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# 1939 Making a Meal?
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Q. Since the luz bone feeds only from the melave malka seuda is eating mezonos enough?
A. Poskim rule that on the onset, one should wash and eat an egg-full amount of bread (Mishna Berura 300: 1,2). However, since this seuda is not ....
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Posted 11/25/2018 10:10 PM |
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# 1938 It's In Your Bones
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Q. Why is the luz-bone on the spine only nourished from the Melava Malka meal?
A. Midrash (Bereshis Rabbah 18, Koheles 12, see Ta'amei Haminhagim 425) write that the luz-bone is known to be eternal and does not decay, as this is the ....
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Posted 11/25/2018 10:07 PM |
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# 1937 Acting One's Age
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Q. Does one have to stand for an elderly if one is unsure of his age?
A. If one is unsure if an elderly has reached seventy, Yabia Omer (Y. D. 3: 13), Yehave Daas (3: 70 ) rules that since this is a Biblical mitzva you have to be s ....
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Posted 11/21/2018 12:43 AM |
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# 1936 The Same Old Story?
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Q. Does one have to stand for an elderly person if he is unaware of it?
A. On question 1158, in regards to standing up for an elderly Talmid Hacham that is senile or blind and is not aware of the honor you are giving him, we wrote: "Gina ....
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Posted 11/21/2018 12:40 AM |
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# 1935 A Word on Honor
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Q. Does one have to stand to honor an elderly woman if she is not an eishes chover?
A. Sefer Chasidim 578, quoted by Beis Yehudah, (Y.D. 1: 28); Sefer HaChinuch and Minchas Chinuch 257:3. Yechaveh Da’as (3:72) quoting Teshuvos Geonim, an ....
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Posted 11/21/2018 12:38 AM |
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# 1934 Sorry, but not Old
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Q. Does one have to stand for an elderly person if he is mochel, forgives or does not want you to stand for him?
A. Teshuvos Radvaz (8:167) maintains that even when the elderly forgoes his honor, one should still respect him by rising s ....
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Posted 11/21/2018 12:35 AM |
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# 1933 Know Where You Stand
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Q. (On prior question 1932, mitzva of standing for the aged) I don't see it widely practiced in many places, so I'm wondering if there are any heterim for not doing it while learning, davening, bentching, or eating a seuda shel mitzvah,etc? For e ....
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Posted 11/19/2018 9:19 PM |
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# 1932 Reason To Stand
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Q. I heard that its a mitzvah from the Torah to stand up FULLY when a frum Jew over 70 years old (60 according to Kabalah) comes into your 4 Amot.
A. Shulchan Aruch (244: 1) rules that the mitzva of rising before a "seiva" (Vaikra ....
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Posted 11/19/2018 9:18 PM |
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# 1931 All the Best By the Best
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Q Rashi says that the words in Parashas Vayishlach, "Im Lovon Garti" (2nd explanation) mean that Yaakov kept the 613 mitzvos.
However, it is certain that he did not keep them all because, for example, he did not keep the mitzvah of Sippur Yetz ....
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Posted 11/18/2018 12:14 PM |
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# 1930 Take The Tallis Treat?
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Q. I traveled to be at my future son-in law's aufruf. When I came to the shul I realized that I did not have my tallis with me. I was unable to ask someone to lend me one, but I found someones weekday tallis. Since I would not have been able to come ....
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Posted 11/18/2018 11:16 AM |
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# 1929 Thought For Food
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Q. I have been earning some extra money being an Uber Eats driver (it's like a taxi that picks up food from restaurants that don't normally deliver, and deliver the food to customers). Not long ago, as I was driving a food order to its destination, ....
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Posted 11/16/2018 2:48 PM |
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# 1928 An Informed "Informing" Decision
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Q. A landlord has a tenant renting part of his house, and he seems to be abusing his wife or his children, as he can hear or witness. Does he have an obligation to report to the respective authorities?
If the case is already in the hands of d ....
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Posted 11/16/2018 2:46 PM |
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# 1927 Eviction Contradiction
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Q. Can a Shomer Torah landlord expel a similar tenant from his rental property for defaulting in rent payments by following the law of the land and applying for an eviction ruling enacted by a law officer, or does he have to refer to a Beis Din fir ....
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Posted 11/16/2018 10:45 AM |
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# 1926 Paper Bag Recycling?
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Q. When you use a paper bag to double enclose food that you are warming in a non- kosher microwave, can it be reused again? How many Times?
What happens if drops of condensation fall on the paper bag?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Sh ....
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Posted 11/13/2018 7:23 PM |
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# 1925 Giving a Hand
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Q. A non-Jewish caregiver who needed to cook the food for a patient, could not wait any longer for a family member to turn on the stove, so the caregiver took the hand of her client and pushed it to turn on the stove. Is this bishul akum? Can the foo ....
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Posted 11/12/2018 11:08 PM |
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# 1924 Nothing is for Free
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Q. Re- question (1923) above in regards to the Chavos Yair ruling that when wine is gifted one should rather use his own wine for kiddush since it was paid for. This is surprising since after all the wine was given as a gift as a recognition for bei ....
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Posted 11/11/2018 11:56 AM |
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# 1923 Get a Gift?
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Q. I was given as a gift a beautiful tallis, as far as kashruth goes, it is equal to the one I bought for myself. Is it better or more mehudar to continue using the one I have since I paid for it and as we know one should pay for a mitzva, or better ....
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Posted 11/11/2018 11:51 AM |
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# 1922 Listen To Reason or Reason To Listen
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Q. Re- question 1904 on the need to recite Birchas Hatorah before listening to a tape of Mussar. You mentioned that many Poskim differentiate between merely thinking and actually listening to words of Torah, as Shaarei Teshuva (ibid. 3) explains, sin ....
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Posted 11/11/2018 11:28 AM |
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# 1921 Thanks For...?
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Q. When making a seudas hodoa for thanking G-d for the miracle of His great salvation, does one have to disclose to the guest partaking at the seuda, the reason for that act?
A. Mishna Berura (218: 32) mentions that even if there was no ....
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Posted 11/11/2018 11:16 AM |
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# 1920 Pop The Shailah?
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Hello Rav,
Q. At work they make microwave popcorn (that has a hechtsher) in the non-kosher communal microwave. It is sealed in its bag the whole time it is cooking. Is this permissible to eat it terms of being cooked in the microwave? Addi ....
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Posted 11/9/2018 12:25 PM |
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