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# 4208 An Eye View
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Q. Prescription post surgery. I have two prescriptions eye-drops for post surgery, that I have to take 3-4 times a day. Is there any problem for Shabbos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if it is medically required ....
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Posted 4/21/2023 10:28 AM |
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# 4207 Our Best Hair Day
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Q. A Bachur who normally tries b’n to avoid haircuts the entire Sefira and also on Rosh Chodesh, like the Arizal, may he take a haircut this coming Friday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, in order to have a fresh haircut L’kavod the new Z’man and to be able t ....
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Posted 4/21/2023 10:26 AM |
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# 4206 Thank You Please
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Q. Is there a Torah obligation that one has to say thank you for a favor received? Where exactly is that mitzva written? How about asking ‘please’?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that there is a most basic mitzva and obli ....
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Posted 4/17/2023 11:05 AM |
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# 4205 Wrapped in a Mystery...
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Q. On question 4198 the Rov mentioned that for one taking medicine pills during Pesach, making them not tasty by adding drops of vinegar, would not make any difference. If one is able to wrap them in a piece of thin tissue would that help? If that ....
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Posted 4/14/2023 5:57 PM |
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# 4204 Promises, Promises
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Q. I heard that there is a big Shailah if a father can promise his child that he will buy him a toy or give him some money if he returns the Afikomen. Is that correct?
A. Firstly one must say as usual that it is all B’li Neder.
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Posted 4/14/2023 5:56 PM |
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# 4203 Not Cut from the Same Cloth
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Q. Chag Kasher Vesameach Rov. I received as a present from my dear father-in-law, a most beautiful and greatly decorated Kitel that he wants me to wear at the Pesach Seder we are celebrating together.
There is no doubt that I much appr ....
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Posted 4/14/2023 5:54 PM |
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# 4202 A Flowering Shaila
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Q. Can one buy after Pesach flour from a Jewish store that may not have sold the Chametz properly?
A. See Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 453: 4) and Mishna Berura (ibid 24).
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Posted 4/11/2023 6:04 PM |
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# 4201 Need Something Yesterday
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Q. Our family was invited to eat a Pesach meal at a great neighboring friends house, who is a known Chacham. They are Sephardim and very careful with all the stringencies of Pesach, yet as their tradition is, they do eat Kitniyot. They promised me ....
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Posted 4/10/2023 12:17 PM |
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# 4200 The Got-Away Car?
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Q. One who rents a car on Chol Hamoed (Pesach), does he have to do Bedikat Chametz in it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one may be lenient since car rental companies are usually careful and demand that the cars shou ....
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Posted 4/10/2023 12:14 PM |
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# 4199 Keep in Touch?
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Q. If I don’t eat Kitniyos during Pesach, do they become Muktza for me? If yes, at a kiddush I cannot serve them to a Sephardi who is permitted to eat them?
A. Poskim permit and maintain that they do not become Muktza for Ashkena ....
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Posted 4/10/2023 12:08 PM |
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# 4198 A question of Taste
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Q. If one has to take medical pills during Pesach, although even if they contain Kitnios we usually allow them in need, yet I wonder if it would be preferable to take them with a drop of vinegar or any other distasteful liquid, to make them even ....
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Posted 4/10/2023 12:04 PM |
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# 4197 Little - Yet Gigantic Fish
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Q. Shalom Rav Shlit’a. As you have mentioned in many occasions, there are many different traditions and Minhagim regarding the foods one eats during Pesach or at the Seder, and as Horav Miller Shlit’a often stresses, one should keep always and ev ....
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Posted 4/10/2023 11:57 AM |
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# 4196 Angelic Garlic
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Q. My parents had a tradition not to eat garlic during Pesach. I really love the very healthy garlic and eat it daily, do I have to follow their tradition?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shli’a opinion is that this tradition does not have any ....
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Posted 4/8/2023 11:17 PM |
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# 4195 Don’t Watch the Dog
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Q. I was invited this Pesach to a shul where they just installed a new Aron Hakodesh that is made from a huge safe box that still has the emblem of the manufacturer and it is a clearly seen plain dog. Since the Poroches curtain is not on yet in pl ....
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Posted 4/8/2023 11:15 PM |
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# 4194 Just Keep Them Apart
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. I have a problem since I follow the Minhag not to eat quinoa during Pesach (as being Kitniyos). I’m invited to a friend and the host serves it and puts it in the same large and elongated serving tray with the meat, and I’m af ....
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Posted 4/8/2023 11:13 PM |
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# 4193 Rebetzins Read and Recline?
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Q. Thanks to Hashem, we have in our blessed large family boys and girls of all ages. The girls, some are already Bas Mitzva, want to recline at the Pesach Seder as their brothers do. My wife does not do Haseiva. Can we let our daughters recline al ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:27 PM |
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# 4192 Zoom In or Out?
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Q. Dear Rabbi, thanks for your condolences for the recent Petira of my father zt’l. Can an Avel, like me who is a Bechor also (first born) attend a Siyum on Erev Pesach so I won’t have to fast. After all an Avel, should not learn Torah, is it then ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:24 PM |
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# 4191 Real Hot – Hot Dogs
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Q. I attend a Pesach Hotel that although it has a very good Hechser, it offers the kids during Chol Hamoed hot dogs in buns that look and taste exactly like the real ones, yet they are not Chametz since they are made from potato starch. Is that pe ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:22 PM |
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# 4190 Great Grains of Enlightenment
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Q. Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Can someone who usually lights Neiros Shabbos and Yom Tov using oil, light during Pesach with Kitniyos Oil?
A. Mishna Berura (453: 10) rules that in principle it is permitted since the Kitniyos prohibition ap ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:19 PM |
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# 4189 Don’t Spill this Shaila!
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Q. The new Kiddush cups we use for Pesach, have exactly the correct Shiur amount needed to comply with the mitzva of four cups.
If someone hands tremble can he recite Kiddush and the additional Hagada parts while his cup rests on the plate ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:16 PM |
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