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# 3655 Weighing One's Options
If one is allowed to use a scale for weighing the Matza, does the scale require Tevila in the Mikva? Some scales offered on line use only a hook or a clip to hold the piece of Matza or Maror, does ...
# 3654 The Scale of Things
Is it permissible to keep a mechanical (non-digital) food scale next to the table on the Seder night to measure the appropriate amounts of Matzah and Maror for all those present?...
# 3653 Stands to Reason
(See question 3652 above) Q. A housewife during the busy serving of the Sedder drank one of the four cups of wine while she was standing did she comply or does she have to drink another cup?...
# 3652 Decline to Recline?
If a woman at the Sedder chooses to recline while eating Matza or drinking the four cups as mendo, can she do so?...
# 3651 Have A Gut'n Moed
This morning first day Chol Hamoed (Pesach) by mistake I davened for Shacharis the Yom Tov Shemone Ezrei. I was told that I have to repeat and say the weekday one and add Yaale Veyovo. I wonder why is...
# 3650 Something to Lean On
If one is sitting in a regular chair that does not have armrests, how can then reclining be done at the Seder?...
# 3649 Tzedaka Matza?
Due to the very high price of Matza this year some Tzedaka institutions offer subsidized Matza for the ones in need that can’t afford them. If one was offered by a friend some leftovers that he b...
# 3648 It's In Our Hands
The reason given for the need of Urchatz or washing hands at the beginning of the Seder is to be able to eat the Karpas that are wet vegetables soaked in salt water, and thus require Netilat Yadaim (S...
# 3647 Accounting for Taste
For one that has the option, of eating oat Matzos or the regular wheat Matzos, and he likes the flavor of the oat matzos, can he eat them just as regular wheat Matzos?...
# 3646 Melted Matza
Have a Happy Yom Tov Rabbi. If my aged father has difficulty in eating Matza, and he has to make it soft by soaking it in water....
# 3645 Up to Date
What date should someone write on the sell of Chometz when it was done after the Shekia (sunset)? Should one use the non Jewish date?...
# 3644 Cut Out the Uncut?
Shalom, Can I bring a Jewish guest to a Pesach Seder if he never had a Bris?...
# 3643 Call In Sick
See question above. Does one have to actually wait until one gets sick in order to consume medicine made of Kitniyos, or can one take it as a preventive means to avoid getting ill....
# 3642 Know Your Beans
I’m sensitive to carbohydrates including sugar. One year, when I ate all the matzoh and drank all the Grapevine juice, I got so sick that I couldn’t make it through the seder. I have since...
# 3641 Lean Times?
What is the source for reclining while eating the Seder anyway?...
# 3640 A Cut About the Rest
Rabbi. at my age I’m uncomfortable reclining can I drink the Kosos (wine cups) and eat the Matza without?...
# 3639 Call it a Roll?
I work on a Shemurah Matza factory and we use a hand metal roller to punch the holes in the flattened dough round pieces. We recently acquired a new one. Does it need Tevila? What happens if it wasn...
# 3638 Alone and Happy?
I will be traveling at very early hours on Erev Pesach and likely be davening Shacharis on the road. I’m a Bechor, can I just make a Siyum by myself on a Gemara I learned and eat then?...
# 3637 Searched and Saved?
We thank Hashem for saving us from a recent accident that severely damaged our car. The car was removed by authorities into an impound car crash area and our insurance company is taking care of it. Si...
# 3636 An Early Sale
Dear Rov; One that has a basement or a garage one does not want to clean for Pesach and it will be closed completely, does he have to sell in a Mechira Mukdemes (Selling it to a Gentile, the day befor...