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# 1565 Remains To Be Seen
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Q. Why is it that we burn the leftover oil, half burned wicks and candles from Chanuka, but we don’t do so for the remains of Shabbath or Yom Tov candles?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a pointed to Tosafos Shabbos (44a) who asks th ....
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Posted 12/26/2017 12:12 AM |
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# 1564 Mezo-Not Yes
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Q. On Rosh Chodesh there is a mitzvah to increase in eating, and even to have a seuda with bread (not an obligation). A working person who is at work basically the whole day and shkia is very early - how is he to be mekayem this mitzvah (it is not ....
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Posted 12/25/2017 11:44 AM |
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# 1563 Hurts To Ask
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Q. An anorexic person committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree. Is her mental condition such that she is treated as if she died from natural causes, or as a suicide?
A. See questions above. As mentioned before, Horav Shlomo ....
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Posted 12/25/2017 11:40 AM |
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# 1562 Benefit Of The Doubt
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Q. An anorexic person died from complications related to the on-going overall decline in her bodily health. Is that termed a suicide?
A. Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life threatening mental illness and eating disorde ....
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Posted 12/24/2017 9:56 PM |
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# 1561 Dead Serious
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Q. How (and why) do the minhagim and halachos relating to the deceased through suicide differ from one who passed away from natural causes?
A. Halacha considers suicide to be tantamount to murder, as the Torah rules (Bereshis 9:5 ) ....
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Posted 12/24/2017 3:54 PM |
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# 1560 Have You Got A Light?
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Q. (See above questions - I was stranded in an airport during Chanuka.,.). Should I have purchased some cigarettes and light one in the permitted smoking area outside?
Does the Rav have any other idea of what should I have done?
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Posted 12/22/2017 2:22 PM |
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# 1559 Take a Chance
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Q. (See above questions- I was stranded in an airport during Chanuka...). Could I use the Menora that presumably belongs to the airport administration and be yotze? If I use for my own personal need, is that stealing? Do we say by goyim, nicha lei l ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 2:12 PM |
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# 1558 Cast Some Light On This
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Q. See question 1556 above (I was stranded in an airport during Chanuka..) Another question. There was an airport menorah (next to a Christmas tree) that could be available, the electrical bulbs where a flickering flame-like reddish light. Is that g ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 1:50 PM |
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# 1557 L E D - N O
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Q. See question 1556 above (I was stranded in an airport during Chanuka..); The stores only had LED flashlights is that better than nothing? Could I make a bracha on it?
A. See question 668 that no LED flashlights should be used wh ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 1:40 PM |
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# 1556 The Right Light
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Q. I was stranded in an airport during Chanuka, and I had to stay there overnight while waiting for the next available flight. Since I live alone, I didn’t have anyone to contact and light in my home for me. Should I have bought a flashlight and t ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 1:34 PM |
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# 1555 Chanukah Chag?
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Q. What is the Rov's opinion about what it says in M”B 529: 19, that one is obligated to eat meat and drink wine on Chanukah, when in fact we know that there is no such obligation?!
A. Although Mishna Berura (ibid.) does rule that ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 1:30 PM |
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# 1554 Safe to Share
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Q. I downloaded from the Agudath Israel of America site almost all the issues of Jewish Observer, going back to 5724.
A number of articles concern criticisms of individuals, some still alive and some no longer, from a Torah viewpoint. The art ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 1:14 PM |
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# 1553 Nice To See You Too
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Q. I once heard from a great man who said to a group of Jews who had come to tour Eretz Yisroel, that as they traverse the land looking to see if the Land is good for them, the Land is also examining them to see if they are good for it.
Does ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 2:18 AM |
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# 1552 A Binding Dilemma
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Q. I take bread and put it into a blender and leave it on until it is as fine as it'll get, not exactly like flour, but close to it.
If I mix this "dust" into a salad, do I make a HaMotzi or Mezonos?
If I mix the "dust" with eggs and/or ....
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Posted 12/22/2017 12:36 AM |
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#1551 Special Delivery
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Q. Does the husband of an expecting wife get pesicha (See questions 1549, 1550 above) if she usually delivers only by Cesarean Section?
A. Tiferes Tzvi (1: 13: p. 150) maintains that a woman in such condition also needs a yeshua and as ....
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Posted 12/21/2017 11:25 AM |
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# 1550 Open and Shut Case
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Q. When the husband of a pregnant woman gets pesicha, (See question 1549 above), does he also close the doors, or that is given to someone else?
A. Oitzar Habris (1: H. Meuberes 14: n. 23) quotes Sefer Hachaim 1: 8), that although t ....
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Posted 12/20/2017 11:26 PM |
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# 1549 An Open Question
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1) Q. I have noticed many people who's wives are expecting, start doing pesicha (opening the aron) before krias Hatorah What is the source for this minhag and at what point in the pregnancy does the minhag dictate to start doing pesicha?
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Posted 12/20/2017 11:23 PM |
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# 1548 Fake Brocho
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Q. During next February I will G-d willing attend an important leading business and investing encounter and President Trump is programmed to attend and say a few opening remarks. I would like to know Horav Miller’s opinion if there is a special ....
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Posted 12/19/2017 9:50 AM |
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# 1547 Light Unto The Nations?
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Q. What if the people of the building across mine and over twenty amos from the ground are not Jewish? – (see questions 1545, 1546 above).
A. Poskim disagree whether pirsumei nissa - advertising and publicizing - the Chanuka miracle ....
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Posted 12/17/2017 8:08 PM |
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# 1546 Window Of Opportunity
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Q. If there is a building right in front of mine across the street, and at the same level another Jewish family has their windows, do I have to light by the window if I’m higher than twenty amos from the street? If the window is higher that a meter ....
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Posted 12/17/2017 8:03 PM |
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