembering Amalek” and what he did to us?...
# 4640 The Treating of a True Tzadik Tree on Tu Bishvat
Rov Shlit’a. Our dearest Talmid Chochom and Tzadik grandfather, who you knew well, and as you also know, was niftar a month ago and his Shloshim will be on Tu Bishvat. He, for many years would org...
# 4639 Superior Orders
When you eat in a Tu Bishvat meal in shul or at home the different traditional fruits what is the correct order of the brochos (blessings)?...
# 4638 - When do the Good Times Begin?
Someone that requires a very delicate brain operation, if he can wait should he do so until the ‘Good Mazal” month of Adar, or do it after Tu Bishvat?...
# 4637 Know Your Place
See question above. I still don’t get it. What does it have to do with our trees outside of Israel today?...
# 4636 Ancient History?
I just don’t understand why and how is Tu Bishvat so important to us and why we celebrate it outside of the Land of Israel, since as is those once upon time mitzvot do not apply anymore in our days an...
# 4635 Planting a Shailah
Dear Rabino. As you well remember, in Mexico it is already time for planting some new trees. Is there a mitzva to plant new trees on Tu Bishevat?...
# 4634 A Rosh Hashanah for Dogs and Cats?
I truly do not understand, why in our Jewish tradition we celebrate a New Year for trees, that as important as they are, for us the elderly, and many others, our dear pets, dogs and cats, are actually...
# 4633 A Very Early Celebration?
Dear Rabbi. How come we celebrate in Canada and in most of the U.S. and Europe, Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees and their fruits, when we are surrounded by frost and often covered by snow. Is it no...
# 4632 The Labor of One’s Fruits
When and in what way should one eat the fruits on Tu Bishvat?...
# 4631 No AI on BO?
I heard that Parshas Bo since it is the first one to give us mitzvos, it contains the shorashim (roots) to all other principles of the Torah. If so is there a connection in Parshas Bo to AI?...
# 4630 Good Beginnings – Good Endings II
Why is the Jewish calendar based on the moon and not on the sun like most others?...
# 4629 Good Beginnings – Good Endings
Why is the mitzva of Kidush Levana the very first mitzva of the Torah? Horav Aron Miller Shlit’a mentioned that setting our own Torah system of counting time is essential in establishing the real...
# 4628 The “Unhuman Cannonball”
Can one that has the Minhag of drinking beer on Tu Bishvat for the mitzva of eating barley, comply by drinking the Unhuman Cannonball beer?...
# 4627 Blessing the Blessings of the Blessed Land?
How important is it to eat on Tu Bishvat fruits imported from Israel?...
# 4626 Help make it a Real Mazal Tov!!!
See questions above. How about if one of the new couple is religious and keeps Shabbath etc. while the other does not?...