Sunday
2nd Day Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 5771
July 3, 2011
1) Horseradish sauce, Chrain, may be mixed with mayonnaise, to form a dressing often referred to as Chrayonnaise, and no Shinui is required when mixing as the result of mixing these two items is a liquid like mix and not a firmer mass.
2) Milk, applesauce or other liquids may be added to baby cereals to form a loose mixture, as long as the ingredients were added in reverse order and the cereal mixed in criss-cross motions, with the bare hands, with the handle of a spoon or with another acceptable Shinui.
Care should be taken, though, to use adequate liquid and/or pour the liquid in quickly to ensure that at no point in the preparation will it be a Blila Ava, a thick mixture.
In cases of great necessity where a thick cereal is needed for an infant, the ingredients must be added in reverse order, and a "real" Shinui (criss-cross motion or with bare hands, as opposed to mixing it gently or with the handle of a utensil) must be employed in the mixing of the cereal.
In each specific case before preparing a thick mixture, a Rav must be consulted to determine if it is indeed deemed a case of "great necessity".
QUESTION & ANSWER CORNER
Reader Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers.
These Q&A are taken from the Q & A pages on the Halacha For Today website.
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Reader's Question:
Is a kohen allowed to fly in a plane or helicopter over a jewish cemetery?
Answer:
No. If a Kohen knows for sure that he will be flying over a jewish cemetery he may not take that flight, as the impurity of a grave goes straight up until the heavens.
However, he does not have to assume that every flight path will do so, and thus doesnt need to avoid flying altogether when it isnt for sure that a Jewish cemetery will be flown over.
For halacha L'Ma'aseh a Rav must be consulted.
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זכר צדיק וקדוש לברכה
The following beautiful story is from a shiur given by Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Alter of Migdal Torah in Chicago, IL.
He said the story in the name of Rebbetzin Kanievsky, wife of Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita, daughter of Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita.
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In March, someone packed a car with 100 kilos of explosives and parked it at the CineMall in Haifa.
It was parked near a supporting pillar. Had it exploded, not only would it have destroyed that pillar, but other cars in the lot would have caught fire causing the gas tanks to explode. In that very popular mall, the consequences would have been too horrendously tragic to contemplate.
The explosion did not happen.
A passerby spotted some smoke coming from the car and alerted the police whose sappers were able to come and defuse the explosives.
Even Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister at the time, recognized this was a miracle, although he attributed it to the alertness of civilians.
Here's what really happened:
Several weeks before this event, a girl in Haifa who had been sick and went for tests was told she had stomach cancer. The tumor was so big, and had metastasized, and there was nothing the doctors could do. They told her to go home for her final weeks.
This non-religious girl and her non-religious parents pleaded with the doctors to try. They begged them at least to make an effort. The doctors finally agreed and told her to come back the next day for surgery.
She was assigned a young, inexperienced surgeon. They felt it would be good practice for him, and since there was nothing that could help her, it didn't really matter.
The night before the surgery, this non-religious girl pleaded with Hashem. She said to him, "HaKadosh Boruch Hu, when we had the Bais HaMikdosh people could bring you korbanos to plead their case. Now we have no Kohanim, we have no Bais HaMikdosh. But I still want to bring you a korban."
She went to her closet and took out all her immodest clothing and took it out to the yard and burned them.
As her clothes went up in flames, she cried out, "This is my korban!"
The next day this girl went to the hospital in her nightgown. She had burned her entire wardrobe and this was all she had left.
She had the surgery. The giant tumor had not metastasized, as was previously believed. It was totally contained. It was easily removed. And it was benign.
She told all her non-religious friends about the miracle. When the girl had recovered enough to get out of bed, her friends brought over all their immodest clothing and made another fire and threw in their wardrobes.
Left with nothing to wear, the girls needed new clothes. When that bomb was supposed to explode at the CineMall, these girls were inside buying themselves new, modest clothing.
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