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# 2280 A Staircase Case
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Q. We have an open staircase going down to the basement of our house. We were thinking of making the basement into a home office. How much of a door would have to be added to prevent any issues of Yihud (of the woman in the house) with the workers ....
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Posted 8/5/2019 1:39 PM |
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# 2279 Giving a Hand
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Q. If women related to a dying father in law, uncle or similar visit him and want to hold his hand to provide much needed support, care and appreciation, is that permitted?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the patie ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:57 AM |
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# 2278 Finishing Davening
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Q. Since, (see prior question 2277), in our days it is difficult to ascertain when a terminally ill patient has reached the stage of becoming a goses, when should the tefilos and the tehilim as well as the recitation of Shema be said, especially whe ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:55 AM |
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# 2277 The Beginning of the End
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Q. In our times when many terminally ill patients facing an imminent death are likely to be unconscious or wearing a mask connected to a breathing machine or are intubated to a ventilator, when does the patient become a "goses" or moribund, and foll ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:52 AM |
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# 2276 The Score on Settling II
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Q. (See question 2265 regarding a couple transitioning to live in Israel). Does this mean that in year two, one should be most of the year, does it have to be every year 6 months in a row dafka? there could be a simcha in chutz laretz in the middle ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:35 AM |
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# 2275 Toss a Cohen?
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Q. Can a Cohen visit Kever Rachel? Can a Cohen enter the burial cave of the Sanhedrin?
A. (See question 2274). There is a tradition ascribed to Rabbi Yitzchak Alafia, that Kever Rochel was built in such a way that it is permissible fo ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:32 AM |
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# 2274 The Just Don't Get It
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Q. Can a Cohen visit the historical kevarim of tzadikim (graves of the just) from centuries ago, if they are separated from a cemetery?
A. Although Ramban (Yebamos 61) maintains that the kevarim of Tzadikim don't convey tumah, and that ....
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Posted 8/2/2019 11:22 AM |
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2274 Fast or Feast?
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Q. If someone always makes a seuda with meat on every Rosh Chodesh, can he also do so on Rosh Chodesh Av? Especially when it falls, as in this year on Friday and Tisha Beav is nidche?
A. Many Poskim maintain that one should abstain fro ....
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Posted 8/1/2019 6:05 PM |
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# 2273 Have an Early Night
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Q. Does one need to be machmir for the halachos of the nine days starting from shekiyah or only from nightfall? Maybe one could argue that it is a question of a Rabbinic law where we are often lenient. Thank you.
A. Poskim maintain dif ....
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Posted 8/1/2019 6:02 PM |
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# 2272 Who Am I?
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Q. I'm a Yeshiva bochur learning successfully in a well known Yeshiva and I plan to stay in learning after I get married. I became aware since I became bar mitzva that I'm an adopted child, and I underwent as a baby a proper gerus kehalacha. I recen ....
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Posted 7/31/2019 1:26 AM |
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# 2271 Lamdanut on the Coconut
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Q. What bracha you make when drinking the coconut water, when served as a mixed drink in the coconut itself?
A. Ben Ish Chai (Pinchas 9) mentions that the dark (or black) melons (avatichim or coconuts) that sometime contain wat ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 6:26 PM |
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# 2270 Donkeys Welcome?
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Q. Is it proper to perform a Pidyon Peter Chamor ceremony (redemption of a firstborn donkey) in a shul.
A. Vayoshov Hayom (2: 15: p. 253) quotes that the Peas Hashulchan arranged a Pidyon peter chamor and they adorned the donkey with ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:49 PM |
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# 2269 The Priors New Clothes
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Q. May one don a brand new suit during the Three Weeks prior to Rosh Chodesh if the sheheyanu was already recited soon after acquisition (one did not actually make a sheheyanu on the beged, but rather had them in mind when making kiddush on leil Sha ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:45 PM |
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# 2268 The Law of the Tablets
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Q. Does a pill-splitter used to cut tablets in half require immersion in a mikva?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's shlit'a opinion is that the pil-splitter does not require tevila, since it is not used for preparing or holding foods, just medic ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:36 PM |
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# 2267 The Book Cover Shaila
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Q. One who lives with non-frum parents who might or will confiscate a sefer if they see it, may he place goyishe books on top of his seforim so that his parents won't see it?
Similarly, one who comes from a Litvishe mishpacha, and his parents ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:33 PM |
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# 2266 Coating the Tzitzis
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Q. Which is better - to wear one's long (but old) weekday tzitzis on Shabbos, or wear Shabbos tzitzis that have a proper shiur and which are clean and new, but the Shabbos tzitzis are too short to be seen under one's long jacket worn on Shabbos and ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:32 PM |
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# 2265 The Score on Settling
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Q. There is a couple transitioning to live in Israel. Next year they are there a month straight, the next year six months, coming back to visit the rest of the time. At what point are they Halachically considered residents of Eretz Yisrael particul ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:21 PM |
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# 2264 Mixed Message
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Q. Re- above question on creating a message using unattached Scrabble letters: Is there a problem with borer, (choosing - one of the prohibited actions on Shabbos), since one is choosing the letters now, but the message will be received at a latter t ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 1:12 PM |
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# 2263 The Law of the Letter
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Q. Re- Question 2259 - Playing Scrabble on Shabbos; Can one place a message for his family or guests on a table by using Scrabble letters not attached to anything, but covered with a heavy glass utensil, such as a transparent rectangular pyrex cont ....
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Posted 7/26/2019 9:15 AM |
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# 2262 Come Heaven or High Water
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Q. One who everyday is tovel in the mikva, and owns a cottage where he uses the lake for his daily tevila before davening. If a proper eruv is placed on the lakefront of the cottage and the eruv of the property covers some of the lake area too (it w ....
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Posted 7/24/2019 4:57 PM |
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