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# 2394 A Guest For a Rainy Day
Q. If one was invited on Sukkos and when he arrives the family are eating in the house since at the time they started their meal it was raining, but now (when the guest arrives) it is perfectly clear, what should the guest do? Should he demand that they serve him in the sukkah, even though the Torah does not obligate them to go back to the sukkah?

A. Mishna Berura (639: 38) indeed rules that once they have started eating inside the house due to the rain, they don't have to return to the sukka when the rain stops.
Although, the host may decide to return to the sukka in honor of his guest, the guest cannot demand he should do so. He may also instead just drink and eat fruits or foods that don't require a sukka.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that this case may be similar to travelers, that in need are exempt from eating and sleeping in the sukka, as they qualify to be called "mitztaer" or pained and hurt by having to find one.

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# 2393 Good Will or Asleep at the Wheel?
Q. A mashgiach caught a few times daydreaming and being lax in his supervision of a shul's kitchen was re-accepted if he would keep a number of takanot and improvements, such as being always on time and alert, making the rounds, being also from the first ten at the minyan and attending daily a shiur of Halacha. Since it is difficult to ascertain if he is daydreaming or alert, will the fact that he keeps the rest of the accepted improvements enough to keep him in his position?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that indeed, certainly in principle, the fact that he has kept well the accepted takanot and improvements shows that he likely has changed his behavior in general, and it is a good sign of betterment and advance.
However, when dealing with kashruth, the issues may be more complex and a competent Rov familiar with the installation and the particular problems involved should be consulted.

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# 2392 Doing The Honors
Q. If one could not comply with this mitzva (Kabbolas Pnei Horav - visiting or calling on one's Rov during a Chag - see question 2391 above), during Yom Tov, can one do so on Isru Chag (the day after Yom Tov)?

A. Poskim disagree when a Rov visits Eretz Yisroel, if a local talmid that only keeps one day of Yom Tov and is now celebrating Isru Chag, should call on his Rov that keeps two days. Betzel Hachochma maintains he should, while Beer Moshe writes he does not have to.
In the opposite case. when the Rov celebrates Yisru Chag, and the talmid is still on Yom Tov, Beer Moshe maintains he is exempt while Betzel Hachochma, Teshuvos Vehanhogos, and R"Ch Kanievsky Shlit'a opine he could. (See Taarich Yisroel p. 820).
Moreover, Moadim Uzemanim (4: 317) opines that there is tashlumin (repayment) for seven days after Yom Tov for this mitzva too. (See Piskei Teshuvos 494: 9).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the tashlumim may apply only on Shavuos. (as the Moadim Uzemanim also mentions). However, other inyonim and issues such as Kavod Hatorah,
honoring and learning it, may also apply on Isru Chag.

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# 2391 In Respect to Paying Respect
Q. Can one comply with the mitzva of Kabbolas Pnei Horav (visiting or calling on one's Rov during a Chag) by calling on the phone during Chol Hamoed, when it was difficult to visit personally?

A. Poskim disagree whether the mitzva of Kabbolas Pnei Horav Baregel is Biblical (Sdei Chemed - Cheis: 100, quoting Bnei Yehuda) or Rabbinical (Shaar Efraim 38 and others).
They also disagree whether it applies in our days. Shulchan Aruch omits it. Noda Beyehuda (2: O.H. 4) maintains that it does not. Orchos Rabbenu also asserts that it refers only to Rabo Mubak or prime teacher and in our times we learn mostly from seforim.
However, Yaaros Devash (1: 12), Kabo Dekushyiso (81) and others opine that it does apply.
Halichos Chaim (2: p. 100) quoting R"Ch Kanievsky Shlit'a is of the opinion that you do not comply by calling on the phone.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in principle we follow the opinion of the Noda Beyehuda (ibid.), however there are other "inyonim" and important issues involved such as Kavod Hatorah, honoring and learning it; and these can be complied with even in our days and even by calling in.
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# 2390 The Shade of Honor
Q. Re- above question 2389. Would the Rov permit the use of a sukka as a family room or a toy room, where children play and rejoice together?

A. As in the above question, the Rov's opinion is that great decorum, honor and respect has to be maintained in a sukka where the presence of the Shechina is manifest and received. (Horav Dovid Pam Shlit'a mentioned that a good way to measure what is proper in a suka. is by thinking if the invited Ushpizin (the Patriarchs) would feel honored and comfortable visiting it).

