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# 3317 Your Wake up Call
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Q. Rav Shlomo Miller paskened that it is more important to be from the asara rishonim than to wake someone up for davening, as an alarm clock can be used. if the person says that the alarm clock is not so effective, or one feels obligated to do the ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:52 PM |
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# 3316 Grilling the Grill
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Q. My family owns a cottage we use during the Summer months, and we often go away for several days or during weekends. We wonder if we leave on the outside garden a large BBQ grill, if we have to be concerned that someone may have come and used it ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:50 PM |
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# 3315 Beauty is on the Mouth of the Blower
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Q. My father bought me an Israeli shofar that has a decorative silver covering. Can I use it on Rosh Hashana.
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 586: 16-18) rules that if a shofar has a gold decorative covering and it reaches the place of the mout ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:49 PM |
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# 3314 Have Your Shofar and Eat Too
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Q. Can women who always are careful to come to the blowing of the Shofar, eat before? Do they have to make Kiddush?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 589: 3, 6) rules that although women are exempt from the mitzva of Tekias Shofar, since it is t ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:47 PM |
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# 3313 Have a Good Night
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Q. I heard that some Sefarim rule that a Shofar is muktza on the night of Rosh Hashana and cannot be handled when you are not allowed to blow it. Is that correct?
A. Kovetz Halachos (Rosh Hashana 10: 11, p.126) quoting Horav Shmuel Ka ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:45 PM |
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# 3312 Patience with the Patient
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Q. Someone visits periodically a chronic old age patient in an Old Age Hospital. The patient is intubated and can't communicate verbally, but his mind seems fine and answers with signs and smiles. Can he put on tefilin on him? Can he recite a bracha ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:40 PM |
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# 3311 Smell Test
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Q. If someone stores in the garage smelly garbage cans, that often contain diapers too, is that garage exempt from a Mezuzah?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the garbage cans should be kept inside another bigger contai ....
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Posted 8/16/2021 5:33 PM |
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# 3310 Bribe Away?
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Q. I own a Kosher restaurant in a small town. The Kashruth certification is given by the local Rabbi. Is it correct for me to pay for that service directly to the Rabbi, as there is practically no other way to do it? Could this be interpreted as a ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:32 PM |
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# 3309 Head-On John
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Q. Re- question 3295 regarding the permit for someone traveling by plane to face the bathroom wall or door while davening. Does the same Heter (permit) apply for someone facing in the street or his window a construction portable toilet?
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:27 PM |
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# 3308 Flies Away
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Q. Can one sleeping in a Suka on Shabbat and Yom Tov wear the recently available watches or bands that emit ultrasonic waves to repel mosquitoes, bees and other harmful insects?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that they are ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3307 Sho-Far So Good
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Q. I go every year to blow shofar to people residing in a Old Age institution. It happened a number of times that when I enter a room, the occupant tells me that he already heard the Shofar by listening to someone else who was blowing in an adjacent ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 10:01 PM |
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# 3306 Turn a Deaf Ear
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Q. 3) See questions above. I'm considering using a cochlear implant will that be any different? Should I install it only on one ear?
A. See question 2013; A cochlear implant is a small electronic device that electrically stimulates ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:58 PM |
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# 3305 Long Time No Hear
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Q. 2) See question above: If he can only hear with a hearing aid can he still be a Baal Tokea?
A. Poskim maintain that he cannot comply as an electronic reproduction of the sound of the Shofar is not acceptable.
If he can s ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:55 PM |
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# 3304 A Dialogue On The Deaf
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Q. I have been a Baal Tokea blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashana for over thirty years. I have now become hard of hearing and have therefore a number of shailos.
1) Can someone hard of hearing be a Baal Tokea?
A. Shulchan Ar ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:50 PM |
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# 3303 As Far As I Can See?
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Q. Someone who follows the tradition to make the bracha of 'Ose Maase Bereshith' when seeing the sea from a plane. At what distance from the sea can he make that bracha?
A. Many Poskim maintain that the blessing to be recited on seeing ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:44 PM |
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# 3302 The Responsible Party
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Q. I'm a caregiver for an elderly woman residing in an Old Age Home. I noticed that my client had scratches and bruises on her. Out of years of experience, I was reasonably certain that they were inflicted by the other caregivers that complement her ....
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Posted 8/12/2021 9:37 PM |
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# 3301 Show How Much You Care
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Q. A Rov teaches a shiur in a Yeshiva and lost his father and is still within the year of Avelus. One of his close disciples is getting married in the near future and he feels that it is very important for him to be at the wedding and show how mu ....
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Posted 8/9/2021 6:14 PM |
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# 3300 The Double Pocket
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Q. Can someone carry in his pocket pages of Divrei Torah or a Siddur when he enters a bathroom?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a permits in principle since the pockets of jackets are made of double material.
However, as Horav Aharo ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:12 PM |
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# 3299 Not Enough Room
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Q. I have divided my garage in two and created an area of about 4 x 8 feet that had a separate door. I also keep there besides other items the garbage cans that are not always covered and there is also an odor. Do I have to place a mezuza?
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3298 It Has Your Name On It
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Q. My son's wife when she became a Baalas Teshuva, she was a teenager and didn't know what her Hebrew name was, so she choose her own name as Rachel Leora - her parents recently discovered when they were clearing out their house after they sold it, ....
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Posted 8/5/2021 10:01 PM |
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