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# 4426 Let’s Be Thankful for what Hashem Gave us
Dear friend and colleague. A member of our shul donated more than twenty five years ago a beautiful shofar that we have constantly used. Two weeks ago, he offered a very nice similar shofar to replac...
# 4425 Good Great Yom Tov and the Best of Years!
Since Rosh Hashana is a day of judgment and fear, why do people great each other with a ‘Good Yom Tov’ in that day?...
# 4424 A Single Voice?
See question 4391 regarding blowing shofar during Elul when there is no minyan. Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a commented that since some Poskim maintain that the shofar applies during Elul even without ...
# 4423 A Low Blow?
I heard that if the only present in a minyan in a shul during Elul that knows how to blow the shofar is in the middle of davening the Amida, he may interrupt and blow the shofar for all. Could that be...
# 4422 The Cheder Seder of the Neder
Since the Halacha dictates that youngsters, boys from twelve years on, and girls from eleven, if they make a neder or vow it takes effect, should they be also included in the above process of Hataras ...
# 4421 An Indulgent Agent
Dear Rov. Can a husband be a ‘Shaliach’ or agent for his wife on Erev Rosh Hashana to receive for her Hataras Nedarim or absolution of vows? Does he actually has to ask her to name him the agent? Doe...
# 4420 Pay a Visit?
There is a busload of bachurim from yeshiva X going to see the Gadol Hador at an event that will be attended by hundreds of Bnei Torah. None of them is paying because the yeshiva is providing the bu...
# 4419 Cracking the Dawn
If one recites Selichos in a shul where he can already wear Tefilin before, should he do so?...
# 4418 Know Where You Stand
Is it necessary to stand during the saying of Selichos or is it enough to do so only when reciting the 13 Middos? Can one laying on a stretcher in a hospital minyan recite the 13 middos?...
# 4417 The Selichos Rights
One who recited Selichot during the Yamim Noraim, does he also daven Shacharit? Or does an Avel have preference? How about Mincha?...
# 4416 The Record of the Accord
See question above. Does that prenuptial agreement qualify as the traditional ‘T’naim’ that are written at the time of the Vort? Should they be included in the traditional ‘T’naim’ before the chupa or...
# 4415 All In Agreement?
Is it permitted to engage in a prenuptial agreement before a wedding that is drawn by a non-frum lawyer?...
# 4414 The Winds of Caution
Someone has a close friend that was his neighbour and went to school together with from early youth. He knows that his friend as a child had a cancerous tumour that although it was removed, yet he kno...
# 4413 Don’t Forget to Remember?
In a shul where the sell the Aliyot for the Torah, should one invest on getting the last Aliyah or Maftir of Parshas Ki-Tetzeh to be able to read the Parsha of Amalek from the Sefer Torah itself as do...
# 4412 Code the Crack
A shofar that has a very small crack in its upper edge, that does not go over the inside, as it only shows when one inspects it carefully, is it kosher for blowing on Rosh Hashono?...
# 4411 Blow Your Own Horn
See question above: The same individual who protested my blowing shofar in shul, told that besides it was already late and one should not blow the shofar at night. Is that correct? Can one training t...
# 4410 Blowing the Blow?
I was training in our large Beth Haknesseth to blow the shofar. Then someone apparently a Rabbi, who noticed the voices (open windows) came in from the street and told me that it is incorrect to learn...
# 4409 Fly Over It
Since you mentioned in the above shailos, again and again that a leading Talmid Chacham or a known Rosh Yeshiva, should avoid eating in public, how come I have seen the best of the best eating a meal ...
# 4408 Good Show
See original question above. (Can I eat popcorn in a theater if all the ingredients are kosher? Is it not proper for one to eat in a public place?)...
# 4407 Eat Away
See question above. Is there a proscription of eating in public when traveling in a bus to a Simcha or similar?...