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# 4305 Tzedek Taxes
How do I calculate the tzedakah on the sale of a house? If I still have a mortgage, do I deduct it as well as the original cost of the house? What about the real-estate, land transfer tax, HST and oth...
# 4304 The Date changed the Date
Is there a Gemara that says that a man should not be seen talking in the street to even his wife are daughter for fear that someone would think he was doing something wrong? If so, do qe follow this? ...
# 4303 Lost The Silver Spoon?
There was a story about a young kallah who called the Rabbi crying that she just made her chassan a fleshing meal and accidentally put the milchig (silver) spoon into it and was upset that she would h...
# 4302 Could we All Join You
(See question above). If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way? What happens if ...
# 4301 Read This
If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way?...
# 4300 Ask Me Another..
. Q. Another question Kvod Horav. I impart a very necessary and essential weekly Halacha shiur on the laws of Shabbat in my shul, and I explain very needful and indispensable information on what it ...
# 4299 Pick and Choose
Kvod Harav. I as a Rabbi, was offered to enact two very different weddings on the same time but at different locations, and I cannot do both. One is a common young Frum couple, the other is an elderly...
# 4298 Hold on to the Baby?
I know there is a minhag for pregnant women or those of childbearing age not to go to a funeral. Is there a Halacha or minhag not to bring babies to a funeral or Shiva house? What can be done when su...
# 4297 Order in Law
After davening during Shabbat it is common in a shul to collect the sidurim or chumashim and placed them in order on the usual shelfs. Is there a problem of Borer (prohibited choosing act on Shabbat) ...
# 4296 Best to Choose the Best
. Regarding mixtures as they pertain to the Melacha of Borer (sorting), I have a few questions. 1) -If I have a challah (bread) in the freezer among other food items, is it considered part of a mixt...
# 4295 Feel at Home
One of the Gedolei Hador came to my neighbourhood and his Schachris minyan, was conducted in a house and open to the public. Is it better to daven in my Makom Kavua (establihed place) in Beis Hamedra...
# 4294 Cat Out of the Bag?
Can I feed my cat food that contains in its ingredients meat even of chickens and milk ingredients together?...
# 4293 Stranger’s Dangers
Can I buy cat-food that has chicken and fish oil in it? What about a mixture of beef and fish, is that dangerous for animals as well as people?...
# 4292 Sign Away
See question above. Thank you for your prompt answer. I have also seen often in Kesuvos written specially by an artist or the Chattan himself that there is a considerable separation between the text a...
# 4291 Sign of the Times
Dear Rov I was at a wedding recently and I saw that the signature of one the witnesses at the Ketuba (marriage document) was almost illegible, you could not tell who signed it. Is that Ketuba Kasher. ...
# 4290 Cut the Cut
Re- question above of not performing a Bris Mila on Shabbos for a baby whose father isn’t Jewish. If a child is born by IVF from an egg donated by a Gentile mother, is the Bris done in Shabbat?...
# 4289 So Glad To Hear That
On question above If someone wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, if he turns on his cell phone and listens to a shiur, does he have to recite the Bracha on the Torah?...
# 4288 Food for Thought
We usually assume that just thinking thoughts of Torah while one wakes up in the night does not require to make the bracha on the Torah, is that correct?...
# 4287 Blessings in Disguise?
If one is speaking words of Torah in a conference or at a celebration and all or even some of his listeners are people who usually one does not expect that they said Birchat Hatorah on that day, is he...
# 4286 Don’t Lose Sleep Over This
Querido Rabino. I sending you a popular question from our distant past and everyone’s present. If someone takes during the middle of the day a ‘siesta’ and sleeps for a couple of hours, does he have t...