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# 2898 The Cracking of Dawn
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Q. At this time of the year, I have a hard time davening after sunrise (Neitz Hachama) and coming on time to my job. Can I say brachos and korbanos before Alos Hashachar (dawn)?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O. H 47: 13) rules that Birchas Hatora a ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 12:47 PM |
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# 2897 Burn Away?
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Q. See question 2895 above regarding building a columbarium. If the building owner can get a permit for installing a crematorium in that building, would that be also permitted in need?
A. Some Poskim maintain that even for the Jewish dea ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 12:39 PM |
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# 2896 Wash Away
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Q. Re-question 2891 above, regarding women washing clothes during Rosh Chodesh. Is doing the laundry by washing machine also included in the minhag of women not doing work in Rosh Chodesh?
A. Some Poskim are stringent (Emes l’Yaakov, O.H ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 9:09 AM |
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# 2895 Kashes on Ashes
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Q. Someone who acquired a small building next to a non-Jewish cemetery, wants to use it as a columbarium for storing the cremation ashes of the dead. These are kept in urns placed in niches or on shelves all around the walls of the building. Since he ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 9:02 AM |
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# 2894 Is It Day or Night?
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Q. Can one wash and eat supper for Rosh Chodesh Seuda or does it have to be done during the day?
A. Poskim disagree. Mishna Berura (419: 2) that for the purpose of the food or meal added for the honor of Rosh Chodesh, it suffices if it i ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 8:57 AM |
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# 2893 The Beginning's Meal
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Q. I remember learning that there is an obligation to wash and eat a bread meal at least once a day during Rosh Chodesh. Why is it that not all do so?
A. Shulchan Aruch (419: 1) rules that it is a mitzva to be "marbeh," enlarge and augme ....
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Posted 10/23/2020 8:51 AM |
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# 2892 Bris Tricks?
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Q. A baby boy who has jaundice before his 8th day cannot, in most circumstances, be circumcised in time, unless the jaundice disappears in time.
Some employ all sorts of remedies to get the jaundice to disappear. Some wash the baby's hands in ....
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Posted 10/22/2020 2:03 PM |
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# 2891 Praise Our Saintly Women
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Q. What is the reason and source that women as opposed to men avoid doing certain melochos and work on Rosh Chodesh?
A. Pirkei D' Rabi Eliezer (45) mentions that when the women refused to contribute any of their jewelry for the making o ....
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Posted 10/20/2020 1:55 PM |
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# 2890 Washing One's Linen in Public?
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Q. The Minhag is that women do not wash clothing on Rosh Chodesh.
I, the husband, do the washing in our home. Is it OK if I hang the washing on the porch where it can be seen by the neighbors, or do I have to avoid the Mar'is Ayin that they mig ....
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Posted 10/20/2020 1:47 PM |
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# 2889 Fix For Dinner
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Q. See question 2886 above regarding an Hachnosas Sefer Torah. Do we have to make a seudah during these pandemic days? and how many people should attend?
A. Based on Remah (O.H. 669: 1) that we make a seuda when we end the Torah readi ....
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Posted 10/20/2020 1:34 PM |
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# 2888 Reading Before Writing?
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Q. When writing a letter of a Sefer Torah, at the ceremony of an Hachnosas Sefer Torah, besides saying the required statement that one is writing "Leshem Kedushas Sefer Torah," should not one also have to say aloud the letter or the word that he is a ....
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Posted 10/16/2020 4:04 PM |
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# 2887 The Law of the Letter
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Q. When giving out the kivudim (honors) for writing a letter in a new Sefer Torah, is it a greater kivud to be first to write or the last one?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the greatest mitzva and kovod goes for the on ....
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Posted 10/15/2020 10:26 PM |
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# 2886 March to a Different Tune
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Q. I want to make an Hachnosas Sefer Torah this week, while my mishpacha is still here, (they came for Yom Tov) do we have to make a parade on the street with a chupa, as it is usually done, or due to the fact that it may create a Chilul Hashem, shou ....
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Posted 10/15/2020 10:16 PM |
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# 2885 Not for Reading
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Q. Can I bring a Sefer Torah to an outside back yard minyan on Simchas Torah to be used for hakofes only, if they will not read from it at all?
A. Mishna Berura (669: 9) quotes Ledovid Emes, that if they are only a few Sifrei Torah in a ....
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Posted 10/15/2020 10:07 PM |
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# 2884 Games Over?
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Q. Until what age may a brother and sister play together physically, such as climbing on each other, riding on each other, hugging each other, tickling each other, touching each other?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that chi ....
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Posted 10/14/2020 10:19 PM |
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# 2883 A Monumental Decision
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Q. Our family gathered together for Sukkot on these most unusual times. We are planning to do the Hakamath Hamatzevah for our father and grandfather, while we are all together. Since many are departing immediately after Yom Tov, can we do the matzeva ....
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Posted 10/14/2020 10:10 PM |
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# 2882 Follow Your Rov
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Q. What is Horav Miller's opinion psak on just a few people in shul or even one person such as the Rov doing all hakofes. Is that permitted?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion in similar shailes is that the Rov of the shul involved ....
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Posted 10/12/2020 10:01 PM |
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2881 Good News
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Q. What is the correct procedure during these difficult Simchat Torah with the Kol Hanearim taalith covering and for the ones that will not have the opportunity to get an aliya?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the ....
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Posted 10/9/2020 5:56 PM |
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# 2880 Honor Check
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Q. This is a most unusual Simchas Torah, when many of us are afraid of contamination. Can we cover the Sifrei Torah with transparent plastic bags, to be changed between holders to avoid any further danger? Is the fact that those bags are usually sold ....
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Posted 10/9/2020 1:59 PM |
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# 2879 Rise a Shailah
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Q. Can one eat rice cakes out of the Sukkah?
A. Mishna Berura (639: 13) rules that eating many fruits, meat, fish, or anything that isn't made from the five kinds of grain, does not require a suka. However, Poskim maintain that if it is ....
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Posted 10/9/2020 1:53 PM |
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