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# 3725 Eyes on the Wines
Dear Rabbi.What is the source for putting some of the Havdallah wine on eyes and in pockets?...
# 3724 Milk It for All its Worth
In our Bet Midrash we learn the whole first night of Shavuos, then we daven with the Netz (sunrise) and after davening a Kiddush is offered and cheese danishes and cakes are served. Do we comply with ...
# 3723 Crying Over Spilled Milk
Can someone who is allergic to milk products comply with the tradition of eating a milk-meal on Shavuot, if that person cooks a Pareve food or warms some bread inside an oven used for milk foods? Afte...
# 3722 Amelim BaTorah
Dear Rov and colleague. As we already spoke on the phone, I was offered to give a Shiur on Shabbos afternoon to a large group of advanced Torah learners that meet there only on Shabbos and recently lo...
# 3721 A Thank You Signal
While davening Pesukei Dezimra, I was approached by a dignified Meshulach collecting Tzedaka. I gave him a nice donation and he reciprocated by giving me a beautiful brocho. Could I answer amen then t...
# 3720 Amen to Clean Hands
If I hear someone make a brocho after I have exited the bathroom before I washed hands, can I answer Amen after just cleaning my hands by rubbing them against my clothing?...
# 3719 A Blessing Wife
Hello Rabbi. I Because of my very sensitive health state I will be learning and davening alone this Shavuos at home. (And when someone stays awake the complete night, he should not recite certain broc...
# 3718 Giving Plastic Flowers?
Kevod Harav. We always used in our Shul plant decorations for Shavuot. Some board members suggested to change to plastic ones not only for the monetary savings since they can be reused, but also becau...
# 3717 Planting Decorations
Before Shavuos can one place plant and leaf decorations on the Aron Hakodesh? Will they then have to be disposed as mitzva objects like the Hoshanos and Lulabim?...
# 3716 Days of Separation?
For one that usually keeps the Minhag to abstain from marital relations during the ’Shloshes Yemei Hagbalah’ (the historical Three Days of Separation prior to Shavuos), have relations this y...
# 3715 Eyes on the Snake
I met a snake on the sidewalk. Should I grant it the right-of-way, or should I dispatch it safely to death with my heel?...
# 3714 Torah for All
Dear Rabbi can our Women Torah Learning Group that meets almost every day for different Shiurim. also learn the night of Shavuot? We would like to join our husbands and children for the early Shavuot ...
# 3713 A Victory Day
Dear Rov Shlit’a is there a problem celebrating Victoria Day by going to a park and watching the fireworks, because of; ’Lo Telchu Bechukot Hagoyim,’ (following the traditions of the n...
# 3712 Knowledge on the Tree
Kvod Horav. As it happened to various of our neighbors after the severe storm last Shabbos some of our trees fell. One fallen tree was blocking the entry to our front yard and home, since we are surro...
# 3711 Flawed Tefilas Geshem
Last Shabbat I was walking to Shul to learn a shiur and daven an early Mincha Gedola. Then the totally unexpected wildest storm struck and when I arrived in Shul I was totally soaked even my underclot...
# 3710 Who Are You, My Son?
As we spoke by phone, I was wondering if one of my children does not look at all like his siblings but rather is very similar to a neighbor. do I have to be concerned? Should I do a DNA testing on him...
# 3709 Have to Get Married
I’m to be married B’H after Shavuos. Can I get my required marriage license during Sefira days?...
# 3708 Light The Fires!
What is the source of people lighting bonfires on Lag Baomer?...
# 3707 Fit to Light the Candle?
We have a minhag in our shul that we make a seuda on Lag Baomer and we lite 33 candles, and we honored different people to light. Our shul has B’H grown a lot in the last years and the new board ...
# 3706 A Happy Yohrzait?
Kevod Harav. Why is the Yohrzait of Moshe Rabbenu, the Seventh of Adar considered a day of mourning and is kept as the day dedicated for the Chevra Kadisha, while Lag Baomer which is the day we commem...