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# 1730 Teshuva on a Loss
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Q. I was on the train and found a wallet that, based on the ID inside it, belongs to a non-Jew. After considering what I should do and consulting with a few rabbis, some of them recommended that I return it by giving it to a police officer. (I didn ....
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Posted 5/27/2018 8:39 PM |
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# 1729 Lessons to be Learned
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Q. I would like to know Horav Miller’s daas Torah in regards to someone who has limited time for learning.
Since learning Torah with effort and exertion is most important, what takes priority? Learning beiyun (and effort), learning Halacha o ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:45 PM |
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# 1728 A Good Old Hand
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Q. A group visits an elderly ill patient in a retirement home. He sits on a wheelchair, while they put tefilin on him, and have him read shema. Is it enough to clean his hands with a wet paper towel? Does cleaning his hands three times each, with th ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:30 PM |
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# 1727 Clean Question
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Q. Re- question 1723 regarding washing hands after entering a bathroom. A most common case of bathrooms in offices and other public places, are small one room bathrooms with a toilet and sink only, that are not used for anything else but as a beth h ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:15 PM |
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# 1726 A Potluck Shaila?
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Q. Do Teflon coated metal pots and pans require tevila?
A. Many Poskim maintain that they require tevila without a brocho. (StarK Kashrus Kurrents v.37: 3, OU Tevilat Keilim- A Primer, Guide To Tevilas Keilim by Rabbi B. Forst r ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 8:50 AM |
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# 1725 The Ways of the Throwaways
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Q. Do disposable aluminum pans require tevila?
A. Poskim disagree if utensils used only once require tevila. Although utensils made from aluminum some opine that the tevila is Biblical (Horav Vosner zt”l, quoted in Tevilas Keilim 11: ....
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Posted 5/24/2018 1:17 AM |
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# 1724 In Deep Waters
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Q. Do new scissors used for cutting poultry need tevila in a mikva?
A. Shach (Y.D. 120: 11) rules that a utensil used for food preparation that will require additional changes to make it edible, should be immersed without a brocho. Si ....
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Posted 5/23/2018 12:50 PM |
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# 1723 Lost in the Wash?
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Q. Is someone puts his hand inside a bathroom just to turn off the light, does he require washing netilas yodaim?
A. Poskim disagree if entering hands into a beis hakisei requires netilas yodaim. Maharsham (Daas Torah O.H. 4: 18) ....
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Posted 5/22/2018 9:27 AM |
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# 1722 Living Memory
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Q. Since remembering Kabbolas Hatorah is a mitzva every day and not doing so is a negative prohibition (Ramban), Why don’t we actually read that parsha every day as we do with Yetzias Mitzraim?
A. Rambam and Ramban (mitzvah 2) indeed ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:58 PM |
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# 1721 It’s All in the Name
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My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me;
2) Why does the Gemore refer to Shavuos as Atzeres, isn’t that the name in the Torah for the last day of Sukos?
A. The Pesikta (Pinchas) mentions that our sages used as nam ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:53 PM |
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# 1720 Quiz Kid
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My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me;
Q. 1) if we eat milchigs on Shavuos because they didn’t have the opportunity to prepare kosher meat on that same day, why wasn’t the milk or cheese prohibited as cholov akum, since wh ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:52 PM |
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#1719 Meal Plan
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Q. We usually eat a milchig meal during the first day (lunch) of Shavuot and meat in the night meals. This year since it is after Shabbat and we already ate meat, is it possible to change and eat milchig on Motze Shabbat and meat in the day (Sunday) ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 12:40 PM |
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# 1718 Brocho Achrono
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Q. There are those whose family Minhag restricts their female members from reciting a Bracha on Sefiras HaOmer lest they miss at least one day.
Suppose one of them does count every night of the first 48 nights. Can she count the last nigh ....
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Posted 5/17/2018 3:31 PM |
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# 1717 Troubled Waters?
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Q. I know that according to some, there is an issue with drinking liquids that were left uncovered for a period of time. I'm wondering if the same issue applies to water that will be used for washing netilat Yadayim in the morning (not for drinki ....
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Posted 5/16/2018 12:02 AM |
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# 1716 Can't See the Flowers of the Trees?
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Q. Can the blessing for the new fruits on the trees be said at night, if there is light?
A. Although Horav T. P, Frank zt”l (quoted in Yain Hatov 1: 48) rules that birchas hailonos should not be recited at night, many Poskim permi ....
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Posted 5/14/2018 3:46 PM |
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# 1715 Changing Times
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Q. The Mishna Berura writes that one is obligated to say kaddish yasom after aleinu in shacharis, he mentions a reason because there are pesukim in alenu. However, he doesn't similarly mention kaddish after mincha or mariv as one of the seven obli ....
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Posted 5/11/2018 6:06 PM |
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# 1714 Have It Your Way
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Q. I go to learn daily in a Beis HaMidrash in the Old City of Jerusalem that is situated in the Chatzar Galicia compound above the Moslem Quarter. In order to get there in a safe manner, I must walk on a walkway where facing me are a few imposing ch ....
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Posted 5/11/2018 2:12 PM |
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# 1713 A Matter of Time
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Q. Can women say the brocho on the flowering trees outside, since they don’t say kiddush levana (the blessing on the new moon) outside because of tzniut? Is it also not a mitzva shehazman gramma?
A. Poskim maintain that women should b ....
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Posted 5/11/2018 2:01 PM |
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# 1712 Shake Someone’s Tree
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Q. If a tree belongs to a Gentile, and you are not entering his property, but just standing next to his tree while he is watching you. do you need his permission to make a brocho on his tre?
Can you make a brocho on the tree of a neighbor ....
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Posted 5/11/2018 1:50 PM |
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# 1711 Dance To Another Tune
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Q. Is it permitted to attend or to teach dancing classes during Sefira? (For women only in an only girls schoo)
A. Mogen Avrohom (493: 1) rules that non-mitzva dancing is prohibited during Sefira days.
However, Igros Moshe (O. ....
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Posted 5/11/2018 2:50 AM |
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