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# 1530 Grain Of Truth
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Q. Dear Rabbi,
I joined this frum 12- step program for people who are compulsive eaters, which has become popular here in the New York area. Every day one has to commit their food for the following day to a sponsor, and strictly adhere to the f ....
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Posted 12/5/2017 11:27 PM |
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# 1529 Right On The Nail
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Q. (See above question in regards to removing partially hanging nails before washing netilas yodaim). What do you do if it is Shabbos (and you cannot remove the hanging nail)?
A. If a piece of one’s nail is mostly detached and hanging ....
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Posted 12/4/2017 3:59 PM |
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# 1528 Nail It Down
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Q. Is part of a fingernail that is loose and hanging. a Chatitzah and must be removed before washing Netilas Yadayim.
A. A fingernail that is loose and partially hanging is a chatitza and should be removed before washing netilas yodayim ....
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Posted 12/3/2017 9:17 PM |
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# 1527 Speak Of The Demon
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Q. Rashi writes in Taanis and Pesachim that there is a demon (sheid) called Igras and people don't go out on Tuesday and Friday nights to avoid being harmed by this demon.
Question: How can a demon have dominion on Shabbos when it says in Zo ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 2:43 PM |
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# 1526 Go Over With A Fine Tooth Comb
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Q, Kvod Horav; Is one allowed to comb his peyos since he may come to pull out a hair while doing it, which is prohibited?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 181: 3) rules that one should be stringent and follow Tosafos opinion that the prohib ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 2:31 PM |
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# 1525 Means To An End
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Q. If a chassan is in shul, the tzibbur skips tachanun. Question: one who came late and is davening privately, is he also exempt? How late could one come to shul and still be considered exempt due to the chassan’s presence? For example, one who st ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 2:14 PM |
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# 1524 Many Happy Returns
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Q. If there is a bris in a large shul at a different minyan than the one being attended by my minyan, do we say Tachanun?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if the one’s making the bris are members of the shul and daven ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 2:04 PM |
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# 1523 No Time For An Apple
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Q. Can one wear an Apple 3 watch on Shabbath that has internet and phone connectivity, when those features are turned off and only the time and temperature shows?
A. Although YalkutYosef (4: 51, p. 213) Shemiras Shabbos Kehilcho ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 1:55 PM |
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# 1522 Watch Out
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Q. Can one wear a kinetic watch on Shabbath, that is similar to a self-winding which poskim permit when it is already working, but in this type the hand movement instead of winding a mechanical device, charges a battery that operates the watch?
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Posted 12/1/2017 1:58 AM |
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# 1521 Let’s Shed Some Light
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Q. Someone donated a fancy chandelier to our shul. It was placed directly above the Bimah. I do not know what the Baal Korei of Shacharis experienced, but when I leined for Mincha, I noticed that, because the letters in the Sefer Torah were shiny, t ....
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Posted 12/1/2017 1:45 AM |
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# 1520 Stop The Presses!
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Q. A person who woke up in the middle of the night on Friday night and, while still half-asleep and not realizing that it's Shabbos, pressed the button on his watch (which he was wearing) to make it light up to see what time it was, what is the ap ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:34 PM |
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# 1519 Watch Those Buttons
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Q. Is one permitted to wear an electronic watch with a push button LED light on Shabbos?
A. Biur Halocho (308: 3) deals whether we define a keli shemelachto leissur by the majority of its use. In the case of an electronic watch with a ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:32 PM |
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# 1518 A Gift Beyond Belief
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1) After I came back to work after being away from work for a few days, my boss handed me a gift which was sent from one of our non-jewish co-workers in India. It is a fancy gold image of a Buddhist deity (Ganesh) mounted on a wooden stand. I'm not ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 2:23 PM |
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# 1517 Keeping In Step With The Times
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Q. L'ichvod Rav Bartfeld,
The president of our Shul is about to bring forward to the board the question of installing a Shabbos Stair Lift using the halachic principal of Gramma. The information given to me is shown below, attached as a pdf f ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:57 PM |
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# 1516 Don’t Give Away The Bride
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Q. If the chosson washed for sheva brochos but the kallah did not, can the sheva brochos be recited?
A. If the choson did not eat bread, Poskim maintain that sheva brochos should not be recited. (Haelef Lecha Shlomo O.H. 93, Tzitz Elie ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:40 PM |
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# 1515 Count Your Blessings
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Q. If one is saying one of the sheva brachos, does he need to listen to all the other sheva brachos (which is not always possible because some people don't enunciate the words clearly, or for some other reason)? Since all the brachos are me'akev one ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:31 PM |
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# 1514 Bless The Great Unwashed?
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Q. One who did not wash, may he say one of the sheva brachos (whether by the chasuna seuda or during the week of sheva brachos)?
A. Poskim disagree if one can recite sheva brochos without having eaten by the seuda. Yabia Omer (3 ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:22 PM |
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# 1513 The Whole Picture
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Q. Kvod Horav; In regards to the mantle covering the bima, even the parts of the mantle like the corners, where the Sefer Torah is not placed, are still prohibited for private improper use and you regard the whole mantle as one single equal unit. How ....
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Posted 11/24/2017 1:08 PM |
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# 1512 Clean Up Act
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Q. I've read that there could be a problem in cleaning a "soft plastic tablecloths" on Shabbat or Yom Tov. The Rabbi quoted said that it may be "laundering" to rub water vigorously on the plastic.
We often keep a fairly firm plastic tabl ....
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Posted 11/21/2017 11:27 PM |
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# 1511 No Future Into The Back
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Q. What is Horav Miller’s opinion in regards to traveling back or forwards on time? Does the Torah mention this as a possibility?
A. it is common to find in regards to the Yom Tov of Shavuos the notion of being present at the time ....
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Posted 11/17/2017 2:39 PM |
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