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# 2472 There Is No Place Like Home
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Q. I have three options of where to light erev Shabbos Chanuka:
1. by my parents, with whom I live during the week
2. by my Shabbos host where I will be eating the Friday night seuda
3. by my host where I will be sleeping Fri ....
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Posted 12/26/2019 11:42 PM |
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# 2471 How Did That Turn Out?
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Q. We usually extinguish the Chanuka lights in shul after maariv since people go home and it may be dangerous to leave lighted candles on. Is it better to ask the security man to extinguish them after a half an hour?
A. On question 422 w ....
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Posted 12/26/2019 11:26 PM |
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# 2470 Enlightening the Lighting
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Q. We will be traveling during Chanuka, and we are taking with us a few small tin menorahs with candles, for myself and the children. Can we on Shabbat use one of those menorahs to light the Shabbat candles? We would set that menorah separate from th ....
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Posted 12/22/2019 9:49 PM |
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# 2469 Scanning the Scan Room
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Q. When undergoing an X-ray or cat-scan which requires being alone in a room with the female technician, what should one do to avoid transgressing the prohibition of yichud? Even if one's wife or friend is with him, they cannot be in the actual room ....
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Posted 12/22/2019 9:17 PM |
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# 2468 Praise the End
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Q. One that underwent a prostate operation and bleeds from his member, does he have to recite asher yotzar when he stops bleeding?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if there was no urine discharge at all, no asher y ....
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Posted 12/22/2019 8:58 PM |
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# 2467 The Blessed Fruits
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Q. What brocho does one recite on dried cranberries?
A. On question 1239 we wrote: Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 203: 2) rules that one recites hoadama on berries grown on bushes that yearly loose their trunk and only the roots remain next year. ....
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Posted 12/22/2019 8:32 PM |
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# 2466 Up In The Air?
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Q. What brocho does one make on hydroponically or aeroponically grown vegetables?
A. Poskim disagree on what brocho one recites on fruits and vegetables grown in non-perforated soil pots. Chayei Adam (51: 17), maintains that the brocho i ....
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Posted 12/21/2019 10:27 PM |
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# 2465 Intent Coffee
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Q. We know that one can drink water, coffee or tea before davening shacharis to help concentration, even with milk and sugar. My question is; if a person is accustomed to drinking black coffee, is it mutar to decide to drink a coffee with milk and ....
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Posted 12/21/2019 10:08 PM |
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# 2464 Quiet Please
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Q. Does the issur of lashon hara apply to something that is public knowledge and that a person himself "shouts from the rooftops," so to speak? For example, a person who constantly walks around in the street smoking wherever he goes, is it lashon h ....
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Posted 12/21/2019 9:34 PM |
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# 2463 Is That Really True?
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Q. If loshon harah is spoken but the listener doesn’t believe the information to be true does this make the speech non loshon harah?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is lashon harah and prohibited as mentioned also by ....
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Posted 12/21/2019 9:05 PM |
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#2462 Many Happy Chanuka Returns
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Q. My son is going to have his ninth birthday a few days after Chanuka and we want to give him as a present a silver menorah. Can he light that menorah during chanuka and then light it again during his birthday party, (all nine lights), when he is al ....
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Posted 12/20/2019 4:08 PM |
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# 2461 Wow! Is That a Real Menorah?
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Q. Can one light a menorah made of sculptured ice, (the oil cups are glass)?
A. In principle a menorah is not essential in complying with the mitzva of Chanuka, as long as lights are lit in a proper utensil and it is able to stay lit fo ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 2:42 PM |
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# 2460 Nice and Quiet
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Q. Can one hug and kiss a young child that fell and hurt himself while in shul, to calm him and keep him from crying, when it is difficult to take him out somewhere else?
A. Horav Y. Zilberstein Shlit'a (Aleinu Leshaveach - Shemos p. 5 ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 2:32 PM |
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# 2459 Goodbye to Kiss
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Q. Since it is prohibited to kiss children in shul, since we should only show in Hashem's house love to Him, why do chasidim kiss the hand of their rebbes when in shul?
A. Remo (O.H. 98: 1) indeed rules that one should not kiss his youn ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 2:30 PM |
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# 2458 No Returns Accepted
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Q. Re question 2450 above. - One who forgot to request mashiv haruach, and he already passed the bracha of Retzei, and then went back only to Shema Koleinu and mentioned it there, is he yotzi?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 1:48 PM |
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# 2457 A Light Touch
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Q. I usually prepare, set and light the menora candles of an elderly almana (widow) that is our neighbor. It is her menora and her candles is that correct? Can I make the brochos on her behalf?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 1:24 PM |
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# 2456 Heavenly Attire
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Q. Should one who visits the sick wear Shabbos or better clothing, since he is doing a mitzva? (Re- question above)
A. Talmud (Brochos 12b) teaches that on who goes to visit the ill, should cover himself since the presence of the Shech ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 1:08 PM |
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# 2455 Dress Up for the Occasion?
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Q. Should one wear a Shabbat or any jacket for lighting the Chanuka menorah or at least put on a hat?
A. .Rivavos Efraim (O.H. 125: 7) quotes different sources for wearing special clothing for Chanuka.
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Posted 12/17/2019 12:49 PM |
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# 2454 One's Pride or One's Joy?
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Q. Should someone that gives shiurim and teaches Torah to a rabbim, travel out of town to the wedding of a good friend, if that would cause the bittul Torah of the many?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a is that when a wedding takes plac ....
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Posted 12/17/2019 12:37 PM |
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# 2453 Buyers Beware III
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Re-question 2434 and 2429, in regard to immersing utensils manufactured in Israel, but sold in a non-Jewish store. If the item was given on consignment to the Gentile store, does it still need to be toiveled?
A. Horav Shlomo Mi ....
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Posted 12/15/2019 1:36 PM |
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