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# 4668 Torah about Learning Torah
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Q. See question above. How about when one learns Torah. Is it every word one says or thinks or maybe even letters a separate mtzvah that requires intention?
A. Birchas Shmuel, (Kiddushin, 27) questions the known Gaon of Vilna affirmation that the mitzvah to learn Torah has no minimum by drawing an analogy to the mitzvah to wear tzitzis. And explains that as one would not describe the mitzvah of tzitzis as “without a minimum,” but rather an entirely new and complete mitzvah is generated with the arrival of each new moment, the same should be true of the mitzvah to study Torah.
Horav Boruch Ber Zt’l, further explains that in reality no new and separate obligation to learn is generated each moment; rather, there is just one mitzvah and it is to constantly learn Torah.
As mentioned in last question, once intention was established when reciting the brocho for the Torah, it maintains that intention continuously.
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Posted 2/18/2024 12:16 PM |
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# 4667 - So, So, Many Mitzvos!!!
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Q. When someone wears Tzitzith, either a Taalith Gadol or Kattan, does he comply with a separate mitzva every second or even a fraction of a second he is wearing it? That would be about 86400 mitzvoth every day! How about if he wears two?
Does the same apply to Tefilin during day time? Does it apply to each Mezuza day and night?
Since Halacha rules that Mitzvot Deuraitah (Biblical Mitzvos written in the Torah) require intention to comply with them does one have to keep his intention and mind to comply with them constantly?
A. Our Rabbonim Shlit’a are of the opinion that as long as one had intention at the beginning of his compliance with the mitzva and that is likely when the brocho was recited, what follows, is accepted as being done withe the same intention.
The above follows the principle of “Kol Haosseh Al Daas Rishono Hu Oisseh” (whoever performs a Mitzva, does it following the initial intention). See Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 60: 4,5 – Mishna Berura 10).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is similar.
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:08 AM |
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# 4666 A Hint on the Drop
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Q. Is the fluid that drips from the nose of some elderly considered like the mucous from ones nose that requires washing of hands when one touches it before one can recite brochos and learn Torah?
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit”a pointed to the Remah Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 92: 7) that prohibits touching the dirty (tzoas) secretions from the nose or ears while a person is davening or learning Torah.
However Mishna Berura (ibid 30) quotes that Hagr’a is lenient and so does Shaarei Teshuva in the name of Mor Uketzia.
One must add that the fluid described is different from the regular mucous inside the nose, as will be b’n iy’H explained.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:05 AM |
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# 4665 The Signs of Times
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Q. If ones tradition is to hang a sign by the door that expresses our mitzva of rejoicing during the month of Adar. (Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha). Should one use it to cover the memorial on the entrance for the destruction of the Beth Hamikdash, (Zecher Lechurban) since that one brings sadness and mourning?
A. Indeed, Yalkut Avrohom (686) mentions that there is wide kept tradition for some to place during Adar a sign at our homes or other locations where people meet, to remind us of the great importance and mitzva of rejoicing even during the month of Adar Rishon (see question 473). See also Nitei Gavriel (begining of H. Purim).
However, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it does not contradict or negate the Churban Beis Hamikdash at all, as we see in many our tefilos of Yomim Tovim when we also mention the destruction and great hope for the prompt rebuilding of our most Holy Temple. We can address both realities at the same time.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:02 AM |
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# 4664 A Doggone Shailah
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Q. I heard that in a kibbutz woman was killed by Hamas during the Oct 7, when she stayed behind to protect their dog. The rest of the family was already hiding in a safe room and survived.
In Halacha. is that woman to be treated as a hero and given proper burial with all the details or should she be considered as suicidal and buried in the special section of the cemetery kept for them?
A. Our Rabbonim Shlit’a maintain that if the story is true, although it was a wrong decision, it is not considered a suicide. It is similar to one speeding and loosing life involuntarily in a car accident.
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Posted 2/14/2024 10:37 PM |
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# 4663 The Adar Radar
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Q. Shalom Rav Shlit’’a. As we spoke on the phone we are starting a new minyan in a new town in the outskirts of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) and we need and have our own Chevra Kadisha to take care of Hashem Yishmor our deceased. We want to use the Zain Adar date (Seventh of Adar) as a date to establish our new Chevra Kadisha. First is it recommended? Then should it be the first or the second Adar?
A. On question 996 and 3548, regarding when is the yortzait of Moishe Rabeinu and when does the Chevra Kadisha make their seuda this year with double Adar, we wrote: “Remoh (O.H. 568: 7) quoting Maharil and Mahari Mintz, rules that in regards to a common yortzait, the custom is to fast on the first Adar.
