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#5191 Block the Black Market Day?
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- Q. Is one allowed to benefit from the sales offered on Black Market Day, as it seems to be a religious holiday? Can a store owner offer such a sale and advertise for it?
A. In our days, Black Friday is global, with Canadians and Europeans joining the deal frenzy. It's considered the unofficial start of holiday shopping, with many stores offering early openings and deep discounts.
On question 670 and 4552 we wrote:
“Can one take advantage of a sale that is given on a non-Jewish religious holiday or is it as agreeing to the spirit of the celebration? How about on Black Friday?”
To what we answered: “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that seasonal sales do not have religious significance and are only secular business activities. Black Friday could be only a reflection of the economic success expected, as opposed to “being on the red.” Unquestionably, that seems to be the generalized custom today.”
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:10 AM |
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#5190 Always the Right Time
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- Q. Following the Talmud, there are specific hours when one should visit the sick for complying with the Bikur Cholim Mitzva, is that an essential part of this important and necessary mitzva?
A. Aruch Hashulchan (326: 8) rules like the opinion that one should not visit the ill during the first three hours of the day, sinceat that time they feel better and one may refrain from praying properly for their relief.
Similarly one should abstain from visiting on the last three hours, since then the sickness may increase vastly and one may give up and not pray for the patient. However, he adds that the above is only a recommendation and many don’t apply it in our days.
Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that one should be most concerned in our times as to when he can give the greatest benefit and aid to the ill, regardless of the above hours.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:08 AM |
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#5189 Be Patient and Pray with the Patient
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- Q. Some more questions on Bikur Cholim. We know that an important part of this mitzva is to pray for the patient. Should the choleh listen to the Tefila and answer Amen?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that he may do so.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:06 AM |
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#5188 Healthy Ill Visiting
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- Q. Is it permitted for a man to visit an ill woman for Bikur Cholim purposes?
The question is when she is in a private room in a hospital.
A. If the door is kept a bit open so a passerby can see inside the room it is permitted. If the patient wants the door closed, the visitor should ask a nurse to come by and check on the patient constantly, before he enters the room.
See also Aruch HaShulchan, Y.D. 335:11 ; Zekan Aharon 2:76. Tzitz Eliezer, Ramas Rachel 16 quoting Va-ya’an Avraham, Y.D. 5. that explain the needed limitations of proper and morally correct communication between them.
Rav S.Z. Auerbach rules that it is similar to Nichum Aveilim (consolation of mourners), but only to pray for the patient or to tend to their needs, and avoiding lengthy conversations.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:04 AM |
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#5187 A Bikur On Bikur Cholim
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- Q. If one visits a person in a hospital and sees that he is not complying with the basic mitzvos he usually keeps as Tefilin, davening and even saying Shema, and when asked why he replies that the room is dirty by other patients and he himself is also unclean.
Yet, as we know, there are ways to comply with this and other mitzvos in such situations. Is one obliged to call Bikur Cholim or another trained group to intervene and help him? Should one be concerned that the choleh may feel insulted and disrespected?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that an important part of the great Mitzva of Bikur Cholim is having the afflicted comply with all possible mitzvos, when it does not place him in danger on his sickness.
Indeed the Sheloh Hakodosh explains, (vol. 2, Maseches Pesachim, pg. 24.), that great common sense and wisdom is needed to realize what mitzvos, and how and when the ill can comply with them.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:01 AM |
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#5186 Note and Take Note
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- Q, See question above. If one visits a sick person, yet he is not available for visiting, as he may be sleeping or under treatment, did he comply with the mitzva of Bikur Cholim?
How about if he lives a written note with a proper message, does he have to return again?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that if the ill person would benefit from his visit he should return, if not there is no need.
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Posted 11/22/2024 9:59 AM |
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#5185 Call In the Sick?
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- Q. Moreinu Horav Shelita. If someone texts or send an email to a sick friend does he comply with the mitzva of bikur cholim?
A. On a similar question (4049) we wrote:
“Q. Can one comply properly with the mitzva of Bikur Cholim by zooming contact with a patient, either by contacting him by phone or computer. Besides, there is so much time being saved when one does not have to be there in person and therefore so many more people can be visited. Is that not a better option?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is in principle a correct act to do if it makes the patient feel better and it is at least part of the most important mitzva of Bikur Cholim.
