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#5925 - Torah for All?
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Q. Dear Rabbi can our Women Torah Learning Group that meets almost every day for different Shiurim. also learn the night of Shavuot? They would like to join their husbands and children for the early Shavuot minyan. and then eat together the early Yom ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:19 AM |
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#5924 – Prepare for Kabbalat Hatorah!
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Q. Dear Rov. In our new shul a number of people want to have the attendants who stay the whole night of Shavuot read and learn the Tikun prepared specifically for that night. What is the Tikun of Shavuot really?
A. We once wrote: “The mo ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:19 AM |
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:18 AM |
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#5922 – Follow The Print? - Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a:
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Someone donated recently a set of parchment scrolls, hand written Megilot that includes also Megilat Ruth. Usually we read it before Kriat Hatorah on Shavuoth from a chumash with all the reading dots and we don’t have someone who can read it from the ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:17 AM |
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#5921 – Women Included? - Q. Dear Rabbi.
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On this year (2026) that the second day of Shavuot is Shabbat, when should we daven Kabalat Shabbat?
A. Rav Schachter (Piskei Corona #37) quotes “ the Knesset Hagedola who writes that one shouldn't start the second night of Shavuot early ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:16 AM |
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#5921 – Women Included? - Q. Dear Rabbi.
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On this year (2026) that the second day of Shavuot is Shabbat, when should we daven Kabalat Shabbat?
A. Rav Schachter (Piskei Corona #37) quotes “ the Knesset Hagedola who writes that one shouldn't start the second night of Shavuot early ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 9:16 AM |
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Posted 5/27/2026 5:12 AM |
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#5919 – Know How to Break your Bread!
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Q. If someone has the minhag (tradition) to eat a milk meal on the first night of Shavuot, and then after cleaning ones’ hands and mouth, go to another nearby table and eat some meat and drink wine, to comply with the traditions of this Yom Tov, can ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 5:03 AM |
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#5918 – A Happy Yom Tov to Women?
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Q. Dear Rabbi and our family friend. Are women included in the Mitzva of Simcha and Joy on Yom Tov? Do they also have to drink wine and eat meat as men do?
A. The Talmud (Pesachim 109a) teaches us that to fulfill this mitzvah, one must p ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 5:02 AM |
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#5917 – The Day of Accepting the Torah? Really?-
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See question above. Q. Thank you Kvod Horav for the above answers. It was mentioned in the shiur that this is the true day of the receiving of the Torah; is that correct?
A. As we already also wrote, it is on this day that Moshe Rabbeinu ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 5:00 AM |
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#5916 – Why Is the Above Day So Crucial?
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Q. See question above. Why is the Yom Hameyuchas so important and essential?
Yom Hameyuchas finds itself between Rosh Chodesh Sivan and the start of the “shloshes yemei hagbala,“ the three days which Moshe Rabbeinu instructed the Jewish ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 4:54 AM |
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#5915 – The Great Ancestry Day!
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Q. Kvod Harav. It was announced in our minyan this morning that today (Monday May 18, 2026) is the Yom Hameyuchas, and it is an important day for preparing us for the receiving of the Torah celebrated soon on Shavuot.
What exactly is the ....
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Posted 5/27/2026 4:52 AM |
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# 5917 – The Day of Accepting the Torah? Really?
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- See question above.
Q. Thank you Kvod Horav for the above answers. It was mentioned in the shiur that this is the true day of the receiving of the Torah, is that correct?
A. As we already also wrote, it is on t ....
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Posted 5/18/2026 7:58 PM |
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#5916 - Why Is the Above Day So Crucial?
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Q. See question above. Why is the Yom Hameyuchas so important and essential?
A. Yom Hameyuchas finds itself between Rosh Chodesh Sivan and the start of the “shloshes yemei hagbala,“ the three days which Moshe Rabbeinu in ....
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Posted 5/18/2026 7:56 PM |
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#5915 – The Great Ancestry Day!
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- Q. Kvod Harav.
It was announced in our minyan this morning that today (Monday May 18, 2026) is the Yom Hameyuchas, and it is an important day for preparing us for the receiving of the Torah celebrated soon on Shavuot.
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Posted 5/18/2026 7:52 PM |
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##5914 – Listen to the Real Voice?
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Q. If a woman singing and modulating her voice to sound like a man's? Is there a kol ishah prohibition issue in either case? That is, do we go after who's singing, or what it sounds like on the recording?
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Posted 5/18/2026 7:50 PM |
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#5913 – Pray For All The Children!
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- Q. Moreinu Shlit’a.
On this year (2026) that Rosh Chodesh Sivan is on Sunday, so when does one recite, as his family tradition is, the most important Tefila of the Shelah Hakadosh for our children.
This Tefila i ....
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Posted 5/15/2026 12:16 PM |
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5912 - A True Children's Day!
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Q. Dearest Rabbi. Tomorrow is the day dedicated by many to recite the Tefillah (prayer) from the Shelo Hakadosh. Why is this day specially dedicated for it?
A. The Tefillah of the Shelo Hakadosh is a known Segula (accepted dedicat ....
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Posted 5/15/2026 12:04 PM |
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#5911 - A Real Chidush on Chidushim!!!
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- Q. Dearest Rov Long Life.
As the Rov well knows I much like to learn Torah and I constantly tell the Rov my questions, chidushim and Vertlach. At my stage in life I have difficultly in staying up all night. How important is it ....
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Posted 5/15/2026 11:57 AM |
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#5910 Now More to Really Get Real?
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- Q. I must add to the above question the following former important question:
4271 Q. We have always used fresh branches and flowers to decorate the shul and home during Shavuot. These days plastic flowers and branches are more at ....
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Posted 5/15/2026 11:51 AM |
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