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#5208 Hashem Helps Who Help Themselves?
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- Q. If one is in the middle of the amida and does not remember if he said the right words, can he pray to Hashem to remind him?
A. It would seem logically that it is proper to do so, as other Rabbanim mentioned, however Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a is of the opinion that you may not always be permitted to stop in the middle of the Amida and recite a personal prayer. Therefore, one should follow the Halacha requirements of what to do in such cases.
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:38 PM |
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#5207 The Say of the AI
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- Q. Does one praying by listening to an AI program for davening or reciting brochos, have to repeat the words being heard?
A. Indeed as we have already mentioned, one has to say the words personally of all brochos and tefilos, since the AI programs are not human and cannot have a person comply by just listening to them.
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:36 PM |
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#5206 Turn the AI Vay to a Great Way!
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- Q. See question 5203. Is it recommended that the AI program an ill person uses for keeping company, should also be programmed to monitor the patients bio-readings and medicine consumption?
Does the one that oversees and takes care constantly of this AI and the info provided, comply with the mitzva of bikur cholim?
Does he have to have Kavana (intention) to comply since it is a Biblical mitzva?
A. On question 363 regarding if intention is essential in Social Mitzvos, we wrote:
"Q. Since the Halacha is that you need kavanah or intention to comply with a Torah mitzvah and according to some even on a rabbinical mitzvah and since we do perform many mitzvoth during the day without even thinking, such as helping others, doing favors, supporting our families and even listening to Torah without any specific intention at all, would it not be a good idea if at the beginning of the day a person would declare that all such unintentional good deeds should be considered as being done Leshem Mitzvah? Would that help if you latter forget?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a pointed out that in regards to Kavanah in Mitzvos, there is a difference between the commandments Ben Adam Lamakom, or the ones that involve only complying with the will of Hashem and the ones that additionally benefit others or society too. On the former you need intention, on the latter, it is generally accepted that after the fact you comply with the Mitzvah even if performed without intention, as the benefit was done nonetheless.
The following Poiskim maintain a similar view; Ahavas Tzion , drush 10 in the name of his father the Noda B’eyehuda, Yabia Haomer Y.D. 6: 29, also Chida in Pesach Einaim in regards to Tzedakah and Ridbaz 3: 441. However, Bais Halevy drush1, disagrees in regards to Tzdakah and Binas Simcha p. 144 compiled an extensive list of Mitzvos Ben Adam Lechavero that he considers require Kavanah.
It is also important to note that the mindful intention has to be close to the fulfillment of the Mitzvah, as Mishna Berurah (60: 7) writes: “To intent before he begins”. Piskey Teshuvos (ibid. 5) mentions that the amount of time before should not be longer than the span of Hesech Hadaas, or time enough for the mind to dwell on something else. (Once you begin doing the Mitzvah with proper intention you fulfill the obligation even if you were latter Masiach Daas, see Minchas Shlomo 1:1)."
Therefore a declaration of intention at the beginning of the day may not result in great benefit. However, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a suggests that it may serve as a reminder to later have proper Kavanah, as we carry on with the daily Mitzvos.
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:34 PM |
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#5205 The Best Season Greetings
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlita. I join the thousands that thank you for answering promptly the thousands of very difficult new and most unusual questions we face today and being addressed with the collaboration of a very important and respectable Halacha group of great known Poskim.
May Hashem help you to keep and continue answering many more thousands. I know that the Rov has answered similar questions to mine, yet I have not found exactly my singular case. I do need a prompt answer please.
Our well to do company is composed of a mixture of Jewish and Non- Jewish partners and employees. They want to do a seasonal party for all, as many other companies do. They all want to show at our party a Menorah placed next to the Christmas tree. and asked me to provide it. I do much want to contribute to the spirit of working in harmony and compatibility so essential to the successes of all of us. What should I do?
A. See Question 4603 and others. After consulting with our Poskim they all agreed not to bring a Menorah.
However a great and smart mishpacha friend of mine, suggested to bring some most delicious great looking latkes, ponthkes and festive great kosher drinks and then wish all present, that Hashem, should always help all of us, to help all of those that are in great and most need.
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Posted 12/1/2024 12:05 PM |
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#5204 Face the Music and the Lights?