However, the Rov added, the proper way to comply with this greatest of mitzvos, is only by personal contact. Firstly, because a most important part of this great deed, is praying for the ill, and the Shechina is present at the head of that particular bed. Additionally, one has to identify and feel the pain and the needs of the ill, to be able to share with and provide true comfort, right advice and the much needed empathy. No zooming can replace the link and relationship created by direct eye contact.
Furthermore, to really give the desired wishes and meaningful brochos for Refuah Shleima, one has to truly feel the pain and suffering of the patient, as if it was one’s own, and for that to be truly achieved, one has to be there. For all the above reasons you truly need to be present”
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Posted 11/17/2024 11:04 AM |
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#5184 Who Are U?
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- Q. Can one invite a guest home, that one is not sure if he is truly Jewish, since his mother is very assimilated?
A. There are many cases of kiruv of assimilated people in which doubts of the true Halacha of Jewish identity are common.
In general, our Rabbis maintain the common proper idea is, that each case is different and there are no real strict rules to follow, yet common sense and correct dedicated consulting each separate case with the proper Rabbonim and experts is the best rule.
One must always remember that Kiruv is a most important and critically vital mitzva for saving many spiritual lives. Experience and reality will teach everyone involved in Kiruv that there are no invariable and exact rules, as many cases of true successful Kiruv for many future generations can testify.
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Posted 11/15/2024 1:21 PM |
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#5183 Honor the Guest?
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Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I have a number of questions concerning Hachnasat Orchim or the mitzva of inviting guest for Shabbat, that is the prevalent in this week’s Parsha of Vaera.
1) Can yo invite a non religious guest that may be traveling on Shabbat to your home?
A. On question 208 we wrote:
Can we invite on Shabbat someone who would be traveling if our intention is to do Kiruv, don’t we always say desecrate one Shabbat so he can keep many?
A. Indeed the Talmud (Yuma 85a,b) mentions in the name of Rabbi Shimon Ben Menasio that rationale as one of the basis for defiling Shabbos to save someone’s life. The Talmud there mentions other sources for this ruling too, the one that is chosen as preferred is Shmuel’s reason: “You shall live by them – and not die by them” (Vaikro 18:5) which does not apply in your case. Whether Rabbi Shimon’s grounds remain viable is subject to dispute in the Poiskim. Moreover, his reason is also subject to a limitation, it does not apply in a case of doubt, as the Talmud explains. Inviting someone for Shabbos is not a guarantee that it will lead to actual Kiruv.
In addition to the above, Mishna Berura (306:57) on the Shulchan Oruch’s case of a captured daughter that is about to be converted, quotes the Poiskim’s ruling that desecrating Shabbos in order to save her applies only if she is not at fault. Otherwise we would rather rule “We don’t tell a person to sin in order to provide merit for someone else”. Whether this applies in your case, depends on the actual circumstances. Mishna Berura, does quote Rabbi Shimon’s reason in regards to saving a minor. (Magen Avraham ibid.)
In practice, Poiskim differ. Many rule that it is not permitted to invite someone who we know will be desecrating Shabbos in order to attend. (Igrois Moishe O.C. 1:99 and 98, Shevet Halevy 8:146, Tzitz Eliezer 6:3 et al.).
However, Teshuvos Vehanhogos (1:358) Bein Ysroel Loamin (13) and Yashiv Ytzchak (O.C. 11) are of the opinion that when the objective is Kiruv, there is also a sincere intent of explaining during that Shabbos the importance and holiness of the day and the parking of the vehicle is not immediate to the house, it is permitted.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that, since each case has its own merits and variables a competent rabbinical authority should be consulted on every occasion.
Please refer also to the prior question #207, on Inviting to a Simcha a relative who would travel by car on Shabbos.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:56 PM |
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#5182 An Everyday Yohrzait
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- Q. Rabbenu Shlit’a. Why do people celebrate the Yohrzait of Rachel Imenu more than any other of the Avot (Patriarchs)? When exactly is the day of the Yohrzait?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that Rachel Imenu cried for her children and was always there for them. That is why her Kever and place of burial is always visited by many thousands and is one of the most known and used holy points for our prayers to Hashem.
