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This page contains issues 1 to 307 inclusive and was last updated 18 March 2001
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216 Pain & Suffering, Why Does God Allow
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226 Pairs Causing Spiritual Damage
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269 Palm Pilot with Words of Torah on it
56 Pants, Women
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161 Papaya, Bracha
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190 Paradox, Immovible Objet - Irresistible Force
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163 Pardes defined with example
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236 Parent Child Relationships And Mitzvah Observance
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108 Parent's 2nd Wedding, Attending
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111 Parent's 2nd Wedding, Attending, follow-up
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251 Parenthood, Preparing for
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66 Parents & Black Hats
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202 Parents and Going to Learn in Yeshiva in Israel
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240 Parents, Different Levels of Religious Commitment
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242 Parents, Different Levels of Religious Commitment; Reader Response
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102 Parents, Honoring
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138 Parents, Honoring In-Laws When They Don't Like You
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242 Parents, Obeying to Violate Commandment
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101 Parents, Won't Clean for Pesach
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143 Parsha Verses=Gematria, Riddle Answer
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142 Parsha Verses=Gematria, Riddle Question
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127 Parsha, Not Read on Shabbat, Riddle Answer
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126 Parsha, Not Read on Shabbat, Riddle Question
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63 Parshat Hashavua, not same as Israel
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66 Parshat Hashavua, not same as Israel, Correcting
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213 Partial Observance
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300 Partial Observance
165 Parve, Cooking in Meat Pot
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185 Parve, Definition
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72 Parve, Riddle Answer
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71 Parve, Riddle Question
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273 Passover & No. 4
262 Passover Food, Expense
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188 Passover, Caret for eating Chametz
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273 Passover, Chametz Stocks & Bonds
241 Passover, Chametz, Stocks in Companies That Deal in,
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273 Passover, Charity Before
15 Passover, Dayenu
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188 Passover, Delivering Pizza
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62 Passover, Eating Chametz afterwards
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188 Passover, Haggadah, Definition
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188 Passover, Leaning while Drinking
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188 Passover, Matzah Joke
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232 Passover, Nonreligious Roommate
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101 Passover, Parents Won't Clean for
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188 Passover, Pet Food
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15 Passover, Saturday Night
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99 Passover, Selling Chametz, Why Allowed?
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188 Passover, Starting Seder Early
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188 Passover, Storage Boxes
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148 Passover, Substitute for Shank Bone
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188 Passover, Yizkor, Why
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157 Pasuk, Saying by Memory
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8 Patrilineal Descent
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202 Patrilineal Descent
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83 Paying on time, Women, Riddle Answer
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83 Paying on time, Women, Riddle Question
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206 Payos, How to Curl
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236 Peace Vs. Mitzvah Observance
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193 Peace, Dove and Olive Branch as Symbol
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259 Peace, Internal Like a Peaceful Home
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147 Peanut Oil = Kitniot?
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217 Peh Nun on a Tombstone, Meaning
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277 Pentecost, Meaning
228 People, Bowing to
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305 Perspectives on Alternate Realities
273 Pesach & No. 4
15 Pesach (Dayenu)
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207 Pesach 1 day, Succos 1 or 2 days, Riddle, Answer
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206 Pesach 1 day, Succos 1 or 2 days, Riddle, Question
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188 Pesach, Caret for eating Chametz
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273 Pesach, Chametz Stocks & Bonds
273 Pesach, Charity Before
188 Pesach, Delivering Pizza
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62 Pesach, Eating Chametz afterwards
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188 Pesach, Haggadah, Definition
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188 Pesach, Leaning while Drinking
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188 Pesach, Matzah Joke
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101 Pesach, Parents Won't Clean for
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188 Pesach, Pet Food
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15 Pesach, Saturday Night
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99 Pesach, Selling Chametz, Why Allowed?
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188 Pesach, Starting Seder Early
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188 Pesach, Storage Boxes
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148 Pesach, Substitute for Shank Bone
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188 Pesach, Yizkor, Why
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11 Pet, Judaism
243 Pet, Prayer on Death, Kaddish
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188 Pets, Food for Pesach
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103 Pets, Kosher
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160 Pets, Making them Jewish
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5 Peyot
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139 Pharoah, Hard Heart
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212 Philosophy and Halacha
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239 Physical, God's Relation to
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287 Pi in the Bible
241 Pig Fetus in Cow
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123 Pig Hair, Kosher?