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Q. Can one enter a store or mall at the Christmas season when the music and decorations pertain to Christian religious origins? Should one use hearing plugs that play Jewish music then and also wear dark eyeglasses?
A. On similar questions (689 and 690) we wrote:
“Q. Is there an actual prohibition about deriving any kind of enjoyment from Christmas lights? Can one use them for illumination? Can one comment on their beauty?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 139: 1) rules that it is prohibited to derive any benefit from anything that is part of an idol, its accompanying adornments or embellishments and the sacrifices or offers dedicated to it. However Christmas lights used for decorating stores or other commercial venues are not in our days an expression of a religion or the symbol of a faith. They are more likely to be used as a business advertiser or a marketing promoter and therefore permitted (Shach Y.D. 142: 32)
Additional considerations to be taken into Halachik account are to what extent are the different factions and sects of Christianity considered Avoda Zarah, and if your common Gentile should be deemed in our times a believer in his nominal faith or more likely an agnostic to it. (Chulin 13b, Ben Ish Chai, Parshas Maasei.) A further factor to take into account is if just benefiting by observing is prohibited or not.
Accordingly enjoying the seasonal lights, commercial displays or the Macy’s parade is in principle permitted.
Nonetheless, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that one must always bear in mind what those lights and displays historically represent to our people. We should recall how much persecution and suffering throughout the centuries are imbedded in them, before we decide to enjoy their sight or comment on their beauty.
690 Want to Face the Music?
Q. Is there an actual prohibition about deriving any kind of enjoyment from Christmas lights?… What about benefiting from other Christmas things – like, is one allowed to enjoy the holiday music they play over loudspeakers in grocery stores?
A. See last answer, most of the points apply to music as well. However, some of the tunes played during the season on the radio or in commercial malls and stores may actually be the same religious melodies or songs performed in houses of worship and thus prohibited. (Igros Moshe Y. D. 2: 56 and 111, Avnei Yashfei 153: 5, Habais Hayehudi p.268)
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that if you don’t have any intent to enjoy or pay attention to them, you may continue with your activities.”
The Rov added that as is, it is a good idea when possible to listen to Torah tapes anytime anyway.
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Posted 11/29/2024 1:05 PM |
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#5203 The AI Vay Way
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- Q. Dear Rabbi this is a question that is right for you, as you were one of the first Rabbis to address AI questions and Halacha.
I have a dear elderly uncle that lost recently his wife after being married almost sixty years in a most beautiful and precious relationship of true real mutual love and care. So he became totally devastated and lonely. After talking to a number of physicians versed in such situations.
I came out with an idea, that I also saw in your questions regarding their use on Shabbat of an AI, of creating a AI companion that sounds like his wife and can comfort him constantly. Is that permitted or even recommended?
A. It stands to reason that one should do everything possible to alleviate and provide relief for the suffering mourners even if it involves an AI help. As mentioned in former shailos it can not be used during Shabbos.
Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is similar.
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Posted 11/29/2024 12:04 PM |
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#5202 Our Good Smelling Parsha
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- Q. On Parshas Toldos we read “Reeh Reiach b’ni kereyach sode asher beracho Hashem”
See that the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that Hashem blessed.”
Talmud (Taanis 29b) explains that it was the smell of a the Eitz Hadaas (The tree of knowledge, in Gan Eden). Is it true that even men should use a similar perfume?
A. Indeed the Even Ezra (Ruth 3: 3) mentions that the tradition of the Gedolei Yisrael, men and women is to use proper nice smelling perfume (based also on Talmud Shabbos 111 a).
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Posted 11/29/2024 12:00 PM |
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# 5201 A Prison Prayer?
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- Q. See question above. Is it similar to Bikur Cholim and you have to say a tefilah for the imprisoned, and if not why not? Is there a special tefilah for the prisoner himself to say as there is for the ill?
A. As mentioned above, since there is no established tradition of visiting the imprisoned as there is Bikur Cholim for the ill, there is also no popular and well known constituted tefilos for them.
Yet one should recite Tehilim and prayers customary for anyone that is in any need and difficulty.
