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# 4147 Over the Top?
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Q. See question above. Can one place a Magazine – Kuntress of Torah articles over a Gemara?
A. See Talmud Megila 27a and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 282: 19. Orchos Rabenu (3: 162) quotes Chazon Ish that one may place Rishonim and Acharonim o ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:32 PM |
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# 4146 The Story of the Magazine
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Q. My Rabbi in shul was upset at me when I placed a Mishpacha magazine over a Gemara. Is that correct? After all that magazine has many articles of Torah?
A. Although that and similar magazines do have printed Divrei Torah, there are ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:31 PM |
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# 4145 Put Roses in One's Cheeks?
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Q. Can one send roses as Shalach Manot to an elderly woman that is intubated and cannot eat?
A. On question 3073 regarding a patient that is in hospital and is being fed intravenously as he can’t digest any food and a friend would like ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:29 PM |
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# 4144 Early Pesach
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Q. Kvod Harav. I'm a Rabbi of a shul were we offer during Purim a Seuda. Others and myself say some Divre Torah then. Since one must begin to learn the Halachot of Pesach already from Purim, as stated in Shulchan Aruch, I usually mention a short Ha ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:27 PM |
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# 4143 Don't Forget to Remember
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Q. If someone could not hear Parshas Zachor because of illness and overslept or forgot, what should one do?
A. Since listening to Parshas Zachor is a Biblical obligation, one should make every effort to go immediately to another minya ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:24 PM |
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# 4142 A Gift that Keeps on Giving
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Q. Can one give as Matanot Laevyonim or gift to the poor on Purim a volume of the Talmud to a Bachur Yeshiva that in his economic condition qualifies as being ‘poor,’ since he needs that Gemara and will have to spend money that is not easy for hi ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:43 PM |
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# 4141 Inside the Box
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Q. Can someone comply with Shalach Manot whe sending just one single box of diverse chocolates? Are they are seen as different pieces of food and therefore counted at least as the required two food items needed for Shalach Manot, or maybe the fac ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:40 PM |
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# 4140 Zachor Anchor
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Q. We have already done during Parshas Zachor an interesting and very liked addition. A Mispalel of ours, who is of Yemenite origin, sings and reads the Torah beautifully with his special Nusach and great voice. On Parshas Zachor after the special M ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:35 PM |
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# 4139 Primed for Purim?
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Q. Is there an Inyan (reason) to shower, cut nails, toivel and wear Shabbos clothing l’kavod Purim as there is for Shabbos and Yom Tov?
A. Rema (O.H. 695: 2) sponsors the tradition that some have of wearing Shabbos and Yom Tov clothing ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:33 PM |
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# 4138 The Mean of Lean
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Q. An elderly great teacher who has been the reader of the Purim Megilah for many years, and is an excellent reader, finds it difficult at his age to stand. Can he now read it sitting down? Does he have to be replaced by someone who is not close t ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:31 PM |
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# 4137 Ice Cubes Wash
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Q. When G’d forbid someone dies at home, one is suppose to throw away all uncovered liquids. Does that include also the ice-cubes therein?
A. On question 2284 regarding drinks kept in a hospital room when the patient died there, we wr ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:29 PM |
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# 4136 Powerful Blessings
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Q. Dear Rov, I reside in Mexico City were the Rav Shlit’a was Chief Rabbi for many years. Earthquakes are very common in our city, sometimes small ones are felt more that once a day. Does one have to make a bracha when he feels them?
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:27 PM |
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# 4135 A Shocking Earthquake
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Q. See question above. Does one say a bracha when experiencing a killer or damaging large earthquake?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 227: 1) rules that on earthquakes as well as lightening and thunder, or on very strong winds
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:25 PM |
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# 4134 A Fair Shake
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Q. History tells us that in Eretz Yisrael, roughly every one hundred years there is a very large earthquake, of magnitude 6 or above along the Dead Sea fault. Nadav Wetzler, an Israel Geological Survey seismologist mentioned recently that the last ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:24 PM |
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# 4133 Death Us Depart?
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. Firstly as an active member of Bikur Cholim, thank you for your efforts in answering and providing help to the many difficult Shaalos and doubts involved in our days, especially in Canada, in not terminating the elderly, the si ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:22 PM |
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# 4132 Moral Fibers
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Q. Does a woman from a Chassidik background that due to her tradition of Tzniyus and modesty usually goes out from the house covered completely, however, when at home she only covers as Halacha requires have to behave the same way, covering herself ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:20 PM |
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# 4131 Hit The Bottle?
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Q. I was a guest by someone on Shabbos. He and his Rebbetzin were having a hard time opening a bottle and asked me if I could open it. What is the correct and courteous response can I simply reply that my custom is not to open bottles during Shabbos ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:19 PM |
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# 4130 Join the Party of Life
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Q. In our large Shul there is a tradition that on Zain Adar (day 7 of Adar) there is a Seuda Given in honor of the Chervra Kadisha as is also customary in other places. The Seuda is open for all Shul members to attend, and to give honor and recogni ....
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Posted 2/27/2023 5:29 PM |
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# 4129 A Flap on the Clap
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Q. Can one play hand clapping games with children or adults?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”’a opinion is that it is better to avoid them since although it is a game done voluntarily, and usually it avoids hurting one another, it ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 11:00 PM |
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# 4128 Clean Hands
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Q. Women immersing in a mikva, when they recite the bracha have to place their hands over their middle to separate their upper part from the bottom. But how can they then recite with the name of Hashem a bracha, if with their hands they are touchi ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:58 PM |
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