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# 2828 Mixed Blessings
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Q I take food for seudat shlishit to a friend's home. The food is all my contribution. When it comes to benching, what is the correct Horachaman to say "Harajaman Hu Yebarech et Ba'al haBayit hazeh ... " After all it is my food, and I should be bles ....
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Posted 9/7/2020 2:04 PM |
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# 2827 When It Rains it is still Yours
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Q. I daven in a backyard minyan and I also blow the shofar after davening. Last week it began drizzling when I was about to blow. I was wondering, if that would occur during Rosh Hashana, (we are planning to continue our outside minyan then also), ....
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Posted 9/4/2020 1:40 PM |
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# 2826 Blowing Away the Grief
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Q. My brother and I are respectively the baal tokea and baal makrei (the announcer of the tekios to be blown), in our minyan for over 20 years. We recently lost our dear mother a.h., and we are going to be still during the sheloshim on Rosh Hashana. ....
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Posted 9/4/2020 1:25 PM |
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# 2825 Shelf Life
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Q. I ate a blueberry muffin yesterday and today my wife brought back a package of fresh blueberries from the grocery store. They were imported from Argentina.
Do I make a bracha of 'shehechiyanu' on the fresh berries I will be eating today (I ....
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Posted 9/2/2020 4:35 PM |
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# 2824 Falling into Hard Times?
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Q. (Re - question 2823 above on a mezuza that almost fell). How about if the mezuza totally fell and was not replaced for at least two months (we were away), do you make a brocho when you replace it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....
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Posted 9/2/2020 4:33 PM |
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# 2823 Getting the Hang on a Mezuza Shaila
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Q. Somebody stumbled and hit on my mezuza, and it remained barely hanging only from one single mostly detached nail. It looks as if it can just fall off completely anytime. If I nail it back in place, do I have to say a brocho?
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Posted 9/2/2020 3:46 PM |
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# 2822 Be Larger Than Life
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Q. A severely ill person who has deteriorated lately and now lays in bed constantly and requires help from his spouse even for menial things, such as going to the bathroom. He is a Talmid Hacham and always had great bitachon in Hashem's help. Yet n ....
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Posted 9/2/2020 2:44 PM |
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# 2821 Answering the Door
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Q. Someone who decided not to rely anymore on the city eiruv and is thus placing a tzuras hapesach on his front yard (two posts with a wire on top, that resemble a door frame and thus permit carrying inside the area they surround). Since he is usi ....
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Posted 9/1/2020 6:12 PM |
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# 2820 Nuptial Zooming
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Q. Can an ovel (mourner) during shloshim (first thirty days) attend a Zoom wedding and wish his close and dear family members his best wishes?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if when he contacts them no music is being pl ....
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Posted 9/1/2020 6:04 PM |
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# 2819 Judging the Judges
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Q. Re question 2815 above. Following Horav Miller's response, why when we do Hatoras Nedarim on Erev Rosh Hashana we address even a Beis Din arranged together from the most simple people present in shul (that a least understand what is happening) as ....
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Posted 9/1/2020 5:51 PM |
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# 2818 On the Fast Track
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Q. A friend of mine is undergoing heart surgery on the Friday before Yom Kippur and won't be able to fast this year. Since he is very disturbed and upset by this, (it will be the first time in his life he omits fasting Yom Kippur), he decided to at ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 5:07 PM |
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# 2817 Out of Tune?
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Q. I witnessed a baal tokea place a mask over the shofar's open end when he was blowing to avoid spreading the virus. Is that correct to do?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since the tone of the shofar would likely be a ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 4:59 PM |
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# 2816 The Blood Will Tell
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Q. Should one suffering from diabetes and has to undergo multiple finger pricks each day including Shabbos to show current sugar level, make an effort to obtain a Continuous Glucose tester. This tester uses a sensor placed under the skin to measur ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 4:50 PM |
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# 2815 Give a Good Name?
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Q. In our shul since there are many learners and kollel people that attend, to avoid embarrassing anybody, when we call for aliyos to the Torah, we name everybody "harav." Since we also have members that are far from fitting that description, some c ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 3:48 PM |
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# 2814 Timing Is Everything
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Q. A couple planning their wedding (a small wedding since it is a second marriage for both and these are still corona times) in the next weeks. Is it better to do the wedding on the third or the last week of the month of Elul, and not wait until afte ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 3:32 PM |
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# 2813 Have a Crack at this Shailah
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Q. We were about to blow shofar for the first time this Elul, when the Baal Tokea realized that there was a split or crack of about two inches on the shofar he was given, at the wide end. We were davening in an outside minyan and no other shofar wa ....
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Posted 8/28/2020 3:20 PM |
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# 2812 Pay Attention Now!
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Q. If during tekias shofar during the days of Elul one notices someone that is seating down, should he admonish him and tell him to stand up.
A. The blowing of the shofar during the month of Elul is a minhag mentioned by the Tur and Rem ....
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Posted 8/26/2020 12:28 PM |
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# 2811 Don't Blow It
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Q. We daven in a backyard minyan these covid times. Some of our neighbors are not very friendly and often complain unjustly to the noise. Now that we are going to start blowing shofar, they probably are going to have a fit. Can we blow the shofar in ....
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Posted 8/26/2020 12:24 PM |
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# 2810 Teach a Man to Fish
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Q. We have a large
aquarium at home. If a fish perishes on Shabbat and puts in danger
all the other fish. Can one take it out?
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Cheshed Haefod (50) permits in need to extract the dead fish when it
is fit for c ....
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Posted 8/26/2020 11:45 AM |
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# 2809 Room For Compromise?
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Q. If a person is in a yichud situation, (being in the same room with a woman), may he text his friend where he is and tell the friend (who is a few blocks away) to feel free to come over at any time and ring the bell? Will that solve the issue? (S ....
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Posted 8/26/2020 9:33 AM |
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