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#5077 Zoning Shabbos Chazon
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- Q. Shalom LaRav Shlit’a. Is it true what some maintain that we should increase on Shabbos Chazon Simcha, happiness and joy more than any other regular Shabbos? Why not the contrary?
A. Indeed, that is the opinion of Likutei Shlomo ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:40 AM |
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#5076 Room for the Not Yet Frum?
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Q. Is it ok for a woman to be included in the kiddush and homotzi of a man who isn't shomer Shabbat yet? What about havdala?
A. The above should be avoided as it is possible that the man is not yet a proper believer in Hashem and hi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:28 AM |
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#5075 Clothing for Mourning
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- Q. How long do I have to wear my freshly laundered clothes before the 9 days? Can I just leave them unfolded on the bed instead?
A. Poskim write that one hour is enough. Some maintain that one may wear a few pieces at the same time. ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:25 AM |
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#5074 The Ma’aseh on Ma’aser
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- Q. How does one calculate tzeddaka on the sale of a house? I'm assuming that some expenses could be deducted such as mortgage and taxes and maintenance but not consumables such as gas and electricity. Would paying tuition for my kids be consi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:20 AM |
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#5073 Have Something to Eat?
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Q. (As the Rov well knows…), I can't eat fish and only limited dairy products, so can I eat chicken during the 9 days?
A. The answer to this Shaila depends on the assessment of your doctor familiar with your condition and in contact wi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:16 AM |
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#5072 – What’s In a Name?
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Q. Rabenu Shlit’a. We have a non- Jewish worker that is from Mexico and uses the name “Jesus.” Is it proper and correct to call him by that name and mention it constantly?
A. You may, with his permission and appreciation, call him w ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:13 AM |
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#5071 Strict Strait Start
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- Q. Hello Rov. Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Av and the start of the Nine Days. Is it possible for someone who can only daven with a minyan at an early maariv minyan after Plag, do so expressing that he is not accepting the restriction of eating meat u ....
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Posted 8/6/2024 10:23 PM |
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#5070 Avoid the Beaten Track?
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Q.Dear Rov Shlit’a. As the situation in Israel seems to be lately so dangerous, is there a reason to restrict again the travel there as we did during some of the recent years? What is Horav Millers Shlit’a opinion?
A. I did ask Horav ....
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Posted 8/4/2024 5:49 PM |
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# 5069 – Your Other AI Self?
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Q. Moreinu Shlit’a. You have taught us that using a robot that possesses artificial intelligence, even if it performs a prohibition or does a mitzva it is basically the same as if you have done it yourself, because they are programmed by humans ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:28 PM |
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#5068 The Most Happy Tefilin
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- Q. My son is about to become Iy”H Bar Mitzva three weeks after Tisha Beav. We have a minhag that our Bar Mitzva bochurim don Tefilin a month before. We were able to acquire for him an unusually excellent pair of Tefilin both by the maker and the ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:26 PM |
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#5067 Bird Watching
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Q. We saw a heron bird nesting close to our cottage, and our children were wondering if there is a mitzva of Shiluach Haken in such wild bird. Is there? If there is, what bracha should be said?
A. On question 187 regarding if there is ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:21 PM |
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#5066 Dream Away
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Q. Kvod Ha Rab. I know that we do not put much into dreams. However, this dream has remained with me and it is a bit disturbing as it was very vivid. In this dream, we were sitting at the table ready to start eating a kind of pasta dish with meat ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:18 PM |
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#5065 Best Way to Stay Awake or Fall Asleep?
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- Q. Someone that needs to hear music during work or while he is driving to calm him down or to help him not falling asleep, is that permitted during the Three Weeks?
A. We had a similar Shaila:
“4215 Can someone who is in need ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:15 PM |
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#5064 Turning It Into a Good Dream?
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Q. I recently read that the Gerrer Rebbe summoned a special minyan to his home to recite Hatavas Chalom (“Making good a Dream” The prayer said when someone has a bad dream).
Do you really need a minyan for Hatavas Chalom in sidurim is ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:10 PM |
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#5063 Room for Groom ?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. Is one allowed to cut nails during the Nine Days?
How about going to the mikva for one who usually is tovel before davening? If he is allowed can he take a short shower immersing to keep the mikva clean?
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:05 PM |
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#5062 All Hands Off Deck
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- Q. We B’H have and enjoy the great Bracha of Hashem that blessed us with a truly outstanding home with seven very beautiful children, most of them are not Bar or Bat mitzva yet.
Although, as is obvious it has to be permitted to wash ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:00 PM |
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#5061 Lining for the Clean linen?
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– Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’ll have Iy’H in during the Nine Days my children and their families visiting us. What is the correct thing to do for them when providing fresh linen and towels as they need? Is it permitted?
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Posted 8/2/2024 12:56 PM |
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#5060 Questioning the Questions
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Q. “Dear Rov Shlit’a. As you well know I give a few weekly shiurim to a large group of mispallelim in our shul. I often wondered which is best, to let the listeners ask questions during the time I speak or set a specific time at the end of the cl ....
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Posted 7/28/2024 9:54 AM |
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#5059 The Right Side of the Bed?
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Q. See question above. Rabbi you may remember that in that particular old age home they made once a minyan with a whole friendly group of more than ten people, that were very aged and bedridden, but were taken by the special elevators to the shul. ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 11:01 AM |
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#5058 Enough of a Feast?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. A group of elderly and ill residents in our old age home, who are allowed by all opinions to eat on a fast day even on Tisha Beav and they sit together in a table, can they recite Birchat Hamazon together and say the brachot of Mez ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:57 AM |
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