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Is cold weather bad for tefillin?

From Hasofer.com Extremes in temperature, both heat and cold, commonly cause several different types of damage to tefillin: The batim can crack. The paint of the batim and the retzuot, stra …
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Is there a bracha for hail, for snow?

There is no Bracha on snow since it is only waters that have frozen. (Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Shlita) Source: http://www.havabooks.co.il/article_ID.asp?id=1300 [ובס' 'הנותן שלג' (עמ' 194), נשאל הגר …
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Shoveling snow on Shabbos

There is a Rav in Lakewood that personally shoveled the snow from the steps of his Shul on a Shabbos morning (In an area that there was an Eiruv - so there was no Issur of moving it from one Reshus to …
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Is Snow Muktza?

Shoveling Snow on Shabbos Most authorities hold that snow is not Muktza on Shabbos, since it is not Nolad, as the moisture was in the air earlier. However according to "The Halachos of Muktza" in the …
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If it rains on my sukkah and I put up a tarp, should I stay in the sukkah?

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49716&st=&pgnum=30 Per the Machtzis HaShekel Siman 640:9 it is preferable to eat in a Sukkah with a Schlack, over eating in the house when it is rain …
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Rainbow, telling a friend

Per Mishna Brura (229:1), when one sees a rainbow he should not inform a friend about it, but rather make a bracha and keep it to himself.
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Rainbow: Making a Bracha on a bad Omen

You are not supposed to gaze at it, however if you notice it you make a Bracha. When one sees a rainbow a bracha should be made. However, one should be careful not to stare at a rainbow for too lon …
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Was there lightning during the plague of hail?

Romamos Kel - Alshich on Sefer Tehilim says that the noise of the Barad were noises from the Olam Ruchni, out of this world. Thus the lack of lightning was not an additional miracle as the thunder was …
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Is there a malach taking care of rain or not?

Bzir Aviezer - Rabbi Chaim Aviezer Morgenstern Zatzal explains as follows based on the Gemara in Taanis 10a which says that Hashem gives rain to Eretz Yisrael by himself and other locations through a …
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