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# 1015 Chocolate Musings
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Hi Rabbi Bartfeld,
I hope all is well.
Two questions the Rabbonim in LA wanted to know Rav Miller's position:
Q1. Liquid Chocolate (not hot) that is poured on Ice Cream and when it comes in contact with the ice cream it harde ....
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Posted 3/15/2016 1:55 PM |
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# 1014 Careful - Hot Water!
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Q. If you are staying Shabbos in a hotel, can you use the hot water from the cafeteria that was warmed by the dining-room attendants on Shabbos to make yourself a coffee? What about a Pesach Hotel?
A. See prior question (1012.) Ho ....
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Posted 3/14/2016 10:01 PM |
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# 1013 A Perfect Ten
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Q. In order to fulfill the mitzvah of tefilla b'tzibbur, is it necessary to have 10 men davening S"E (Shmone Ezreh), or is it enough to have six of them davening S"E while the other four are just standing around, or learning Torah, or reciting other ....
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Posted 3/14/2016 2:26 PM |
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# 1012 Water Wonders
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Q. Is there an Isur of Bishul Akum on water?
If not, if my gentile butler boils himself a kettleful of water on Shabbos, may I drink what he leaves in the kettle after he's taken whatever he needed for himself?
A. The prohibition ....
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Posted 3/13/2016 1:08 PM |
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# 1011 The Rights of Copyrights
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Q. I borrowed a cookbook from the library. Can I photocopy a recipe from it?
A. Poskim endeavour to explain and define what exactly are the Halacha rights that an author may have on the written words he has created or printed. Words ....
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Posted 3/11/2016 4:13 PM |
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# 1010 The No Answer - Answer
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Q. I borrowed a car and had an accident that damaged the bumper of the car to the extent that the bumper had to be replaced. The car was leased and was going to be returned just a week after when the accident happened. There was existing damage of ....
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Posted 3/9/2016 11:21 PM |
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# 1009 You Buy It - You Brake It?
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Q. If someone while shopping at a frum food store places items into the shopping cart provided by the store, does he acquire the items when he picks them up or when he places them in the cart?
If not and they only become his property when h ....
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Posted 3/6/2016 3:38 PM |
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# 1008 Transplant Ponder
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Q. If someone due to an accident, had to undergo a penis transplant from a non-Jewish uncircumcised cadaver source;
1) Does he have to wait for the bris until he regains complete sensation on the organ? (that takes longer, that other funct ....
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Posted 3/4/2016 4:36 PM |
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# 1007 Question Mark
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Q. If one has a problem cleaning himself after a bowel movement - no matter how much he cleans, he is still dirty, whether with excrement or excrement mixed with blood - may he daven and learn? If one discovers after davening that he was slightly di ....
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Posted 3/2/2016 9:51 PM |
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# 1006 Time is of the Ess'n
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Q. Also, (see prior question) how much time does he have to eat the egg's volume of bread?
A. Poskim disagree. B’kurei Yaakov (639), Mate Efraim (H. Suka 625), Tehila Ledovid quoting Shulchan Aruch Harav, maintain that the complete bei ....
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Posted 3/1/2016 1:35 PM |
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# 1005 Turn Up or Turn Down The Volume?
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Q. Al netilas yadayim is recited when eating an egg's volume of bread; less than that, one washes without a bracha. What if one is not sure how much bread he will eat?
A. Indeed, Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 158: 2) mentions the opinion of th ....
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Posted 3/1/2016 1:33 PM |
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# 1004 You Must Hear This
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Q. Can you give an aliya to a mute individual?
A. Poskim rule that a mute should not be given an aliya since he cannot recite the brochos. Keren Ledovid 27, Shevet Halevy 7: 20, Yad Bekrias Hatorah 24: 3.)
However, Pri Megadim (M ....
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Posted 2/28/2016 11:21 AM |
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# 1003 Torah for the Untaught
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Q. Is one permitted to receive an aliyah if one cannot (does not know how to) read along with the baal koreh?
A. Remo (O.H. 139: 3) disagrees with the Mechaber and rules like the Maharil that nowadays we may give an aliya to a blind p ....
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Posted 2/28/2016 11:16 AM |
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# 1002 I See The Answer
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Q. Can we call to the Torah a blind person?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 139: 3) rules that the blind are not called for an aliya since one may not read the written Torah from memory. However, Remo (ibid.) quotes Maharil, that nowadays sinc ....
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Posted 2/28/2016 11:12 AM |
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# 1001 A Big Little Sefer
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Q. How big does a sefer have to be for the purpose of this mitzvah? (writing a sefer on the internet- see prior question 1000)
A. The Talmud Shabbos (115b) teaches that an old Sefer Torah that has a minimum of eighty five survivin ....
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Posted 2/26/2016 4:43 PM |
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# 1000 Virtual and Real Sefer
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Q. Can one fulfil the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah these days by writing a sefer on the internet that is open for all to learn from and to download?
A. The opinion of the Rosh (beginning of Hilchos Sefer Torah, quoted in Tur ....
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Posted 2/24/2016 2:14 PM |
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# 999 Ador To Ador Service
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Q. If someone has yortzait in Ador, (father died in a single month year) and when they are two Adors he keeps both yortzaits for kadish. Which is the most important for the purpose of making a siyum?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 568: 7) m ....
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Posted 2/21/2016 1:02 PM |
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# 998 Do Donate
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Q. Additional related question : I bought a Sefer for the women to learn during Kiddush on Shabbos... for an Aliyah for his (my father) Neshama - Is it better to donate it with a note that's it's for his Aliyah Neshama or better to loan it out to the ....
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Posted 2/19/2016 3:45 PM |
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# 997 Clean and Clear
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Q. 2 shailos on liquid soap;
1 Is it muttar to use lkiquid soap on Shabbos
2. If yes what about liquid soap that changes from a liquid to a foam
Kol Toov
A. Remoh (O.H. 326: 10) prohibits using solid soap that dissolv ....
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Posted 2/19/2016 3:44 PM |
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# 996 Doubtful Date of Date with Death
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Q. When is the yortzait of Moishe Rabeinu and when does the Chevra Kadisha make their seuda this year with double Adar? There seems to be some incongruity within the Chevros, since some do it on the first Adar and others in the second. What is Horav ....
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Posted 2/19/2016 11:58 AM |
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