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#5629 Need a Goy for That Toy?
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– - Q. See question above. If he is not allowed to play with it, how can we remove the toy from his room on Shabbat?
A. It is best to ask a gentile helper to take it out and place it where it will not be heard. If that it not availab ....
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Posted 10/30/2025 10:59 PM |
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#5628 – OY! What a Toy!
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. My four year old child recently at his birthday was given a present of a snake described on the box as an: “Electric Smart AI Snake Toy Automatic Induction, Realistic Cunning Movement for Exciting Pet Playtime Complete Interacti ....
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Posted 10/30/2025 10:57 PM |
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#5627 Our Most Blessing Women!
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- Q. Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Do women also have to recite one hundred brachot every day?
A. Poskim seem to maintain that there is no obligation for women to recite one hundred brachot every day as men do. (Shebet Halevi 5: 23, Halichos S ....
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Posted 10/27/2025 5:02 PM |
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#5626 Drawing the Raffle?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a as quoted in recent shailos, some times people in a shul disagree as to what Aliya and bracha for the Torah they should be receiving.
If the disagreement and conflict can’t be settled can they or the Gabaim (lead ....
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Posted 10/27/2025 4:59 PM |
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#5625 Support the Support!
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- Q. If one davens (prays) next to a bookcase of Torah sefarim and when he reaches the amida he needs to help support himself a bit by leaning against the bookcase, so he removes a few of the sefarim to be able to have a place where to place his ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 12:06 PM |
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#5624 The Time to Thank?
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- Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. Was the exchange of the 1900 Palestinian prisoners and likely future terrorist for the 20 living hostages permitted? Can one stop now reciting special Tehilim or celebrate with a Kiddush or a Seuda? Is this the Time to ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 12:03 PM |
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#5623 Blame the Name?
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- Q. See question above. How about in a Ketuva or Tenaim? Do they have to be redone if the name of the month was as above misspelled?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shli”a opinion is that in this particular case of the naming of the month C ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 11:51 AM |
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#5622 – The Best of all Months?
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- Q. Dearest Rabbi shalita. I wonder what is the most correct way to write in a Matzeiva the name of the month we just started, Cheshvan or Marcheshvan?
A. On question 4503 we wrote:
"Q. My family is planing to erect t ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 11:47 AM |
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#5621 Acumen When No Amen
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- Q. See question above:
Since I’m due for an urgent medical operation and I will be spending from the afternoon onward, time in hospital, can I comply with the hundred brachot by answering Amen on the phone?
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Posted 10/24/2025 11:44 AM |
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#5620 – Give and Receive a Hundred Blessings!
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- Q. Kvodo Shlit”a. I make a great effort to recite a hundred Brachot (Blessings) every day. Since I’m due for a urgent medical operation and I will be spending from the afternoon onward, time in hospital, Do the ones said in the Shemone Esre in s ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 11:41 AM |
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#5619 – Choose The Rest of The Best
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. Long Life. I have thanks to Hashem and my good friends recently become a “Baal Teshuva.” I have contacted you for guidance a few times, and I thank you much for your great help.
Since I have a very demanding professi ....
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Posted 10/24/2025 10:58 AM |
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#5618 The Final Report Card!
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– Q. Dear Rabbi as you mentioned “The very last posuk of the Torah finishes with the words; “Moshe performed before the eyes of all Israel”: Rashi explains that this refers to the incident where Moshe Rabbenu smashed the Luchos, as it is said, “and ....
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Posted 10/21/2025 10:09 PM |
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#5617 The Real Right Reading?
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- Q. Subject: Birkas Kohanim - Omor Lahem (Bamidbar 6:23): Who should be the makre (reader)?
Dear Rabbi SHELITA, Please ask HaRav Shlomo Miller the following:
1. When the Sheliach Tzibur is NOT a Kohen, should he be the one excl ....
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Posted 10/17/2025 11:53 AM |
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#5615 Not a Happy Ending???
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- Q. See question above. Dear Rov Shlit’a. I did suggest that to the above, yet they were unhappy since they explained that the Torah, for a number of reasons does not have a blessed delightful happy ending. Is that really true? And if yes, why no ....
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Posted 10/17/2025 11:44 AM |
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#5614 – What is Greater, the End or the Beginning?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. Our shul from a Latino American background, that had for years two different minyanim on different floors, due to a number of unforeseen difficulties and circumstances had to close one of them and the two groups united toge ....
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Posted 10/16/2025 5:37 PM |
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#5613 - Real Joy to Kill the Real Pain!
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- Q. Dear Rov and friend. As we talked on phone, my husband suffers from terrible prolonged chronic pains. Is it permitted or even recommended for him to take on Simchat Torah, when there is a special great mitzva of joy and happiness that he alway ....
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Posted 10/16/2025 3:50 PM |
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#5612 Five Strikes and Out?
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- Q. Kvod Horav Shalit’a. How many times does one have to hit the Arovot on Hoshana Rabah? What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s opinion?
A. On question 5612 we wrote:
Q. I have seen often people striking the ground with the aro ....
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Posted 10/12/2025 3:23 PM |
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#5611 And Build it Nice!
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- Q. One who at the end of Yom Kippur placed some mats on his Suka, to start with the building mitzva early as mentioned in Halacha, replace them or add to them some more attractive Schach covering such as fresh plants or branches?
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Posted 10/3/2025 1:17 PM |
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#5610 Build on Time!
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit”a. Is there a mitzva this year (2025) to build the Suka on Friday when we have to be preparing for Shabbat? How about after Chatzot (mid day)?
A. Although Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 251: 1) rules that whoever does work ....
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Posted 10/3/2025 1:14 PM |
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#5609 – When Does the Feast Begin - III?
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- Q. A third question to the above Shailah, pertains to whether a person must eat a formal meal including bread, or can simply eat whatever appeals to him.?
A. This question – first raised by the Minchat Chinuch (mitzva 313) - might a ....
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Posted 10/3/2025 1:05 PM |
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