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# 4205 Wrapped in a Mystery...
On question 4198 the Rov mentioned that for one taking medicine pills during Pesach, making them not tasty by adding drops of vinegar, would not make any difference. If one is able to wrap them in a p...
# 4204 Promises, Promises
I heard that there is a big Shailah if a father can promise his child that he will buy him a toy or give him some money if he returns the Afikomen. Is that correct?...
# 4203 Not Cut from the Same Cloth
Chag Kasher Vesameach Rov. I received as a present from my dear father-in-law, a most beautiful and greatly decorated Kitel that he wants me to wear at the Pesach Seder we are celebrating together. ...
# 4202 A Flowering Shaila
Can one buy after Pesach flour from a Jewish store that may not have sold the Chametz properly?...
# 4201 Need Something Yesterday
Our family was invited to eat a Pesach meal at a great neighboring friends house, who is a known Chacham. They are Sephardim and very careful with all the stringencies of Pesach, yet as their traditio...
# 4200 The Got-Away Car?
One who rents a car on Chol Hamoed (Pesach), does he have to do Bedikat Chametz in it?...
# 4199 Keep in Touch?
If I don’t eat Kitniyos during Pesach, do they become Muktza for me? If yes, at a kiddush I cannot serve them to a Sephardi who is permitted to eat them?...
# 4198 A question of Taste
If one has to take medical pills during Pesach, although even if they contain Kitnios we usually allow them in need, yet I wonder if it would be preferable to take them with a drop of vinegar or any o...
# 4197 Little - Yet Gigantic Fish
Shalom Rav Shlit’a. As you have mentioned in many occasions, there are many different traditions and Minhagim regarding the foods one eats during Pesach or at the Seder, and as Horav Miller Shlit’a of...
# 4196 Angelic Garlic
My parents had a tradition not to eat garlic during Pesach. I really love the very healthy garlic and eat it daily, do I have to follow their tradition?...
# 4195 Don’t Watch the Dog
I was invited this Pesach to a shul where they just installed a new Aron Hakodesh that is made from a huge safe box that still has the emblem of the manufacturer and it is a clearly seen plain dog. Si...
# 4194 Just Keep Them Apart
Dear Rov Shlit’a. I have a problem since I follow the Minhag not to eat quinoa during Pesach (as being Kitniyos). I’m invited to a friend and the host serves it and puts it in the same large and elon...
# 4193 Rebetzins Read and Recline?
Thanks to Hashem, we have in our blessed large family boys and girls of all ages. The girls, some are already Bas Mitzva, want to recline at the Pesach Seder as their brothers do. My wife does not do ...
# 4192 Zoom In or Out?
Dear Rabbi, thanks for your condolences for the recent Petira of my father zt’l. Can an Avel, like me who is a Bechor also (first born) attend a Siyum on Erev Pesach so I won’t have to fast. After all...
# 4191 Real Hot – Hot Dogs
I attend a Pesach Hotel that although it has a very good Hechser, it offers the kids during Chol Hamoed hot dogs in buns that look and taste exactly like the real ones, yet they are not Chametz since ...
# 4190 Great Grains of Enlightenment
Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Can someone who usually lights Neiros Shabbos and Yom Tov using oil, light during Pesach with Kitniyos Oil?...
# 4189 Don’t Spill this Shaila!
The new Kiddush cups we use for Pesach, have exactly the correct Shiur amount needed to comply with the mitzva of four cups. If someone hands tremble can he recite Kiddush and the additional Hagada ...
# 4188 The Time to Thank
Dear Rabbi. I really would like first to thank you for giving the opportunity to all, men and specially women of all ages and status the opportunity to ask with total anonymity Torah and Halacha quest...
# 4188 The Time to Thank
Dear Rabbi. I really would like first to thank you for giving the opportunity to all, men and specially women of all ages and status the opportunity to ask with total anonymity Torah and Halacha quest...
# 4187 Artificial Matza?
Dear Rov. I know that you were one of the first Rabbanim to deal and post the question if artificial meat made by placing DNA from meat cells into non-meat nutrients is Kosher. I now wonder if the sam...