Rachel was one of the first and most important prophetesses (Yerushalmi Berachos 9:3). the Talmud teaches that in reward for her care and modesty in giving Leah her signal and not revealing to anyone that she had done so (Rashi ibid.), she merited that King Shaul descended from her (Megillah 13b).
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:25 PM |
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#5181 Popping Only With Corn?
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- Q. Hello Rav, My teenage daughter was asking me if it would be permissible to eat movie theater popcorn.
She has no intention of watching a movie there, and is comfortable with Chalav Stam.She just wants to try the popcorn! We shelter our kids from so many things, so I don't want to just say NO so quickly.
I have heard that you can ask the workers to see the packaging and all the ingredients are able to be identified as kosher chalav stam (oil, salt, popcorn). Additionally, the popcorn machine is only used for popcorn. Since popcorn is not a bishul akum issue, and its safe to say that no non kosher ingredients were used in the last 24 hours, is it safe to say the popcorn would be permissible even if there is a chance that non kosher ingredients may have been used in the past?
Meaning....I don't know what they used in the machine 10 years ago, but since those potentially non kosher ingredients are Eino Ben Yomo and thus would give off a "pagum" taste, it should not pose a kashrut issue. Am I correct? Additionally, is there a Maaris Eyin issue of walking in there to purchase the popcorn or is it similar to walking into a Tim Hortons to buy a coffee? If it was a Maryis Eyin issue...is there any way around that? (ie. go in not looking like fum yid, etc?) Thanks so much.
A. Our Rabbonim maintain that since there are so many different complicated Shailos and doubts in this case, that can easily go wrong, the best you can and should do is just buy her a real nice big bag of kosher certified corn that usually has the same taste as the one she desires or even better.
You could give her another tasty food she likes even more.
It is important you should explain to her the Halacha points and rules and prohibitions involved and why it is so special and important to keep the rules of what Hashem told us makes food great and kosher to eat, and the extraordinary taste one feels when Hashem also enjoys with us the great food he gave us to truly enjoy.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:23 PM |
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#5180 A Peace Sacrificial Offering?
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- Q. Dear Rov: On question 5175 above, you apparently permitted frum people when in need to attend the Kristallnacht anniversary. Is that not a most unusual and uncommon minhag for Bnei Torah?
A. Although commonly Bnei Torah and Yeshiva Bachurim don’t attend such ceremonies, when in need for Sholom Bais and respect to parents, it is permitted.
On a similar question (2165) we wrote:
"Q. I’m a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother to a Yom Hashoah act, that takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very important to them. Should I go?"
To what we answered: "A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if your attendance is indeed of great importance to your parents and they will be pained if you don’t attend, it is permitted, even during the joyful month of Nisan, when Halacha dictates that avelus, acts of grief and mourning should be avoided.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:19 PM |
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#5179 A Tinfoil Hat?
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- Q. Hello Rav, My family occasionally stays at the home of a frum ashkenaz relative for up to a week. In their home, they have one microwave that they will use for meat and dairy and apparently were told by their Rav that they can use it for any food as long as they cover the food with a paper towel (ie. nothing is really "sealed"). Additionally the bottom plate is not changed, but It did look clean.
In our home we have 2 separate microwaves for meat and daily and I've always understood that 2 separate microwaves are ideal, and that using one microwave would require either kashering in between (for those who agree to that) or fully sealing at least one of the food types (meat or dairy).
I've also see Rav Heinemen's shilta opinion that if you are just warming the food up briefly so that the walls of the microwave won't get to Yad Soledet Bo, then you could be lenient to put any food in uncovered if the mircrowave is fully cleaned. When we are visiting this family, we try to not bring up our halachic differences too much as it makes everyone very uncomfortable.
However, there are times when we would like to use a microwave. Is there any room for this leniency they are holding by? Should I rely on it as use the microwave the same way they do or should I just avoid the microwave or wrap the food well? Would the psak apply to my children? Any differences for us sephardim? Thanks!
A. Our
Rabbonim maintain that in
similar oven shailos it
is proper to just wrap the food in foil paper as is often done
anyway, and it will not cause any insult or inconvenience.
