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# 3177 Just a Handshake?
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Q. Re- question 3176 above. If I use a virtual office of the new Gather Town technology, with holographic Avatars that really resembles the person it represents and it shakes hands with a customer in a business deal will that become a kinyan as when ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:10 PM |
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# 3176 Look At Me!
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Q. I'm of a Chasidic background and I run an office for a company that is planing to update their Zoom office program, (as we work from home, and it is likely to continue) to the new Gather Town technology. Basically it has the added component of se ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3175 Have a Number on Mind
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Q. We learned recently on the Daf that one should not count people directly. When making sure one has a minyan for davening, can one count the present attendants mentally, by just looking at them?
A. Although some Poskim are lenient, Ho ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:02 PM |
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# 3174 No Tears On a Tear
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Q. If someone touched his hair on his head or pulls or tears some hair from his head or beard, does he have to wash hands three times?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H . 4: 21) rules that someone scratching his head should wash hands. Poskim writ ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 9:57 PM |
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# 3173 Earn One's Daily Bread Brocho
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1) Q. In reference to question 3156, since the flour goes through a process and the result is only wheat starch, why isn't it different than other starches or products that have totally changed their form? When an apple changes its form into apple sa ....
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Posted 5/13/2021 6:15 PM |
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# 3172 Hair Splitting?
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Q. If someone touched his hair on his head or pulls or tears some hair from his head or beard, does he have to wash hands three times?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H . 4: 21) rules that someone scratching his head should wash hands. Poskim ....
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Posted 5/13/2021 11:34 AM |
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# 3171 Get the Swing of This
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Q. Someone bought a nice swing for the young kids in his family that they much desired. It was delivered on Erev Shabbos a few hours before the shekia (sunset), Since the children so much wanted to have it assembled and use it on Shabbos, and were ....
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Posted 5/12/2021 10:36 PM |
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# 3170 Listen Yisrael
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Q. When one reads Krias Shema and extends the word Echa'ad as required, does he say the elongated alef letter (Sefardi pronunciation) together with the 'chet' or just by itself. I have heard in shul both customs. Which is correct?
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Posted 5/12/2021 10:26 PM |
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# 3169 A Close Shave
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Q. I recently became a caregiver for a few elderly patients that require help and are high risk for Covid contamination. I have to use a double mask, but it is ineffective since I have a large beard that I have grown for many years. Can I cut it ver ....
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Posted 5/11/2021 9:46 PM |
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# 3168 A Long Short Cut
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Q. Hello Rav, If an adult gets a small cut on Shabbat and need to put a band-aid on, is it okay to add a bit of Antibiotic cream (e.g. polysporin) to the inside of the band-aid (ie. you are not smearing it yourself)? The cream is not absolutely nec ....
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Posted 5/11/2021 6:12 PM |
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# 3167 See The Light?
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Q. Hello Rav, On Shabbat, are we able to move the new kosherlamps (or any similar light) that have LED or CFL lightbulbs in them? I know fire (and thus incandescent bulbs) can't be moved, but maybe these are not considered fire? If not, can they be ....
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Posted 5/11/2021 5:47 PM |
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# 3166 Get the Name Right
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Q. The name on the Matzeiva of my cousin is different from the Hebrew name that her mother told me when I asked her. Which name should I use for remembering her at Izkor?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is more lik ....
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Posted 5/9/2021 5:50 PM |
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# 3165 Women Count
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Q. I belong to a group of women that meets every night for a short zoom shiur on Lashon Harah, and we count Sefira at the end with a bracha. We have been criticized that it is not correct. Should we continue?
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Posted 5/9/2021 5:38 PM |
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# 3164 Important Message!
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Q. How should we all react to the recent closing of schools and yeshivos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a very emphatically declared that we should all protest in every way we can, by signing letters to our representatives, Rabbis, an ....
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Posted 5/7/2021 10:03 AM |
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# 3163 Boo to the Zoo?
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Q. Can a pregnant woman visit a zoo?
A. Horav Y.D. Harpeness quotes in Chinuch Yisroel (8: 2; p.525) the Kav Hayoshor's assertion that although one is permitted to see unusual non kosher animals for the purpose of reciting a special ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 10:53 PM |
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# 3162 Put an Animal Up
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Q. Re- question 3134 above on making sheheyanu on new and very expensive shoes during sefira. I thought that one does not say sheheyanu on products made of animal skins, since it involves their suffering?
A. Rema (O.H. 223: 6) writes t ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 10:38 PM |
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# 3161 Unread Bread
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Horav Tsvi Heber Shlit'a mentioned regarding question 3156, in
which we wrote that Molino flour manufactured in Italy but
distributed by Kemach Haaretz in Israel, that has a Hechsher from the
Badatz of Machazikei Haddas (Belz) in Ye ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 5:02 PM |
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# 3160 Don't Touch
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Q. Re- question 3157 above on women not touching a Sefer Torah during their period. Can they touch it with a Siddur, as I have seen done in some synagogues?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is improper to use a Sefe ....
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Posted 5/5/2021 4:14 PM |
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# 3159 Put Them to Good Use II
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Q. On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they can still be used it is not correct to send the ....
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Posted 5/5/2021 3:57 PM |
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# 3158 A Reality Check
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Q. My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at low fee? We have ten mezuzos.
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Posted 5/5/2021 3:52 PM |
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