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# 4004 The Right Window
Dear Rov, As Chanuka approaches I have a number of Shailos and questions regarding lighting the Menorah. a) When lights, as we most do by the front window facing the street, and the window covers m...
# 4003 A Fine Fine?
See question above. Does the fact that the chandelier and other electric lights were on in the room make any difference, since after all there was light?...
# 4002 Missed the Light?
A woman went last minute emergency shopping for extra last minute guest latMissed the Light? e before Shabbos began and then was held back in traffic and when she arrived home it was already to late t...
# 4001 A Call for Arms
See question above. If the arm or hand was eventually rejected by an unpredictable infection, will it have to be save and buried with the body of the patient as is done with other severed parts of the...
# 4000 Give me a Hand
Dear Rabbi as we recently spoke regarding hand and arm transplants from donors that amazingly are possible albeit still rare and complicated in our days. Could such a transplanted arm be used for putt...
# 3999 A Very Immersing Shaila
One who bli neder has the minhag of being Mekabel (accepting) Shabbos 20 or 30 minutes before Shekia (sunset), and now that time arrived and he has not yet immersed for the honor of Shabbos, is it bet...
# 3998 The History of Repeating Oneself
Om question 3981 you wrote: "Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a maintains that one should not repeat a tefila for a sick individual suffering from a chronic illness (physical and/or mental) more that th...
# 3997 No Promises to Alex
Dear Rov. If I use my phone to program my daily schedule of all things to be done every day. Some of those activities are mitzvos such as davening, Torah Shiurim, Bikur Cholim activities, Tzedaka meet...
# 3996 Recap the Kneecap
Someone had his kneecap removed by surgery and replaced by an artificial one, what should he do with the old bones and cartilage removed. Is a Cohen allowed to be in the same room as these removed pie...
# 3995 True Torah Love
Dear Rabbi. I’m an Yeshiva Bochur about to get Be’H engaged to a great Bais Yaakov Girl who is the daughter of a Cohen. Although, I will Iy’H spend some time after our wedding learning,...
# 3994 Love your Insects?
? Q. Kvod Harav. I wonder in recent questions (3982 - 85) you mentioned the Biblical obligation to feed your pets cats, dogs, fish etc. before you eat. Does that apply also to pet insects such as if...
# 3993 Lechaim to Hashem First?
On question 3986 you mentioned the minhag of many Sepharadim to say ’Lechaim’ before the bracha of Bore P’ri Hagefen when reciting Kiddush. Does not the Halacha dictate not to bless peo...
# 3992 Enlightening the Lightening
I am a yeshiva Bachur in town x. On Erev Shabbos Chanukah, I will I’yH travel to town y where I will sleep in a Yeshiva dorm and eat the Seudos by Yungerleit. I cannot light in the dorm because o...
# 3991 Nice Warm Treatment
May one immerse in hot Mikva on Shabbos when needed and rely on Korban Nessanel....
# 3990 You Already Ate!
May one break a minyan to go eat Shalosh Seudos before it gets too late?...
# 3989 Best Intentions Always
When one was not mechaven (had intention) by the first verse of K’rias Shema and realized that during the Amidah, may he interrupt to repeat it if otherwise the Z’man (Time for reciting) wil...
# 3988 Not a Grand Exit
Is one allowed to walkaway from a minyan after davening Mincha. This minyan davens Mincha right before the Shekia and Ma’ariv just after, and he wants to daven Maariv later at night, if he leaves...
# 3987 Immersed in so Many Shailos
1) When a man gets a haircut L’kavod Shabbos and then Toivels (immerses in a Mikva), are the inevitably remaining detached hairs a Chatzitza (interposition)?...
# 3986 No Life Interruption
The shul I go to has a tradition to pause during Kiddush for people to say L’chaim. (during the day and at night. Before saying Borei Pri Hagafen.) I thought this was only permitted for Sephardim...
# 3985 No Kids First - Really!
Our Rabonim where wondering, if one has to feed his small children before he feeds himself and this happens to be a Biblical mitzva, how come that whenever we make Kiddush or on every Seuda or meal th...