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# 4466 A Compassionate Answer
Q Can one answer and say the “Yud Gimmel Middos” (Thirteen Attributes of Compassion) during ‘Elokai Netzor’ at the very end of the Amida?...
# 4465 Best to Prepare
One brings his Arba’a Minim (Lulav – Etrog etc.) to shul and then goes to a friends house for the seuda. Must he leave them there or can he take them home?...
# 4464 Eye Opener Shailah
Sometimes I forget to say the shema until I’m in bed with my head uncovered. So I cover myself with the blanket and say it. Do I still need to cover my eyes with my hands since the blanket is cov...
# 4463 Bless the Brake?
Kvod Harav. In our shul on Yom Kippur we take a brake after Musaf for two hours and many go home to rest. When they come back and wear the Ta’alis again, do they have to make a new bracha...
# 4462 Meditate This Well
Kvod Harav. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in his book Jewish Meditation, describes a method for doing Teshuva by applying the not so commonly used methods of meditation. Does the Rav recommend it? What is Horav...
# 4461 Feast of Reason
Rov. Does the mitzva of eating on Erev Yom Kippur mean just eating one seuda in the morning and then another before the fast begins or the Seuda Hamafsekes, or does one have to eat the complete day? I...
# 4460 Safe Light Saves
Does one have to make Teshuva during Yom Kippur for a sin commonly committed, namely leaving the light on when not needed, as when someone leaves home during the day and no one stays there, since one ...
# 4459 Make Your Mouth Water?
Can someone suffering from severe dry mouth, just take some water on Tzom Gedalia place it in his mouth, swivel it and then just spit it out?...
# 4458 Eat While You Can
Dear Rov, as you know, due to my severe illness I’m unable to fast on Yom Kippur. Do I still comply with the mitzva of eating on Erev Yom Kippur?...
# 4457 Safe Travels
I am able to daven on Yom Kippur in a yeshiva where there will be hundreds of Bnei Torah and I will come b’n from the asara rishonim (first ten), and the davening is extremely beautiful etc. However ...
# 4456 Have Stars in Your Eyes?
Hi. My minhag is to keep shabbos until 72 minutes after shkia. However often I go to places for Shabbos where there are at least 3 stars visible by 45 minutes after shkia. Can I start doing melacha i...
# 4455 Why Wi-Fi?
I have a secular Jewish tenant who uses my WiFi. Should I be turning it off on Yomtov and Shabbos?...
# 4454 First In - First Win
Would the mitzvah of being the very first person in shul override going elsewhere to answer brachos or kaddishes? Is there a difference between Yom Kippur and other days....
# 4453 Make a Stand
A person is davening in such a way that to open the Aron Kodesh, one must walk in front of him. What should be done on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur when it needs to be opened numerous times?...
# 4452 Eat Much but Not Fast
Dear Rov. My family tradition is to fast on the day of the Yohrzait of parents, and I have done so for my fathers Yohrzait. This year we will commemorating my mothers Yohrzait on Erev Yom Kippur, can ...
# 4451 Not a Drinking Problem
Rov. If someone has to take pills on Tzom Gedaliya with water, can he be given an aliya on that day....
# 4450 Suit Yourself
Dear Rabbi. Someone who blows the Shofar in shul and therefore wears a new suit on the second day, to be certain on the shecheyanu bracha. Since this year we won’t blow the first day (Shabbat), should...
# 4449 Profess the Confess?
An aged person that can’t speak and recite the Viduy (confession for sins done), listen to someone else saying it and comply as ‘Shomea Keone’ or one that listens is like he has said it also, as is do...
# 4448 Don’t Judge by the Shoes
A patient who has lost both feet and seats in wheelchair using artificial feet with regular leather shoes. Can he on Yom Kippur join the Beith Haknesseth with those shoes? ’...
# 4447 Near and Far Shofar
A group of neighbour women with small children decided to join together in one of the houses to daven together on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and share the cost of a common helper to take care of the ...