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# 4668 Torah about Learning Torah
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Q. See question above. How about when one learns Torah. Is it every word one says or thinks or maybe even letters a separate mtzvah that requires intention?
A. Birchas Shmuel, (Kiddushin, 27) questions the known Gaon of Vilna affirmati ....
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Posted 2/18/2024 12:16 PM |
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# 4667 - So, So, Many Mitzvos!!!
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Q. When someone wears Tzitzith, either a Taalith Gadol or Kattan, does he comply with a separate mitzva every second or even a fraction of a second he is wearing it? That would be about 86400 mitzvoth every day! How about if he wears two?
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:08 AM |
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# 4666 A Hint on the Drop
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Q. Is the fluid that drips from the nose of some elderly considered like the mucous from ones nose that requires washing of hands when one touches it before one can recite brochos and learn Torah?
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit”a pointed to ....
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:05 AM |
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# 4665 The Signs of Times
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Q. If ones tradition is to hang a sign by the door that expresses our mitzva of rejoicing during the month of Adar. (Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha). Should one use it to cover the memorial on the entrance for the destruction of the Beth Hamikd ....
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:02 AM |
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# 4664 A Doggone Shailah
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Q. I heard that in a kibbutz woman was killed by Hamas during the Oct 7, when she stayed behind to protect their dog. The rest of the family was already hiding in a safe room and survived.
In Halacha. is that woman to be treated as a hero an ....
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Posted 2/14/2024 10:37 PM |
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# 4663 The Adar Radar
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Q. Shalom Rav Shlit’’a. As we spoke on the phone we are starting a new minyan in a new town in the outskirts of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) and we need and have our own Chevra Kadisha to take care of Hashem Yishmor our deceased. We want to u ....
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Posted 2/12/2024 1:24 PM |
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# 4662 Urim on Purim
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Q. Dear Rabino Purim Katan Is coming, is there something we should do to celebrate this precious day?
A. See question 3560 regarding a group of friends that make a Seudas Purim Koton is it considered a Seudas Mitzva that one invi ....
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Posted 2/9/2024 10:49 AM |
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# 4661 See Beyond your Nose
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Q. Is the fluid that emerges from a runny nose from elderly people considered like mucous and one has to wash hands when touching it?
A. Remoh (O.H. 92: 3) rules that one should wash hands after to be able to recite sayings of kedusha ....
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:43 PM |
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# 4660 Hint the Lint
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Q. See question above. Also, could I clean out the lint trap as that is my custom as I tend to forget when I put a load in or is that stuff muktza?
A. The lint is indeed muktza and should not be removed or cleaned during Shabbos.
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:41 PM |
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# 4659 Do Not Call it a Wash!
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Q. I’m (a single woman that) was staying in my friend's place and came home two hours before Shabbos to a lay on the bed. I put everything in the laundry but forgot to take it out of the dryer before I lit the candles. I know it was dry because I ....
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:34 PM |
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# 4658- It is all for Free!
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Q. Thanks again for all your great and short answers, but Rov is not free of me yet! How wet does the garment really have to be when Shabbos begins in order to remain muktza for the rest of Shabbos?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:31 PM |
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# 4657 –Laundry List
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Q. Thank you Rov Shlit’a, sorry to bother you again, it is still me and more in the list. I don’t understand. why is wet laundry muktza and yet the wet towels that one can still use when washing hands before a Shabbos meal are not?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:27 PM |
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4656 Washing Laundry in Public! A Shailah
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. If my most dearest wife left a piece of my washed needed wet laundry to dry hanging indoors in the bathroom at the start of last Shabbos, could i have used it when it dried as expected during the night?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:24 PM |
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# 4655 - A Great Minor Embarrassment?
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Q. Our kids were acting up in a carpool. I finally lost my temper and said something to the ringleader in front of the other kids. I tried to apologize the next day but he would not talk to me. What should I do?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:18 PM |
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# 4654 Room For Compromise?
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Q. I’m a Frum woman that has a Jewish girlfriend, and she has a Jewish male tenant who lives in her house. Would it be Yichud for me to sleep over in her home on Shabbos? She is divorced so there is no husband in the picture and she's also an emp ....
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Posted 2/7/2024 4:34 PM |
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# 4653 This Week Reading Three Parshios? Really!!!
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Q.I heard in Shul during this last Shaleshudes that this year (2024) we will be reading actually on Mishpatim three different parshios. Is that really true?
A. On question 1618 we nmentioned the following: "My Zaidy asked me ....
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Posted 2/4/2024 1:32 PM |
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# 4652 We Must Really Truly Be in Love!
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Q. I have always really wondered. Where is there in our Holy Torah mentioned a Mitzva of loving our Torah itself?
I have looked and searched widely and never yet found a source for it.
How can that really be!!!
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Posted 2/2/2024 11:18 AM |
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# 4651 The Right Feelings
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Q. When recently I was travelling a relative short Europe trip. Then our flight was cancelled and was stuck in a real foreign airport for a full day. Since I had expected to return home at night, I didn’t take my Tefillin with me. Now I faced a da ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 11:02 AM |
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# 4650 Nailing the Coffin?
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Q. Kvod Horav Shlit’a. We recently had in a levaya in Mexico, and as you likely remember when the cadaver is transferred from various different locations to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mexico City, different coffins are used by law. What sho ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:57 AM |
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# 4649 The Maximal Animal
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- Q. See question above. If in any way we can diminish the pain suffered by the animals involved. As by giving them pain killers even when they are costly and time consuming, should it be done?
A. It all depends in the real and practic ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:53 AM |
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