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# 2959 Face Facts
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Q. For a Rabbi or a Teacher, is there a preference of using a see through plastic shield or a mask during the pandemic?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is better for a Rabbi or Teacher to use a plastic shield, since a ....
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Posted 12/10/2020 7:11 PM |
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# 2958 Zooming Along
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Q. We have a daf shiur in the morning before davening for many years, last week because of new restrictions, it became difficult for some to attend since the minyan also dwindled. We are thinking on zooming the daf, as many others have done and we ar ....
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Posted 12/6/2020 7:31 PM |
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# 2957 Pick the Toothpick
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Q Gefilte fish is served with toothpick inside for people to take instead of using a fork. Is it borer to remove the toothpick?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that one should treat the toothpick as a fork or similar eating i ....
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Posted 12/4/2020 2:05 AM |
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# 2956 Do You Follow This?
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Q. Does the prohibition of walking behind a woman apply to following one's mother?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Yichud 56: 13: p. 367) maintains that when in the street, the prohibition applies. However, in ones home when needed for the honor of t ....
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Posted 12/4/2020 2:00 AM |
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# 2955 Keeping Apart?
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Q. It is brought down that a man should not walk between 2 women. Does that also apply to walking between one's mother and one's sister? or between one's mother and one's grand mother? or between two of one's sisters?
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Posted 12/4/2020 1:55 AM |
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# 2954 Not a Womans Tool?
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Q. In regard to the prohibition of a woman to wear men's garments, I heard that it applies also to using instruments or weapons that are designated for the use of men. If that is so can a strong woman use a heavy chainsaw to cut some backyard trees?< ....
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Posted 12/4/2020 1:51 AM |
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# 2953 Not Cracking the Crocs
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Q. Can I (his mother) wear my son’s old crocs (that he’s grown out of), or is that beged ish? They could be used either for men or women: (navy blue with red stripes & a red maple leaf on the straps).
A. On question 1355 we wrote; "It i ....
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Posted 12/4/2020 1:47 AM |
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# 2952 Gracing the Garnish
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Q. What is Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion regarding bread croutons eaten with a salad. Do you have to wash hands and make Hamotzi?
A. Vesen Brocho (p. 36 - 466) rules to make mezonos on croutons. When mixed in a salad, the mezonos is reci ....
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Posted 12/4/2020 1:37 AM |
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# 2951 A Fast Stand Fast?
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Q. When not able to step back due to people davening behind you, is there a shiur of how long you are mechuyev (obliged) to wait.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that one should wait the normal length of what most of the pe ....
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Posted 12/1/2020 6:46 PM |
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# 2950 Sage Advise
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Q. (See question 2949 above). Thanks for your fast and reasonable answer. We have an additional question. Before we bought our property, we were able to change the established zoning- by-laws to permit a place of worship. When the church acquired th ....
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Posted 11/30/2020 1:50 PM |
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# 2949 Kosher Fences Make Good Neighbors
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Q. We are a small orthodox shul in a small Midwest city. We recently bought a new empty large property to rebuild and expand our existing shul. It turned out that the also empty property neighboring ours, was then purchased by a church and they want ....
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Posted 11/29/2020 6:04 PM |
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# 2948 Doing it Right when Putting it Right
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Q. See question (2945) above. I understand from your reply that even placing back loose pieces of the wheelchair can be problematic. In our particular case the feet support plate gave in and father's heavy feet dragged on the floor, and made it impo ....
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Posted 11/29/2020 5:47 PM |
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# 2947 If it Looks Like Bread...
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Q. Crackers or wafers made from wheat and advertised as bagel crisps or slices of authentically toasted bagels, that indeed taste accordingly and look like rings cut from a bagel, is their brocho mezonos or hamotzi?
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Posted 11/29/2020 11:35 AM |
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# 2946 Thought for Food
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Q. Someone ate more than a kezais of mezonos and other Shehakol food and drinks, and then decided that he will not eat anymore cake or mezonos, so he said the bracha 'Al Hamichya' on the mezonos he ate. If he still wants to drink or eat other foods t ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:40 PM |
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# 2945 Getting the Fix on a Fix
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Q. My elderly father's old wheelchair broke last Shabbos and since he strongly needed it to move around the house, we temporarily fixed it by using a few nylon cable zip ties that although they are only a temporary solution, they usually are very str ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:37 PM |
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# 2944 Dressing Down?
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Q. If someone is wearing a medical dressing made of gauze or a cloth bandage for a wound that his doctor advised he should not remove, can he wear it and keep it on, when he goes to the mikva (for Tisha Kavim tevila) or is it a chatzitza (interpositi ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:34 PM |
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# 2943 A First Glance
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Q. When no Cohen is present in shul, and when other favoring factors such as being a greater Talmid Chacham or an elder are not applicable, does a Levi get preference for a first aliya? How about for leading in Birchat Hamazon?
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:28 PM |
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# 2942 A Light Touch
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Q. If someone forgot to kindle a Yohrzait candle on that day for a father or mother, what is the correct thing to do. Should one light two candles when he/she remembers? What happens if someone just remembered in the Yohrzait morning, is lighting f ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:25 PM |
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# 2941 Testing the Tester
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Q. In reference to one of your recent teshuvos, I, an insulin user, requires a constant monitoring of my blood glucose level. Until now I was doing it by extracting blood samples, which you wrote, is a severe shailah on Shabbos of an Issur Deuraisso. ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:23 PM |
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# 2940 Hold Your Peace
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Q. See question (2939) above. Dear Rabbi, thank you for your prompt answer to our Beis Din shailah. Horav Miller's permission to demand a lie detector test, did have great consequence on our case, since even refusing to take the test, does look very ....
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Posted 11/23/2020 10:19 PM |
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