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# 2661 Third Seder on Shabbos
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Q. ( Re-question 2660 above - This year (5780) Pesach Sheni falls on Erev Shabbos). We also have a minhag to eat an egg and maror, at that time. Should we do so on Leil Shabbos (Friday night)?
Is there a prohibition to eat on that Shabbos s ....
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Posted 5/8/2020 3:11 PM |
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# 2660 First Place for the Second Pesach
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Q. This year (5780) Pesach Sheni falls on Erev Shabbos. Our minhag is to eat matzos on Pesach Sheini both during the afternoon, as it was then the time of bringing the Korban Pesach, and also in the night after, when it was eaten. Is it better thi ....
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Posted 5/8/2020 2:48 PM |
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# 2659 More Than One Way to Spay a Cat
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Q. Re- questions 2657,2658 above - Could there a better way to spay a cat, that won't involve all the above issues?
A. There may be another procedure for sterilization mentioned in the Talmud and Poskim know as "Kos shel Ikrin," or dr ....
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Posted 5/6/2020 5:03 PM |
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# 2658 Gentile Cat Spaying
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Q. Re- question above on having a female cat spayed. Can one ask a non-Jewish veterinarian to have the cat spayed?
A. Talmud (Baba Metzia 90b) quotes a debate if the prohibition of castration applies to Gentiles also. Poskim disagree ....
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Posted 5/6/2020 5:01 PM |
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# 2657 Raining Cats
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Q. Many of our friends are adopting pets for their elderly parents due to their isolation, during these difficult (covid) times. Is there a prohibition to have a female cat spayed?
A. Spaying is a surgical procedure performed by veteri ....
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Posted 5/6/2020 4:59 PM |
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# 2656 Tight on the Leash
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Q. Can one go out on Shabbat where there is no eruv, with one's toddler attached to him/her with a wristband safety leash?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that although, the leash may be needed for the safety of the toddler, ....
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Posted 5/5/2020 5:29 PM |
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# 2655 Change for the Better
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Q. I recently heard that Horav Miller Shlit'a changed his former pesak and now permits davening maariv in a porch minyan. Is that correct?
A. Indeed in question 2638 we wrote and quoted a letter from Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a permitt ....
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Posted 5/5/2020 3:55 PM |
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# 2654 Getting Out of Someone's Hair
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Q. Re-question 2651 (Regarding someone unable to take a haircut before Pesach since the barbers were closed. If his long hair is bothering him and there may be also an issue with tefilin; can he take a haircut before Lag Baomer. We answered: Horav ....
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Posted 5/5/2020 3:30 PM |
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# 2653 Lost in the Fog?
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Q. I noticed that when wearing a corona mask, it causes my glasses to fog up and I constantly have to remove my glasses to clean them. May I nevertheless wear the mask on Shabbos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since ....
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Posted 5/4/2020 2:56 PM |
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# 2652 Actions Daven Volumes
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Q. I used to volunteer for Hatzala and Shomrim, but the last years, my busy business and also the fact. I'm a bit older. did not permit me the extra effort. During these terrible corona days when davening is without a minyan, and I also have more ti ....
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Posted 5/1/2020 6:51 PM |
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# 2651 Getting in Somebody's Hair
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Q. I wasn't able to take a haircut before Pesach as the barbers were closed. My long hair is bothering me and my family too, it also may be an issue with the tefilin. Can I take one now before Lag Baomer, since in our town barber restrictions have ....
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Posted 5/1/2020 3:56 PM |
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# 2650 Safe to Save the Sefer?
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Q. There is a person without heirs who was niftar from corona and now there are seforim in his house that need to be sorted through and brought to the yeshiva for eventual sale. If this is not done, perhaps the landlord will thrown them out. Should ....
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Posted 4/30/2020 5:04 PM |
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# 2649 Hit The List
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Q. Can a kolel, shul or a tzedaka organization increase their email list of contacts by copying the addresses available on line from other similar institutions? Sometimes they may appear on the emails one gets, when they were not hidden by Bcc?
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Posted 4/30/2020 5:00 PM |
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# 2648 Pet Peeve?
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Q. These days when due to the virus endemic we are so isolated, many of us tend to acquire a pet for company. If you touch a pet cat or dog, do you have to wash your hands to make a brocho?
A. Rivavos Efraim (O.H. 8: 7) maintains that ....
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Posted 4/30/2020 4:42 PM |
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# 2647 The Daven Maven
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Q. If one has the choice to daven in an outside minyan versus davening b'yechidus in a beis medrash that one has access to, which is better (as there is an inyan of davening in a closed area as well as doing in a beis medrash)?
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Posted 4/30/2020 4:18 PM |
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# 2646 Marriage Made in Heaven?
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Q. As Lag Baomer is approaching. Can one get married during these pandemic days? How?
A. I has been suggested and likely already done, that one may celebrate a wedding at the courtyard or the parking lot of a building, while the imme ....
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Posted 4/28/2020 11:51 AM |
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# 2645 Call It a Wash?
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Q. If you are constantly wearing disposable plastic gloves (these covid days). do you have to take the off for washing for bread or when you go out of the bathroom, or can you wash netila while wearing them?
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Posted 4/28/2020 11:31 AM |
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# 2644 A Name That Travels Far
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Q. We are having a Zoom bris mila this week. The family and friends will not join us because of the pandemic attendance and travel restrictions, only a minyan will be present. Can just the name of the baby be given by the Zaidy by phone or on line? C ....
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Posted 4/26/2020 7:12 PM |
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# 2643 Not Tying Knots?
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Q. Often when the weather permits during these covid days, I daven shacharis by myself on the porch as I find it inspiring to see the trees and listen to the birds. When the wind blows, as it often does, I find it necessary to keep the taalis on my ....
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Posted 4/26/2020 5:12 PM |
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# 2642 Chosen Last Words
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Q. Re- question above. I have another question. The aunt of my friend, is herself not frum at all and never was. My friend by the way, is a great askan and mekarev of baalei teshuva. When meeting her today, he wants to be able to say viduy with her. ....
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Posted 4/24/2020 3:34 PM |
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