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# 4105 The Labor of your Fruits
A Kiruv organization that has an established well attended and successful shiur on Monday nights want to make a Tu Bishvat special party and Seuda on Monday night (year 2023) and make a Seder on eatin...
# 4104 Enjoy your Meal
Is there a mitzva to make a Seuda or special meal on Tu Bishvat when you eat the fruits of trees?...
# 4103 A Full Day
Does one need to keep Shabbos until 77 minutes after Shkia due to Tosefes Shabbos? or is 72 enough?...
# 4102 Live a Full Life
Dear Rabbi thank you for the class. During the class you touched the subject of euthanasia. This left me seriously thinking. As you know, the doctors at the critical care in the hospital tried to make...
# 4101 Curtain Lecture?
See questions above. I have often wondered when being in a similar situation of having to enter or exit a home or hall and women are present at the entrance, if I’m holding on to my coat that can be p...
# 4100 Watch Where You Go
In the future how should he avoid walking between women in a similar case? How severe is that walking between women prohibition?...
#4099 Talk the Walk
See question 4092 - Regarding the unfortunate incident of being arrested, does the Yungerman need to apologize for putting his hand on the child without the mother’s permission? In the future how shou...
# 4098 Bottle Down II
Re question 4087. While carrying out the procedure of opening a grape juice bottle as described by the Rav, lets say one bachur offers to open it in the regular manner relying on the lenient opinions....
# 4097 In the Swim of Things?
My children saw a nice artistic drawing of a Chasidisher Rebbe dancing while crossing back and fort some water pond representing the Yam Suf, while his many Chassidim were singing around him. They wan...
# 4096 First Save Lifes
Kvod Horav. I’m a Rebbe in a high school Yeshiva and I also give shiurim in the nearby shul where I daven, so practically Be’H I dedicate my full time to Torah learning and teaching. The Mispalelim in...
# 4095 A Late Shabbos
The Mishna Berura says not to do Melacha 30 or 20 minutes before sundown. May one refrain from Melacha without formally accepting Shabbos in case something comes up, and when should one make the forma...
# 4093 Getting Away with Murder?
I’m a Frum medical student and one of the fundamental steps that allows a doctor to expand their expertise and graduate is completing an internship or residency program in a hospital and that involves...
# 4092 False Alarm
There was a very unfortunate incident where a very Choshuve Ben Torah, an extremely close personal acquaintance of mine, needed to walk between two women. He gently placed his arm on the shoulder of a...
# 4091 Queer Beer
Can one that has the Minhag of drinking beer on Tu Bishvat comply comply by drinking some barley vodka?...
# 4090 Forbidden Fruits
See question above. Is that permitted during this year after Shmita?...
# 4089 Labor of One's Fruits
I have a family member that is coming from Eretz Yisroel this week before Tu Bishvat. (The new year for fruits of trees). I have two questions. 1) Since there is an important Minhag and tradition ...
# 4088 Safe Torah Secrets
Dear Rabbi; I’am divorced and talking to and thinking about going out with a Talmid of Rav Chaim Epstein and told him that I like to go to Breslov shiurim. He suggested that I ask Rabbi Bartfeld to as...
# 4087 Bottle Down
One who is a Rebbi in a Yeshiva and needs to make Kiddush for the Bachurim but the only bottle of grape juice is closed, should he hint to the Bachurim to open it, or simply sit there until someone wi...
# 4086 Who is on the Phone?
Good evening. I was just at a conference where I heard Rav Shlomo Miller shlit’a answer questions about Halacha in business, and it seemed that he gave a P’sak that it was OK to phone a mincha mi...
# 4085 A Hat Trick
May one wear a winter hood and on top of it a black hat during Shabbos?...