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# 3018 A Dose of One's Own Medicine
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Q. A new spray is about to be marketed. When sprayed into the nose or/and mouth. it greatly helps to protect against infection by COVID-19. It stops the absorption and growth of micro-organisms such as viruses or bacteria. Can it be used during Shab ....
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Posted 1/21/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3017 A 100% of 100 Brochos?
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Q. If one lost track on Shabbos of where he is holding in meah brachos, should he make brachos until he knows without any doubt that he has a hundred, or is it not necessary since the mitzvah is rabbinic?
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Posted 1/21/2021 10:01 PM |
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# 3016 Twilight Blessings
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Q. When making brachos during bein hashemashos, do they count for the previous day or the next day for meah brachos?
A. Mishna Berura (46: 14) quoting Acharonim (see Beis Yosef and others) begins the count of the one hundred brochos fro ....
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Posted 1/21/2021 9:51 PM |
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# 3015 How Blessed Are We?
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Q. Is the reciting of a hundred brochos every day an obligation for all, a Mitzva or just a mihag or tradition?
A. Based on Talmud (Menochos 43: 2), Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 46: 3), Rambam (H. Tefila 7: 1), Smag (A 19), Zohar (Korach), and o ....
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Posted 1/21/2021 9:46 PM |
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# 3014 Good to Hear Your Voice
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Q. The wife of member of our congregation is l'a chronically ill and mostly restricted to bed. She requires supervision, however due to the current crisis they can't afford a caregiver. Her husband strongly desires to continue attending shul, at lea ....
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Posted 1/20/2021 3:44 PM |
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# 3013 At Cross Purposes
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Q. Dear Rabbi As you realize from my name. I'm an old friend and member of the Kehila in Mexico, your former community. I'm sadly hospitalized in a Catholic hospital in Mexico City and suffering from covid 19. The rooms in this particular hospital h ....
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Posted 1/20/2021 3:33 PM |
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# 3012 Pure as the Driven Snow?
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Q. After attending a levaya or exiting a cemetery can one wash hands by sinking them in the snow? Does one have to do it three times? Can it be done in the same place?
A. On question 2074 regarding if one can wash hands netilas yodaim ....
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Posted 1/18/2021 2:47 PM |
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# 3011 A Smell Test
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Q. If someone due to contracting Covid lost his sense of smell and finds himself in a hospital room where the smell of the bathroom is obviously present, since other patients avoid it and say so. Can he say a bracha or learn Torah there, since after ....
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Posted 1/17/2021 10:33 AM |
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# 3010 Practice Makes Perfect
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Q Because I am a descendant of the Pnei Yehoshua, I am a descendant of both Rabbeinu Tam and Rashi (as attested by the grandfather of the Pnei Yehoshua in Moginei Shlomo).
Am I obligated to follow Minhogim of Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam? Where Rabbe ....
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Posted 1/15/2021 11:58 AM |
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# 3009 My Name is My Name
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Q. When a patient is so ill that a change of name is suggested, does he have to be consulted before or told that there will be or there was a shinui hashem or an addition of a name done for him? Maybe it should be avoided, since telling him about it ....
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Posted 1/15/2021 11:46 AM |
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# 3008 Not Good for You Not Good for Others?
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Q. Can I give my Rabbeinu Tam tefillin to be checked, painted and fixed to a sofer who doesn't put on himself Rabbeinu Tam's tefilin, since following his minhag they are not necessary, so he will not doing lishmo properly the painting and placing ....
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Posted 1/15/2021 11:42 AM |
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# 3007 Make a Name for Yourself
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Q. I would like to start saying the pasuk after the amida that contain the first and last letter of my name. (psukim lesheimos anoshim - noshim), since my father used to say it also. The problem is that I can't find in the list given, a posuk that f ....
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Posted 1/13/2021 2:44 PM |
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# 3006 A Double Blessing
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Q. If someone left his office and forgot making a bore nefashot after eating some fruits, but when he arrived home and was about to have a coffee, he remembered. Since there was a shinui makom or a change of venue, he needs to make a new bracha o ....
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Posted 1/13/2021 2:29 PM |
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# 3005 We All Daven Together
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Q. I have recently become the Rabbi of a small community. Until now, I have always davened with a Vasikin minyan. My community though, davens at a regular time. Is it more important for me to daven with my community when they daven or better to cont ....
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Posted 1/11/2021 2:28 PM |
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# 3004 The Complete Siyum
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Q. Kevod Harav Shlit"a, If a boy under the age of bar mitzvah completes an entire masechta and understands it. Should he also recite the kadish upon completion of the siyum?
A. The common custom is that the kaddish after a siyum is reci ....
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Posted 1/10/2021 3:57 PM |
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# 3003 Open 24 Hours?
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Q. Can Hatoras Nedorim (an act of absolution of wows done in front of a court of three people) be done at night after Maariv?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 228: 3), Rambam (H. Shavuos 6: 6), rule that Hatoras Nedorim can be done at night. Ni ....
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Posted 1/8/2021 12:31 PM |
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#3002 Milk of Human Kindness?
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Q. An individual who was always careful and machmir (stringent) to eat only products of Cholov Yisroel, but due to the fact that he became unemployed during the pandemic crisis he can't afford the high prices of these products and needs to at least ....
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Posted 1/8/2021 12:25 PM |
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# 3001 Tough Answers to Tough Shailes
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Q. My neighbors father lost recently r'l his wife and a son to the covid curse. He became very depressed and is at a high risk of ending his own life. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital by his children, where he is kept mostly drugged and barel ....
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Posted 1/7/2021 10:26 PM |
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# 3000 The Early Late Torah
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Q. Should one go to sleep early, at the expense of learning Torah, in order to wake up early and be from the asara rishonim the next day? (He will learn before Shacharis, but maybe learning more at night is a bigger mitzvah, and maybe one shouldn't ....
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Posted 1/7/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 2999 Unmask the Mask
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Q. Is it permitted to go out on Shabbos with two masks, one for me and one for my friend whose Rav does not allow him to go out with a mask on Shabbos but will be attending a shul where they require it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 3:10 PM |
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