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127 Pig Skin, Kosher?
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189 Pigeon, Hepatitis Cure
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304 Pigs Vs. Other Unkosher Animals
229 Pillar of Salt, Lot's Wife
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40 Pinkie, Pointing at Torah
197 Pirkei Avot, Chapters of the Fathers, Why Called Chapters
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188 Pizza, Delivering on Pesach
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219 Place, The, Name of G-d
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181 Plagues, Egypt, Frogs or Crocodiles
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273 Plagues, Ten, Memorizing
259 Plane Crash, Bury Remains of Casualties
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94 Plane, Davening in a
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101 Planes, Traveller's Prayer
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91 Planets, Life on Other
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186 Planting Trees at Birth of Child
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232 Plate, Seder, Circular Order
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115 Play, Acting in Questionable
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229 Pleasure, Ultimate
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198 Plunging in Dirt to Kosher a Knife
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245 Police, Shabbos, Helping On
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45 Polystyrene Chanukia
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306 Poppy Seeds on Purim
240 Pork vs. Shrimp, Less Kosher
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242 Pork, Desire to Eat
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175 Pork, Kosher during Messiah
243 Prayer for Dead Pets
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132 Prayer for Dew, Start When?
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230 Prayer Outside of Synagogue
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107 Prayer, Beginning & End Same, Riddle Answer
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106 Prayer, Beginning & End Same, Riddle Question
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293 Prayer, Changing God's Mind
242 Prayer, On Mars, Which Direction to Face
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183 Prayer, Saying while Exercising
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275 Prayer, Seperation Between Men & Women
142 Prayer, Shuckling
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206 Prayer, Women's Obligation
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223 Prayers, Jewelry, Engraving
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234 Praying for People to Repent & Free Will
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211 Praying in the Merit of the Sick
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211 Praying, How To Tapes
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94 Praying, While Sitting in a Plane
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251 Predicting the Future
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251 Pregnancy, Sensitivity to Spiritual Environment
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34 Pregnancy, Yom Kippur, Fasting
189 Pregnant Women, Greeting to
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52 Prestidigitation, Halacha
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196 Priestly Clothing, Cleaning
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224 Prince of Egypt, Accuracy
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223 Princess, Evil Spirit
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64 Pringles, Bracha
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271 Profiting on Day of Purim
249 Prophecy for Jewish and Gentile Nations
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228 Prophecy Predicting Nuremberg Trials in Megillat Esther
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189 Prophecy, KIng David
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95 Prophet, Definition
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220 Prophetesses, Listing of
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83 Pru u'Rvu, Adoption
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79 Pru u'Rvu, How Fruitful?
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189 Psalms, Authorship
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233 Psalms, Benifits of Saying
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169 Psalms, Saying on the Subway
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163 Pshat defined with example
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97 Psychiatrists, Relating Lashon Harah to
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271 Public Land, Building, Riddle, Answer
270 Public Land, Building, Riddle, Question
13 Punishment
209 Punishment for Sins of Ancestors
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61 Punishment, Crimes of Ancestors
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236 Purgatory, Sentence Length
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228 Purim, Celebrating While Others Suffered
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241 Purim, Colored Eggs
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271 Purim, Costumes & Masks
272 Purim, Costumes & Masks; Reader Response
306 Purim, Haman's Decree for Genocide
57 Purim, Hamentaschen
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228 Purim, Making Noise When Haman's Name Is Read
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184 Purim, Mishloach Manot, Contents
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228 Purim, No Hallel
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306 Purim, Poppy Seeds
144 Purim, Why different in Jerusalem
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271 Purim, Working/Profiting On Day Of
251 Purity and the Year 5760
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227 Purpose of Creation
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229 Purpose of Life
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31 Putting Animals "To Sleep"
197 Pyramids, Did the Jewish People Build
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181 Pyrex
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