1) With regard to the custom to leave a bit of the end of the Challah, does it apply only to the Lechem Mishneh, or to other bread too?[1] 2) We use plastic tablecloths from a roll. If we didn’t manage to prepare before Shabbos, may we tear off the roll on Shabbos?[2] 3) I wish Read more…
1) We recently discussed responding Omein to someone else’s brocho whilst in theprocess of donning one’s own Tefilin. Reb Akiva Eiger has an interesting proof: 1 2) I’m affixing a Mezuza in the home of one who’s wheelchair-bound ר”ל. May thehomeowner recite the brocho as I’m about to affix his Read more…
1) Siyum on Rambam, Sefer Zmanim; start Sefer Noshim. 1 2) Feedback on comments on the Laws of Shema 2 , aired seven weeks ago at SiyumSefer haMada (Shiur #23). 3) I was contacted by a Jewish couple, touring on a nearby island. I know them astraditional, but not Shomer Read more…
1) In Modim we say הטוב כי לא כלו רחמיך, המרחם כי לא תמו חסדיך. Wouldn’t it have beenmore logical to link Toiv with Chessed and Rachamim with Rachamim? 1 2) At our public Seder I struggled to be heard throughout the room. Would I be able touse a hailer, Read more…
1) One of the participants at the Rebbe’s Seder in the year 5719 (’59) said the Al NetilasYodayim at Urchatz. The Rebbe told to eat his Matzo right then. At the farbrengen ofAcharon shel Pesach the Rebbe discussed this further. In a newly-published letterthe Rebbe explains why he didn’t tell Read more…
1) We didn’t see the Rebbe making an event of Birkas haIlanos. Any insights? 1 2) Our Shul is within an Eruv. Is there room to permit me to distribute Shmura Matzo onShabbos to people who won’t come to Shul in the evening, for use at their Seder? 2 3) Read more…
1)Feedback on definition of Mitzva min haTorah הוכח תוכיח: 1 2) Does an egg-steamer need to be toivelled? 2 3) A young Baalas-Tshuva, lives with Grandma – who isn’t religious at all. The younglady is away over Pesach whilst Grandma is staying home and has no plans to desistfrom Chomeitz. Read more…
1) Siyum on Rambam Sefer haMada: 1 2) Guidelines to setting up Communal Sedorim for 1 st night Seder: 2 3) On Shabbos Erev Pesach, if I eat chometz in one location and continue eating in asecond location, where should I bentch? 3 4) May one eat Kitniyos on Erev Read more…
1) What is the meaning of מעין הברכות, said on Shabbos eve? 1 2) My mechutan and I share the same first name. Is that an issue? 2 3) Four seminary girls agreed to go jeeping together on a day off and to share the cost.One girl fell ill and Read more…
1) Can one fulfil the Mitzva of Megila when hearing the reading via a hearing-aid?[1] 2) May we purchase a lease of the grounds of a church to use for our teen-camp?[2] 3) At Maariv, the 10th man left during the Amida. Does the Chazan say Kaddish Tiskabel?[3] 4) Due Read more…