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#4956 First Come, First Served?
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Q. See question above. How about reciting the Birchos Hashachar (the morning blessings recited before korbanot), can they be said after the Tefila?
A. Poskim disagree. HoRav S’Z Auerbach Zt’l maintains that they are even more importan ....
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Posted 5/8/2024 4:51 PM |
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#4955 Skip a Beat?
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Q.Hello Rav, when the Tur and Shulchan Aruch O.C. 1:4 write that it is preferable to pray a little with Kavana than to pray a lot without Kavana, What parts of davening is he referring to? I had always assumed this applied to the sections of the ....
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Posted 5/8/2024 4:45 PM |
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#4954 Hayom Chamisho Yomim BeMayo?
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- Q. Estimado Rabino - Hashem lo Bendiga- As you well know in our Spanish group there are some that celebrate Cinco de Mayo (the fifth day of May) and make a party for the family and kids and friends getting together and playing games. Is ther ....
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Posted 5/6/2024 11:26 AM |
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#4953 Many Are so Few?
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Q. See question 4946 above. How many is the minimum of people present at the time of davening for the davening to be counted as Berov Am so that one should try to daven at the sametime they do?
A. Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a. Mainain ....
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Posted 5/5/2024 5:30 PM |
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#4952 Really?
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Q. Is there a reason for the strange tradition that many a shul have that one must scream out ka’eylah! when the ba’al koreh reads that maftir part?
A. It could be that it is done to stress that it is not a repetition of the same w ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:10 PM |
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#4951 Best for Those Who Wait
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- Q. Can the counting of the omer be said on Friday night after maariv if it is not yet the time one finishes Shabbat.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should wait, as one does in such an occasion regarding th ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:07 PM |
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#4950 Face the Music
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Q. During the Sefira weeks for one who is very careful with listening to music, can he sit and learn in a Bet Midrash where there is a fellow who sings nice tunes when he learns?
A. On question 1390 regarding if one can listen to tap ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:05 PM |
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#4948 - Shtick to Your Gun
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- Q. I was davening in a shul in the States and I noticed that the fellow next to me who is very frum had in the back of the inside holding space of his shtender (personal holding pulpit) in front of him, usually used for storing his taalis and holy ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 12:57 PM |
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#4947 How Early is Early?
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Q. I daven in an early minyan of Mincha and Maariv. It is very likely as it happened to me many times and to others, that if I don’t count then sefira I will forget later on, When is the earliest one can count sefira?
A. On question ....
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Posted 5/2/2024 5:53 PM |
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#4946 We All Count when Counting Together
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Q. See question above. Since the AI or zooming counting does not seem to make a difference, is it even better to count as a group in a zoom shiur together?
A. on question 3119 we were asked the following similar question:
“We da ....
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Posted 5/2/2024 5:50 PM |
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#4945 My AI Counting Friend
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- Q. I attend a zoom shiur every night and the attendants can see each other usually and also debate and ask questions. At the end of the shiur, these days we count sefirah when it is already the right time.
If as usually happens I missed a s ....
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Posted 5/2/2024 5:45 PM |
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#4944 Get the Mitzva, Yet Get This First
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- Q. How can the father give by the seder to his sons or guest matzos, so they can comply with the mitzva since the matzos have to belong to them, is it not prohibited to make a Kinyan (acquisitive act on Shabbat or Yom Tov?
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Posted 5/2/2024 1:39 PM |
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#4943 Kashering Yet not Cracking it
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- Q. We have a glass top stove. The stove was used for chometz in the past. Each year, we kashered it for Pesach by turning on the elements until they were red hot, as per COR guidelines. Since the glass between the elements could not be kasher ....
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Posted 5/2/2024 1:26 PM |
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#4942 Split The Halacha Sea?
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit"a. Our family is staying for Pesach in a city and hotel we never went to.I was told that there is a Chasidishe shtibl nearby where they have a minhag to pour water on the floor of the shul on Shevii shel Pesach, and dance around a ....
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Posted 4/28/2024 12:42 PM |
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#4941 Find the HaMotzi - Matza
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Q. Our tradition is not to eat matza for thirty days before Pesach. Since this year we will be traveling right after Shabbos and we offer shaleshudes in shul for a simcha, and it will be hard to clean after Shabbos, can we eat on Shabbos machine ....
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Posted 4/19/2024 2:14 PM |
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#4940 Brace for the Braces
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Q.Shavua Tov, a gut voch. It was mentioned at shul today about preparing for Pesach with teeth braces. I have heard that no hot chametz 24 hours before and I would imagine a very thorough cleaning. Anything I am missing?
A. Horav Shl ....
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Posted 4/19/2024 1:53 PM |
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#4939 Good News for Good News
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Q Thank you! Quick question...I have been trying to say "Mizmor l'Soda" (Tehillim 100) after hearing good news for many years now. This morning, I had done my negel vasser (washing of hands after awakening), but not my morning brachos and I heard ....
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Posted 4/19/2024 1:47 PM |
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#4938 The Truth in Wine?
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- Q. See question above. Kvod Harav. What is one does not enjoy that wine drinking? Is grape juice sufficient? What is the minimum of wine or grape juice one should drink and how diluted, to comply with the mitzva?
A. Halichos Shlomo (9 ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 6:47 PM |
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#4937 Wine and Dine
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- Q. Does one have to eat meat and drink wine on every day of Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Passover) also?
How much and how many times a day?
A. As is obvious from Shulcsan Aruch, the basic mitzvah of rejoicing during Y ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 6:34 PM |
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#4936 Frozen Energy
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– Q. Re-question 4932 above. My question is that since my family minhag is not to keep chometz gomur (real chometz) even when properly sold as the Rov also mentioned in Horav Miller’s name.
Can I keep that chometz when frozen solid and stored ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 4:52 PM |
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