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# 4245 When Do We Eat?
For one that accepted Shabbos early, is it necessary to eat more bread after nightfall when in the case of having eaten an early Shabbos seuda?...
# 4244 Lag behind the Plag?
Can a person switch from week to week sometimes going with plag of G’ra and sometimes Magen Avraham?...
# 4243 Kiddush Cinco De Mayo?
Dear Rov and teacher. As you well know, I’m the rabbi of a shul in Mexico. I have an urgent Shaila. We do, as I remember the Rov also did a Friday night Kiddush and seuda for the people who have a wed...
# 4242 Brace a Brave Brain
My son was born with some unusual very negative conditions. Besides being a kleptomaniac, he has great anger, starts fights and hurts others. His doctor advised a good psychiatrist, and he has been tr...
# 4241 Don’t Play with Fire
Dear Rabbi. Is it proper to bring to a Shul where they make a fire on Lag Baomer, used clothing that one will through away as is, to be burned by the fire? Wasn’t something similar done with the used ...
# 4240 Promises, Promises
I have a difficult question that has bothered me for a long time. When someone does any mitzva three times the Halacha is that it is considered as a Neder or promise, unless he said before that he is ...
# 4239 When do we Eat?
This year Pesach Sheni is on Erev Shabbos. There are different traditions as to when to eat matza on that day every year. Some do so on the afternoon of the 14 of Iyar, which was the time when the Kor...
# 4238 Enlight the Fire
How important is it to light a bonfire on Lag Baomer and what is the source of this tradition?...
# 4237 Dancing at which Wedding?
I was invited to the wedding of a dear friend on Lag Baomer. The Chupa is during the day as required. Yet the Seuda will be mainly at night, and that is also permitted for many. I keep the restrictio...
# 4236 Keep Kosher Kettle
If someone is davening during Shiva at the home of an Avel who is not Shomer Shabbat, and they offer coffee after davening. Can he drink it if the water is boiled in a kettle that was not immersed in ...
# 4235 Near Beer
Dear Rabbi. Can someone traveling in a plane and sitting next to two non-Jews can he drink beer together with them?...
# 4234 A Fast BBQ?
I was invited by a neighbour to attend a BBQ in his Back Yard on the Monday that was the first day of BEHAB (the three days after Pesach, namely Monday, Thursday and Monday, many recite Selichos). Can...
# 4233 Be in Bloom
Dear Rabbi. You wrote a few Shailos on the brocho said on the blooming fruit trees. Does one really have to go and look for such a tree in order to make the brocho? Is it no just a voluntary blessing?...
# 4232 Have the Best Night
On question 4222 the Rov mentioned that there is an issue of not learning the Written Torah during the night. Does that apply to Shabbat also, when saying Divrei Torah on the Parsha by the Shabbat mea...
# 4231 Mind the Reminder
What is the Rov’s opinion about people who make an early Shabbos and then eat without Krias Shema and Sefira? May one be meikel (be lenient) if he puts a paper on his pillow as a reminder?...
# 4230 Honor the Hero!
Dear Rov: I am a member of a great and known Kolel, learning Torah for years. As the rest of our many traditional Torah learners, we abstain from any of the Zionistic celebrations of Yom Ha’atzmaut co...
# 4229 Feels So Great, It’s Raining Into Me!
I heard that on Lag Baomer rain is a good Siman (omen) and it helps bringing a Refua Shleima to the ill. They advise that one in need should stand on the rain with his open mouth at that time. Is that...
# 4228 Wait for the Joy to Begin
Is there an issue on painting or renovating one’s home during Sefira days or acquiring then a new car or expensive clothing that one recites the blessing of ‘Shehecheyanu’ on them?...
# 4227 Blessed Women
Can women also take part on the blessing on the new fruit of the blooming trees?...
# 4226 In Full Bloom
Is it better to wait to recite the blessing on the new fruit of the blooming trees on Shabbos and with more people?...