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#5493 Not so Fast!
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Q. See question above.
Rabenu, let me add a question to my question. If one is usually machmir (stringent) and begins the Taanis (fasting day) already from the night, does that also apply in our year when there is a mitzva of Melave Malka, and we always celebrate it with a very nice and attended group?
Do we say that since he has done it three years it became like a Neder or promise to keep, that includes this year Motzei Shabbat also?
A. See question 5492 above, that in our case this year on Motzei Shabbos, when a meal of Melave Malka is necessary, it takes precedence and priority to the fasting of the day.
Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a mentioned that he shoul do hataras nedarim before melave malka.
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 7/11/2025 11:06 AM |
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#5492 Start Fast the Fast?
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- Q. Rabenu Shlit”a. I remember hearing that Poskim maintain that one should if possible be stringent and begin the fasting of Shiva Asar Betamuz already on the night before. Is that correct? Why?
If one has done so for more that three years and now finds it difficult does he have to do a Hatarat Nedarim (Release of Promises accepted by complying 3 times with a mitzva)?
A. On a regular Shiva Asar Betamuz, Mishna Berura (550: 6) writes that a Baal Nefesh should be stringent and keep the prohibitions already from the night before when possible, since it demonstrates the importance and value of the Taanis.
Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit'a opinion is that when one is not keeping it for a valid reason, as would be this year on Motzei Shabbos, no Hatoras Nedarim or release of promises is required. However some of our Rabanim disagree.
See next question:
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 7/11/2025 10:57 AM |
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#5491 Save and Shave
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- Q. Shalom Uvracha Rabbi Barfteld, Hope all is well. My son wishes to start shaving. Which shavers are permissible lechatchila (on the onset)? Thanks so much!
A. There are multiple options on the constant changing world of available shavers.
Horav Moshe Heinemann Shlit”a of the Star-K explains that Horav Moishe Feinstein ZT”L would test the shaver blades by seeing if the blade was used to try to cut a hair held taught. If it didn’t cut the blade was acceptable.
Therefore, he concluded that blades of rotary head shavers are increasingly sharp and would be problematic. (Star K 2012).
Poskim disagree as the blades in all electric shavers, including rotary shavers, only cut in combination with the screen. Since it functions as a scissor it is acceptable irrelevant of how sharp the blade is. Also, the blade does not touch the skin. There is a tiny gap between the blade and the skin.
Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit'a recommended the Ou Tonner Clipper.
However, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a is out of town are as many other Rabanim, that should be consulted.
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 7/11/2025 10:53 AM |
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#5490 Calling in Question
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Q. If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of old age he does not know if he will be able to fast a full day, can he be called to the Torah on this year during an early Mincha as he always is? He has always fasted before, yet he is afraid this year.
A. on a similar question 5036 we wrote:
“Mishna Berura (566: 19) quotes Magen Avrohom that the ruling of the Shulchan Aruch not to give an aliyah to someone not fasting applies only during Mincha but not during Shacharis in the days when there would be otherwise also Kerias Hatorah such as Mondays and Thursdays.
Mishna Berura quotes other Poskim that debate the issue, and summarizes, that is he was called to an aliyah according to everyone he should proceed.
Although. it isn’t clear from his words if he can be called lechatchila to the Torah, Aruch Hashulchan (ibid.), Divrei Shalom (93) and others rule like the Magen Avrohom and Eliahu Rabbah that he can be called on the onset.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a opinion is similar.”
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a pointed that since Shiva Asar Betamuz, is on Tuesday (2024) and there is no usual reading of the Torah, there is more reason to be stringent, yet it all depends on the case, the changing particular circumstances and the feelings if he can actually fast the whole day.”
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Posted 7/6/2025 1:01 PM |
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#5489 Beg, Borrow or Steal?
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- Q. Can one borrow without asking permission the Tefilin permission from others left in Shul when in need?
A. Although, in general we assume that a person is glad to let others use his Tefilin without approval. (Nicha Lei Lreinish Lemeabad Mitzva Bememonoy).
In our days that may not be correct as we wrote in question 2571: “Besides, even using someones taalis or tefilin without permission may not apply in our days, since we are more careful with the perspiration and sweat from others.”
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Posted 7/4/2025 11:08 AM |
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#5488 Pray and Tell!
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- Q. Hello Rav! I arrived at shul to discover I had left my tefillin at home. I had to choose to daven without them and then put them on around 5pm after work (or for mincha) vs. driving home to get them and davening without a minyan. Which is preferred?
I'm assuming that its preferred to go home and get them and daven alone, but would that still be true if it would mean my time would be very limited before work starts and I would need to skip most of Pezukei D'Zirma? Thanks.
A. The best would have been if you could have borrowed a pair of tefilin from the shul. It is likely that a shul keeps some extra donated ones for situations like this.
