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# 3398 Just Wait and See
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Q. Hello Rav, I am wondering what is permitted to do between the time I'm done my personal Amidah and the time that the Shaliach Tzibbur starts the Chazara repetition. Am I permitted to say tehillim (quietly to myself) or learn Torah (quietly to m ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 5:34 PM |
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# 3397 What's in a Name?
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Q. Sometimes the minhag is to name someone using their mothers name, and sometimes using the fathers name. Why is this? what is the rule when? Mothers name only when davening for Refuah?
what about dovening for parnassa? Halzloch ....
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Posted 10/18/2021 3:16 PM |
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# 3396 Lost in the Wash?
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Q. Hello Rav, I wanted to get some clarify on what is permitted in a room that has a shower only (no toilet) that is used regularly for bathing. I understand that Rav Ovadia allows one to listen to a Torah class while showering in such a room, but ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 11:06 PM |
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# 3395 Privy to the Privy
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Q. Hello Rav, In our basement with a washroom has in it a toilet and shower stall. The shower stall is never used. I'm wondering if its permissible to use it for storage of drinks. (wine, beer, soda, water bottles). Everything is closed in their co ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:56 PM |
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# 3394 Feast of Reason
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Q. (See questions 3390 - 93 above) Is the tradition of Thanksgiving different in Canada than in the U.S. besides the date. Is the origin of the Canadian Thanksgiving religious, since it may have been instituted by the church and therefore should not ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:49 PM |
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# 3393 Crash the Party
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Q. See questions 3390, 91, 92 above. 3) Often my parents invite a neighbor family to join our Thanksgiving party. They are Frum people born in Latin America and they said that in their tradition they celebrate Columbus Day. Is there a problem inv ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:34 PM |
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# 3392 Set the Agenda
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Q. Since you mentioned that Igros Moshe warns that one should not make Thanksgiving an established holiday that we must keep, can the Calendar from a religious school show that day as Remembrance,Victoria and Labour days are showed?
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:19 PM |
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# 3391 Go Cold Turkey?
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Q. See question 3390 above. 2) Is it permitted to eat a roasted turkey on Thanksgiving?
A. Poskim disagree. Rivevos Efraim, and Rabbi Yehuda Hertzl Henkin. (Bnei Banim 3,:37), explain that Thanksgiving is “only a day of thanks and no ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:13 PM |
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# 3390 Thanks But No Thanks?
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Q. I'm a Baal Teshuva that belongs to a family still in the process of Kiruv and becoming close to Hashem. We are a closely united family and we try to maintain seriously that Shalom Bait.
We usually, as far as I can remember, celebrat ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3389 Walk The Talk
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Q. There is a Baal Teshuva that is fully integrated into the Haredi community with the exception of the fact that he cannot learn in Lashon Hakodesh and only learns from English sefarim (translated Gemara, Mishna Berura, sefarim on halacha). Other ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:00 PM |
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# 3388 The Easy Minyan?
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Q. An individual that comes to our shul suffers from a Multiple Personality Disorder. Although he can basically take care of himself, we are not sure if we should give him an aliya or even count him as part of the minyan. What is Horav Miller's opi ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 9:35 PM |
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# 3387 Out of One's Hair
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Q. If someone combs his hair, touches it or his beard and some hair comes off, does he have to wash his hands three times using a vessel as after having a haircut?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 4: 19) writes that one who cuts his hair has ....
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Posted 10/10/2021 5:40 PM |
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# 3386 Bring Back to Life?
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Q. I'm a Frum physician that was called out on Shabbat to travel and attend a suicidal woman that poisoned herself by swallowing a large amount of pills. Since this person had given up on her own life, as can be read in the letter she left, did I h ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 11:07 PM |
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# 3385 Will Cause Eyebrows to Rise
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Q. Regarding question 3384 above. Recently the Rov mentioned in a shiur the prohibition for men to trim his eyebrows as women do. What happens if a man is taking a haircut, and without him noticing the barber begins to trim his eyebrows, can he le ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:55 PM |
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# 3384 Ask and Tell
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Q. When exiting shul after davening on Shabbos we witnessed a severe car accident in front of the shul and a victim died. Police arrived immediately and began asking questions from the standby witnesses, writing their names, what they saw and wher ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:46 PM |
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# 3383 An Early Night?
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Q In our Shul we daven these days Mincha before the Shekia and Maariv right after. Sometimes, the Shaliach Tzibur davens Mincha fast and we may end up having to start Maariv, a few minutes before the Shekia.
Is saying the Shir Ha ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:41 PM |
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# 3382 Most Eloquent Silence
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Q 3. (See questions 3379 - 80 above) Could I rotate the hours of the Tzom Dibbur, or do they have to be static, for example, from 8am to 10am?
A. On question 3354 regarding how to tell others that one is engaged in a Taanis Dibbur we ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:36 PM |
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# 3381 Fighting Talk
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Q.2. (See question 3380 above) As I have to deal with my husband's caregivers, and they look for instructions, could I interrupt the Tzom just to give short and to the point instructions and then continue, or do I have to start all over again?
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:28 PM |
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# 3380 Fast Talk
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Q. I have been doing Tzom Dibbur (a fast or a day of restriction on speaking) on Yom Kippur for several years. This year, I decided to do a Tzom Dibbur for part of the day every day, and I have some questions:
1). May I do a Tzom Dibu ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3379 Oppose or Attract?
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Q. When I come (to shul to be) from the Assara Rishonim there is a person who comes and tells me Lashon Hara and disturbs my learning. Is it better to come later, since If I refuse to listen to him he will get offended and he is lonely with no fami ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:05 PM |
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