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# 2347 An Answer to a No Answer Question
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Q. I applied for a job at a frum school. I emailed the director at the personal email and then realized that because it was work related-that it should go out to the work email.
I never got any response back from either emails. After a littl ....
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:58 PM |
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# 2346 Forgive the Forget?
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Q. Re- question above. If one forgot and the vehicle battery was not disconnected before Shabbos, but no AC, lights, clocks or indicating dials turn on when opening the door, can one be lenient in case of need?
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:44 PM |
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# 2345 Shabbos Sleeping at the Wheel
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Q. Can one use a parked camper, motorhome, RV (recreational vehicle) or sprinter van or bus on Shabbos or Yom Tov, that has living quarters including bed, kitchen sink, fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, bathroom and shower, cabinets for storage. It ....
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:36 PM |
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# 2344 The More The Better?
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Q. Can the husband say kaddish together with the children, for his wife and their mother.
A. There are different minhagim and traditions. Although the obligation to recite kaddish, when there are sons is on them, some congregations all ....
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:25 PM |
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# 2343 Moving Rituals
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Q. 2) (See re-interment question above, of a father buried in another city and being moved to Toronto.)
So they basically wanted to know:
(a) Does there have to be a shomer after the body is exhumed in F. until it is reintered here in ....
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:19 PM |
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# 2342 The Moving Spirit
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Q. 1) Shalom Aleichem Rebbe: I was calling about a question someone asked me about re- internment of their father from F. to Toronto.
She and her brother are not frum, but they want to have their parents buried (their ailing mother is plannin ....
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Posted 9/20/2019 2:09 PM |
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# 2340 For The Not-Foreseeable Future
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Q. One who is undecided if to go ahead with a proposed shiduch and choose a marriage partner, and is emotionally very affected by the uncertainty and doubt. Is it recommended or even permissible to follow the
Goral of the Vilna Gaon? What is ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 5:55 PM |
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# 2339 Lots on Casting Lots
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Q. Q. Re- above question. Why is it permitted to flip a coin to establish who has rights or is the owner of a property. does that not contravene the prohibition of not divining the future or the positive commandment of Tamim tichye?"
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Posted 9/13/2019 4:22 PM |
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# 2338 Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Q. Two friends who daven in the same shul are competing to acquire a High Holidays front seat, that for x reason they are both entitled to. They decided between them to flip a coin. But after the coin was in the air and the side of the coin was chos ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 4:17 PM |
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# 2337 Attention on Pay
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Q. A number of years ago I taught an older person, a Ba’al Teshuvah whose family wasn’t frum. After he was niftar, by the levaya I came over to his sons and told them that it is important that Kaddish be said for their father and that it is bette ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 4:07 PM |
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# 2336 Rebirth in Purity
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Q. Can a woman who is about to convert and go to the mikva, do so if she is a nidda? Or does she have to purify herself first? If she feels that she wants to be totally tahor and pure before accepting the Torah and mitzvot, should she immerse for nid ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:55 PM |
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# 2335 Flash in the Pan
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Q. If someone was making eggs in a not-ben-yomo fleishig frying pan, and the eggs were hot. At that time someone placed a piece of cheese on top of the eggs. It was immediately realized that it was a mistake, and the cheese was removed from on top o ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:40 PM |
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# 2334 Framing that Picture Frame
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Q. I'm confused regarding the digital picture frames discussed in previous questions.. I'm not sure where my type of screen fits in.. I have a picture frame that is connected to a specific email address that only my children have. They send a pictur ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:32 PM |
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# 2333 When News is Good News
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Q. Regarding the prohibition of relating sad news on Shabbos - may one relate sad news to his friend, in order to relieve himself of the tremendous emotional tension of holding it in, or in order to ask his close friend for an eitza regarding the si ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:29 PM |
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# 2332 Send Back the Bring Back To Life?
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Q. 1) If someone calls Hatzalah on Shabbos and then it turns out that everything is fine (for example a child choking and the food comes out), should he call back hatzalah to cancel the call?...
A. Some physicians recommend to have t ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:20 PM |
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# 2331 Read Your Mind Aloud
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Q. On question 2320 and other previous ones (1849, 1850) you wrote that Horav Miller rules that one should be always be “Mosser Modoah” or declare, preferably in front of the beis din when he makes hattoras nedorim or the annulment of past oaths, v ....
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Posted 9/13/2019 3:07 PM |
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# 2330 The Reality of Halacha
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Q. A friend asked another friend traveling to the states to kindly take for him a small suitcase. He did so but when they stopped to rest, the locked car was broken into and the suitcase was stolen. The driver claimed that he was after all only a sh ....
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Posted 9/10/2019 4:25 PM |
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# 2329 Men's Mezuza?
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Q. Can a woman living alone, place a mezuza on the entrance of her home?
A. Poskim disagree. Yeshuos Malko (H. Mezuza 5: 10) rules that although a woman is obliged in the mitzva of mezuza, she should not affix it in its place hersel ....
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Posted 9/8/2019 11:52 PM |
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# 2328 Ask Forgiveness and Get Married
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Q. (See question 2327). Can we get married also in the days when selichos are said?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Rosh Hashana 5: 9) writes that the complete month of Elul is propitious for getting married including the days selichos are recit ....
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Posted 9/6/2019 2:59 PM |
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# 2327 Elul Simches
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Q. We are arranging our wedding (small - second marriage), and would like to know if there is an issue not to get married during the month of Elul, because of the Days of Judgment? We need a fast answer please.
A. Poskim maintain ....
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Posted 9/6/2019 2:57 PM |
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