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# 2438 Say It Right or Not at All?
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Q. Since Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the added section of “Baruch Hashem Leolam” before beginning the amida of maariv, has to be said complete or not at all, what happens if someone is davening and already started saying that brach ....
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Posted 12/1/2019 11:40 PM |
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# 2437 If Memory Serves
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Q. What happens if someone during the 30 days of establishing a chazaka for saying mashiv haruach in the amida, (see prior question 2428), forgot to say it once. Does he have to start counting full 30 days again from that time?
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Posted 12/1/2019 11:32 PM |
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# 2436 Sharing Someone's Sorrow
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Q. Someone who lost a stepfather and out of closeness with other siblings sat shiva with them, is he permitted after shloshim to attend a wedding of a close relative?
A. The obligations of Avelus apply only to a one’s biological ....
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Posted 12/1/2019 11:08 PM |
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# 2435 Show Us The Open Door
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Q. Is it permitted to seclude oneself with the opposite gender if the door is open or unlocked, but there is no realistic expectation of anyone coming in? One knows with 100% certainty that no one is going to come in (for example, the people who u ....
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Posted 11/29/2019 11:05 AM |
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# 2434 Buyers Beware II
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Q. Re question 2429, in regard to immersing utensils manufactured in Israel, but sold in a non-Jewish store. If the item is bought at a Jewish-owned store... does it still need to be toiveled?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion ....
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Posted 11/29/2019 10:45 AM |
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# 2433 Food for Thought
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Q. One who has limited income - should he rather spend his money on having nicer and more food or drink for Shabbos, or on buying good seforim to learn from (even though he could learn from the sefarim that are available in the beis medrash, he want ....
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Posted 11/28/2019 11:52 PM |
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# 2432 A Penny Saved - Not a Penny Earned
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Q. One who received an apartment that he stayed in for one dollar a month (as a chesed), does he need to calculate the market value and give maaser from the money that he saved? If he would not have been given this apartment, he would not have ren ....
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Posted 11/28/2019 11:42 PM |
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# 2431 Sign Off
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Q. When a bachur sees a sign put up in a yeshiva that is not appropriate for a Makom Torah and it is not appropriate for a ben torah to have written such a thing, may one immediately rip it down even though it is not his?
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Posted 11/28/2019 11:34 PM |
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# 243O An Ad-Nauseam Ad?
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Q. If a government Veteran Day advertisement poster that is not tzniusdik, as it shows a not well covered female army conscript (following Halacha standards) was placed in front of a shul, should one just take it down, before the attendants to mi ....
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Posted 11/28/2019 11:31 PM |
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# 2429 Buyers Beware
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Q. I have seen in a number of supermarkets in town knives and eating utensils made of metal, imported from Israel with a hechsher that certifies they are exempted from tevila immersion on a mikva.
That should be incorrect since after all th ....
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Posted 11/26/2019 10:49 PM |
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# 2428 Know From Memory
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Q. If someone after thirty days of saying Mashiv Haruach and even after repeating it 90 times, still catches himself as forgetting during the brocho. If he indeed was totally unaware if he said it or not, can he rely on the chazaka of thirty days ....
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Posted 11/24/2019 8:32 PM |
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# 2427 Dandruff Is Back
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Q. On prior question (2405) you quoted Rav Miller ruling that one should not shake off dandruff from his clothing during shemone essreh. Why not? If someone is addressing an important meeting, would you not expect to correct his tie properly or wipe ....
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Posted 11/24/2019 8:16 PM |
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# 2426 A Change for the Better
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Q. If one replaces a mezuza with a better one, does he have to say a brocho? What happens if he already had in his possession this new better mezuza for months and at the time the present mezuza to be replaced was attached?
A. Sefer Hoe ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:45 PM |
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# 2425 Check is on the Door
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Q. When one removes a mezuza to be checked and the puts it back, does he have to make a brocho?
A. Pischei Teshuva (Y.D. 289: 1) quotes Lashon Limudim that debates whether one should recite a brocho when placing back a mezuza that was t ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:41 PM |
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# 2424 Tell a Good Story
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Q. Can someone read in a bathroom stories of tzadikim or Jewish history (kosher) seforim?
A. Vayivorech Dovid (1: 15) and others maintain that it depends on the disagreement mentioned in last question,(2423). Piskei Teshuvos (85: 3) ar ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:34 PM |
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# 2423 Is G-dliness next to Cleanliness?
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Q. Regarding the questions if Hashem is everywhere including impure places, (2412-13), does this mean that following the Hagra's opinion, one cannot think of Hashem's presence when in a bathroom or mikve? Does shivisi Hashem not apply when one is in ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:18 PM |
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# 2422 Labor of Love
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Q. Since learning Torah and doing mitzvos out of pure love for Hashem is the greatest and most elevated of all actions possible, should then, when possible a teacher of Torah shiurim refuse being paid, if he can survive without that salary?
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:08 PM |
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# 2421 Buy On Time
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Q. Is it permitted to quickly buy a few seforim prior to davening Shacharis, such as in a yeshiva where seforim are for sale and one is concerned that if he davens first, someone else will take the seforim that he wants?
A. Poskim pe ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 1:01 PM |
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# 2420 Too Much Too Late
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Q. A person that usually says korbonos before mincha, if he davened in a shul where maariv follows mincha immediately, right after the shekia and because he was late was unable to say korbonos before mincha. Can he say them after maariv?
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Posted 11/22/2019 12:56 PM |
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# 2419 Giving a Giving Education
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Q. A bachur who makes some money (such as when he leins or participates in a learning program) but is generally dependent on his parents for his sustenance, is he obligated to give maaser from the money that he makes?
A. Poskim mention ....
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Posted 11/22/2019 12:51 PM |
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