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# 4308 Casing the Casino
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Q. See question above. Would the same apply to a building that was once used as a casino or another even more immoral establishment?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is also to be lenient when complete remodeling is done. He ad ....
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Posted 6/23/2023 12:14 AM |
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# 4307 Policing the Police Place
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Q. Is it recommended or even proper and permitted to buy for using as a Talmud Torah a building that was used as a police station. It included a jail, that constantly was home for all kinds of criminals and most impure characters. Is it correct? W ....
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Posted 6/23/2023 12:11 AM |
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# 4306 Crumb the Crumb?
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Q. Are crumbs Muktza after Bentching? What about matzah or cake crumbs?
A. Shulchan Aruch (308: 27) rules that even crumbs less than a Kezais size one is permitted to remove from the table since they are used for animal feed. In ou ....
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Posted 6/23/2023 12:08 AM |
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# 4305 Tzedek Taxes
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Q. How do I calculate the tzedakah on the sale of a house? If I still have a mortgage, do I deduct it as well as the original cost of the house? What about the real-estate, land transfer tax, HST and other fees? What if this leads me with a shortfa ....
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Posted 6/23/2023 12:03 AM |
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# 4304 The Date changed the Date
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Q. Is there a Gemara that says that a man should not be seen talking in the street to even his wife are daughter for fear that someone would think he was doing something wrong? If so, do qe follow this? What about people who are on a date? Do the ....
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Posted 6/23/2023 12:00 AM |
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# 4303 Lost The Silver Spoon?
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Q.There was a story about a young kallah who called the Rabbi crying that she just made her chassan a fleshing meal and accidentally put the milchig (silver) spoon into it and was upset that she would have to throw it away. The Rabbi said: "Didn't y ....
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Posted 6/22/2023 11:57 PM |
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# 4302 Could we All Join You
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Q. (See question above). If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way?
What happens if one places the two pieces inside a ....
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Posted 6/22/2023 11:49 PM |
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# 4301 Read This
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Q. If there is a torn page in a sidur and I can’t read the page, can I just join the two parts together during Shabbat davening without attaching them in any way?
A. Poskim are lenient when one has not another proper sefer available (Te ....
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Posted 6/18/2023 10:38 AM |
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# 4300 Ask Me Another..
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. Q. Another question Kvod Horav. I impart a very necessary and essential weekly Halacha shiur on the laws of Shabbat in my shul, and I explain very needful and indispensable information on what it involves to observe Shabbat properly. Since time i ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 1:04 PM |
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# 4299 Pick and Choose
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Q. Kvod Harav. I as a Rabbi, was offered to enact two very different weddings on the same time but at different locations, and I cannot do both. One is a common young Frum couple, the other is an elderly couple in their late eighties that lost the ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 1:01 PM |
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# 4298 Hold on to the Baby?
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Q. I know there is a minhag for pregnant women or those of childbearing age not to go to a funeral. Is there a Halacha or minhag not to bring babies to a funeral or Shiva house?
What can be done when suddenly the mother has to attend the L ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:57 PM |
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# 4297 Order in Law
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Q. After davening during Shabbat it is common in a shul to collect the sidurim or chumashim and placed them in order on the usual shelfs. Is there a problem of Borer (prohibited choosing act on Shabbat) especially at the night tefilah?
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:44 PM |
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# 4296 Best to Choose the Best
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Q. . Regarding mixtures as they pertain to the Melacha of Borer (sorting), I have a few questions.
1) -If I have a challah (bread) in the freezer among other food items, is it considered part of a mixture so that I cannot take it out at ni ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:39 PM |
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# 4295 Feel at Home
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Q. One of the Gedolei Hador came to my neighbourhood and his Schachris minyan, was conducted in a house and open to the public. Is it better to daven in my Makom Kavua (establihed place) in Beis Hamedrash, or in the house with the Gadol?
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:35 PM |
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# 4294 Cat Out of the Bag?
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Q. Can I feed my cat food that contains in its ingredients meat even of chickens and milk ingredients together?
A. The prohibition of eating meat and milk together is based on the Torah command: "Do not cook a kid in its mother's milk" ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:33 PM |
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# 4293 Stranger’s Dangers
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Q. Can I buy cat-food that has chicken and fish oil in it? What about a mixture of beef and fish, is that dangerous for animals as well as people?
A. Talmud Pesachim (76b) mentions that one may not cook meat and fish together si ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:28 PM |
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# 4292 Sign Away
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Q. See question above. Thank you for your prompt answer. I have also seen often in Kesuvos written specially by an artist or the Chattan himself that there is a considerable separation between the text and the lines for the signatures. Is t ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:26 PM |
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# 4291 Sign of the Times
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Q. Dear Rov I was at a wedding recently and I saw that the signature of one the witnesses at the Ketuba (marriage document) was almost illegible, you could not tell who signed it. Is that Ketuba Kasher.
Does the marriage ceremony have to be ....
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Posted 6/16/2023 12:23 PM |
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# 4290 Cut the Cut
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Q. Re- question above of not performing a Bris Mila on Shabbos for a baby whose father isn’t Jewish. If a child is born by IVF from an egg donated by a Gentile mother, is the Bris done in Shabbat?
A. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) using ....
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Posted 6/8/2023 11:46 PM |
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# 4289 So Glad To Hear That
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Q. On question above If someone wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, if he turns on his cell phone and listens to a shiur, does he have to recite the Bracha on the Torah?
A. As mentioned above, one who just thinks in h ....
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Posted 6/8/2023 11:44 PM |
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