Otherwise, it is better to get them, and recite Krias Shema with them on, even if you miss the minyan, since there is a prohibition of reciting the Shema in the morning without tefilin.
See next question
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Posted 7/4/2025 11:02 AM |
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#5487 - Plant a Seed of Doubt in Your Mind?
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Q. Kvodo Shlit’a. I have a
question on the summer days we buy flower pots and also use planters.
My kids like to plant on some big ones and planters, different types,
of even small fruit plants and trees. Is there a prohibition of
Kelaim on them if the are planted in a large planter or even if you
join two small planters together at home or over the back yard
plastic material deck? A.
Even the basic laws kelaim which involve planting different types of
trees and fruit plants together are many and complicated to deal with
in just a few lines and when they do apply.
Poskim
mention that although the Torah writes that the prohibition is
“Sodecha Lo Tizra Kelaim” (Vayikra 19: 19), mentioning that it
applies to a field (and a similar expression is mentioned regarding
a vineyard), it would seem that it applies to a field and to the
inside of a house.
Tzofnas
Paneach on the Rambam (H. Kelaim 5: 16) mentions that indeed Torah
forbidden Kelaim apply only on the outside fields and on homes or
other inside types of structures that prohibition is only Rabbical.
However Yeshuas Malko (ibid.) and others disagree and they maintain
that it is also a Biblical prohibition. See also Minchas Shlomo
(2:
101: 10). Variables as the connection to the ground of the plant to
the ground and the kind of grounf are important.
Much
has been written about the prohibition a Shemita (Seventh Year) on
plants kept at home.
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 7/4/2025 10:29 AM |
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#5486 Get a Big Head!
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- Q. See question above. If indeed the are to big can I just use the parshiot. It seems possible that they would fit in mine?
A. If the fit correctly, and are not placed under pressure that could damage the writing, you could indeed use them.
It is most correct and beneficial to ask a practiced and skilled sofer to do it for you.
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 7/4/2025 10:26 AM |
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#5485 A Big Ask?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. As you know my father A.H. passed away last month. He left me a beautiful pair of Tefilin that he spend a lot on them, and they are very mehudar in many ways. There is only one problem, they are very big (He had greater head than me). How big can the Tefilin be?
A. There is no official Halachic maximum size for tefilin.
If too large , it is often problematic to keep the head tefilin in the right place, and not have them hanging of the head. We know that the Talmud in Eruvin 95b says that there is room for 2 pair of tefilin on one's head, inferring that their tefilin were relatively small.
Similarly the ancient tefilin from 2,000 years ago, found by archeologists in the Judean desert, were very small.
The Chasidim of Chabad have a custom to buy large tfilin, but as above, there are halachic advantages and disadvantages in doing 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 7/4/2025 10:23 AM |
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#5484 A light-bulb Moment?
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- Q. -- Could we not have complied with the electric light we had in the room?
A. We usually abstain as much as possible from using electric lights that don’t burn a wick.
Altough in question 223 we wrote: Q. If (a woman) turned on (on Erev Shabbos) the electric light but then could not latter light the candles, as it became late. Does she now have to light one more candle?
A. Many Poskim rule that you comply with the mitzvah of hadlokas neiros using electric light. (Bais Ytzchok Y.D. 120,5 - Machze Avrohom 41 - Dvar Halocho 39 - Sh’miras Shabbos Kehilchoso vol. II, p. 34 et. al.). Some Poskim permit even making a brocho.(Pekudas Elozor O.H. 22, see Yalkut Yosef, Shabbos p.189 et. al).
Oitzer Dinim (9,29) quotes a lenient answer to this question in the name of Horav Ovadya Yosef Shlit”a and no new light has to be added in the future. Shebet Halevy (5,33) and Kinyan Torah (6,9) disagree.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that if she indeed turned on the electric lights) specifically with the intention that this light should be lit for Shabbos (as some women do), she does not have to light any additional candle in the future. (see a similar opinion in Melamed Lehoil O.H. 46 and Avney Yoshffoh O.H. 55).
See also question on lighting in a hospital (2311).
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Posted 7/4/2025 10:20 AM |
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#5483 Calling in Question
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- Q. If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of old age he does not know if he will be fasting a full day, can he be called to the Torah on this year in the morning as he always is? He has always fasted before, yet he is afraid this year.
A. on a similar question 5036 we wrote:
“Mishna Berura (566: 19) quotes Magen Avrohom that the ruling of the Shulchan Aruch not to give an aliyah to someone not fasting applies only during Mincha but not during Shacharis in the days when there would be otherwise also Kerias Hatorah such as Mondays and Thursdays. Mishna Berura quotes other Poskim that debate the issue, and summarizes, that is he was called to an aliyah according to everyone he should proceed.