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:57 AM |
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#5200 A Prison Present
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– Q. See question above. Since I’m wearing a taalit katan, should I offer to leave it with the imprisoned? Is it a mitzva to leave even if I won’t comply with the mitzva until I get back home?
A. Although some Rabbis maintain that he should not, since after all one is liable to comply with his own obligations and mitzvos firstly, Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that in some situations it may be recommended to leave the taalis koton with the imprisoned.
Since different factors could be involved, on each case, further consideration and reasoning is necessary.
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:55 AM |
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#5199 –Jail Bait?
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- Q. See question above. If I’m visiting someone imprisoned doing time and can bring something for them as often some correctional institutions permit, should I get for them Tzitzis and Tefilin?
A. Yes indeed if one can provide Tzitzis, Tefilin, Torah material or any other possibility to perform any mitzva in the occasion and time needed when a fellow Jew is imprisoned and provide so much needed spiritual relief, he should so do and the merit is truly great and worthy.
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:53 AM |
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#5198 Bikur Asurim?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi, I much appreciate your work on Ask The Rabbi and the variety of questions your answer. (etc.). I’m a lawyer working for a company that also advocates and defends criminals of all kinds. Since I’m religious, I tend to help whenever possible the Jewish clients of our company and help all the way, especially if they are frum.
I have a number of questions. First of all, as I was just reading in your shailos the great importance of the mitzva of Bikur Cholim. Is there an equivalent mitzva for “Bikur Asurim” or visiting the ones imprisoned in jail, and if not why not?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that our sages did not establish that there should be an equivalent important and of the essence of “Bikur Asurim” as we have “Bikur Cholim,” since after all the person imprisoned in jail has in our societies has likely done a crime or acted likely wrong to be sanctioned and warrant imprisonment.
Yet one that is able to provide help should certainly do so.
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:52 AM |
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#5197 Pray the Proper Prayer
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Q. In our shul we say on Shabbat before Musaf a prayer for the Canadian government as our sages have taught us that one should pray for the benefit and success of their government.
What should be done on these terrible times when the government became so anti Israel, as the Prime Minister said he would imprison the Prime Minister of Israel if he would step into Canada. Should we still recite that prayer?
A. One can recite the prayer, yet stress that the government should change and make the proper and right moral decisions necessary and good for all.
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Posted 11/25/2024 3:28 PM |
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#5196 The Birth of a Birthday?
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- Q. Kevod Horav Shli’a. I was very surprised when I heard that this last Shabbos (Chayei Sarah), the family of the Rov and the shul offered a Kiddush to honor his birthday.
With all respect to the Rov since when do we frum Torah people celebrate birthdays and especially for the Rov himself?
A. Dear friend it is a pity that you didn’t join us, as I addressed that shailah when I spoke. I mentioned that indeed we don’t have the tradition of making birthday parties for anyone as it is commonly celebrated, yet we do have the minhag of celebrating a siyum as part of the learning of Shas, when one ends a mesachta (tractate), even though one has not ended the complete Talmud.
I explained that besides performing a siyum on learning Torah, one may perform a simcha at the end of performing an important part of it. And B’H indeed we had a very successful year in many different Torah activities and shiurim and it was a good time to rejoice.
I added that after all one can have the intention to just celebrate the great gift of Hashem of thankfully having granted us one more year of life and for myself complying with the mitzva of having given pleasure to my parents when I was born and hopefully maintaining that Nachas until today. (more to follow).
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Posted 11/24/2024 11:39 AM |
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#5195 - A Peaceful Wild Man?
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- Q. Is it true that the Chafetz Chaim mentioned that Ishmael was a “Pereh Adam” or wild man not to be friendly to and will remain so?
A, Rabbi Dichovsky, of blessed memory, in his book, “Neot Desha,” on concluding a tractate of Talmud. In the introduction, he recounts his visit to the Chofetz Chaim in order to ask him this very same question about moving to Israel at a time of danger.
We quote: “It was the beginning of the year, 1933. There was a group of Torah scholars who had organized themselves to go together to Israel to learn Torah. I too was amongst them, but I had many doubts, because I knew that many of the great gedolim (Torah scholars) of Israel were opposed.
