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# 1135 Much Ado About a Seadoo
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Q, Can I buy a seadoo during three weeks, since it is available now at a discounted price and just give a deposit? I will not be having any intention to acquire the machine, until delivery after the 3 weeks, but still legally, i ....
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Posted 8/2/2016 10:45 PM |
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# 1134 A Blessing in Disguise?
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Q. If one said Kiddush on wine before a Seudah (Shabbos/Yom Tov), does one say Shahakol on ice cream if it is served as dessert (for those who are accustomed to make a bracha on ice cream during a meal)?
A. Poskim disagree, some (Vezos ....
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Posted 8/2/2016 10:31 PM |
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# 1133 Now, It's a More “Safer Torah”
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Q. We had an unusual shayla in our minyan this last Monday. We took out one of the various Sifre-Torah rolled to Parshat Pinchas and the baal koreh noticed that someone, probably out of simple ignorance, had corrected the Vav-Ketia on the word sh ....
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Posted 8/1/2016 9:59 AM |
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# 1132 Daven Maven
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Q1. The baal tefillah this morning at my minyan has a habit of 'eating his words' . This means, among other things, that his brachas often leave out words so that it becomes "Baruch ... Hashem ...nuMelech...olam". (I have a r ....
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Posted 7/29/2016 6:15 PM |
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# 1131 Time Lag Plag
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Q. A woman whose husband made “early Shabbos” may not do any Melacha after the time that her husband was Mekabel Shabbos. [This is unlike the opinion of the Gaon Rav Feinstein zatzal, but this is the ruling of many poskim, including the Shevet HaLev ....
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Posted 7/29/2016 4:25 PM |
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# 1130 First In
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Q. Two individuals face each other at a bathroom door, one leaving the bathroom and one entering, who has din kadima and goes first?
A. An entrance to a public bathroom, public bath, steam bath or similar, does not necessitate or i ....
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Posted 7/27/2016 10:08 PM |
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# 1129 In and Out
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Q. When two individuals meet, one exiting a shul or a beis hamedresh and the other about to enter, who has din kadima and goes first?
A. Rema Mipano (Teshuvos 83) rules in regards to two individuals, one who is given an aliya to read ....
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Posted 7/27/2016 10:06 PM |
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# 1128 Bimatapping On Shabbos
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Q. Can a gabai leave on a recording device on Shabbos by the bima, so there will be a record of the donations given, when the people are not aware they are being recorded? Why is this any different than the security video recorders installed now at ....
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Posted 7/27/2016 12:06 AM |
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# 1127 Double Talk?
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Q. Why do we prohibit using a microphone on Shabbos, and we permit speaking to a person wearing a hearing aid?
A. Igrois Moishe (O.H. 4: 85) explains that microphones became prohibited by most Poskim because they involve “hashmoas kol ....
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Posted 7/25/2016 10:49 PM |
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# 1126 Turn a Deaf's Ear
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Q. Can a person who needs a hearing aid, adjust the volume on Shabbos? With a shinui?
A. Igrois Moishe (O.H. 4: 85 – see last question) permits the use of a hearing aid, since in reality the melocho is not done by the hard of hear ....
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Posted 7/22/2016 5:14 PM |
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# 1125 I See the Light
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Q. Regarding many areas in hilchos Shabbos there is a difference if the melocha is from the Torah or derabanan: amira lakum, maseh Shabbos etc. What is the status of electricity regarding such issues?
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Posted 7/22/2016 2:22 PM |
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# 1124 Hotel Or Notel
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Q. Can I be a partner in a non-kosher hotel?
A. Poskim maintain that one should not enter into a business venture with a Gentile that commercializes with non kosher products (Maharam Shik 136, Rama M’Pano 30, Darchei Teshuva 117: 17 e ....
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Posted 7/21/2016 11:40 PM |
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# 1123 Corner the Market
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Q. The fact that a non kosher product is sold mostly to non-Jews does that permit marketing it?
A. The prohibition to commercialize with non kosher products applies even when you sell the items only to Gentiles. This is obvious, s ....
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Posted 7/20/2016 12:22 AM |
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# 1122 Out of Touch
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Q. The fact that I just will do office work, and will not come in physical contact with the product itself, does that permit importing and distributing non kosher foods?
A. Gilyon Maharsho (Y.D. 117: 1) rules that one may not give mone ....
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Posted 7/19/2016 3:28 PM |
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# 1121 Not Kosher For Nosher
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Q. Hi Rabbi,
Is there a problem in importing a diet product that some of the ingredients are not kosher?
A. Mishna (Sheviis 7: 3), Rambam (Macholos Assuros 8: 18), Tur and Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 117), rule that there is a prohibitio ....
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Posted 7/19/2016 3:24 PM |
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# 1120 It’s Complicated
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Q. I heard its a sin from a Jew to tell on another Jew. Is this right? What if a Jew commits a serious crime to another Jew?. Regardless, of religion, its moral and ethical to report any crime to the police no matter the nature of it or if its fro ....
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Posted 7/15/2016 6:10 PM |
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# 1119 Mazal Tov! You Are Married
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Q. If after a chupa, it became known that the witnesses were related to each other with a disqualifying familial closeness, does Rav Miller hold that the kidushin have to be repeated, or we can bedieved relay on the Chassam Sofer that permits?
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Posted 7/15/2016 1:28 PM |
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# 1118 Write or Right?
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Q. If you find a common ordinary ballpoint pen that is similar to many others on a table in a shul or other frequented Jewish institutions, can you use it or even keep it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that ....
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Posted 7/15/2016 1:21 PM |
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# 1117 Go to G-d to Godol
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Q. Is it correct for a teacher to keep on telling his students that they can all grow to be Gedolei Yisrael, when it is obvious that they don’t have the mental or any other abilities to be so and later in life they will become heavily discouraged a ....
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Posted 7/15/2016 1:12 PM |
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# 1116 Avoid the Avoda Zara
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Q. Hi, I wonder if it would be OK, halachically right to use a golden cross and melt it to make it into a Magen David necklace? I was thinking about the golden calf that was destroyed and it's gold not reused, and I suspect it might be avoda zara t ....
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Posted 7/14/2016 10:44 PM |
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