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#5167 Flying With the Wind
When one’s tie is flying in the wind, is it a problem on Shabbos?...
#5166 Bible Belt and Braces?
See question above. Is it a Mitzva to burn them?...
#5165 Bible Bashers?
Is it permitted to use the pages of the King James Bible as kindling for a fireplace, (during winter, as I deal with discarded books), or are they Osur B’Hano’o (prohibited in benefit)?...
#5164 Sly As a Fox?
The Gemara (שבת סז) says that a fox tooth from a live fox helps you stay awake. Is this permitted to do? Does this still work nowadays? (If Horav Miller says “yes” please...
#5163 Don’t Be Too Happy?
See question above. If someone also plays himself a musical instrument, can he in the above situation still play?...
#5161- Follow The Sign
See questions above. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. Is it better in our days of increasing hate and antisemitism that we should place at the entrance of our Sukot that are often by us in the front facing to...
#5160 Sleep On This Suka?
Dear Rabbi. As we are starting to build our Sukot, in this difficult year of antisemitism and hate to Jews that many now encounter in our neighborhoods, to avoid placing our Suka in the front of our h...
#5159 The Love of Hashem Trumps Hate
B’nai Brith of Canada, has revealed that antisemitic acts more than doubled between 2022 and 2024. Since our lives and the lives of our children are now at a real risk in Canada. I humbly think th...
#5158 Thanks B”H – But No Thanks
See question above. Since we live close by to the school, do we have to come to shul and recite the customary Bracha of Hagomel? What would the case be if it happened during actual classes and our chi...
#5157 No Amen to this Omen
Dear Rabbi, Long Life to you and all your family. As you certainly heard, Bais Chaya Mushka School for Girls close to you on North York (Toronto) was hit by bullets this Yom Kipur night, (yesterday), ...
#5156 A Freilechen St. Patrick’s day?
What is one permitted to do on Thanksgiving day?...
#5155 Are Women Better Than Angels?
Do women also repeat aloud on Yom Kippur, when they pray in the Ezrat Nashim, the phrase of “Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto,” when reading the Shema, aloud as men do?...
#5154 The Torah Misrepresented?
In a large shul that has the tradition to take out all the Sifre Torah during Kol Nidrei and honor the people who contribute to the institution, can they also take out the Sefarim that are not Kasher?...
#5153 The True Yom Kipur
Dear Rov Shlit’a. Since, as you have mentioned, it is most crucial to comply with the mitzva of Teshuva on Yom Kippur. What does Horav Miller Shlit’a maintain that is a mitzva that one can easily comp...
#5152 Questioning the Begging
When Yom Kipur coincides with Shabat as is this year, (2024), can one pray for his personal needs on that day? After all one should not pray for his private needs on Shabat....
#5151 The Greatest True Kiddush!!!
See question above. What was the proper behaviour for our Kedoshim who during the terrible times of the Holocaust when they were naked in the gas chambers and knew they were about to be put to death, ...
#5150 A Clean Confession
Dear Rabbi. As you well know I visit and take care of sick and elderly people, even and specially during Shabath and Yom Tov including Yom Kipur. I have a question that has always bothered me. On Yom ...
#5149 A Self Standing Tefila
We have in our shul a most important Baal Tefilah that has been davening for the amud on Yom Kipur Musaf for many years. His Tefilot are very beautiful and pleasant and he is very liked by the Tzibur....
#5148 Always Forgive and Forget?
Does a Talmid Hacham who was insulted in public by the leader of an event, and was prevented from speaking when it was his duty to do so, have to forgive the one who insulted him, before Rosh Hashana ...
#5147 A Blessing for Yourself
Kvod Horav Shlit”a. Can one blowing the shofar or making Kiddush on Rosh Hashana second day comply with the questionable brocho of Shecheyanu, by having in mind while reciting the brocho a new piece o...