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# 2389 Swimming in the Sukka?
Q. We enjoy warm climate during sukkos and we spend a good time at the pool and at our hot tub during chol hamoed. Since we are all dressed properly for swimming, would it be correct to build a suka covered with palm leaves and with side curtain walls on top of the pool or tub, so we can comply with this important mitzva for hours? I have seen many Bnei Torah learn a sefer, wear tzitzis and recite brochos while at the (separated) pools and beaches of kosher hotels. Why should this mitzva be any different?

A. On question1076 regarding reciting brochos and learning Torah while sunbathing at a separate beach or swimming pool area, when just wearing a bathing suit and having the head covered, we wrote: "Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 74: 6) rules that for the sake of reciting the shema it suffices if one covers downwards from his loins. Therefore if one also covers his head in principle he can recite brochos and learn Torah while wearing only a bathing-suit. However, Mishna Berura (ibid. 22) rules that this is only when in need. On the onset, one should wear a robe or cover with a towel, when making a brocho and certainly when reading the shema. One should also be careful to wash and maintain the hands clean when reciting the brocho, since touching body parts that are usually covered renders them unfit.
In regards to learning Torah or reading Torah related material while sunbathing and being dressed only in a bathing-suit and wearing a kipa, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that for learning Torah when in need, you don’t have to cover completely."
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that although, if one would eat or spend time there, one would indeed comply with this mitzva, however, in regard to the mitzva of Sukkos that is called "Tziloh Demeheimenusso," or seating at the shade of the Shechina, and requires great respect and devotion, the Rov maintains that it is improper to do so in the above circumstances.

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# 2388 To Learn or To Dance?
Q. Can a group that learns the daf daily do so during lengthy hakofes on Simchas Torah, after having had their hakofe, if the shiur is held in a separate room?

A. On question 1473 regarding learning during hakafos we wrote: "Mishna Berura (669: 11) conveys the great importance and significance of dancing, singing and rejoicing with the Torah when honoring the Torah is required, as it is mentioned when Dovid Hamelech conduced the Aron Hakodesh to Yerushalaim (Shmuel 2: 6: 14) “Dovid danced with all his might before Hashem.” He quotes that the Arizal would say, he merited to the most elevated spiritual heights only because he rejoiced and danced with the Torah. Similarly, the Gaon of Vilna zt”l would place all of his effort when dancing and rejoicing on Simchas Torah. The Rambam (end of H. Lulav) also describes amply the great obligation one has to rejoice and dance with the Torah.
Haelef Lecha Shlomo (37), rules that it is prohibited for someone to decline or reject being given an hakkafa, as it is akin to refusing to take an aliya, when one is called to the reading of the Torah. (See Brachos 55a, that such behavior shortens one's life time).
However, Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that once one has complied with the above, and it is difficult for him to continue, he should definitely rather learn, than just squander time."
The Rov maintains that this is certainly more correct when one is dealing with the Talmud Torah of rabbim or many as in a daf shiur.

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# 2387 If it Ain't Broke...

Q. A Sefer Torah that is constantly read on Parshas Pinchas and was found to have at least three letters where the ink cracked and fell turning the Sefer pasul, can you just fix the letters erased on that parsha or do you have to check now the complete Sefer Torah?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the Sefer was used mainly to be read on Yom Tov or similar occasions when we read Parshas Pinchas, it is likely that the extended use of that particular parsha created the problem and the rest of the Sefer does not have to be checked, if there was no information that other locations have been affected. However, Parshas Pinchas and other neighboring areas that could have been damaged by the extended use, should be inspected and fixed properly.

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#2386 Asking About Asking
Q. Can one enter the unlocked suka of a friendly neighbor built on his front yard, without his knowledge (he is not home), to eat one's own food and leaving everything as clean as it was?

A. Remah (O.H. 627: 3) rules that on the onset, one should not enter the sukka of a friend without his permission. Mishna Berura (ibid. 9) maintains that one may enter if he knows that the owner is not present and will not be arriving while he uses the sukka, and be disturbed by his presence. This permission is based on the principle that a person agrees that a mitzva should be performed with his property, as long as there is no loss (see question 1559).
Kaf Chachaim (ibid. 15) asserts that if the suka is well decorated and contains chairs with pillows and fresh tablecloths, one should not enter without asking permission.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is similar in case of need.

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# 2385 Pictures Worth Some Words
Q. My siblings want to interchange some family pictures from our grandfathers that we place as decorations in our sukkos. (We give them ours and take theirs). Is that permitted during Chol Hamoed?

