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#5777 A Vort on a Vort
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- Q. Dear Rov, as I asked by email, we Be’H are about to do theVort (engagement) for our daughter. I heard that it should better not be done on the Seventh day of Shevat, that corresponds this year to this coming Sunday night (Feb 25 2026), when ....
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Posted 1/30/2026 10:27 AM |
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#5776 – Tell It the Best!
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- Q. See question above.
I also have the family tradition to say Parshas Haman repeated twice and followed by the Aramaic Targum translation. Should that also be repeated on the night after?
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Posted 1/28/2026 11:56 AM |
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#5775 – A Better Late Than Never Parsha?
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- Q. Kvod Rabeinu Shlit’a. If someone usually says Parshas Haman and the accompanying tefilos on Tuesday, yet he was traveling and could not say them until the night, is it OK to say it then?
A. Although the minhag is to say ....
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Posted 1/28/2026 11:51 AM |
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#5774 - Man Parsha - Always “Heaven On Earth”
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Q. Dear Rabbi Long Life. I just got an email from our shul that we should say on this Tuesday, the Parsha of The Man, as a great Segula for having good Parnassah. I just so happens that I say that chapter every day, do I have to say mor ....
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Posted 1/27/2026 12:16 AM |
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#5773 - A Storm of a Shailah?
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- Q. Dear Rov. I truly wonder if one is allowed to make people come to shul to fulfill the ten needed for a minyan, when there is a powerful snow storm and it may put some people in danger. Is that correct?
A. There are many variab ....
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Posted 1/25/2026 5:27 PM |
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#5772 - Need New Pesach Teeth?
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- Q. Moreini Horav O”Y. (Orech Yomim).
We have, in our shul, a tzedaka group that collects every year to help the families unable to meet the needs for Pesach. We have an elderly retired man who needs a complete new set of dentures ....
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Posted 1/25/2026 1:13 PM |
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#5771 - Blessing Shecheyanu on esrog jam
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- Q. Can you make Shecheyanu on jam made from Ethrogim on the second night (of Rosh Hashonoh)?
A. The Tur and Bais Yosef (O.H. 583) quote from Talmud Kerissos (6a) that one should eat on Rosh Hashonoh esrogim as a good siman. ( ....
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:44 PM |
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#5770 – A Froge on the Esrog?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. I was able to save by refrigeration the Esrog from last Sukot to eat on Tu Bishvat. Does one make a Shecheyanu on that Esrog? What if I also kept some of it as a jam?
A. On question 455 we wrote;
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:40 PM |
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#5769 - A Tree Here There, Everywhere???
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-- Q. Shalom Rov Shlit’a. I know that there is a Minhag Mitzva to plant a tree on Tu Bisvat. Is that also outside of Israel?
A. Trees are most important in our tradition, The Tree of Life, which Hashem placed at the heart of the Gar ....
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:36 PM |
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#5768 - Q. A Very Early Celebration?
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– Q. Dear Rabbi. How come we celebrate in Canada and in most of the U.S. and Europe, Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees and their fruits, when we are surrounded by frost and often covered by snow. Is it not ridiculous?
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:34 PM |
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#5767 - Kadish Leolam Olmaya – Really Forever?
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- Q. See question above:
On the one hand, I understand that I had taken on this obligation to say Kaddish for this person and therefore it is an ongoing annual occurrence and obligation, however now that the person who actually ....
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:31 PM |
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#5766 – Kadish Leolam – Forever?
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- Q. Dear Ask-the-Rabbi,- Rabbi.
For several years now, I've been saying Kaddish on my wife's behalf because she had the chiyuv to say Kaddish for her mother. Now that my wife has passed and no longer has that chiuv, do I continue t ....
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Posted 1/23/2026 1:23 PM |
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#5765 - The True Tu Bishvat.
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Q. Kvod Horav. When is the correct time to make our seuda of Tu Bishvat, on the night before or on the day?
A. On question 5295 we wrote the following – Q. The people of our shul have a tradition to make a seuda for Tu Bishvat in ....
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Posted 1/18/2026 10:26 PM |
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#5764 – A Blessed Rosh Chodesh!
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- Q. Dearest Rov and Halacha leader Shlit’a. In a few days will Iy”H Rosh Chodesh Shvat and I heard that this Rosh Chodesh carries special Bracha and great blessings.
My child requires an important medical operation, is it better to do it o ....
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Posted 1/18/2026 7:48 PM |
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#5763 T’u Bishvat - The Labor on One’s Fruits
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Ask Bo 86. Q. Rov Shlit’a. You explained last year very nicely in the Shul Shiur the way how to comply with the tradition of eating fruits on Tu Bishvat, I won’t be is Shul this year could you pleasi kindly email it to me. Thank you greatly. ....
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Posted 1/18/2026 1:09 PM |
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#5762 – More Intimate Purity Cure Needed
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- Q. See question above. Another explanation to the above question is because Shovavim falls after the winter solstice, which is when the days start to get longer.
This relates to a story recounted in Avodah Zara 8a: after Adam sinne ....
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Posted 1/16/2026 11:57 AM |
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#5761 – Intimate Purity Cure
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi. Thank again so much for your fast answer.
I have another question. I have noticed that the knowledgeable people in our shul refer to the above chapters as a cure for thoughts of sexual impurity and to laxity in the law ....
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Posted 1/16/2026 11:52 AM |
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#5760 On The Right Time?
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- - Q. Honorable Rabbi. Thank you so much for your fast answer. I still have some more questions. First one; What is the reason Shovavim is kept at this time of the year?
A. The reason is that the parshiot of Shemos. Va’eira. Bo. Be ....
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Posted 1/16/2026 11:48 AM |
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#5759 -The Shovaim Meaning
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi. In our new shul we have a number of different groups that have joined together and have different traditions and customs. Many disagree as to what to do during the Shovavim period. Firstly what is really Shovavim?
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Posted 1/16/2026 11:42 AM |
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#5758 – Learning about the New Torah Learning?
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- Q. See question above. Could Torah learned by such artificial new methods be used on Shabbat? What if it cannot be disconected or removed?
A. As mentioned on the above questions, this truly new and revolutionary Torah knowledge and ....
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Posted 1/16/2026 11:34 AM |
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