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# 1521 Let’s Shed Some Light
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Q. Someone donated a fancy chandelier to our shul. It was placed directly above the Bimah. I do not know what the Baal Korei of Shacharis experienced, but when I leined for Mincha, I noticed that, because the letters in the Sefer Torah were shiny, t ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 1:45 AM |
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# 1520 Stop The Presses!
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Q. A person who woke up in the middle of the night on Friday night and, while still half-asleep and not realizing that it's Shabbos, pressed the button on his watch (which he was wearing) to make it light up to see what time it was, what is the ap ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:34 PM |
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# 1519 Watch Those Buttons
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Q. Is one permitted to wear an electronic watch with a push button LED light on Shabbos?
A. Biur Halocho (308: 3) deals whether we define a keli shemelachto leissur by the majority of its use. In the case of an electronic watch with a ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:32 PM |
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# 1518 A Gift Beyond Belief
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1) After I came back to work after being away from work for a few days, my boss handed me a gift which was sent from one of our non-jewish co-workers in India. It is a fancy gold image of a Buddhist deity (Ganesh) mounted on a wooden stand. I'm not ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:23 PM |
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# 1517 Keeping In Step With The Times
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Q. L'ichvod Rav Bartfeld,
The president of our Shul is about to bring forward to the board the question of installing a Shabbos Stair Lift using the halachic principal of Gramma. The information given to me is shown below, attached as a pdf f ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:57 PM |
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# 1516 Don’t Give Away The Bride
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Q. If the chosson washed for sheva brochos but the kallah did not, can the sheva brochos be recited?
A. If the choson did not eat bread, Poskim maintain that sheva brochos should not be recited. (Haelef Lecha Shlomo O.H. 93, Tzitz Elie ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:40 PM |
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# 1515 Count Your Blessings
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Q. If one is saying one of the sheva brachos, does he need to listen to all the other sheva brachos (which is not always possible because some people don't enunciate the words clearly, or for some other reason)? Since all the brachos are me'akev one ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:31 PM |
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# 1514 Bless The Great Unwashed?
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Q. One who did not wash, may he say one of the sheva brachos (whether by the chasuna seuda or during the week of sheva brachos)?
A. Poskim disagree if one can recite sheva brochos without having eaten by the seuda. Yabia Omer (3 ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:22 PM |
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# 1513 The Whole Picture
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Q. Kvod Horav; In regards to the mantle covering the bima, even the parts of the mantle like the corners, where the Sefer Torah is not placed, are still prohibited for private improper use and you regard the whole mantle as one single equal unit. How ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:08 PM |
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# 1512 Clean Up Act
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Q. I've read that there could be a problem in cleaning a "soft plastic tablecloths" on Shabbat or Yom Tov. The Rabbi quoted said that it may be "laundering" to rub water vigorously on the plastic.
We often keep a fairly firm plastic tabl ....
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Posted 11/21/2017 11:27 PM |
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# 1511 No Future Into The Back
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Q. What is Horav Miller’s opinion in regards to traveling back or forwards on time? Does the Torah mention this as a possibility?
A. it is common to find in regards to the Yom Tov of Shavuos the notion of being present at the time ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:39 PM |
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# 1510 No Grounds for Fasting
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Q. Someone carrying a Sefer Torah to the bimah tripped and fell. To protect the Sefer he was able to maneuver to fall on his side, and the Torah did not touch the ground. He was also wearing tefilin and the side of his head was on the floor, but aga ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:33 PM |
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# 1509 Change One’s Stripes?
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Q. Can someone change his minhag of having black stripes on his taalis and just use a taalis that is totally white?
A. See questions 1507 snd 1508. Daas Noite (283, p. 146) rules that one should not change his minhag.
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:26 PM |
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# 1508 A Cotton Taalit Kotton
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Q. Is there a reason for the number and variant width of black stripes on a taalis? Why are they not placed on a cotton taalis koton?
A. See question 1507 above, where we wrote that some maintain that the black stripes on the taalis re ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:21 PM |
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# 1507 Scan Your Tallit!
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Q. What is the reason for the black stripes on a taalis?
A. Ashkenazim maintain the tradition to have black stripes on the taalis as a remembrance to the techeiles that was once a part of the mitzva. Pri Megadim 9: 6, Eishel Avrohom ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:13 PM |
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# 1506 Nothing To Sneeze At
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Hello Rav,
Q. I've seen in a few places that one should not say "Bless you" (or similar responses) when someone sneezes while in shul. One Rav said it was based on the fact that this would be an interruption in learning (see Baba Kamma 119a. ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 11:08 AM |
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# 1505 Good Hair Day II
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Q. Our son's 3rd birthday Iy"H take place just before Pesach. I was thinking of making his upsherin at that time.
My husband suggested we wait until Lag"Baomer which we be about four weeks after his birthday.
Is it any better to do it o ....
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Posted 11/15/2017 1:22 PM |
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# 1504 Too Good To Be True
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Q. L'kavod Harav
I recently learnt the Halachos of reciting Hatov V'hameitiv on a different wine during a seudah. I never see people reciting this bracha even when all the conditions apply. I am aware that the Minchas Yitzchak (IX, 14) has a T ....
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Posted 11/13/2017 10:44 PM |
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# 1503 Shabbos Plumber’s Helper
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Q Is a toilet plunger muktza? Can it be used on Shabbos? Can you use a wire snake? Can you unplug using a liquid like Drano?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O. H. 336: 9) rules that if a roof’s drain pipe is blocked with weeds and grass, causing ....
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Posted 11/13/2017 10:13 PM |
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# 1502 Gender Bender?
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Q. In the concluding line of the 2nd stanza of the Yotzer for Shabbos Rosh Chodesh (by Rabbeinu Binyomin bar Zerach), it says:
Lo Nivreis Tas Zohov V'lo Or B'heimo V'Chayo
But aren't Tas and Or masculine nouns? Shouldn't it be "Lo Nivro" ....
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Posted 11/12/2017 11:48 PM |
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