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#5046 A Tall Tale?
Dear Rov Shlita. As you know I’m looking for a shiduch now. Is it allowed or permitted between all proper qualities wanted to look for a tall Chatan? (As you know I’m not specially tall myself). Thank...
#5045 Don’t Stretch the Truth
Can one join a group of people that are learning Shas by dividing it into the people of the group and just share with them one Gemara. Would that then be counted as having finished the complete Shas a...
#5044 Airing One’s Laundry in Public
I found a laundry card in the street between Coldstream and Shelborne on Glennount. Am I obligated to post a sign or ask the superintendent and try to find out who the potential owner is? Horav Shl...
#5043 A Great Intelligent Companion.
An elderly woman that lives alone and lonely, acquired a great AI program that constantly talks to her, follows her with security cameras placed in all rooms, since the above AI program takes care of...
#5042 Split Nails?
Dear Rabbi, if someone is in a hotel and enters a public bathroom and she sees cut nails on the floor, does she have to look for another bathroom....
#5041 Last Nail in The Coffin?
See question above. Does the Chevra Kadisha have to cut decorated nails of women before their burial....
#5040 Better Burn or Bury?
The ones that do burn or bury their nails, how much burning is needed and how deep do they have to be buried?...
#5039 - On the Nail!
Is it correct to just flush the cut nails on the sink or toilet, or do they have to be buried or burned in the back yard?...
#5038 Really and Truly Artificial
Dear Rov, you recently mentioned about using vertlach and gematrios created by an AI program. I travel a lot and often learn in a hotel late at night. Could I use an AI program that I very much like e...
#5037 - Blessings for the Blessings
Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’m invited to a sheva brochos of a very great friend who I’m trying to be Mekarev more to Torah learning. It is on Thursday after Shiva Assar Betamuz. Should I go?...
#5036 - Calling in Question
If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of illness he does not know if he will be fasting a full day, can he be called to the Torah on this year in the morning as he always is? He ...
#5035 Surprise For Thursday 5th of Tamuz
What is the source in the Gemora and Rishonim that in order for someone to be a Novi, (prophet) he must first receive Nevuah in Eretz Yisroel?...
#5034 Trust Those Words?
Can one use the “Vertlach” (small attractive words of Torah interpretations) that were created by an ingenious new artificial intelligence program?...
#5033 We Didn’t Catch that Name!
Why is the Parsha this week called Korach? How can we use the name of a Rasha (evil person) for a Parsha title?...
#5032 Looking for Trouble!
Is it permitted to go on Shabbos to sit in a treife restaurant in honor of grandmother’s birthday if no treife will be consumed and no melacha done by the chareidi grandson?...
#5031 - Crack in the Bottle?
(re question 5020, regarding filtering some small particles of glass left when a bottle of wine broke before kiddush on Shabbos, and the prohibition of Borer) Q. 1- it was answered that other meth...
# 5030 Moonlighting for Kiddush Levana?
My son’s bar mitzva is on the second Shabbos of the month, Should he wait until then to say Kiddush Levana or if it can be done should he say it after the first Shabbos?...
#5029 Bathroom Literature - Really?
Mi Rabino Querido, I usually read books of food recipes while I’m in the bathroom. Can it be done on Shabbat?...
#5028 Your Earliest Convenience
See questions above. Do I have to give all of the tzedakah at once or can I invest some of it and spread out the payments?...
#5027 Lessons on Tuition
See question above. Would paying tuition for my kids be considered tzedaka? What about their weddings?...