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# 3765 But, not that Late
See question above: Does a woman that usually davens every day also daven Ma’ariv?...
# 3764 Never Too Late?
R-e question 3744. I’m still confused. I understand from the answer that once a woman davens Shabbos morning she should wait to hear kiddush before eating. But is there a time limit as to how lon...
# 3763 Carefully Join the Party
On a Friday night early Shabbos Sheva Brochos, someone who wants to join but unlike the rest of the people that already prayed Maariv, he has not. Since he usually davens when night sets in and he is ...
# 3762 Honor the King!
Do people have to stand when the Chosson gets an Aliya and walks towards the Torah?...
# 3761 Say Kaddish for this Shaila?
Can a Ger recite Kaddish for his dear father that did not convert, but was very good and helpful to him, practically from the ’ Chasidei Umot Haolam’, (righteous of the nations)?...
# 3760 Up with the Chosson
On the Shabbos Sheva Brochos (the one after the wedding), is the Chosson a chiyuv to get an Aliya? What if there is a Yohrzait who always gets Maftir on that Shabbos, who has priority?...
3759 A Sefer on New Seforim II
A Sefer on New Seforim II Q. Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when a new Sefer Torah is donated and introduced to the Shul?...
# 3758 A Sefer on New Seforim
Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when buying or receiving a new beautiful Shas or any other precious Sefer?...
# 3757 Stay Apart
When traveling by plane and walking on the corridor, most often one is going to have to walk between two women seating in the aisle seats. To avoid the prohibition involved, should one take a jacket o...
# 3756 Dressed to Kill?
See question above. If these two women are, as is common nowadays not dressed with Tz’nius (decor), can I still take out a sefer and learn Torah next to them?...
# 3755 Talk the Walk
Dear Rov, I have a few questions concerning traveling by plane this days, when the planes are very often totally full. If I’m given a seat between two women and I have already asked them if th...
# 3754 Fill Your Boots
Can one use a wine-skin or Bota Bag Canteen, made from animal skin to carry wine and other liquids?...
# 3753 Miracles Do Happen
Dear Rov and friend; As we spoke before, I had an accident last week. I tripped and fell into the street when stepping out from my home, hurt my head on the sidewalk and started bleeding. I was rushed...
# 3752 Get Full Testimony
During the Chupa ceremony the officiating Rabbi after reading aloud the Ketuba, (Marriage Document), gives the document over to the Chosson (groom), so he can then give it to the bride and she usually...
# 3751 Just a Cup?
Hello Rabbi. Can someone make Kiddush using a disposable plastic cup?...
# 3750 The Tzedek Bedeck
Hello Rav. Q. I’m aware that some Chassanim (grooms) don’t wear any decorative items, such as their golden watch gifted, when they enter their Chupa ceremony. Is there a source to that?...
# 3749 Honor the Father
Is it recommended that a father who is a Rabbi should be the Mesader Kissushin and officiate at the wedding of one of his children?...
# 3748 Get Nowhere Fast
I daven Maariv in a shul where there is a Chiyuv (an ’obliged’ person in mourning who leads the prayers) and he davens very fast. I can not keep up with him at the end of the Krias Shema bro...
# 3747 Sure Cure
Good morning Rabbi, both my husband and I are diabetics and require frequent visits to the chiropodist. The next appointment was scheduled for July 28, which is the first day of Av. Should we change t...
# 3746 Know Where the Bodies are Buried
Hello, I’m a Ba’al Teshuva with a Jewish sister that married a Non-Jew (who did a conservative conversion of some type). If she wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery (which I believe she w...