Just before the Day of Atonement, I journeyed to the yeshiva of the Chofetz Chaim in the town of Radin, where I stayed in the shadow of this great, righteous individual. This was, as is known, the last Yom Kippur of this special Tzaddik, for at the end of the year, in the month of Elul, he was taken to the Yeshiva Above, may his merit be a shield to us and all Israel.“In spite of his great physical weakness, a Heavenly Providence was with me, and I merited to see him the day after Yom Kippur.
I told him my situation, and that I had a good chance of making Aliyah to Israel as a Torah student, only I had lingering doubts if I would be able to learn Torah with the same diligence with which I was learning now. Immediately, he answered, in his famous sweetness of speech, that there was no room at all for my wariness. Why in the world would I not be able to learn Torah there with absolute diligence – just the opposite would seem to be true, for the Land of Israel, without question, was more conducive for steadfast immersion in Torah. He recited the verse, ‘The gold of the Land is good,’ (Bereshit, 2:12) on which the Midrash says, ‘These (the gold of the Land is good) are the words of Torah, for there is no Torah like the Torah of Eretz Yisrael; and there is no wisdom like the wisdom of Eretz Yisrael.’ (Bereshit Raba, 16:7).
“Before I could express the rest of the doubts that I harbored – especially the fear of the danger in Israel because of the children of Ishmael who were marauding violently against the Jews, for only a few years had passed since the end of the Hebron Massacre in the year 1929, which made clear to everyone the wild, bestial nature of the Ishmaelites, who with savagery and unbounded cruelty massacred Yeshiva students and showed no mercy even to the women and children – before I was able to confess all of my apprehensions, the Rabbi answered the question himself.
“In the following words of Torah, he said: ‘The holy Torah tells us regarding Ishmael that he is a ‘Pere Adam,’ a wild beast of a man. It is known that our Torah is eternal, and if it says about Ishmael that he is a wild beast of a man, then Ishmael will remain forever a wild beast of a man.
Even if all of the cultured nations of the world will gather together and try to educate Ishmael and transform him into a cultured individual, so that he will no longer be a wild beast of a man, obviously this will be impossible in every fashion or form. They will not be able to do this through any means whatsoever, because he is not capable of being a cultured individual, for behold, the Torah testified regarding him that he is a wild beast of a man. This means that forever, for all eternity, Ishmael is by definition a wild beast of a man.
Even if Ishmael will be involved in intellectual endeavor, like being a lawyer, or some similar profession, then he will be a beastly lawyer. If he will study diligently to be a professor, then he will be a beastly professor. This means that the bestiality of Ishmael will never cease.’ “Then the Chofetz Chaim let out a long, painful sigh and said, ‘Who knows what this wild beast of a man is capable of perpetrating against the Jewish people in the end of days?’
“Concluding his words to me, he said, ‘Nevertheless, fear not – there is no reason for this to prevent you from making Aliyah to the Land of Israel.’“Then he blessed me, saying, ‘Go in peace, and the L-rd will bless your path.’ “So I left him, and journeyed in peace to the Holy Land.”
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:28 AM |
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#5194 Must Leave or Lean on the Muslims?
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Q. Can one in our days accept as a convert (Ger) Muslims and then marry them?
Can one invite home for a Shabbat meal a friendly Muslim Arab (a business customer) that is considering conversion to Judaism?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that in principle Muslims are more acceptable in most cases than Christians, since their beliefs are closer to ours.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:24 AM |
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#5193 Name the Name Ishmael?
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Q. See question above. If indeed the Arabs recanted and now they don’t believe the story of our Torah, can we name today a child Ishmael. Is that not the common name of a Tana in the Talmud and who we quote daily in davening?
A. Although in principle if one can name a child Ishmael, it may not be a good and proper idea as it may cause in some circles and schools embarrassment for the child.
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:14 AM |
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#5192 There is My Answer
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- Q. Dear Rabbi I have a number of questions regarding Arabs.
On this weeks parsha, Rashi quotes that Ishmael made teshuva and let his younger brother Itzchak lead the levaya of their father Avraham Avinu. If Ishmael did teshuva how come the Arabs hate us and persecute us so much?
A. Please see this week article on “That is my answer.”
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:11 AM |
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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.
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 11/22/2024 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.
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 11/22/2024 10:06 AM |
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