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#5086 The Last Drink?
Can one drink diluted fruit juice at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins)? It is very helpful for me. Can one take then a Lechaim zip?...
#5085 – Sure Care to Cure?
Rabbi I need help urgent. Never in my life (B”H), I had to take any medicine on a day of fasting. Now I need to take antibiotics. Which is the best Halacha way to swallow them on Tisha Beav? (need urg...
#5084 Fastest Fasting
I’am a mother and B’H I have several young children. For serving my children on Tisha Beav fasting day, can I just taste a bit of the food and then spit it out, just to see if it is not too salty or t...
#5083 Kashes on Ashes?
Does one have to dip only the bread at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins) in ashes or one should also put some ashes on the single cooked food permitted, commonly a hard boiled eg...
#5082 We Welcome the Well Wear?
A good friend left his raincoat in shul during last week or maybe it was on Friday night. I found it. Can I wear it home on a the early sunny Shabbos afternoon to return it to him, or should I be con...
#5081 Say How You Can See
My wife went to the eye doctor because she was having vision problems. The doctor gave her a new prescription for her lenses and she ordered a set of new frames and lenses. For various reasons she cou...
#5080 Our Best Friends
Rabbi. Is it true what I heard, that you mentioned that the only real AI entity, that has and will ever exist as an independent entity is the Beth Hamikdash? How could you say something like that???...
5079 The Happy Comming Days
A kallah is getting married right after Tisha B’av. These days the custom is to make personalized sweaters for the kallah and her family/friends. Is it permitted to decorate sweaters with “iron on” le...
#5078 Ponds to Ponder
Dear Rov, can one use rivers or ponds for immersion of new utensils?...
#5077 Zoning Shabbos Chazon
Shalom LaRav Shlit’a. Is it true what some maintain that we should increase on Shabbos Chazon Simcha, happiness and joy more than any other regular Shabbos? Why not the contrary?...
#5076 Room for the Not Yet Frum?
Is it ok for a woman to be included in the kiddush and homotzi of a man who isn’t shomer Shabbat yet? What about havdala?...
#5075 Clothing for Mourning
How long do I have to wear my freshly laundered clothes before the 9 days? Can I just leave them unfolded on the bed instead?...
#5074 The Ma’aseh on Ma’aser
How does one calculate tzeddaka on the sale of a house? I’m assuming that some expenses could be deducted such as mortgage and taxes and maintenance but not consumables such as gas and electricit...
#5073 Have Something to Eat?
(As the Rov well knows…), I can’t eat fish and only limited dairy products, so can I eat chicken during the 9 days?...
#5072 – What’s In a Name?
Rabenu Shlit’a. We have a non- Jewish worker that is from Mexico and uses the name “Jesus.” Is it proper and correct to call him by that name and mention it constantly?...
#5071 Strict Strait Start
Hello Rov. Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Av and the start of the Nine Days. Is it possible for someone who can only daven with a minyan at an early maariv minyan after Plag, do so expressing that he is not...
#5070 Avoid the Beaten Track?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. As the situation in Israel seems to be lately so dangerous, is there a reason to restrict again the travel there as we did during some of the recent years? What is Horav Millers Shli...
# 5069 – Your Other AI Self?
Moreinu Shlit’a. You have taught us that using a robot that possesses artificial intelligence, even if it performs a prohibition or does a mitzva it is basically the same as if you have done it yours...
#5068 The Most Happy Tefilin
My son is about to become Iy”H Bar Mitzva three weeks after Tisha Beav. We have a minhag that our Bar Mitzva bochurim don Tefilin a month before. We were able to acquire for him an unusually excellent...
#5067 Bird Watching
We saw a heron bird nesting close to our cottage, and our children were wondering if there is a mitzva of Shiluach Haken in such wild bird. Is there? If there is, what bracha should be said?...