However, Bais Yisroel (92) maintains that the yortzait of Moshe Rabeinu is observed on the second Adar. His reasoning is based on Talmud (Meggila 13b) that relates the miracle of Purim to the yortzait of Moshe Rabeinu and since Purim is celebrated on the second Adar so is his yortzait.
Hilchos K'tanos (2: 173) also maintains that it is kept on the second Adar since our sages teach that, Hashem fulfills the years of the just until the last day (Rosh Hashana 11a), if the year he past away was a leap year, it would have occurred on the second Adar. (See also Yaaros D'vash 2 p. 140 and Shilas Yavetz 1: 117))
Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a pointed out, that although it is custom for the chevra kadisha societies to fast and commemorate their traditional seudah on the seventh day of second Adar, Mishna Berura (580; 15) mentions that the fasting for Moshe Rabeinu's yortzait is on the first Adar."
Indeed, Imrei Pinchas (p.130) elucidates that Zain Adar should be commemorated on the first Adar, since it then coincides with Parshas Tetzave. As the Ba’al Haturim explains that Moshe Rabbenu’s name was omitted to comply with the “Erase me from Your sefer” dictum.
However, many Poskim maintain that Adar Sheni is main (Sheilas Yavetz 1: 117 quoting his father the Chacham Tzvi, Chasam Sofer O.H. 163, Melamed Lehoil 113,2, et. al.) Nitey Gavriel (Purim 13: 4) writes that some observe both dates.
There is a further disagreement of our sages as to when Moshe Rabbenu was niftar. If it was a year with two Adars and in which of the two was his petirah. (Yalkut Yehoshua ch. 5) as there is also a disagreement when he was born (Sota 12b.) There are also different opinions as to if he passed away on the same Adar he was born. (Hilchos K’tanos 2: 173, Ya’aros Devash 2: p. 140).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit”a opinion is that in principle each Chevra Kadisha should consult with the competent Rabbi in charge of the group and follow his opinion. When that is not an option, they should follow the already established minhag they have. If it is a newly created Chevra, they should follow the tradition of the majority of the established chevros in the city”
Horav Aharon Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is indeed better, when there is no established Minhag to keep the Second Adar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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Posted 2/12/2024 1:24 PM |
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# 4662 Urim on Purim
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Q. Dear Rabino Purim Katan Is coming, is there something we should do to celebrate this precious day?
A. See question 3560 regarding a group of friends that make a Seudas Purim Koton is it considered a Seudas Mitzva that one invited should attend?
To what we answered: Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if the participants say Divrei Torah and sing songs of prize to Hashem for the miracles of survival received as it should be, it becomes a Seudas Mitzva.
We have received a number of interesting Shailos that IyH b'n we will answer and revise when Horav Shlomo Miller Shlita returns.
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Posted 2/9/2024 10:49 AM |
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# 4661 See Beyond your Nose
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Q. Is the fluid that emerges from a runny nose from elderly people considered like mucous and one has to wash hands when touching it?
A. Remoh (O.H. 92: 3) rules that one should wash hands after to be able to recite sayings of kedusha and learn Torah.
However. Mishna Berura (ibid 30) quotes the Vilna Gaon, Shaarei Teshuva and Mor Uketzia, who rule leniently.
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:43 PM |
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# 4660 Hint the Lint
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Q. See question above. Also, could I clean out the lint trap as that is my custom as I tend to forget when I put a load in or is that stuff muktza?
A. The lint is indeed muktza and should not be removed or cleaned during Shabbos.
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:41 PM |
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# 4659 Do Not Call it a Wash!
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Q. I’m (a single woman that) was staying in my friend's place and came home two hours before Shabbos to a lay on the bed. I put everything in the laundry but forgot to take it out of the dryer before I lit the candles. I know it was dry because I had checked it earlier and it was almost dry so it just needed a few minutes longer to be completely dry
I had covered the bed with a random sheet but there was no other linen to put on the bed. Was I allowed to take the sheets out of the dryer and finish making the bed? Does it matter if it was just after candle lighting or hours later? It's not an electronic dryer. It's an old one that doesn't even have a working light.
A. On the onset, one should not leave clothes drying in a dryer once Shabbos has started since one is not allowed to have a noisy appliance run in his home during Shabbos; Igrois Moshe, O.H. 5:22-38, based on Rama, O.H. 252:6.
However, removing the clothes from the drier may be problematic since the dyer itself is muktza. Yet, Poskim permit to open the dryers door as long as no light turns off or on. (Igrois Moishe ibid.). It is better to do it with a Shinui (different way) such as using the back of one’s hand
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:34 PM |
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# 4658- It is all for Free!
