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# 2989 No News is Good News?
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Q. Is it proper for a gabay in a shul were they usually say a misheberach for the sick on Shabbos, to include the name of a severely sick new covid patient, if the attendants will become very distressed and sad when they hear that familiar name? I ....
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Posted 12/31/2020 10:05 PM |
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# 2988 Accounting for Taste
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Q. Re - question 2987 above. I meant to ask on a water purification plant that prepares and serves the water to our community.
I became aware that often the workers may eat their lunch or snacks close to the water tanks, and it is likely that ....
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Posted 12/30/2020 10:43 PM |
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# 2987 Amount to Nothing?
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Q. When we mention that chometz is prohibited 'Bemashehu,' even to the smallest amount during Pesach, does that mean that the prohibition applies to molecules of chometz too?
A. As far as when dealing with the prohibition created direct ....
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Posted 12/28/2020 3:47 PM |
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# 2986 A Joy to Behold
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Q. We learned recently in the daf that there is no Meila (a korban brought when someone unlawfully benefited from Hekdesh or the holiness of the Beis Hamidash or the sacrifices therein), when benefiting only from the pleasantness of Kol, Mareh, Verei ....
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Posted 12/28/2020 3:32 PM |
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# 2985 No Public Drinking
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Q. We B'H are celebrating after many years of trying to have children a Pidyon Habben this coming Friday afternoon that is also the Taanis of Asarah Beteves. Both my parents and in-laws are elderly and infirm. In these pandemic days they were advise ....
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Posted 12/24/2020 6:22 PM |
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# 2984 Have a Merry Nittel
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Q. On the Christmas eve, for one that keeps the Nittel tradition of not learning Torah on that night but usually has a shiur on the evening, what hours exactly are the ones one should avoid learning?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Chanuka p. 39 ....
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Posted 12/24/2020 6:12 PM |
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# 2983 Season's Greetings?
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Q . I want to give my super a check and a Christmas card like all other tenants in our building do, as a thanks for the many favors given. Which is the correct way to do it?
A. On question 963 regarding if it is proper to give New Year b ....
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Posted 12/24/2020 2:50 PM |
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# 2982 Wake Up the Right Side
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Q. A bachur asked me to come to his room to wake him for vasikin. (Sun-rise minyan). I knew what room he was in, but due to the early hour and darkness when I entered the room I could not figure out what bed he is on (there are several people in the ....
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Posted 12/24/2020 2:35 PM |
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# 2981 Wake Up Call
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Q. Should one leave even before the start of davening to wake someone up (chessed) if requested to wake them at a certain time?
A. The proper procedure is to ask someone else, who is not as careful to be part of the first ten, to wake h ....
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Posted 12/24/2020 2:34 PM |
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# 2980 The Early Fast Days of Teveth
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Q. This year Nittel Nacht (the night of Dec 24) is after the Taanis of the Ninth of Teveth, mentioned in Shulchan Aruch. I always wondered if there is a connection between the two?
A. On question 2491 regarding not learning Torah on t ....
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Posted 12/23/2020 6:26 PM |
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# 2979 First Come First Saved?
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Q. (Re-question 2976). Rav Shlomo Miller paskened that one does not leave the status of being from the first ten if he leaves to use the bathroom or to fulfill a tefilla requirement. Now, Rav Miller said that he has to be there at the beginning of t ....
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Posted 12/23/2020 2:35 PM |
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# 2978 Reach the Right Height
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Q. Why are the menoras of many shuls and Batei Midrashot higher than the ten tefachim (about 42in. - 1.m) required lekatchila by the Shulchan Aruch?
A. Mishna Berura (671: 27) quotes Pri Megodim that in a shul, where we light in memory ....
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Posted 12/22/2020 6:51 PM |
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# 2977 The Doubt of the Benefit
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Q. I pay for the lunch of workers fixing my house, and they usually order pepperoni pizza, or other foods and sandwiches that contain cooked meat and milk products. I lend them my credit card to pay for it. Is that allowed since bassar vechalav is pr ....
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Posted 12/22/2020 4:00 PM |
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# 2976 The Tenet of the Tenth Man
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Q. A person who came from the asara rishonim, may he leave to wake someone up for Shacharis, or will he lose the status of being from the asara rishonim? May one leave to get a drink of water, etc, or only for tzorchei tefilla?
A. Horav ....
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Posted 12/20/2020 11:10 AM |
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# 2975 Life Of The Party
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Q. We know that unlike Purim we don't eat seudos or special meals on Chanuka. Why not? We should make a Sedas Hodaah for the great miracles done to our forefathers and us?
A. On question 1222 of Ask the Rabbi, concerning if Chanuka i ....
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:57 PM |
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# 2974 Clear The Deck
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Q. Is it correct to make a Zoom Chanukah party, and play cards after finishing a shiur?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a pointed out the Teshuva of the Chassam Soffer (Likutei teshuvos 3: 28), where he points out the tradition people had ....
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:55 PM |
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# 2973 Proxy Blessings
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Q. I was asked by an unmarried neighbor friend who was hospitalized to go to his home and light his menorah, since he can't do so with candles in the hospital. I accepted to do it, but I'm not sure if I have to say a brocho, one or both?
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:52 PM |
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# 2972 All Raise and Praise
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Q. Do women say Hallel during Chanuka? Are they obliged as in the seder of Pesach?
A. Poskim disagree, Mogen Avrohom (422: 5) rules that women are exempt from reciting Hallel during Chanuka, since it constitutes a 'mitzvas assei shehazma ....
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:50 PM |
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# 2971 The Early Light
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Q. I daven in a shul that davens Mincha close to the shkiah (sunset) and then people return for a shiur 8.00 PM followed by Maariv. Should they light the shul Menorah before Maariv or after Mincha, before the people go to light their Chanuka light a ....
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:47 PM |
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# 2970 Lead But Stay With Us
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Q. A shul that davens nusach S'fard (Ashkenaz) and in days when no tachanun is said, as in Chanuka, an Ovel does not usually daven before the amud (does not lead the services). This particular minyan like others, due to the covid crisis, is having a ....
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Posted 12/17/2020 11:43 PM |
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