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# 2159 Clean-Up Operation
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Q. Can an elderly patient wearing a diaper put on tefilin when he is wet?
A. On a similar question (442), regarding a patient hospitalized and wearing diapers, if he is allowed to listen to Torah tapes or Jewish music we wrote: "Mishna ....
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Posted 5/3/2019 2:01 PM |
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# 2158 Fall Short - Short Out
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Q. If someone davens maariv in a minyan that is too fast, and he can't say the complete "Baruch Hashem Leolam" before beginning the amida betzibur, should he omit some or all of the psukim and just continue with the bracha of Yiru Einenu at the end? ....
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Posted 5/3/2019 1:49 PM |
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# 2157 Singing to Sleep?
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Q. As our children grew up we spend now a long time saying divrei Torah at the seder table, something we all greatly enjoy. We do finish the seder very late, sometimes after 4.00 am. How important is to say Shir Hashirim then, when we are so exhaust ....
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Posted 5/3/2019 1:37 PM |
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# 2156 Why? Rye? Goodbye!
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Q. One who is in a liquor store on Pesach (for buying needed kosher wine, he was trying to get to the kosher wine by pushing with the back of his hand and arm the chometz bottle) and accidentally knocked over a bottle of whiskey, may he catch it m ....
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Posted 5/3/2019 1:09 PM |
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# 2155 Don't Touch the Merchandise
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Q. If one goes to buy needed kosher wine to a liquor store that sells both kosher and non kosher wines during Chol Hamoed Pesach, is he allowed to to remove some chometz liquor bottles, in order to reach the desired kosher bottle?
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Posted 5/3/2019 1:05 PM |
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# 2154 Read the Right Part
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Q. This week in Eretz Yisroel we read Parshas Kedoshim and in America Parshas Acharei Mos. What is my chiyuv of shnaim mikra when I'm in America?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if you are planing to return to Eretz Y ....
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Posted 5/2/2019 4:49 PM |
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# 2153 Sanctification not Education
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Q. (See question 2151) If one does perform a mitzvah by just sitting in a shul or beis medresh, would it be commendable to hold a lecture on health issues or other community needed or educational topics inside them?
A. Bnei Tzion (151 ....
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Posted 5/2/2019 4:16 PM |
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# 2152 No Sleeping in Shul
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Q. If one does comply with a mitzva by just sitting in a shul or beis medrash, if one gets tired during learning and needs to stop, should he better remain in the beis medrash (rather than start walking around, talking a walk, etc.)? Should one stay ....
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Posted 5/2/2019 4:09 PM |
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# 2151 Just a Sitting Mitzvah?
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Q. Does one perform a mitzvah simply by sitting in a shul or beis medrash, even when not davening or learning Torah? What would that mitzvah be?
Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 151: 1) rules in regards to entering a shul or a beis hamedresh to c ....
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Posted 5/2/2019 4:04 PM |
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# 2150 Can Hold One's Drink
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Q. What should an elderly person do to be yotze with the four cups in the Pesach seder, if she can't have any wine or even diluted grape juice?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in case of need one may drink four cups ....
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Posted 4/25/2019 4:33 PM |
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# 2149 Man Does Not Live by One Bread Alone?
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Q. If one eats a seuda on Chol Hamoed (See question 2147 above), does one need lechem mishna (two matzos) as in Yom Tov?
A. Kaf Hachaim (ibid.) does quote an opinion that on Chol Hamoed as in Rosh Chodesh it is commendable to place lec ....
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Posted 4/25/2019 12:50 PM |
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# 2148 Will a Meal?
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Q. Is there a mitzva during Chol Hamoed to eat meat and drink wine as there is in Yom Tov?
A. (See question 2146 above) Piskei Teshuvos (530: 5: n. 63-64) quotes Horav M. Feinstein zt'l and Horav Eliashuv zt'l that although there is ....
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Posted 4/24/2019 6:00 PM |
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# 2147 Favor the Festival Feast
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Q. On Chol Hamoed does one have to eat a seuda (Yom Tov meal) or two every day, eating matza too?
A. Mishna Berura (529: 16) quotes Rambam that one is obliged on the mitzva of simcha during Chol Hamoed as he is during Yom Tov. How ....
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Posted 4/24/2019 5:35 PM |
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# 2146 In Case You Have a Case on a Matzo Case
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Q. Dear Rabbi
I’m in a dilemma.
The other day while shopping for Pesach my friend texted me and asked me if I would pick up a few items for him including 10 pounds of hand Shmura matzah. I agreed and asked him for his visa number be ....
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Posted 4/23/2019 10:34 PM |
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# 2145 Until The Bitter End?
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Q. (See question 2135). When the flavor of the maror is very strong, how long should one chew the maror in one's mouth before swallowing, taking into account the strong stinging sensation involved?
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Posted 4/23/2019 1:45 PM |
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# 2144 Need some more Chometz?
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Q. Does one fulfill a mitzvah (of Biur Chametz) with every kezayis of chametz that is burned on erev Pesach?
A. Mishna Berura (445: 10) writes that one should not sell or give away all his chometz by Erev Pesach to a Gentile. He shou ....
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Posted 4/23/2019 1:11 PM |
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# 2143 The Law on the Tablets
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Q. Are regular medical tablets or capsules, permitted during Pesach, when they are seriously needed? Is there any special way that would make their consumption more acceptable?
A. It is most important to stress that no one should refra ....
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Posted 4/23/2019 12:58 PM |
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# 2142 An Alcohol Problem
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Q. If someone is asked in the office he works to contribute money to buy a bottle of scotch as a gift for a Non-Jewish co-worker and he finds it very difficult to say no, can he contribute during Pesach.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion ....
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Posted 4/23/2019 12:56 PM |
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# 2141 Mixed- up Blessings?
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Q. If one ate karpas and made the required haadama bracha and then was masiach daath and the karpas slipped from his mind and was forgotten. However, as reading the Hagada took a lengthy time, he got hungry and decided to eat some more karpas. Doe ....
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Posted 4/23/2019 12:54 PM |
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# 2140 No Pass Over on Passover
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Q. When one is shopping in a store during Pesach, which contains both kosher and non-kosher foods, and one is approached by a fellow customer, who may or may not be Jewish, and that customer requests that one should take down an item from a certain ....
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Posted 4/19/2019 11:48 AM |
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