Although. it isn’t clear from his words if he can be called lechatchila to the Torah, Aruch Hashulchan (ibid.), Divrei Shalom (93) and others rule like the Magen Avrohom and Eliahu Rabbah that he can be called on the onset.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a opinion is similar.”
In our case Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a pointed that since Shiva Asar Betamuz, is on Tuesday (2024) and there is no usual reading of the Torah, there is more reason to be stringent, yet it all depends on the case, the changing particular circumstances and the feelings if he can actually fast the whole day.
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 7/1/2025 6:01 PM |
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#5482 A Canada Day Siyum???
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. This coming Tuesday July 1 (2025) I have the first yohrzait for my father ZT”L, and I'm offering a kiddush in Shul after davening.
Since in my minyan there are attendants that are very patriotic and also celebrate with a great kiddush Canada Day, I wonder if we can join together, after all I’m also making a Siyum and saying Divrei Torah, it may be a Zikuy Harabim (benefit for the many), as they will also be learning some Torah.
Is there a problem with joining the Siyum with Canada Day and saying some patriotic words also?
A. We have had already some similar question for other holidays, as follows.
- 4166 -A Freilechen St. Patrick’s day?
I attend a daily minyan, that as others do, offers an after Shacharit Kiddush with a drink and mezonot. The attendants, before drinking a small cup of liquor, as tradition goes wish each other ‘Lechaim’, Mal Tov, or if it is aYohrzait, ‘The Neshama should have an Aliya’.
On St. Patrick’s day, most likely still deep in the Purim ‘spirit’ an usual attendant offers every year a green full bottle of Irish (kosher) liquor. and with a very comical smile, pours a drink to all and wishes a ‘ Freilechen, (happy) St. Patrick’s day’.
We all understand that it is only a humorous act, but is it permitted in a shul? I do not want to insult him by refusing the drink or the Lechaim. What is the proper thing to do?
Saint Patrick’s Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (for provincial government employees), and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat.
It is also widely celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Argentina, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
From the present day literature explaining the meaning of the day, it seems that in most or the many places mentioned it is not anymore a religious commemoration but a cultural and national identity day.
However, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is, that since it still has a strong religious identity in Catholic communities and special services are offered on the day for many, to avoid insulting the fellow who brought the bottle in “good spirit”, one should answer warmly: “Lechaim to all the Tzadikim, Kedoishim and survivors from this and other similar “Holy days,” Lechaim Tovim Ulesholom.”
See also questions 3390 in regards to Thanksgiving Day, 3494 and others regarding wishing a New Year. May 8, 2023.
Similarly on question -3713 - A Victory Day.we wrote:
Dear Rov Shlit’a is there a problem celebrating Victoria Day by going to a park and watching the fireworks, because of; ‘Lo Telchu Bechukot Hagoyim,’ (following the traditions of the nations)?
A. Victoria Day is not a religious holiday, as is amply recorded. It celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria, who was the ruling monarch at the time of Canada’s birth as a country in 1867. It’s a day to celebrate all the wonderful things that make Canada the great country it is. Therefore, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that there is no prohibition of ‘Lo Telchu Bechukot Hagoyim,’ involved.
(See also question 3329 regarding that it is also propitious to include the date in a shul or school Luach). May 8, 2023.
In our case, It would seem that it is correct and recommended to do them together, when saying the correct words for the occasion.
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Posted 6/29/2025 11:56 AM |
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#5481 Didn’t Catch that Name!
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- Q. Rabbi, my young son just asked me how can we have a parsha named after an evil Rasha like Korach, what should I tell him?
A. There are a number of answers.
On a similar question we wrote
5033 - Q. Why is the Parsha this week called Korach? How can we use the name of a Rasha for a Parsha title? To what we answered:
A. The Talmud (Baba Basra 74a and Sanhedrin 110a) mentions that the sons of Korach and according to some Korach himself survived and was constantly claiming that “Moshe Emes Vetoraso Emes, vaanachnu bado’in.
”Moshe told the truth and they lied, so they became baaleli teshuva.
We also have a number of Tehilim psalms that carry the name of the sons of Korach. (42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49).
Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a added that others also used that name, and it was a common name used by many.”
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Posted 6/27/2025 12:40 PM |
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#5480 Meals on Wheels?
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- Q. Rav, Can one who usually eats on Rosh Chodesh a meal with meat and wine, comply tomorrow Friday Rosh Chodesh (2025), with that meal with the Seudas Shabbos if he makes an early Shabbos?
A. Since that meal is a Shabbos meal and is eaten after praying the Maariv of Shabbos, lighting Shabbos candles after kiddush and no Yaaleh Veyabo is said anymore by Birchat Hamazon, it can’t be considered a meal for Rosh Chodesh also.