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Q. Thanks again for all your great and short answers, but Rov is not free of me yet! How wet does the garment really have to be when Shabbos begins in order to remain muktza for the rest of Shabbos?
A. “Wet” means actually soaking wet; if it was only damp, it may be worn or moved; (Remo O.H. 302:9).
However, If the cloth is only partially wet, it is still considered wet as long as the wet part constitutes an important part of the garment (Shemiras Shabbos K’hilchoso 15:17, note 50).
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:31 PM |
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# 4657 –Laundry List
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Q. Thank you Rov Shlit’a, sorry to bother you again, it is still me and more in the list. I don’t understand. why is wet laundry muktza and yet the wet towels that one can still use when washing hands before a Shabbos meal are not?
A. Rema (O.H. 301: 46) rules that wet laundry is muktza since it is likely that one may forget Shabbos and wring it out to have it dry sooner.
However, towels or rags that are designed to absorb moisture are not, since that is their usual state to be partially wet (Mishna Berura (ibid 175 and others)
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:27 PM |
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4656 Washing Laundry in Public! A Shailah
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. If my most dearest wife left a piece of my washed needed wet laundry to dry hanging indoors in the bathroom at the start of last Shabbos, could i have used it when it dried as expected during the night?
A. In principle any item which became muktza during the very beginning of Shabbos remains muktza for the entire Shabbos, even if the reason for which it became muktza originally no longer extant. Some contemporary Poskim therefore rule, that a garment that was soaking wet during Bein Hashmoshos (twilight) remains muktza for the remainder of Shabbos, even if it has completely dried by some point later on Shabbos.
However, HoRav Moishe Feinstein Zt’l permits if it was indeed expected to dry and was hanged indoors with that intention.(quoted by Tiltulei Shabbos (36) and other Poskim.
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:24 PM |
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# 4655 - A Great Minor Embarrassment?
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Q. Our kids were acting up in a carpool. I finally lost my temper and said something to the ringleader in front of the other kids. I tried to apologize the next day but he would not talk to me. What should I do?
A. There are many factors to be considered. It really depends on what and how you said it, also if it was somehow necessary. Other factors are the age and the relationship between the kids.
There are also Halacha issues in reference to the prohibitions involved when embarrassing a minor.
It is most often advisable to wait until temper settles and the mode changes. You may ask one of his friends to give over a message. Or even a small gift of candies can work wonders.
It is most correct, if necessary, to consult another friendly parent or teacher, that is familiar with the kid and his group.
Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a added that when the kid becomes Bar Mitzva and is of age for giving proper Mechila, one should ask forgiveness again.
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Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:18 PM |
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# 4654 Room For Compromise?
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Q. I’m a Frum woman that has a Jewish girlfriend, and she has a Jewish male tenant who lives in her house. Would it be Yichud for me to sleep over in her home on Shabbos? She is divorced so there is no husband in the picture and she's also an empty nester so no kids around either. I know it's yichud for her but she doesn't really care. Is it permitted for me to stay in that home overnight during Shabbos?
A. In principle there is a Yichud (unethical seclusion prohibition) between one man and two women.
On question 1688 regarding a shidduch date and the prospective Chosson came to the apartment, the mother of the young lady was present, as were her two daughters. However, her husband was at work. We wrote: “See Shulchan Aruch (E.H. 22: 15) and in the Poskim therein as to how many women are required to avoid a yichud prohibition.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if there are two present besides the proposed Kalah there is no yichud. Otherwise, the home door should be left unlocked or the meeting should take place in a room with an uncovered window facing the street. If the husband is out of town, a neighbor should be asked to check on the home. An inside security camera could also be set.
He also strongly suggested installing video-surveillance (a recording machine) as advised on question 346.
In your particular case you may add that surveillance on your own phone, after asking permission from your host.
See also question 974 regarding a two bedroom apartment, if a man and women can share the bathroom and kitchen while each lives in a separate private room with locks on door? What if there are more tenants? Would a security camera make a difference?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that sharing an apartment in the particular setting you describe is not a good idea as it can easily lead to the yichud prohibition of seclusion and then promiscuity, even if more people reside in the co-ed flat.
In question 346, Horav Miller recommended adding a security camera for office employees or for an elderly patient left alone with the female care-giver in question # 828 to avoid yichud.
We there mentioned that Horav Nissim Karelitz Shlit'a (quoted in Moriah-Elul 5771 p.146) maintains that security cameras are to be regarded as an open door to the street in regards to the yichud prohibition, which the Noda Beyihuda (E.H. 71) permits. He mentions that they do not have to be scrutinized on real time, as long as there is a possibility that the tape (or digital recording) could later be seen, and it is therefore an effective deterrent.
