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#5309 A Blessed Brocho?
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- Q. Does the Mezonos bracha that one recites during a Shabbath Kidush, include and exempts from all the other foods included later in that kidush, such as cholent, potatoes or desert?
A. Although the eating of cakes or similar Mezono ....
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Posted 2/21/2025 11:08 AM |
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#5308 The Battles of the Bottles?
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- Q. Kevod Morenu Horav Shlit”a. If someone donated a large amount of soda bottles to his new shul for a large simcha, does he have to take care of the empty bottles? If there is a gift- promotion involved, is it for him to keep?
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Posted 2/21/2025 11:06 AM |
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#5307 Mind your E-Mind?
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- See questions above. Q. Will it make a difference if that implant is only biologically human or if it is an advanced electronic addition that can interconnect with the brain?
A. On question 2928 (At Arm’s Length) we wrote: “Can on ....
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Posted 2/21/2025 11:02 AM |
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#5306 Mind Your Mind?
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- Q. See question above. People who maybe have or will soon undergo such medical treatment, even it is a small addition, does it alter the Halacha status of that individual, or is it just like the common cochlear implant?
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Posted 2/21/2025 10:58 AM |
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#5305 Don’t Loose Your Head!!!
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Q. Most Honorable Rabbi and Posek. I truly like and enjoy your most unusual, new and very interesting Halacha questions, that are also supported by other most meaningful Poskim.
I’m a frum still yeshiva talmid and now also a student of medi ....
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Posted 2/21/2025 10:54 AM |
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#5304 “Last” or “First” Letters?
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Q. I recently read that During his recent last visit to Washington, DC, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part in inscribing letters in the historic “Washington Torah ” - a most unusual and outstanding Sefer Torah being written entire ....
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Posted 2/16/2025 11:02 AM |
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#5303 Just Enjoy the Delicious Fruits!
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Q. Dear Friendly Rabino. Due to my sad medical circumstances I was hospitalized yesterday (Thursday) during Tu Bishvat (2025), and was unable to eat the fruits together with my family and friends and say the brochos and sing the songs including the ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 1:35 PM |
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#5302 - Walk the Walk?
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Q. Is it okay to pace and walk around while I am davening some of the brachas that require standing or don't require sitting, aside from the shemona esrei?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is only permitted in a pla ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:50 PM |
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# 5301 – Amen to the Amen!
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- Q. Someone in the conversion process was told that he can't say amen to other people's brachas. I thought they are supposed to follow all Jewish laws and customs with the exception of completely observing Shabbos. What am I missing?
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:48 PM |
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#5300 A New World - Really?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I have an important question that Gedolei Hatorah have to address.
Since genetically altered fruits and other food items are constantly becoming more common, does their particular status alter any Halacha considera ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:44 PM |
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#5299 A Real Newborn?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. A friend became religious late in life. An orthodox Rabbi was telling him that he should now have a real bar mitzvah. My friend was very offended and then asked if he should also repeat his bris (circumcision) which was done by a ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:41 PM |
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#5298 Honey, Don’t Pass the Milk!
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- Q. Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. I have another shaila. If I we served at a simcha meal Chalav Yisrael. Yet someone noticed that one of the waiters poured a bit of left over milk from another simcha, that was kosher but not Chalav Yisrael, if it wa ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:37 PM |
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#5297 A Sefer Torah in Aramaic?
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- The Talmud (Megila 9) mentions that according to the opinion that allows a Sefer Torah to be written in aramaic, the reason is because it says יפת אל' ליפת which means G-d glorified י– ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:32 PM |
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#5296 Make it in Aramaic?
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- Q. Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. When Hashem spoke to the important people of Babel as, described in the Talmud and Midrashim, did he speak to them in Aramaic?
A. Some significant chapters of Daniel and Ezra, that quote the words of H ....
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Posted 2/14/2025 12:27 PM |
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#5295 The True Tu Bishvat
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- Q. The people of our shul have a tradition to make a seuda for Tu Bishvat in which the customary fruits are served. Can they make the Seuda on the night (Wednesday this year 2025) or does it have to be during the (Thursday) day? (They usually do ....
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Posted 2/12/2025 10:15 AM |
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#5294 Go For a True Song
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- Q. As we are to read on this Shabbos Shirah the song that gives the name to the Shabbos, does it all have to be read with a special tune
A. There are indeed different traditions. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlita opinion is that indeed th ....
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Posted 2/9/2025 10:49 PM |
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#5293 An Eating Problem?
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Q. See question above. I see that frum people go on vacation times or dates to places and restaurants that serve both Kosher and non-kosher food. Is that permitted?
Is there any reason to worry about ma’aris ayin when doing so?
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Posted 2/9/2025 11:36 AM |
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#5292 A Drink Problem?
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- Q. Can someone traveling and being in an airport or plane, consume a coffee or tea served in what seems to be just items that are essentially kosher? What is Horav Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?
Would he drink it?
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Posted 2/7/2025 12:15 PM |
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#5291 Sounds Are To Good to Be True?
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- Q. Kvod Moreinu Horav Shlit”a: What is the Halacha regarding the prohibition of Kol Isha (listening to the voice of a woman singing) if the music in question is changed to either raise or lower the pitch? If the voice now sounds like a mans is ....
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Posted 2/7/2025 12:13 PM |
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#5290 Don’t Trim the Shovavim!
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- Q. See question above. Another explanation is because Shovavim falls after the winter solstice, which is when the days start to get longer.
This connects to the narrative recounted in Avodah Zara (8a) that after Adam sinned, he asc ....
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Posted 2/7/2025 12:06 PM |
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