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Posted 6/27/2025 12:31 PM |
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#5479 Divide and Conquer!
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- Q. See question above. Moreinu Shlit”a, I usually give my monthly maaser money mostly to yeshivot and support for Torah learners. Should I now give it to our neighbors in their time of crisis and special need?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit”a recommends to divide the Maaser funds and give for both, balancing according to need.
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Posted 6/27/2025 12:28 PM |
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#5478 - A Constant Thanks for All Miracle of Miracles?
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- Q. See question above.
Moreinu Shlit”a, as we walk around our awfully hit and damaged neighborhood in Artzenu, we constantly see and notice the miracles that occurred for our people saved by Hashem.
Is there a Bracha or special thanks Tefilah that one should say then at least once a day?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit”a recommends to recite “Nishmas Kol Chai” with the intention of praising and thanking Hashem for all the Nissim and really great miracles, that he has and is constantly doing on our behalf.
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Posted 6/27/2025 12:25 PM |
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#5477 The Everlasting Miracle of Miracles?
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- Q. Moreinu Shlit”a. I’m planing, with Hashem’s help to be able to return to Toronto soon, and join you again. I much miss your great Friday night meals and Divrei Torah, that I have enjoyed and participated for many years.
I’m sending you another Shailah please.
In a house nearby were I’m staying with my family, an Iranian bomb missile fell last week and destroyed most of the house. Thanks to Hashem the family and children were not hurt, as they were in a protective Miklat at the time.
Yet I and others, are constantly witnessing another incredible miracle. Although the house was almost destroyed completely and all windows were gone, the two bookcases that contained many Holy Sefarim, not only were totally undamaged, more miraculously, even the thin glass doors of those bookcases, completely survived, without even a scratch. It is a true real miracle we can all see with our stupefied eyes.
Our Shailah is, do we have to recite a special Bracha for this incredible miracle?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit”a recommends to recite the blessing of “Sheasa Lanu Nes Bamakom Haze – Blessed be the One who made for us a miracle on this location.”
Yet it should be recited without pronouncing Hashems explicit name, that is only mentioned in the specific occasions and locations mentioned in Halacha.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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Posted 6/27/2025 12:20 PM |
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#5476 Medical Food?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. One that suffers from protein deficiency in his system and it causes illnesses in him. He was told by his doctor to eat some special chocolate bars that contain high protein content as a cure. Is one allowed to eat them during Shabbat?
A. Our Sages prohibited taking medication on Shabbos out of concern that one may grind the herbs and other materials to make them, which would be a Torah prohibition of grinding (tochein) on Shabbos.
Nowadays, most people don’t make their own remedies; nevertheless, the agreement of contemporary Poskim is, that we cannot undo a rabbinic prohibition even if the reason is no longer applicable, especially when some still prepare compound homemade remedies.
However, in our case, those special high protein chocolate bars, although they contain added and needed protein, they are mainly a common food and can be eaten on Shabbos.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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Posted 6/27/2025 11:05 AM |
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#5475 Back to Egypt?
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu Shelit’a. As people are already beginning to travel in and out of Israel as always by plane, now (end of June 2025), we still have tickets that we acquired before to travel out of Egypt. Is there an issue of not going to Egypt in our days?
A. On question 4053 we wrote:
“We have a group that plans to spend next Pesach in Yerushalaim. They are also planning to take a tour of three days in Egypt while visiting many relevant places before arriving for Pesach in Yerushalaim. What is Horav Miller’s opinion. Thank you.
A. Although Poskim disagree regarding if it is permitted to settle in Egypt in our contemporary days, there seems to be an agreement that there is no problem with just traveling to Egypt for a visit. (See Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin, end of the Ch. 10; Radvaz, Commentary on Rambam, Kings, 5, 7, 8; Heichal Yitzchok E.H. 1: 12; Yehave Daas 3: 81 and others).
Many great Tzadikim and leaders have also visited Egypt. (See Even Sapir 20: 1.2 and others).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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Posted 6/26/2025 10:56 AM |
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#5474 Swim Along
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- Q. Can someone teaching Non Jewish children how to swim continue doing it during the Nine Days?
A. In principle one may, since he is not interested in bathing.
On question 3813 (Learning when to Swim) we wrote:
“Can one who goes to the mikva daily before davening or at least before Shabbos, do so by going for a swim in a lake next to him during the Nine Days? Is there a concern of Ma’aras Ayin. (people watching may think that one is going for a prohibited swim)?
A. Horav Aharon Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is permitted only if he goes in and out as necessary, but does not stay for a continued swim. Since he is going in and out immediately without swimming, there is no concern for Ma’aras Ayin.”
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Posted 6/24/2025 7:58 PM |
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