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#5567 The Ask Task
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- Q. See above question.
Thanks for your great answer. Is it better to also include the ill and abandoned people, children and the poor neglected families?
A. Indeed one should, since then the prayers are so much more meaningf ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:13 PM |
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#5566 Praise the Pray!
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- Q. See question above.
Dear Rov Shlit”a. I heard in our shiurim something truly surprising that one should not pray on Shabbat ad Yom Tov for our material needs.
Since that is truly impossible to me and my most dearest people, is th ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:10 PM |
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#5565 Pray Tell
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Pray Tell - Q. Kvodo which minyan should one choose when one has different choices as to the type of davening involved?
A. I assume that you are refering to this common question:
Q. Dear Rabbi. If someone has two options; To dave ....
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Posted 9/2/2025 12:43 AM |
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#5564 The Secrets of The Trade!
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- Q. See question above: Does it make a difference in Halacha whether the hostages themselves, expressed their opinion as to what to do, if Hashem forbid, they are captured?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that their si ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:26 PM |
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#5563 – The Tricks of The Trade!
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- Q. See question above: The figures above include the bodies of 57 who were recovered after dying in captivity or during rescue attempts.
Is it correct to exchange the hardened convicted terrorists and murderers, likely to continu ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:23 PM |
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#5562 Ply Our Trade!
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. I read on the global news destination, the Algemeiner published on line, of a truly difficult dilemma that sadly my family was and is involved in it, quoted in parts as follows.
At the heart of this dilemma is the ho ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:19 PM |
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#5561 Keep this Psalm as your Saving Balm!
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Q. See question above: How important is really the recitation of Ledavid?
A. The recitation of Ledavid mentioned above is not written in Shulchan Aruch and the usual accompanying Poskim.
It is firstly mentioned in Sefer ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:15 PM |
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#5560 The Realm of the Psalm!
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- Q. In our morning minyan that serves mostly people that go to work intermediately after davening, and some are very rushed to do so. Now since we have the minhag to add during Elul the psalm of “Ledavid H’ Ori, before Alenu and we also have some ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:10 PM |
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#5559 Grab All the Shailos of the Horns
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- Q. I purchased a shofar from an estate sale. It was not from an observant Jewish home and seemed to be a merely decorative item.
I have no idea if the shofar had been previously owned. Outwardly it looks like a typical shofar, but i ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 12:07 PM |
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#5558 Q. Did He Blow the Blow?
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- Q. As I often daven (pray) at a new freshly established shul that provides for many minyanim. I find that the person who is chosen for the blowing of the shofar, is not yet trained, and has difficulty in making it sound properly. Does one then c ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 11:58 AM |
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#5557 – Blowing Away the Blowing?
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- Q. See question above. If one is reading the Shema should he wait to listen to the blowing when he is at the end of a parsha (chapter) of the Shema?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that since the blowing of the shofar ....
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Posted 8/29/2025 11:54 AM |
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#5556 Make a Stand?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit”a. Thank you and your group of Rabbis for your answers and the willingness to address so many different and often unusual and interesting new questions, and provide great and understandable answers.
My shailah re ....
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Posted 8/25/2025 11:05 PM |
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#5555 Grounds for Fasting?
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- Q. We apologize for the delay. The following question, took a while to arrive into ours system, although, we receive many questions in different languages, especially in Spanish.
Rabino Bartfeld . Le escribo para preguntarle un ....
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Posted 8/24/2025 2:05 PM |
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#5554 Sho-Far Sho Good?
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu as mentioned above in question 5549, is it really correct to blow shofar at night?
A. Aruch Hashulchan (581: 14), Moed Lekol Chai (11: 50), and others write that one should not blow shofar at night, even when do ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 11:23 AM |
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#5553 - More Motion Added to the last Motion
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- We must add to the above question, what we wrote on Q. 3192, where we added the following:
“Q. I live in a building that uses in the halls a new type of electric bulbs. When one comes close to them they go brighter and then, as one ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 11:18 AM |
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#5552 - A Motion to Permit a Motion Detector
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- Q, As we were discussing the above Shaila
with our group of Rabbanim, the next Shaila became necessary to add to be added to the above one.
A. Q. Dear Rabbi, Is there an issue walking past a motion-sensor LED light that is always on ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 11:13 AM |
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#5551 See The Light?
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- Q. Hello, I've seen several articles discussing moving lamps on Shabbat and they clearly say that it is not permitted to move them when there is a need due to the light being categorized the same way as a flame.
My understanding is t ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 11:07 AM |
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#5550 Making Sense of Sensors
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- Q. Hello Rav, I'm looking into buying a video doorbell system. I believe it captures video and sends alerts to your phone when people are in front of it. What should I do with it on Shabbat?
For example, does it need to be covered? ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 11:02 AM |
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#5549 Don’t Blow the Blow!
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- Q. See questions above. How about If I can’t make it for Mincha,can I still blow by Maariv?
In such situation, can one just hear see and hear the blowing on line?
A. On question 4391 we wrote:
“Q. Should someo ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 10:54 AM |
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#5548 A Late Blow?
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- Q. See question above. If I can’t blow for myself without a minyan, yet since I’m able to attend a shul for Mincha, if the people agree, can I blow the shofar then?
A. Mori Verabi, Horav Moishe Feinstein ZT”L rules that if a minyan d ....
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Posted 8/22/2025 10:46 AM |
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