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# 3308 Flies Away
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Q. Can one sleeping in a Suka on Shabbat and Yom Tov wear the recently available watches or bands that emit ultrasonic waves to repel mosquitoes, bees and other harmful insects?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that they are ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3307 Sho-Far So Good
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Q. I go every year to blow shofar to people residing in a Old Age institution. It happened a number of times that when I enter a room, the occupant tells me that he already heard the Shofar by listening to someone else who was blowing in an adjacent ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:01 PM |
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# 3306 Turn a Deaf Ear
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Q. 3) See questions above. I'm considering using a cochlear implant will that be any different? Should I install it only on one ear?
A. See question 2013; A cochlear implant is a small electronic device that electrically stimulates ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:58 PM |
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# 3305 Long Time No Hear
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Q. 2) See question above: If he can only hear with a hearing aid can he still be a Baal Tokea?
A. Poskim maintain that he cannot comply as an electronic reproduction of the sound of the Shofar is not acceptable.
If he can s ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:55 PM |
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# 3304 A Dialogue On The Deaf
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Q. I have been a Baal Tokea blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashana for over thirty years. I have now become hard of hearing and have therefore a number of shailos.
1) Can someone hard of hearing be a Baal Tokea?
A. Shulchan Ar ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:50 PM |
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# 3303 As Far As I Can See?
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Q. Someone who follows the tradition to make the bracha of 'Ose Maase Bereshith' when seeing the sea from a plane. At what distance from the sea can he make that bracha?
A. Many Poskim maintain that the blessing to be recited on seeing ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:44 PM |
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# 3302 The Responsible Party
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Q. I'm a caregiver for an elderly woman residing in an Old Age Home. I noticed that my client had scratches and bruises on her. Out of years of experience, I was reasonably certain that they were inflicted by the other caregivers that complement her ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:37 PM |
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# 3301 Show How Much You Care
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Q. A Rov teaches a shiur in a Yeshiva and lost his father and is still within the year of Avelus. One of his close disciples is getting married in the near future and he feels that it is very important for him to be at the wedding and show how mu ....
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Posted 8/9/2021 6:14 PM |
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# 3300 The Double Pocket
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Q. Can someone carry in his pocket pages of Divrei Torah or a Siddur when he enters a bathroom?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a permits in principle since the pockets of jackets are made of double material.
However, as Horav Aharo ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:12 PM |
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# 3299 Not Enough Room
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Q. I have divided my garage in two and created an area of about 4 x 8 feet that had a separate door. I also keep there besides other items the garbage cans that are not always covered and there is also an odor. Do I have to place a mezuza?
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3298 It Has Your Name On It
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Q. My son's wife when she became a Baalas Teshuva, she was a teenager and didn't know what her Hebrew name was, so she choose her own name as Rachel Leora - her parents recently discovered when they were clearing out their house after they sold it, ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:01 PM |
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# 3297 Say it Right
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Q. A person drank wine and didn't have in mind other drinks that were not on the table. He then made a Shehakol on soda. Does he need to bless both al Hagefen and Bore Nefashos?
A. Mishna Berura (208: 72) rules that if the other drinks ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 9:52 PM |
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# 3296 No to the Noise
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Q. A person is davening and a moment after he started Shemone Essre, all the people in the minyan decided to go to a different location to daven because of noise disturbances, may he also go there? Does it make a difference if the noise bothers him ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 9:48 PM |
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# 3295 A Clean Break
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Q. Someone traveling by plane can he face the bathroom wall or door while davening?
A. See Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 83: 1). Mishna Berura (5) rules that one should not daven facing the walls of a bathroom. However, Igros Moshe (E.H. 1: 114) ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 10:02 PM |
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# 3294 On Camera
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Q. Is it permitted to be an Uber driver if one has to drive women passengers at night in deserted streets. due to the prohibition of Yichud (seclusion) with individuals of the other gender?
How about a woman taking a similar ride even o ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 9:55 PM |
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# 3293 Cover Story
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Q. See question above. Can the same setting of a Mechitza made by people standing next to each other be used in the house of an Avel, where a minyan takes place, and some women present in the same living - dining room setting are not dressed for the ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 9:52 PM |
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# 3292 What a Cover Up!
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Q. Some cemeteries in Latin American cities, due to zoning restrictions, are located on very poor and crime ridden neighborhoods. It is not unusual to find garbage or feces thrown over even relative high fences. Can attendants to a Levaya or the unv ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 9:44 PM |
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# 3291 True Undivided Love
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Q. Sefer Haikrim writes that true love is only when it is undivided and totally dedicated only to one entity. He thus explains the closeness and following of Hashem Echad, He is the only One with Veahavta, you shall love Him, in the parsha of Shem ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 5:56 PM |
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# 3290 It's All About Love
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Q. Recently we learned in the parsha the greatest mitzva of loving Hashem mentioned in the Shema. How can one be commanded and compelled to love anything? After all love is fundamentally a feeling of the heart and emotion that you either have or y ....
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Posted 7/30/2021 12:03 PM |
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# 3289 The Lacking of the Lakes
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Q. My friend is visiting first time Canada and has never seen Lake Ontario, should he say a blessing on it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is than one should avoid reciting a brocho with Hashem's name on common lakes sin ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 5:49 PM |
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