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#5174 Collect one’s Thoughts on Collect
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- Q. Can I send a collection agency after a Jew who didn't pay their bill of $6K.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that it is permitted when in need.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav ....
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:26 PM |
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#5173 Some More AI-Vey
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu. If someone was informed by an AI service email, that is part of a mortuary institution of the death of a close friend, should he already then make the bracha of Dayan Emeth?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion i ....
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:20 PM |
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#5172 Wash and Dry and…
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Q. Can one use a tissue paper towel or a napkin used for drying ones hands after washing for a Shabbat meal, to further clean and dry hands, mouth or nose, during the meal, when it still is wet and it may involve prohibited Sechita or squeezing?
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Posted 11/8/2024 12:17 PM |
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#5171 Good Times Begin with a Blessing!
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- Q. Dear Rov this is a Shaila I‘m sure you will love and we need a real prompt answer. Today in the very early hours of the morning we became aware that Donald Trump won B’H the election. Two questions. 1) Do we say Tachanun this morning or do we t ....
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Posted 11/6/2024 12:35 PM |
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#5170 Justifying Justice
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- Q. If someone a few times a year walk to a shul on Shabbos that is close to a Jewish cemetery and as he comes close he can see clearly the burial places and the Matzeivos (stones) on them, does he recite the customary brocho of “Yotzar Eschem Ba ....
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Posted 11/5/2024 6:47 PM |
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#5169 Red Strings Attached?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlita. Am I allowed to wear during Shabbat where one isn’t allowed to carry, a small piece of the afikoman left from the seder I ate while visiting my grandparents last Pesach? They said it is a segula for not forgeting them and ....
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Posted 11/3/2024 10:33 AM |
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#5168 Mentalist Ability Test?
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- Q. Long Life to Kvod Horav. The Ezer Mitzion and other organizations helping Israel invited master mentalist Lior Suchard to Toronto and he will be visiting here next week. I heard that his show is truly wonderful. My question is, is one by Halac ....
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Posted 11/1/2024 12:27 PM |
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#5167 Flying With the Wind
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- Q. When one's tie is flying in the wind, is it a problem on Shabbos?
A. Asuming that the question involves walking during Shabbos in a place without a proper Eiruv, so one may be then considered as carrying an object in a Public Doma ....
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Posted 11/1/2024 12:23 PM |
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#5166 Bible Belt and Braces?
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Q. See question above. Is it a Mitzva to burn them?
A. If it won’t create any Chilul Hashem or increase in any way, now or in the future, enmity and conflict from others, it is permitted. Yet because of the complexities involved, furth ....
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Posted 11/1/2024 12:19 PM |
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#5165 Bible Bashers?
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Q. Is it permitted to use the pages of the King James Bible as kindling for a fireplace, (during winter, as I deal with discarded books), or are they Osur B'Hano'o (prohibited in benefit)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is t ....
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Posted 11/1/2024 12:11 PM |
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#5164 Sly As a Fox?
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Q. The Gemara (שבת סז) says that a fox tooth from a live fox helps you stay awake. Is this permitted to do? Does this still work nowadays? (If Horav Miller says “yes” please ask him if the fox has to remain alive for ....
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Posted 10/27/2024 11:24 AM |
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#5163 Don’t Be Too Happy?
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- Q. See question above. If someone also plays himself a musical instrument, can he in the above situation still play?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a opinion is that in such a case one it is preferable to abstain.
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Posted 10/22/2024 9:01 PM |
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#5161- Follow The Sign
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- Q. See questions above. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. Is it better in our days of increasing hate and antisemitism that we should place at the entrance of our Sukot that are often by us in the front facing to the street, a large sign that every pass ....
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Posted 10/22/2024 8:26 PM |
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#5160 Sleep On This Suka?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. As we are starting to build our Sukot, in this difficult year of antisemitism and hate to Jews that many now encounter in our neighborhoods, to avoid placing our Suka in the front of our homes facing the street as we always do, an ....
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Posted 10/15/2024 5:54 PM |
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#5159 The Love of Hashem Trumps Hate
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- Q. B’nai Brith of Canada, has revealed that antisemitic acts more than doubled between 2022 and 2024. Since our lives and the lives of our children are now at a real risk in Canada.
I humbly think that the Vaad of Rabbis of our com ....
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Posted 10/15/2024 5:48 PM |
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#5158 Thanks B”H – But No Thanks
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- Q. See question above. Since we live close by to the school, do we have to come to shul and recite the customary Bracha of Hagomel? What would the case be if it happened during actual classes and our children were there?
A. On question 10 ....
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Posted 10/15/2024 5:42 PM |
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#5157 No Amen to this Omen
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- Q. Dear Rabbi, Long Life to you and all your family. As you certainly heard, Bais Chaya Mushka School for Girls close to you on North York (Toronto) was hit by bullets this Yom Kipur night, (yesterday), a second time this year. As you know we ....
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Posted 10/15/2024 5:40 PM |
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#5156 A Freilechen St. Patrick’s day?
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- Q. What is one permitted to do on Thanksgiving day?
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“I attend a daily minyan, that as others do, offers an after Shacharit Kiddush with a drink and mezonot. The attendants before drinking a small ....
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Posted 10/14/2024 2:00 PM |
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#5155 Are Women Better Than Angels?
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- Q. Do women also repeat aloud on Yom Kippur, when they pray in the Ezrat Nashim, the phrase of “Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto,” when reading the Shema, aloud as men do?
A. Poskim disagree and there are different opinions if they also eq ....
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:33 PM |
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#5154 The Torah Misrepresented?
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Q. In a large shul that has the tradition to take out all the Sifre Torah during Kol Nidrei and honor the people who contribute to the institution, can they also take out the Sefarim that are not Kasher?
Since they do not want to ins ....
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:31 PM |
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