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#504 A Brocho on Remembering Amalek?
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Q. Why don't we make a bracha before reading Parshat Amalek?
A. A number of reasons are given for not reciting a brocho on reading Pashas Zachor.
a) You don't make a brocho on something destructive, such as executing ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:35 PM |
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#503 A Bar Mitzva Without the Bar Mitzva?
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Q. To be considered a seudas mitzvah, does the bar mitzvah bochur have to be there? (On the bo bayom he had to go to shiur, but he was there at the beginning)
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the bar mitzvah bochur ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:34 PM |
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#502 Kesuvah for a Baalas Teshuvah II
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Q. Re- your answer (483) on how to write a Kesuvah for a woman that was married and divorced from a Gentile. What do you write following Mohar?
Thank you
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a recommends writing Mohar Meah Zuzey Dec ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:34 PM |
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#501 A Seudas Mitzva without the Seuda?
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Q. Can you make a seudas mitzvah just with mezonos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that if you are kovea seudoh, meaning that mezonos are the main part of what is being served, as is often the case in a kiddush or a s ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:33 PM |
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#500 How Old is an Orphan?
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Q. The Torah said in Mishpatim, that someone should not afflict or pain an orphan.
How old is an orphan? Is it one who is 10 years old? 20 years old? 50 years old? How long is one an orphan?
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:35 PM |
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#499 Good Intention Endings
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Q. Is there a point on just having kavanah at the end of the brachah, if you can't do it complete?
A. Mishna Berura (101: 1) quotes the Tur (ibid.) who maintains that one should have kavanah at least on the end of every brocho of th ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:12 PM |
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#498 What was I Not Thinking?
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Q. I was taught in yeshiva that you have to have a minimum kavanah in the entire shmone esreh of standing in front of the King. Is that correct? I think very few people that I know have that kavanah the whole time?
A. The opinion ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:11 PM |
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#497 Will Reciting Tehilim Grant Great Children?
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Q. Are there specific Tehillim that should be said for success in raising erlichen children? Thank you.
A. Mishna Berura (256: 2) writes that those who help and inspire others to start early and keep Shabbos properly will merit hav ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:09 PM |
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#496 Thinking After Saying?
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Q. Does kavanah in tefilah mean having in mind the significance of what you are saying before you say it and while you are saying it, or can you also count as kavanah when the thoughts came to your mind only after you have already said the words?
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:07 PM |
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#495 When Not Accepting Divrei Torah II
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Q. On (question 464) when someone tries to give me a piece of Torah that they have written that Horav Miller said; that he should give it back and say politely that you are unable to read it. Why is that so?
A. If you take it just f ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:06 PM |
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:04 PM |
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#493 Attending a Bar Mitzva During Avelus
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Q. Can (a grandmother who in avelus during the year) attend a bar mitzvah of a grandson where music will be played (she has greatly helped in making the simcha)?
R. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that she is allowed to a ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:02 PM |
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#492 A Purim Thank You Gift for a Teacher
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Q. A number of questions concerning a teacher in avelus, during the year for a parent.
The students usually send shalach manos to the teacher and sometimes the parents give money gifts. Can the teacher receive them since after all it is part ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:01 PM |
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#491 Hockey Sticks for Schach?
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Q. Can you use discarded hockey sticks for schach (daf & olimpics)?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 629: 2) rules that skewers and the sides of beds cannot be used for schach since they are utensils that can become impure. Mishna Berura ....
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Posted 2/27/2014 2:55 PM |
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:53 PM |
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#489 Why Two Days of Yom Tov Today?
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Q. Why do we celebrate two days of yom tov in chutz la'aretz (and rosh hashana even in Israel) if we now have a set calendar?
A. This is an actual question of the Talmud (Beitzah 4b) "But now that we are well acquainted with the fix ....
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:47 PM |
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#488 Israel Bonds and Ribbis II
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Q. Dear Rabbi, Is it permissible to buy Israeli bonds as one receive interest from them. Or is it considered good as one is helping the country of Israel.
A. The following appeared on question 390 "Israel Bonds and Ribbis" on this f ....
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:44 PM |
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#487 A Mitzvah Vest
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Q. If someone has a tzitzis garment that has buttons on the side (looks like a vest but the buttons are on both sides for closing it when it is cold) does the garment become disqualified when buttoned, and it will not revert to kosher when later un ....
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:38 PM |
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:37 PM |
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#485 Repairing a damaged Taalis
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Q. Someone asked me if a garment that has tzitzis ripped, how is it to be repaired? The tzitzis themselves are okay, it is just the garment.
A. If the garment ripped in a way that it would disqualify it, as when it does not meet a ....
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Posted 2/21/2014 1:34 PM |
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