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# 3595 Any More for Any More?
On Matonos Laevyonim during Purim, is it better to donate a smaller quantity of money to more poor people, or is it preferred to give a larger amount to just a few?...
# 3594 Don't Donate
Should someone donate to an institution that collects for the victims of Ukraine and brings them to Israel. The venue is managed by the Israeli (Leftist government) and the help goes to help mostly Ge...
# 3593 Enlight the Pesach Lights
should candlesticks that sit on a tray placed on a Shabbos table during the year be Kashered for Pesach? Is it enough just to wash them if they will be placed on the table where we are eating durin...
# 3592 Are You Ready to Order?
I was recently told that when baking Challah for Shabbos, there is an Inyan (significance) in using the first Challah that is "made" for the Friday night meal. The second one should be used for the da...
# 3591 The Essence of Shabbos Hot Drinks
For Shabbat we prepare an essence of tea to be able to drink tea. Do we need to do the same with instant coffee or cocoa?...
# 3590 Outlay the Clay Display
good afternoon Rabbi I have a couple of questions to ask you. I am doing ceramics and using stoneware clay. the trays, vessels, and plates I make from raw clay go thru a 2 step "baking" process in ...
# 3589 A Real Hot Shaila
On question 3578 you wrote: "Using a single spout does not avoid the Bishul or cooking prohibition of the cold water being heated as it encounters the water emanating from the hot pipe that is Yad Sol...
# 3588 Praying for the Living and the Dead
Are we allowed to say Tehilim and Tefilos this Shabbos (Pekudei) for our brethren in danger and suffering in Ukraine? Should not we also daven for the survival of the many Kevarim and burial and holy...
# 3587 The Pain in Ukraine
Why should we Jews worldwide daven for the welfare of Ukraine? Ukraine has historically acted terribly (to put it mildly) against the Jews and perhaps this is HaShem’s way of deservedly settling ...
# 3586 The Storm of the Eye
I go to Yeshiva in a large vacation town full with hotels and women walk in the streets year round practically in their bathing suites. During the week I have a car ride, but during Shabbos it is a gr...
# 3585 Don't Ask - I just Work Here
I heard that women are not allowed to work on Rosh Chodesh. I work as a secretary and can’t just miss those many days during the year or I will loose my job. I also haven’t seen other very f...
# 3584 What's Up?
On question 3556 wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that there is no issue of using Whats-App when positive and helpful activities are involved such as for a group that eng...
# 3583 On the Pill
Is one allowed to take sleeping pills just to help one sleep better during Shabbat? Is one allowed also to take wake up pills?...
# 3582 Spray On!
Can one add water to a cold water humidifier on Shabbat when it is close to turn itself off because the water is bellow the on limit? If you are allowed why is it it different than a vaporizer?...
# 3581 Stick to Your Guns?
The neighborhood I live has lately became very crime ridden. Some of my neighbors have bought guns for self defense with permits. If there is an Eruv can you carry the gun on Shabbos? Which is the bes...
# 3580 Don't Get Rolling
In a minyan where there is one Sefer Torah and when the extra Four Parshios are added as in the Adar days, they roll the Sefer Torah to the extra parsha. Is it correct to do Hagbaha and Gelila to the ...
# 3579 In Deep Water?
See question above. I did some research on Sefarim on my last Shaila and found that many recommend not to use a water faucet that has a single spout. Is that because of the reason you mentioned abov...
# 3578 A 'Hot' Shaila
I moved lately to a building with over seventy tenants, some Jewish some not. I’m wondering if I can use the hot water during Shabbos if I keep it lower than Yad Soledes (40 Centigrade), just to ...
# 3577 A Timely Blessing
On Parshas Vayakhel we read that when Moshe Rabenu saw the great work done in building the Mishkan he blessed the workers. Rashi quotes Chazal that the blessing Moshe gave them was "May the Divine ...
# 3576 No to Snow?
Can one remove some snow on Shabbat from the front of his house to be able to go to shul if there is no Eruv....