A. Poskim disagree if one can remove from the sukka decorations that will not be used anymore during sukkos, without any need or reason. (Shoel Umeshiv 3: 28, Lehoros Nossan 7: 48-49).
However, they permit placing them in another sukka (Tzitz Eliezer 13: 67, see Piskei Teshuvos 638: 6).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is similar.

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# 2384 A Cloud With a Silver Lining
Q. I have learned that the Ananei Kavod would launder and press the clothing of the Bnai Yisroel while on the desert, how could then they exit their tents and go to the Mishkan on Shabbath?

A. Rashi on the posuk (Devarim 8: 4) " Simloscho - Your clothing did not wear out upon you," quotes the Pesikta that teaches: "The clouds of honor would rub their clothes and clean them so that they looked freshly laundered."
Ohr Hatorah (Eikev p. 364) mentions that during their forty-year stay in the desert, the people did not change their clothing at all, even for Shabbos, since the ananei kavod would make them look like new constantly. It is possible that this did not occur during Shabbos, similar to the mon that did not descend on that day.(Both are mentioned in adjoining psukim).
On question 316 regarding drinking from Miriam’s well on Shabbos, in which a Midrash teaches that water did not constantly flow from the well, as it only came when people came close to it. If so should it not be prohibited on Shabbat as it would be similar to a motion detector
To what we answered: It is difficult to envision what would be the Biblically prohibited melocho involved when making the water flow. Even if there is one, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a explained that anything that works by the powers of a miracle is not included in the prohibitions of Shabbos. (Horav Dovid Pam Shlit'a added that the effects of the Ananei Kavod may not be subject to going out of one's tent at all).

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# 2383 Vital Concentration
Q. (Re - question 2382.)  Are the above intentions essential? If someone did not have kavana on the ananei kavod, did he not comply with the mitzva and has to repeat eating with a new bracha?

A. Mishna Berura (625: 1) rules that one should intent while performing the mitzva of sukka that we exited the slavery of Mitzraim and merited the Ananei Kavod. However, these kavonos are only for performing the mitzva properly and correctly. Nonetheless, if one did not have those intentions in his mind, he still complies after the fact with the mitzva, as long that he intended to perform one.
Other Poskim disagree and maintain that without the added intention required by the posuk "lemaan Yedu," one does not comply with the mitzva and should repeat it. (Bach 625 and 8, Bikurei Yaakov 625: 3, Beis Yitzchok Y.D. 2: 168, Moed Lekol Chai 20, and others).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is similar to the Mishna Berura.

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# 2382 Paying Undivided Attention
Q. In regard to the intention needed when sitting in the sukka , should one preferably have both kavanot together, clouds of honor and real sukkot, in his mind at the same time? or maybe they are contrary and oppose each other?

A. P'ri Megodim (M"Z 625) maintains that one can focus and concentrate on both intentions at the same time as they are not mutually exclusive.
Chassam Soffer (Droshos 1: p. 55) quotes from Chayei Adam that they were indeed both types of sukkos present while in the desert. For those in a higher spiritual state the ananei kavod was their main abode. For those who were expelled from the machane and had to camp outside of the protection of the honor clouds, they had to build their own material sukkos. (See Piskei Teshuvos 625 : 1: n.3).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the main kavana should be on the ananei kavod as is the opinion of Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 625: 1). However one may preferably concentrate on the real sukkos too.

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#2381 With the Best of Intentions
Q. Since intention is a very important part of any mitzva, what is the right kavanah that one should have when making the bracha on the sukka? the intention to remember the Ananei Kavod (clouds of honor) or the material sukot that the nation constructed when exiting Mitzraim?

A. Talmud Sukka (11b), mentions a disagreement between Rabi Eliezer and Rabi Akiva as to what the posuk “I made the children of Yisroel reside in sukkos” (Vayikra 23: 43), is referring to. Rabi Eliezer maintains that they were clouds of honor, while Rabi Akiva opines they were actual common sukkos.
Shulchan Aruch (625: 1) rules that they were clouds of honor that protected the nation from the heat of the sun. So also do Rashi and Ramban. Since we usually follow the opinion of Rabi Akiva in a disagreement with Rabi Eliezer, Bach explains that they follow the translation of the Targum.
However, P'ri Megodim (M"Z ibid), quotes Rashbam who rules like Rabi Akiva. While Birkei Yosef mentions that there is a variant version of the Talmud that reverses the names of the opinions quoted.

