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#5701 Need Better Early Lights
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- Q. Dearest Rabbi I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. In need, how early can you light Chanuka Candles before Sunse ....
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Posted 12/12/2025 1:26 PM |
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#5700 An Early Light?
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– Q. I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. How early can you light Chanuka Candles before Sunset?
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:35 PM |
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#5699 – Enlightening the Lighting
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- Q. Kvod Harav Shlit’a. In our Shul we light the Chanuka candles between Mincha and Maariv. It is then mostly already after the Shekiah, yet sometimes not? is that correct, How about at home?
A. Let me answer the second qu ....
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:28 PM |
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#5698 The Weak Wick?
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- Q. Estimado Querido Rabino, As we approach Chanuka, I have a number of questions.
We recently expanded our house, as we were digging we discovered a n amount of Sheimot, also discarded Tefilin, Jewish Torah magazines, and some Talitot and ....
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:04 PM |
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#5697 - Very Special Day Today! For Whom?
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- Q. Moreinu Harav Shlit’a. Thank you for answering immediately, by using for Torah purposes, the modern communicating technology now available. When we read your email for all in shul, some of the present mentioned that it was mainly kept by Chabad ....
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Posted 12/9/2025 10:32 PM |
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#5696- Today a Very Special Day! Really Why?
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Ask Vayeshev 86 Q. Moreinu Harav Shlit’a. Someone mentioned in shul today (Dec 9 2025) that the day was a very special day for some of our members, as it is the 19 day of Kislev, or י"ט כסלו on the luach. What ....
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Posted 12/9/2025 10:11 PM |
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#5695 – More on Non Elevated Elevators?
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– - Q. Dear Rov. Can one invite as a Shabbat guest an elderly friend who is not religious yet and since we live on the ninth floor should I ask him that when he takes the elevator he should wait until another non Jewish person arrives and he direc ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 8:30 PM |
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#5694 An Elevated Elevator?
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- Q. Dearest Rov. Is it truly correct and permitted to use in our days of constantly changing AI a Shabbat elevator?
A. On question 476 we wrote:
“The fact that an elevator has been programmed to stop in all floors during ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 8:24 PM |
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#5693 – Saved from Separation?
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- Q. Kevod Mori Horav Shlit’a. I go every day (when possible) to be Tovel (immerse) in our close to shul Mikva before davening (praying). When I come out I make effort to dry up as good as possible. Yet sometimes (depending on the weather) my hai ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 6:10 PM |
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#5692 – Standing to Your Standing?
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- Q. This is a question it may not be on a practical level. But I am curious what you have to say.
I Learned in regards to saying krias shemah from the gemara we hold like Bais Hillel that you are supposed to read כדר& ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:57 PM |
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#5691 – Trust a Truly Tried Shaliach Tzibur?
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- Q. Rabbenu Shlit’a. As we are about to begin saying Veten Tal Umatar on the amida tomorrow night (Thursday Dec 4, 2025) and if someone forgot to say it he has to repeat the Amida. Can one comply by just listening to the repetition said by the Sh ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:54 PM |
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#5690 – Remind Others of Your Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. Could I advice others and even publicize such great working method?
A. As mentioned above As this Shaila is indeed complicated and locations are different, one should consult with the local proper Rov ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:50 PM |
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#5689 – Is That Truly a Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. If the above works and I use it. Should I be concerned that people may believe that I’m just listening to music during the amida, since they know that I usually don’t use any hearing aids.
A. You shoul ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:48 PM |
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#5688 – Even More Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. Could a similar reminder be used for telling me to concentrate on the Amida and not divert my mind to extraneous unrelated thoughts and memories, as it often happens to me. (And I bet others would also profit from such r ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:45 PM |
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#5687 – More Hearing Reminder!
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- Q. See question above. Could a similar reminder be used for other additions and changes that are not essential?
A. The answer would follow the opinions above.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Ho ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:42 PM |
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#5686 – Real Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. Kvod Harav Shlit”a. As it is a bit common in our large shul that a few of us forget to say Veten Tal Umatar, that begins tomorrow night (Thursday Nov 4, 2025). Since the Halacha dictates that if one has already ended the amida, it has to b ....
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Posted 12/7/2025 4:14 PM |
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#5685 - Really! More on the Very Kosher Menorah
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- Q. See question above, For a person who is careful to use only Kasher oil, if some of it was left uncovered in a bottle from last year, can it be used?
A. Since most likely it was kept on a shelf in a cupboard or closet, it would be ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:25 PM |
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#5684 – A Mehadrin Kosher Menorah?
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Q. Kvod Horav, Does the oil that we use for lighting Chanuka candles have to be Kasher?
A. Horav Shlomo Kluger Zt”l (Shnos Chaim 218) and Beis Yitzchok (2: 145) and others maintain that it is needed.
Horav Shmuel Kamen ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:20 PM |
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#5683 – More of The Most Poisonous Dust!
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- Q. Can just clean praise be also prohibited?
A. See question above. Sefarim mention that perhaps the most famous case of Avak Loshon Hora is when the statement is pure praise of an individual. On the surface, this would seem to p ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:16 PM |
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#5682 – The Most Poisonous Dust!
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- Q. See question above, How can we listen to a wedding drasha of a Chatan Vekalah, when often what is said about them, is only a partial truth?
A. The Chofetz Chaim (Laws of Loshon Hora 9:1-2) begins addressing the subject of Avak ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:14 PM |
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