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I travelled to attend a wedding prior to Ramadan. My parents booked our flights knowing Ramadan could have fallen on the day we were flying home. Thus, I could not fast on the first of Ramadan. Do I have to pay Kaffarah?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

You do not need to pay a kaffarah. 

All you must do is redo that day as qadha`. 

And Allah knows best. 
Is one of the Kaffarah for deliberately breaking an oath to Allah (SWT) the feeding of a number of needy believers?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Kaffara for deliberately breaking an oath كفّارة اليمين is feeding ten ooor believers or clothing them, and if unable to feed or cloth ten poor believers then fasting three days.

Wassalam.
If one takes an oath (Qasam) that he will not commit a particular act and still does it, thus breaking the Qasam, and then repeatedly commits that act, is there only one Kuffara, or a Kuffara for every time one commits that act?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Breaking the Qasam (Oath) needs Kaffara which is feeding ten poor believers or clothing them. If he is unable to do that then to fast three days. That is one time, which will remove the oath.

Wassalam.
If my 9 year old daughter is unable to wake up during the month of Ramadan to my frequent calls at Sehri, is it acceptable if I give Kaffara for her fasts instead?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Waking up for eating or drinking in Sehri (Sohoor) is not a condition in fasting. Fasting is must on Baaligh Muslim whether they wake up or don't wake up for Sehri.

Baaligh girl ( who completed full nine lunar years) must fast the month of Ramadan. Not fasting is a major sin which requires then Qadha of that day, and Kaffara of fasting two months or feeding of sixty poor believers, for every day of not fasting.

Giving Kaffara does not make it permissible.

'Wassalam.