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# 4166 A Freilechen St. Patrick's day?
I attend a daily minyan, that as others do, offers an after Shacharit Kiddush with a drink and mezonot. The attendants before drinking a small cup of liquor, as tradition goes wish each other ’Le...
# 4165 A Brisk Bedika Beginning
The Rabbi in our Shul (he learned in Brisk) has a tradition that the night before Pesach, after Maariv and before everyone goes home and does the search, repeats the Halachot Bedikat Chametz and that ...
# 4164 Have a Clean Touch
If a blind person owns a dog that he constantly touches, does he have to wash his hands every time before he makes a Bracha?...
# 4163 Searching for a Search Answer
Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We will be Be’H spending Pesach with our children in Israel. We will be travelling about two weeks before Yom Tov. We are also planning to sell our house on an early sell, the day ...
# 4162 Clean Intentions
If always when cleaning the house from chametz before Pesach one already complies with the mitzva of ‘Tashbisu’ since this is a Biblical mitzva, in order to comply one has to have Kavana or intention ...
# 4160 Call it a Day
Dear Rov, you quoted in question 4144 that ‘Shulchan Aruch and Poskim (O.H. 429: 1) mention that one should start learning Hilchos Pesach on Purim itself.’ I wonder if there is an obligation to learn ...
# 4159 Don't Dump the Pump
Can one use a ‘Foul Water Pump Controller’ during Shabbos? What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?...
# 4158 Secluded from Seclusion
I attended a Chupa from a Chatan of Sephardi background and after the Chupa there was Yichud (the seclusion of the groom and bride in a private room) as accustomed by Ashkenazim. Is it correct for Sep...
# 4157 Women Never Forget?
See question above. Do the same issues apply to women?...
# 4156 Don’t Forget Shaila
I was traveling overnight by train and stayed in a private cabin. It was rather small and I kept my clothing in a corner of the bed. Is there a problem with sleeping in a bed were your clothing also i...
# 4155 Shovel Ready
Dear Rav. On question 4150 dealing with the large snowfall on a recent Shabbat, that practically had many locked down and unable in some cases even to open the home door to go to shul. you wrote that ...
# 4154 Out of a Hat
If one’s hat got totally covered with heavy snow, while taking a long walk on Shabbos. Can one continue walking where there is no Eruv or one does not carry?...
# 4153 Not Worth your Salt?
Is it better to prepare for Shabbos use as was now greatly needed, wood shavings or straw, instead of spreading salt?...
# 4152 Wildcard Blizard
What can one do when there is no Eruv and to exit the house to go to shul some of the snow will end on the street?...
# 4151 Snow Alert
See question above. Could one that heard the forecast of the incoming snow storm ask his non- Jewish usual snow remover, that does not usually come during Shabbat, to come and remove the snow?...
# 4150 No to Snow?
During the large snowfall last Shabbat, the practically had us and many others locked down and unable in some cases even to open the home door to go to shul, was it permitted to use a shovel and remov...
# 4149 Special Delivery
Someone went to deliver Shalach Monois on Purim and realized that his friends were not at home. He called them on their cell and they told him that they are out of town. He realized that he could not ...
# 4148 Over the Top?
See question above. Can one place a Magazine – Kuntress of Torah articles over a Gemara?...
# 4147 Over the Top?
See question above. Can one place a Magazine – Kuntress of Torah articles over a Gemara?...
# 4146 The Story of the Magazine
My Rabbi in shul was upset at me when I placed a Mishpacha magazine over a Gemara. Is that correct? After all that magazine has many articles of Torah?...