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											# 4548    Not a Patch in Ponim 
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								Posted 11/23/2023 11:50 PM |   
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											# 4547   Fast Fix For Fast
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												  Q.  Does someone have to fast if when entering early to shul, he sees of a pair of Tefilin laying on the ground, that apparently fell from their bag when the shul was being cleaned? 
 
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											# 4546    A Blessing that is Not the Last
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												   Q. Why is there no mention of Chanuka when reciting the Beracha Acharona for Mezonot or wine? If someone wants to say it anyway is it correct? 
 
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											#  4545    Great but not Truly a Good Shailah 
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-  Q.   Dear Rov we appreciate the fact that you can get prompt answers from Gedolim to most unusual question. One from a dear friend and Yeshiva Bachur. He was staying for Yom Tov on one of the houses that were attacked by the Chamas murderers. He ....
											
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											# 4544  -  Make Yourself At Home
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												      Q.    A yeshiva bachur who is staying in yeshiva for Shabbos Chanuka but eating as a guest elsewhere where should he light? Can he light in the dining room in the same building where all other bachurim light even without eating there? 
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											# 4543   An Early Kiddush
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												    Q. Kevod Harov Shlit’a. When is the earliest time after an early Maariv after Shekiah that people can say Kiddush Levanah, during winter? 
 
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											# 4542   Our Most  Beautiful and  Nice Close Family?
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												   Q. Dearest Rabbi Shlit’a. As we read the current and next Parshios in with the story of Yaakov and his older brother Eisav, describing the foundations and base sources of the Jewish Nation, I wonder at what point was Eisav removed from being part  ....
											
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											# 4541    Thoughts for Your Penny
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												  Q.  Can one leave on the floor a U.S. penny coin that has the name of G-d on it, and on what people are going to step on it? 
 
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is permitted. 
 
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								Posted 11/17/2023 10:56 AM |   
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											#  4540     Sitting in Judgment
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											#  4539  Intentions that Pave the Road to Heaven
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												   Q.  One who is going away for Shabbos and can get a free ride later in the day on Erev Shabbos or take a bus earlier, and he wants to leave earlier due to Kavod Shabbos, is the expense considered a Shabbos expense? 
 
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											# 4538   The Eternal Rush Hour 
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												      Q.  Hello Rav, Now my boys are old enough, so we often have a zimmun of 3 men. I know there is a mitzvah to bentch on a Kos of wine/grape juice. I seem to remember it being very common when I was a student in Israel 20 years ago, but these days ....
											
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											# 4537  - That’ll Teach Someone Something
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												  Q.  Dear Rabbi. As you know I have been teaching for over twenty in a college where most of the teachers and students are of the left and against Israel. It has lately become very extreme.  Can I continue teaching or I must morally quit and loose m ....
											
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								Posted 11/16/2023 9:58 PM |   
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											# 4536  - Drum Up Conundrum  
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												  Q. If one is from Israel but davening in Toronto. can he lead services as an aveil despite the v’sein tal umatar livracha conundrum? 
 
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											# 4535   So Far - So Near
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    Q.  If a person in 2023 is still unwilling to go on the bimah for an aliyah (because of health issues)  and insists on standing 12-15 away on the floor of the Shul, can he be given an Aliyah LaTorah? 
 
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								Posted 11/16/2023 11:23 AM |   
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											# 4534  - Bigger than Yom Kippur Kotton
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												   Q.  Rov, I have a Shiur Kavua with four talmidim, at the time the Yom Kippur Kotton will be tomorrow (Monday, Nov 13 - 23) due to the emergency conditions in Israel, Do I have to cancel the shiur? The talmidim can’t join me at the ceremony. 
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											# 4533   The Better, Best, Beautiful, Beginnings
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											# 4532    Travel Alert
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												   Q.   Where,  specifically, at what point do we say Tefilas Haderech i’m leaving Toronto to New York? 
 
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											# 4531   Dancing at the Wrong Wedding?
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												  Q.  See question above: When officiating at a wedding of irreligious people, 
please also determine if mikva of bride is also a deal breaker for officiating. 
 
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											# 4530    Thought for Food 
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												  Q.   Kvod Harav.  Hoping you could speak to Rabbi Miller shlita regarding the policy of officiating at a wedding of irreligious people where non kosher food is served. When I spoke to Rabbi Miller about officiating at weddings of non religious (man ....
											
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											# 4529   Call it a Night?
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												 Q.  If one is in a shul or other gathering where tehillim is being said at night as is common during the current war, should one avoid participating due to the nighttime? 
 
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								Posted 11/9/2023 7:52 PM |   
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