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#5581 Go Give a Goy a Gag Gift?
Dear Rov Shlit”a. Someone dropped a New Testament Bible in my mail box. Can I now further drop it in the mail box of my great good friend and non-Jewish neighbor as a good will gift?...
#5580 Blow Your Own Horn?
Is it a greater mitzva for one to blow the Shofar himself, when one is well trained and knowledgeable in the Halachot, than just to hear it from someone else?...
#5579 More Ears Lugging?
See question above. If one is staying in an Old Age Home and they blow the shofar via a microphone, should he also place earplugs on his ears?...
#5578 Plug Into the Plug?
See question above. Can one use earplugs in a place where there is no Eiruv and one is not allowed to carry?...
#5577 Terrible Sounds?
Re- Question 5573 above regarding one walking the street on Rosh Hashana and then listens to the shofar blowing via a microphone from a Non-Orthodox synagogue. If crossing to the other side of the str...
#5576 The Bright Light on the Night
Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a, Some of our new women guest for Rosh Hashana this year have asked if we can provide for them an oil plate with floating wicks for them to light on the night of Rosh Hashana. Is t...
#5575 B”H! A New Great New Year First!
OUR FIRST Question sent by Horav Dovid Bartfeld Shlit’a to Hagaon Horav Berkovits Shlit’a. Iv’e noticed that many people that Daven for the Amud, when they finish Chazoras Hashat”z they take 3 ste...
#5574 Ois Noise?
See questions above. I also wonder if someone learning Torah in a side room in a Shul and hears the laud recitation of the Thirteen Midos, does he have to stop his learning and repeat with all?...
#5573 No Poison Noise!
See question above. I also wonder if one walks by a non orthodox synagogue during Rosh Hashana, does he have to cross walk on the other side of the street to avoid listening to the shofar blown ne...
#5572 Stop the Noise?
My Dear Rov Shlit”a. As you well know, my elderly and ill father can’t go to Shul anymore even on Yom Kippur. We have a similar guest staying with us now and he leaves his phone on a very low volu...
#5571 Apart Art of the Start!
I still have another question. On a Shiur (On-Line), I think I heard that Rosh Hashana itself is a hidden Holiday. How and why is that?...
#5570 Bless the Best?
As I mentioned before, I also wonder why the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh is titled “Shabbat Mevorchim” and not the one before Rosh Hashana?...
#5569 Month After Mouth
Honorable Rabbi. I’m a woman that davens almost every Shabbat at home (and daily too), with and for my, bless Hashem many young children and when it is the Shabbat Mevarchim (Special blessing recite...
#5568 Blowing the Blow?
K’vod Rabbenu Shlit”a. I’m the new chosen Baal Tokea (blower) of the Shofar in our large new shul, and I need still lots of training and preparation. I avoid blowing at home as it disturbs the fam...
#5567 The Ask Task
See above question. Thanks for your great answer. Is it better to also include the ill and abandoned people, children and the poor neglected families?...
#5566 Praise the Pray!
See question above. Dear Rov Shlit”a. I heard in our shiurim something truly surprising that one should not pray on Shabbat ad Yom Tov for our material needs. Since that is truly impossible to me ...
#5565 Pray Tell
Pray Tell - Q. Kvodo which minyan should one choose when one has different choices as to the type of davening involved?...
#5564 The Secrets of The Trade!
See question above: Does it make a difference in Halacha whether the hostages themselves, expressed their opinion as to what to do, if Hashem forbid, they are captured?...
#5563 – The Tricks of The Trade!
See question above: The figures above include the bodies of 57 who were recovered after dying in captivity or during rescue attempts. Is it correct to exchange the hardened convicted terrorists ...
#5562 Ply Our Trade!
Dear Rabbi. I read on the global news destination, the Algemeiner published on line, of a truly difficult dilemma that sadly my family was and is involved in it, quoted in parts as follows. At the...