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Going to a Bet Hakevarot

I am in Yeshiva and during Bein Hazemanim I was planning to drive up to Boston where my Grandfather is buried to say some Tehillim. One of my friends told me that he heard that it is not the best idea to go to a Bet Hakevarot when you are young because the Tumah can […]

Shehecheyanu on buying new Sefer

I live in small Jewish community doing Kiruv by a nearby University. Baruch Hashem I am ale to get Kosher food and meat etc. out here. The one thing I can’t get are Sefarim. Any Sefer I can get shipped here gives great Simchah because there are so few sefarim here and are hard to […]

Saying a bracha on a destroyed Non-Jewish house of worship

I am visiting Paris for a week and I am taking a tour. The tour will pass by Notre Dame as one of the stops. From what I understand Notre Dame was burnt and gutted a few years ago. I know that when Notre Dame was new it was the place of the great debate […]

Yichud with video camera

I teach in a school and sometimes I have a meeting with the principal in his office. The meeting has to be in a closed room. I keep the door a little open so it will not be Yichud but we discuss private issues about some of the students and it is better if he […]

Arriving on Yom Tov Sheini in the airport

HaRav, I live in Israel I just landed from Eretz Yisroel in the airport in Paris for business and I just realized that it is Yom Tov Sheini. I know that the airport is outside the city. Am I allowed to go to my hotel room or do I need to stay in the airport […]

Appendicitis/Corona

I just had appendicitis and my appendix was removed. I am unsure whether I should say Birkat HaGomel since if I had not had the appendectomy in time it could have endangered my life. Or since this is considered a minor surgery, I was up and about later that day, maybe it was not serious […]

A Ger who just had Brit MIla

Someone I know from work is undergoing a Geirut. The Beit Din sent him to a hospital to have a doctor who is also a Mohel perform the MIlah. My co worker was feeling weak and is staying in the hospital over the weekend and over Shabbat. After Shabbat he will finish the process and […]

Non-Orthodox Conversion

I know someone who acts like a regular religious Jew. However I know that a few years ago he underwent a conversion by the “Liberal Jews” in Europe. Can I treat him, like a Jew (because sometimes we are very tight on Minyan here). Can I let him pour me wine which is not cooked? […]

Malpractice

In my community a group of young men decided to start a volunteer EMT, emergency medical assistance. This past week one of the Mitpallelim fell and hurt himself badly. One of the volunteers who was there in the Minyan and he treated the man. The treatment was the wrong treatment and when the man got […]

Visiting cemeteries during Nissan

I’m visiting my family in Eretz Yisrael for Pesach. Can I take the opportunity to go my grandfather’s grave on his yahrzeit on the 23rd of Nissan? I know there is custom not to go to Kevarim during the month of Nissan.