When
using a microwave the same effect could be attained by wrapping with
a similar high themp wrap. The
Saran Brands website states their brand name wrap can be microwaved. Horav
Shlomo Miller”s Slit”a opinion
is similar.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:14 PM |
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#5178 Early and Bright?
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- Q. (See above question). How important is it then to make the great effort and wake up so early to daven then?
A. Poskim write that as valuable and important praying with the Netz is, if it would interfere with the crucial intention of prayer or the learning and teaching of Torah and other important mitzvos and endeavors one has to do in the day, one should not sacrifice for it.
Piskei Teshuvos (58: 6) he also mentions that many Gedolim and great men, likely for that reason, did not keep the attending to a Vesikin minyan.
Horav Shlomo Miller”s Slit”a opimiom is similar.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:11 PM |
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#5177 Everything is Under the Sun
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- Q. A choshuve (important) Marbitz Torah in Toronto told me that the main reason for davening K'Vasikin in the morning is in order to praise HaShem for the benefits of the sun. Does the Rav know on what that is based?
A. Although, I did some research, I didn’t specifically find anything that connotes that to be the main reason for praying at that time. Yet it may be included in all the blessings and thanks we give Hashem always for giving us life in a new day, including all the many, many benefits and great blessings and goodness He grants.
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:08 PM |
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#5176 At Hashem’s Earliest Convenience
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- Q. Dear Rabbi, What are the benefits of davening early Vasikin, (when the sun rises) and how much effort should one do for it?
A. “Tefilas Vasikin” in the Ashkenzi tradition, refers to the very early morning prayer of Shacharis. This early morning minyan is also called “netz”, an abbreviation of “Hanetz HaChama” which means the sunrise.
Talmud (Berachos 26a) answers a contradiction to the Mishna there saying that this baraisa does not establish a binding halacha. Rather, it taught that rule specifically with regard to those who are scrupulous in fulfillment of mitzvot [vasikin]. As Rabbi Yoḥanan said: Vasikin would finish reciting the morning Shema with sunrise, but those who are not vasikin may recite their prayers later.
Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 58: 1) mentions that the one that can venture to end the reading of the Shema and its blessings right at that time, and can exactly then begin the Amida, his reward is very great. Mishna Berura (ibid. 8) quoting Beis Yosef in Rabeinu Yona’s name, that he is promised to be a designated receiver for the “Olam Haba’a” (The Future World to Come).
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Posted 11/15/2024 12:06 PM |
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#5175 – Kristallnacht Clear?
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Q. Dear Rov. Some members of my family keep in their shul the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" on Nov 10. They have invited me to attend with them. Is there an issue in Halacha on going?
A. Kristallnacht is the anniversary of the "Night of Broken Glass" that took place on November 9–10, 1938.
As P.M. Netanyahu recently mentioned: “It was a Nazi pogrom that marked a turning point in the escalating persecution of Jews that eventually led to the murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust.”
Poskim don’t mention much of this anniversary in Halacha. Yet the reality is that in many Yeshivot and Kolelelim it isn’t kept and no restrictions are placed on performing Semachos as weddings etc. in these days. It also does not usually have those restrictions in non- religious institutions.
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Posted 11/10/2024 11:16 AM |
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#5174 Collect one’s Thoughts on Collect
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- Q. Can I send a collection agency after a Jew who didn't pay their bill of $6K.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that it is permitted when in need.
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:26 PM |
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#5173 Some More AI-Vey
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu. If someone was informed by an AI service email, that is part of a mortuary institution of the death of a close friend, should he already then make the bracha of Dayan Emeth?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that he should double check first directly with the people of the Chevra Kadisha or similar, before reciting a brocho.
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:20 PM |
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#5172 Wash and Dry and…
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Q. Can one use a tissue paper towel or a napkin used for drying ones hands after washing for a Shabbat meal, to further clean and dry hands, mouth or nose, during the meal, when it still is wet and it may involve prohibited Sechita or squeezing?
A. Poskim usually rule leniently on the use of disposable napkins and tissues, since they are not reusable and one does not benefit and care for the prohibited s’chita or squeezing. (Igrois Moishe O.H. 2: 70, and others).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:17 PM |
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