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Posted 2/7/2024 4:34 PM |
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# 4653 This Week Reading Three Parshios? Really!!!
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Q.I heard in Shul during this last Shaleshudes that this year (2024) we will be reading actually on Mishpatim three different parshios. Is that really true?
A. On question 1618 we nmentioned the following: "My Zaidy asked me this week the following: "Sefer HaChinuch offers a most surprisingly unusual presentation of our parsha this week. He astonishingly divides Mishpatim into two different parshios. (According to him there are 12 Sedres in Chumash Shemos, instead of our accepted only 11). The first Sedra he also calls Mishpatim. The second one he calls Im Kesef and begins at that posuk (23: 24). Why was this most unusual division necessary?
Furthermore, the most essential Mitzva of telling the truth which is so fundamental to all Mishpatim, appears in the added second sedra. Why should it be delayed until then?
A surprising Midrash (Shemos Rabbah 15) connects the beginning of our Parsha to the pasuk: 'Hashem, give Your judgments to the king' (Tehilim 72: 1). What is the intention and purpose of this teaching?
Moriy Verabi Horav Leib Gurvicz Zt'l explains quoting his father in law Q. Mori Verabi Horav Eliahu Lopian Zt'l that there are two distinct ways how Mishpatim or laws are given and carried out. The first and more common one is the judgments and legal dictums determined by the Sanhedrin or a proper Beis Din. These are based on Torah and Halacha jurisprudence and monetary laws, many of which appear in the first part of Mishpatim.
The second part represents mitzvos and laws that in special occasions can temporarily be changed, as is the power of a king. (He presents the story of King David and Natan Hanavi as an example.) As R' A. Mileevsky well figured the gematriya. Hamishpatim = 484 = Shofat Hamelech.
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Posted 2/4/2024 1:32 PM |
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# 4652 We Must Really Truly Be in Love!
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Q. I have always really wondered. Where is there in our Holy Torah mentioned a Mitzva of loving our Torah itself?
I have looked and searched widely and never yet found a source for it.
How can that really be!!!
A.Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is the same as the love to Hashem that is widely mentioned many times.
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Posted 2/2/2024 11:18 AM |
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# 4651 The Right Feelings
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Q. When recently I was travelling a relative short Europe trip. Then our flight was cancelled and was stuck in a real foreign airport for a full day. Since I had expected to return home at night, I didn’t take my Tefillin with me. Now I faced a day without punting on Tefillin, something that since Bar Mitzva, I never did.
I saw a youngish fellow wearing a small ‘Kipah Serugah’ (woven kapel), and I asked him if he had with him a pair of Tefilin I could borrow. And surprise, surprise! He did. I asked him if i could borrow them, and agreed with a nice smile.
And then to my bad luck, I realized that the Tefilin were certainly not kosher, they were truly made of some plastic material. Since, there was no other option I wore them anyway, obviously without a brocho. I also told the owner to get a new pair and offered a contribution.
My shaila is did I do the right thing on wearing that posul (non kosher) pair of tefilin, was that better than nothing?
A. Talmud (Sukah 31b) teaches that if someone does not have an Esrog available during Sukos one should not use instead another even similar fruit, just for the sake of keeping the memory and feeling of complying with the unavailable mitzvah. The reason given is that he or others observing him may indeed next year use the non-kosher fruit as he did last year.
However the Ra’aved, Maharshal (5) and others disagree and maintain that even if one does not comply with the mitzvah. One should do as much as he possible can.
P'ri Megodim (673: 10) maintains that the same applies to one that does not have enough oil to light correctly a Chanuka Menorah, he should still light what he actually does have.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that regarding Tefilin one should not use the ones that are certainly not Kosher.
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Posted 2/2/2024 11:02 AM |
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# 4650 Nailing the Coffin?
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Q. Kvod Horav Shlit’a. We recently had in a levaya in Mexico, and as you likely remember when the cadaver is transferred from various different locations to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mexico City, different coffins are used by law. What should be done with the ones already used in transit, but not at the burial?
A. S'ridei Eish (2: !07) deals with a similar question regarding a coffin that was used originally but was in reality too small
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Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a opinion is that since on the outset it was used only for transit temporarily, it could be reused again
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Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:57 AM |
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# 4649 The Maximal Animal
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- Q. See question above. If in any way we can diminish the pain suffered by the animals involved. As by giving them pain killers even when they are costly and time consuming, should it be done?
A. It all depends in the real and practical avoidance of the opportunity to save human lives, when we try instead to save animals from their pain.
Human lives take precedence.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:53 AM |
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