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What is better on attending a wedding if you want to leave early, not to eat bread, or wash eat bread and make a mezumman without saying sheva brachos? A. Poiskim disagree whether the obligation to recite sheva brochos rests only .... Posted 5/24/2013 5:16 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #303 Saying sheva brochos when the meal is not prepared for the Chason - Kalo Q. If a chassan joins the seudah shlishit on Shabbat, without it being planned out before, do you still say sheva brachoth? A. Meiri (Kesuvos 7b) writes that no sheva brochos are recited if the meal was not prepared specifically i .... Posted 5/24/2013 5:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #302 When to say sheva brochos on the last day when eating past shkia Q. Is it better to say the sheva brachoth on the last day in the middle of the meal or is it better after birchat hamazon when already after the shkiah? A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinions is that when we find ourselves close t .... Posted 5/24/2013 5:11 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #301 Saying brachos on the last day of sheva brochos Q. On the last day of sheva brachoth, can you still say the brachoth after the beginning of the shkiah and if it is permitted, for how long? A. Taz (E.H. 62: 3) quotes Maharal's opinion that you can recite sheva brochos on the night .... Posted 5/24/2013 5:08 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #300 Wearing a Citizen Eco-drive watch on Shabbos Q. Shalom U'Bracha, Recently I purchased a Citizen eco-drive watch, that gets charged automatically from the light. My question is: (1) Is it permitted to wear such a watch on shabbos (at home or within an eruv) when the watch has a .... Posted 5/17/2013 4:11 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1) #299 Using dishwasher detergent without a hechsher Q. Does dishwasher detergent need to be kosher? The brand finish use to have a hechsher and now it does not. A. We forwarded your question to Rabbi Dovid Rosen, COR Rabbinic Coordinator, who advised us that; COR policy is that all d .... Posted 5/17/2013 12:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1) #298 Someone who has excepted Shabbos early asking someone else to do a Melocho Q. Can someone that started Shabbos early ask his neighbor that davens late to turn on the lights for him? A. Shulchan Aruch (O. H. 263: 17) rules that it is permitted for someone that has already accepted Shabbos to ask another tha .... Posted 5/17/2013 12:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #297 When does someone from Eretz Yisroel say Izkor when traveling Q. Is there a point for him(a Israeli resident who temporarily travels to Chutz Laaretz) to say Izkor as it is not Yom Tov for him or should he say it by himself on the first day? A. Betzel Hacochmo (4: 109) rules that an Israeli re .... Posted 5/17/2013 12:35 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #296 Someone from Eretz Yisroel getting an Aliya on the second day of Yom tov Q. I have guest from Israel that are visiting me and they only keep one day Yom Tov. On the second day Shavuoth can one get an aliyah as he has Yortzayt and it is Thursday and they would be reading the Torah anyway? If yes could he get Maftir? Posted 5/17/2013 12:30 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #295 Tefilin dropped off by a Sofer but not returned Q. I sent my Tefillin to a Sofer Stam in Toronto for checking almost a year ago. I have called 2x since sending it and have yet to speak to him, and only to his wife. I have not heard from him, and I miss my tefillin very much. I cannot manage to p .... Posted 5/17/2013 12:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #294 Newspapers delivered to a Jewish area on Shabbos Q. Is a newspaper delivered to North York on Shabbos Muktzah? A. Presumably Gentiles printed the newspaper after the onset of Shabbos. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that it is not considered nolad or something new created .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:29 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #293 Using a plastic tablecloth cut on Shabbos Q. Is a plastic tablecloth which was cut from a roll on Shabbos (by a non Jew) muktzah? A. It is prohibited to derive benefit from melochos done on Shabbos by a gentile, even if he was not instructed to do them, but he carried them o .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:27 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #292 Using a reed mat helt togehter with plastic coated wire Q. May I use for Schach a reed mat that is held together with wire coated in plastic insulation? A. Shulchan Aruch, (O.H.629, 1 and 7) rules that schach cannot consist and may not be supported by material that does not grow .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:24 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #291 lighting candles early on Shavuos night Q. When lighting the Yom Tov candles on the first night of Shavuoth do I have to wait till nightfall if I didn't count sefirah? A. Piskey Teshuvos (O.H. 494, 4) rules that women should wait to light candles on the eve of Shavuos unt .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:12 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #290 Numbers of the tribes in this week's Parsha always finish in zeros Q. How come the numbers of the tribes in this week's Parsha always finish in zeros, were they round up? That they are the exact number is statistically very unlikely. A. Horav Yakov Kamenetzki ZT"l (Emes L'Yaakov, Pinchas) addresses .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:10 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #289 Reading Parshas Bamidvar before Shavuos Q. I just read in an authoritative Yom Tov sefer and luach that Parshat Bamidvar is always before Shavuoth, wasn't last year Nasso before? A. This sefer was probably quoting Shulchan Oruch (O.H. 428, 4) that very emphatically rules .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #288 Making the Bracho on seeing a tree in bloom in Sivan Q. We have some fruit trees in our back yard that just now began to bloom… can the brocho still be made this Shabbat as it is already Sivan? A. This year, due to the earliness of Pesach, the blooming of trees at this latitude occurr .... Posted 5/10/2013 4:02 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #287 Waiting until Shabbos to make the Bracho on seeing a tree bloom Q. We have some fruit trees in our back yard that just now began to bloom, can we wait till Shabbat when the whole family is together to make the bracha or does it have to be done when you see them the first time? A. Yalkut Yosef ( .... Posted 5/10/2013 3:47 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #286 Brocho on onions from schmaltz herring Q. Kevod Harav Shlit"a, The halacha seems to point out that if one eats raw or even cooked Garlic or Onions, the bracha receited is "Shehakol", as it is not the usual way for most people to eat raw garlic and onions. I .... Posted 5/9/2013 4:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0) #285 Unsealed meat or non-Mevushel wine left unattended at home Q. We have a babysitter who watches my child every day. She is Hindu. We have once or twice left an open bottle of non-mevushal wine out, and sometimes have unsealed meat in the fridge while she is here alone. In the past we have discarded the wine .... Posted 5/9/2013 3:48 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)

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