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# 2380 Spitting Image of a Spit In?
Q. Is it really correct that Horav Shlomo said in a shiur that one may store and save his saliva for use during Yom Kippur to swallow necessary medical pills?

A. Mishna Berura (567: 13), quotes Magen Avrohom that it is permitted to swallow our owns saliva, even though we rule that it is not permitted to drink even liquids that are not fit to drink, swallowing saliva is different, since the intention is not for drinking at all.
Bach (612). cites different opinions regarding how much saliva is one allowed to swallow in Yom Kippur. Chayei Adam (132: 22) and Mateh Ephraim (ibid. 22) maintain that on the onset one should preferably avoid swallowing saliva that has accumulated in the mouth.
Moadim Uzemanim (1: 59) mentions that Hagra'ch Soloveitchik and the Brisker Rov zt'l were extremely careful not to swallow their own saliva when it accumulated during Yom Kippur.
However, many Poskim are lenient and maintain that this is not the accepted tradition. (Beis Meir, Eishel Avrohom Butchatch; 613. Aruch Hasulchan ibid. 4, Piskei Teshuvos 567: 2). Excepting, when particles of food are still in one's mouth. at the beginning of the taanis.
Moadim Uzemanim (ibid.), adds that on Yom Kippur, one should not intentionally accumulate saliva in one's mouth and then swallow it.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that when in need for swallowing necessary pills, it is permitted to store one's saliva even in a cup and save it for use during Yom Kippur.

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# 2379 If You Can't Beam Them, Join Them?
Q. Can one join two beams with plastic zip ties, to use them when placed across the width of a large Suka,(20 ft.), as a base for the schach? Would it be permissible to join them with bolts?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is permitted since it is considered only a "ma'amid dema'amid" or indirect support of the schach with items that cannot be used for schach (plastic zip ties and bolts). The schach rest on the beams, and the beams are joined by the ties. However, the Rov mentioned, that the opinion of the Chazon Ish is to be stringent even on any number of ma'amidim.
(As far as the holes created on the beams for the bolts, the Rov maintains that it does not disqualify the beams for schach.)
Instead of joining the beams with questionable plastic ties (including their strength safety), one may try using triangular beam placement on the corners of the suka, and then continue joining the rest.

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# 2378 A Late and Lonely Kol Nidrei

Q. I'm a physician that has to be present the night of Yom Kippur at the operation of a patient that may be Jewish. I can't refuse being there since I had already accepted doing it in that afternoon, but the time were changed. I will have to daven that night by myself. Do I say Kol Nidrei? Should I try to find three other people?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that you should try you utmost to be replaced by others, explaining the importance of what keeping Yom Kippur means to you, and that for you it is a practical emergency not to attend.
It it cannot be avoided and you assess that you have to attend because the life of the patient is at risk, you should consult a competent Rabbi as to the details of your attendance.
When you daven later even late at night, you do recite Kol Nidrei by yourself and you do not need the presence of a court of three. You likely already said Hataras Nedarim on the eve of Rosh Hashana.

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# 2377 Tough to Lock Neilah
Q. May one daven Neilah at great length, pronouncing the words with great concentration and adding many requests and supplications, even though this will cause him to miss saying the selichos of Neilah and possibly not to daven Maariv with the minyan?
Or should one rather shorten his supplications in order to participate in selichos and Maariv?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that one may extend his Neilah amida with great concentration and adding many requests and supplications, but he should daven Maariv with a minyan.

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# 2376 Stop The Music
Q. There is a type of music called EDM which is music made by a computer with no words. This type of music generally has a very fast and exciting beat. In the goyish world, this type of music is generally used in very hefker settings, to say the least. What is the halacha (lechatchila) of a yid listening to goyish electronic music with no words? Does the halacha change if it is being used to help one exercise?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that one should stay away from this type of music, since it represents, implies and reflects very negative issues and images.

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# 2375 Respect to Your Pay
Q. One who is being paid to daven with a certain minyan and one day he came but there was no minyan (they didn't have ten people), does he get paid for that day?
What if the doors of the shul were locked until 30 minutes after the scheduled starting time - at what point does one have the right to say that he will not wait any longer for them to open up the shul and will daven elsewhere? And if he decides to daven elsewhere, does he get paid for coming?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the paid mispalel showed up but there was no minyan, he does get paid for that day, unless it was specified otherwise.
The Rov also maintains that a half an hour is a reasonable time lapse, (as it is the time davening can take) for not having to wait more and being paid, unless specified otherwise.

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