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# 3805 One for Two?
Can you ask Rav Shlomo Shlit’a if someone was Mekabel (accepts) to say a Perek Tehilim for two people, do they have to say it twice or can they say it once and have kavanah it’s for both. Than...
# 3804 A Pearl of Wisdom
If I meet Professor Jordan B. Peterson, do I make a Brocho of SheNosan MeiChochmaso L’vosor Vodom?...
# 3803 Curtain Lecture?
See question above. If one is staying in a hotel or a guest room, where it may be impossible to completely darken the room or it is Shabbat and the light was left on, and a separating Mechitza or curt...
# 3802 See the Light?
Is it proper to have marital relations in a bedroom that has an electric clock next to the bed that has light?...
# 3801 All Hands on Deck
Can one fix or replace a deck that will be used for the Suka and may also be dangerous in its current condition, during the Three Weeks?...
# 3800 If there's Life there's Hope
Dear Rabbi, does a responsible doctor have to inform his patient that he is terminally ill and incurable?...
# 3799 Paper Over?
Kvod Harav, is one allowed to repair during the three weeks wall paper that fell of a wall, by just gluing it back to the wall ....
# 3798 Fear No Colours
Is there an especial colour for the animals one offers as Korbanot?...
# 3797 A Battle of Wills?
The Gemoro says in Shabbos one should not treat one son different among his sons. Is it proper or not proper to leave in a will a double portion to a Bechor, (first born). On one hand we see that when...
# 3796 If there's a Will, there's a Way
Is it possible, for someone following Halacha to write a will, that will distribute his assets after his death in a different way that the Torah dictates?...
# 3795 All Intents and Purposes
Since the Kavana and intention of putting on Tefilin is that we should learn Torah, why is that not mentioned at all in the Yehi Ratzon or any Tefilah in the common Sidurim said before putting them on...
# 3794 Pray Together Stay Together?
A person who Davens Vasikin in a place where they struggle for a minyan, when there is no minyan should he daven beyechidus (no minyan) by the Netz (sunrise) or delay his Shemoneh Esrei a number of mi...
# 3793 Hot Check
What temperature does a cheres (clay) Matza oven need to be in order to burn up the left over dough that was not baked before 18 minutes?...
# 3792 Good New Times?
Dear Rov I’m moving into a new building that uses facial recognition to let one enter the building. Guest have to ring bells. What should one do during Shabbos?...
# 3791 Ethical Machine?
See questions above regarding the use of new computer programs, artificial intelligence and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah. Can one use such a program to give him Mussar and ethical...
# 3790 Intelligent Friend?
See questions above regarding the use of new computer programs, artificial intelligence and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah. Can one use such a program to be a Chavrusa or learning comp...
# 3789 Spin Machine?
See question above regarding the use of new computer programs and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah. 2) Can you use the computer program above to question it on Halacha and what a pers...
# 3788 Don't Lag, Log In
Kevod Harav. A group of great Lomdei Torah, experts in modern Halacha questions and some skillful computer and information specialists, have been working together to develop different computer program...
# 3787 Quick Fast
See question 3780 regarding fasting on Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas. If one follows the vast majority of people who are not even aware of this particular mournful and tragic anniversary of the burning ...
# 3786 Early Wedding?
Is it better for one to get married before Shiva Assar Betamuz and then have some of the Sheva Brachot during the Three Weeks, or better wait until after Tisha Beav and do the wedding then?...