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#5025 - Giving a Giving Education -
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Q. Dear Rov, As you well know, I’m one of the younger mispalelim that attends your shul from time to time. If I earn some money during the summer by helping in boys camp I attend. Since I’m supported by my parents, do I have to give maaser to tzed ....
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Posted 6/30/2024 6:22 PM |
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#5024 Lighting the Candle
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- Q. See question above. I have a single blind grandmother that lives in Mexico and has a maid that takes care of her, can she ask her maid to hold her hand and she would then light the candle and recite the bracha?
A. See question ab ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 2:00 PM |
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#5023 The Faith of the Blind
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- Q. My elderly grandmother due to old age and disease lost her eyesight and can’t see at all, can my grandfather light the Shabbos candles and she should recite the blessings? It provides to her a tremendous great beautiful feeling and inspiration ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:57 PM |
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#5022 The Light of Seeing
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- Q. See question above. Dear Rov and colleague. We joined together yesterday at the Kabolas Ponim and welcoming of the Gedolei Yisroel in their historic visit to Toronto to establish the Keren Olam Hatorah.
I watched you approach the ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:55 PM |
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#5021 Beat the Brains?
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Q. Kvod Horav Shlit’a. As far as I remember you were the first to address the question of electronic brain implants that connect directly to the brain and permit someone to see and read, and if that type of eyesight would have any Halacha value, ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:50 PM |
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#5020 - What Are You Drinking?
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Q. Dearest Rov, Last Shabbat we were enjoying at a kiddush in shul for an Oifruff. Then when it came to reciting Kiddush the only wine available was a real truly expensive wine bottle and since they were unable to open directly, the abnormally to ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:46 PM |
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# 5019 Of Your Choice
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- Q. Hello Rav, If I have a bunch of mixed cutlery mixed in a drying rack, my understanding is that I can't (on Shabbat) choose one randomly and then put it in its place in the drawer and then keep doing that until its all put away. I believe this ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:42 PM |
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#5018 Not a Dead End
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- Q. Moreinu Shlit”a, If someone is sitting shiva but doesn't want you to publicize it, should you listen to them? (They have a minyan anyway but many people would like to know and be Menachem Avel)
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A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a o ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:41 PM |
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# 5017 Guess the Guest
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- Q. I was told that unless someone was registered in the conversion program with the Beit Din we are not supposed to invite them.
How does that work if people don't know this procedure and the candidates don't tell you? Shouldn't t ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:39 PM |
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#5016 You Eat What You Are?
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- Q. I was at a shul kiddush that accidentally served a salad with parmesean cheese on the same table as the meat cholesterol and think I might have eaten both.
I threw away my plate and assumed that I could not eat either milk or meat for ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:37 PM |
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#5015 Obstacle Obstruction?
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Q. Can one remove nail coloring on Shabbos before washing hands for eating Challah, when it is already falling apart and is unattractive, and thus is a “chatzitza’ or a barrier for washing hands or mikva imersion?
A. Horav Shlomo M ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:12 PM |
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#5014 Tried and Tested
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- Q. See question above: What is indeed the correct way for blood sugar or alcohol testing on Shabbos?
Can someone that after a meal during Shabbos and needs to test blood sugar or alcohol levels insert clinical test strips into ones u ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:09 PM |
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#5013 Testing the Test
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- Q. Choshuver Contemporary Rov Shlit’a. I take care of an elderly person and take him to shul on a wheelchair on Shabbos.
On this troubled times, there is often a patrol police car stationed outside our large shul during and after davening ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:06 PM |
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#5012 Guess the Guest?
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Q. See question above. Would the same apply if the forefathers were not Frum (religious)?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a suggested that after death the departed neshamos are likely to become tahor and pure after undergoing the usual ti ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:02 PM |
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#5011 Guests of Honor
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi. As you know, we are planing to do the wedding of our first child and I heard that there is a tradition to invite the Neshamot of our forefathers, grandparents by visiting the Kevarim where they are buried. I’ve heard that some ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:00 PM |
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#5010 Opposites Attract
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– Q. Why are there two Meshichim in Yiddishkeit, Moshiach ben Yosef and Moshiach ben Dovid? Couldn't the abilities of both be invested in one person?
A. Our Sages teach us that the Universal Creation of the world involves usually two o ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 12:56 PM |
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#5009 Single Honest Honor?
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Q. See question above. If a group of mispalelim in a shul or as in our case just one well to do member, wants to offer a kiddush on the Shabbos before or after fathers day to give honor and recognition to his dearest father and show his appreciati ....
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Posted 6/19/2024 10:47 AM |
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#5008 Honor the Honor?
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- Q. Is there anything wrong with celebrating the recent Father's Day to honor and give the rightful thanks and recognition to one’s father? Is that not a real great Mitzvah? How about if they openly declare and imply that one always needs to give ....
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Posted 6/18/2024 8:42 PM |
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#5007 A Light Reply
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– Q. One who usually lights a Yohrzait candle for his father on the day when Izkor is recited in shul. Due to sudden sickness issues he was in hospital and unable to do so this last day of Shavuos, should he light a candle when he returns h ....
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Posted 6/16/2024 12:24 PM |
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#5006 Head on the Bread
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. We have in our shul after Yom Tov lots of left over Chalos that were not used during the Yom Tov’s meals served in shul.
If one has the choice to eat on Shabbos a complete challa that is only a Kezais big or a biger o ....
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Posted 6/14/2024 3:18 PM |
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