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Hi and thank you for the great article on chanuka lighting. In the paragraph regarding lighting as mehadrin, your write "This makes it difficult to understand common Ashkenazi practice, that in households with adult male members, it is customary for ...
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Hello and shanna tova, In a situation where there are only women would it be more ideal for each woman to blow for themselves or for one woman to blow for them all. Would it be appropriate for each of them to recite a blessing for themselves or one w...
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My husband's a firstborn and I have a firstborn son. For the record, I'm a firstborn myself. Do I need to fast on Ta'anit Bechorot?
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Can you give me a rundown of what i need to do this year when erev pesach is a shabbos?
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If one follows the Tzitz Eliezer and R. Ovadia, that 10 women together say all 4 Brachot, beginning and end, and if different women are saying the first and last perek, does the woman who says the first 3 brachot say the last, or the woman who reads ...
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I live in Yerushalayim and I usually participate in a women's megilla reading. Looking ahead, this year is Purim Meshulash. How does this work if Covid doesn't interfere?
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Can a woman blow shofar for someone else on Rosh Hashana?
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Can I make my own eiruv tavshilin? What does it involve?
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Can a woman be the one who tells the shofar blower in shul what to blow?
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