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# 4545 Great but not Truly a Good Shailah
Dear Rov we appreciate the fact that you can get prompt answers from Gedolim to most unusual question. One from a dear friend and Yeshiva Bachur. He was staying for Yom Tov on one of the houses that w...
# 4544 - Make Yourself At Home
A yeshiva bachur who is staying in yeshiva for Shabbos Chanuka but eating as a guest elsewhere where should he light? Can he light in the dining room in the same building where all other bachurim ligh...
# 4543 An Early Kiddush
Kevod Harov Shlit’a. When is the earliest time after an early Maariv after Shekiah that people can say Kiddush Levanah, during winter?...
# 4542 Our Most Beautiful and Nice Close Family?
Dearest Rabbi Shlit’a. As we read the current and next Parshios in with the story of Yaakov and his older brother Eisav, describing the foundations and base sources of the Jewish Nation, I wonder at w...
# 4541 Thoughts for Your Penny
Can one leave on the floor a U.S. penny coin that has the name of G-d on it, and on what people are going to step on it?...
# 4540 Sitting in Judgment
I have a friend who’s a convert who was told she can sit for something like a shiva for a non-Jewish parent. How does a convert observe the "yahrtzeit" of a parent? What are their obligations? Sh...
# 4539 Intentions that Pave the Road to Heaven
One who is going away for Shabbos and can get a free ride later in the day on Erev Shabbos or take a bus earlier, and he wants to leave earlier due to Kavod Shabbos, is the expense considered a Shabbo...
# 4538 The Eternal Rush Hour
Hello Rav, Now my boys are old enough, so we often have a zimmun of 3 men. I know there is a mitzvah to bentch on a Kos of wine/grape juice. I seem to remember it being very common when I was a studen...
# 4537 - That’ll Teach Someone Something
Dear Rabbi. As you know I have been teaching for over twenty in a college where most of the teachers and students are of the left and against Israel. It has lately become very extreme. Can I continue...
# 4536 - Drum Up Conundrum
If one is from Israel but davening in Toronto. can he lead services as an aveil despite the v’sein tal umatar livracha conundrum?...
# 4535 So Far - So Near
If a person in 2023 is still unwilling to go on the bimah for an aliyah (because of health issues) and insists on standing 12-15 away on the floor of the Shul, can he be given an Aliyah LaTorah?...
# 4534 - Bigger than Yom Kippur Kotton
Rov, I have a Shiur Kavua with four talmidim, at the time the Yom Kippur Kotton will be tomorrow (Monday, Nov 13 - 23) due to the emergency conditions in Israel, Do I have to cancel the shiur? The tal...
# 4533 The Better, Best, Beautiful, Beginnings
“Kvod Horav Shlit’a. I’m the Menahel (director) of a traditional Torah Cheider (Yeshiva for younger boys). From many years of experience, I have noticed that teachers often behave in two very specific...
# 4532 Travel Alert
Where, specifically, at what point do we say Tefilas Haderech i’m leaving Toronto to New York?...
# 4531 Dancing at the Wrong Wedding?
See question above: When officiating at a wedding of irreligious people, please also determine if mikva of bride is also a deal breaker for officiating....
# 4530 Thought for Food
Kvod Harav. Hoping you could speak to Rabbi Miller shlita regarding the policy of officiating at a wedding of irreligious people where non kosher food is served. When I spoke to Rabbi Miller about of...
# 4529 Call it a Night?
If one is in a shul or other gathering where tehillim is being said at night as is common during the current war, should one avoid participating due to the nighttime?...
# 4528 Land the Slander?
Q - Dearest Rov and my greatest friend. On two occasions, I have overheard people speaking Loshen Horah (slander and bad language) about me and others in the community. Should I say something to the...
# 4527- Hashem’s Women II
If I cannot keep up with the davening at my shul so I do it on my own, usually before the congregation. If I start the Shema with them, but if I’m late starting Shemona Esrai and can’t say kedu...
# 4526 – Hashem’s Women I
I belong to a women’s group that says Nishmat and Mizmor L’Todah at a particular time in the morning. Should I go out of the davening order to say it with them when I daven, or is it prefera...