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#5116 A Ray of Hope for the Spray
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- Q. On last question the Rov mentioned that Pepper Spray if needed for self defense and saving lives, it is permitted to hold and carry all day and night during Shabbos. Is it really better to use it for protection during Shabbat than a gun? How ....
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Posted 9/10/2024 11:15 AM |
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#5115 Say on Stay Away from Spray
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- Q. I live in Toronto and as it is well known we suffered recently a series of dangerous antisemitic and life threatening attacks. Is the carrying to shul and constant holding of a pepper spray can, permitted for personal safety reasons during the ....
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Posted 9/8/2024 12:37 PM |
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#5114 Not Nice on Noise!
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- Q. I was Baal Tokeah for a neighbor who is bed ridden and lives with her daughter and a significant number of dogs and cats. As I was blowing the Shofar, the dogs where all howling and the cats where meowing quite loudly, accompanying the sound ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:23 PM |
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#5113 Uncover the Cover
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- Q. Can we cover the wheelchair of a guest visiting our home for a Shabbos meal with a plastic sheet when it is raining outside?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit”a adviced that to avoid making an “Ohel” or tent prohibited during Shabbos ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:18 PM |
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#5112 – Keep on Pushing?
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- Q. See question above. What happens if he fell asleep in his wheelchair can someone still push him?
A. Since there are various different details involved in this particular shailah, the opinion of our Rabbanim is that one should con ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:17 PM |
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#5111 The Will of the Wheelchair
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- Q. A person that needs a wheelchair to come to shul or visit friends, can he be pushed by a friend if he can just walk a little by himself, if there is no Eruv on that town? Is it better if he moves the chair himself with his hands?
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:13 PM |
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#5110 Mind the Blow
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- Q. In the case above, can I just blow the shofar myself? What if I can only do the tekios (long voice) properly, and not the rest of the usual customary different voices?
A. Siach Yitzchok (264) maintains that one should also blow f ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:10 PM |
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#5109 Stop, Look and Listen?
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- Q. See question above. If I continued davening the amida, do I have to look for someone to blow for me after davening. After all I did hear it?
A. Even if one was not paying attention to the listening of that shofar blowing, yet he l ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:08 PM |
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#5108 – Stop and Listen?
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- Q. Kvod Horav Shlit”a. It happens because of my medical situation that I come late to shul. Sometimes in the past I have had to listen to the shofar blowing at the end of davening during Elul, while I’m still saying the amidah Do I have to stop ....
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Posted 9/6/2024 1:05 PM |
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#5107 – Shofar Not So Good?
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- Q. Rabino querido. You know my parents well, and following their advice, that is based on what you taught them many years ago to care for others and do mitzvot for their benefit.
I’m therefore learning to become a Baal Tokea and blow t ....
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Posted 9/3/2024 10:52 AM |
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#5106 Refer the Sefer
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- Q. Can you make a siyum for a Yohrzait of parents when you finish learning an important sefer, such as Mesilas Yeshorim or similar?
A. Usually the common Siyum is on a Talmud volume, a Mishna sefer, or a book of Tanach. ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:49 AM |
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#5105 A True Historic Day
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- Q. I heard in our Beis Hamedrash that the 24th day of Av is a special day and therefore Tachanun should be avoided. Why is that day so special?
A. Sources quote that on the 24th day of Av the Chashmonaim replaced the Hellenic legal ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:38 AM |
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#5104 Allow the Blow?
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- Q. If we are starting a new minyan, should we blow the shofar from the first day Rosh Chodesh Elul? The minhag in this part of town is split.
A. Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a opinion is that since adding an extra day for beginning ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:32 AM |
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#5103 Not the Last Stand
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- Q. Dear Rabbi; does someone who is already a bit aged and it is a bit difficult for him to have to stand for all the selichos, when everyone else in shul is standing, (they are younger). Should he better look for another minyan, so he will not be ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:30 AM |
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#5102 For a Split Second
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? - Q. See question above. If we cannot reach an agreement, for this and other different minhagim, is it better that we should split and the new comers even if they are now a majority, should look for a new place?
A. As already mentio ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:26 AM |
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#5101 Divide and Loose
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- Q. We recently added a number of new members to our Beis Midrash and some have a very Chassidic background. Their leader mentioned that since Rosh Hashana is approaching and we are going to say and add many different tefilos, we should follow t ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:25 AM |
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#5100 – Shofar So Good
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- Q. See questions above. We were further wondering, if from the friends camping with us the only one that knows how to blow the shofar (more or less) is my talented son. The problem is that he is only twelve years old. Can he blow on this speci ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:22 AM |
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#5099 – Hazoom Es Hakol?
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- Q. See question above. In our special situation, can we maybe just zoom a blowing of the shofar, since after all it is only for a remembrance act?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a usual opinion is that any mitzva that involves verba ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:19 AM |
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#5098 Blow the Blow?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. We are still traveling with our family and friends camping by the lake on our summer vacation trip. Be’H we plan to be back at the middle of next week. Since we Bechesed Hashem actually have a daily minyan and B’H we have davened ....
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Posted 8/30/2024 11:16 AM |
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#5097 Words of Honor
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– Q. See question above. Can one celebrate a Siyum on that day or should preferably postpone it.
A. Shulchan Aruch O.H. (580: 2) enumerates a list of days that were identified as days of mourning due to tragedies and d ....
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Posted 8/23/2024 10:15 AM |
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