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#749 Key Tov?
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Q. Which is the best way to go (when staying Shabbos in a hotel) with the keyless electronic lock on the door?
A. On Shabbos or Yom Tov you cannot use the electronic card key. Horav Shlomo Miller’s opinion is that you should e ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:36 PM |
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#748 Bar the Mini Bar
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Q What do you have to do (when attending a Pesach hotel) with the food and liquor on the room fridge?
A. Minchas Shlomo (2 p. 237) rules that since the hotel guest is generally responsible for the contents of the ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:32 PM |
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#747 Making Sense of Sensors
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Q. What is one to do with the sensors (when staying Shabbos in a hotel) in the room and at the balcony door?
A. If the motion sensors (they could be standing separately or be integrated into the thermostat) are to avoi ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:28 PM |
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#746 Have a Light?
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Q. When doing bedikas chometz at the Pesach hotel can one say the brocho if searching only with a flashlight? If no flashlight available, can one use the table movable electric cfl light with an extension cord?
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Posted 3/13/2015 5:02 PM |
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#745 Are You Searching a Good Pesach Hotel?
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Q. If you are going to spend Pesach in a hotel, do you have to search your hotel room for chometz? When do you do the bedika? Do you make a brocho? What to do if you arrive after midday on Erev Pesach?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:58 PM |
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#744 A Burning Shaile
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Q. If you will not be at home during Pesach, and you do an early Bedika , when do you burn the found chometz?
A. The found chametz to be burned could be set ablaze that same night or in the morning before traveling. ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:42 PM |
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#743 Early Chometz Nullification
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Q. f you will not be at home during Pesach, and you do an early bedika, (see prior question) when and how do you do the Bitul Chametz?
A. After finishing the search he should recite the declaration of Bitul Cham ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:29 PM |
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# 742 Searching for not Cleaning
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Q. Is there a way to avoid the cleaning and searching the whole house, if you are going away for Pesach and will not be there at all?
A. Due to the difficulties involved when owning a large house to complet ....
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Posted 3/11/2015 11:21 PM |
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# 741 A Pesach Travelers Guide
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A Pesach Travelers Guide
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld re our conversation on writing a brief guide for the most common questions that people have when traveling to a hotel for Pesach; the following are some of the most common concerns.
When ....
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Posted 3/11/2015 11:18 PM |
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# 740 Krum Presume on the Philtrum?
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Q. Is there a source that the indented part of the top lip that people have today is a result of the malach hitting us on the lip in order that we forget the Torah we were taught in the womb by the malach?
A. The Tal ....
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Posted 3/10/2015 12:03 AM |
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#739 Bar the Early Bar Mitzvah
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Q. My son was born bein hashmashos on Thursday yud alef cheshvan. We asked a shaila when he was born and we were told to make his bris on Friday.
B"H we are approaching his bar mitzvah. This upcoming year, yud alef cheshvan f ....
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Posted 3/9/2015 11:55 PM |
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# 738 The Cohen Spock?
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Q. Can someone give a hand salute with fingers spread like the cohanim do when they say bircas cohanim? (as Nimoy and the Vulcans )?
A. Since the Torah directed the Cohanim to be the ones to bless the Jewish nation, ....
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Posted 3/4/2015 3:25 PM |
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# 737 Ad D’lo Yoda What he Drinks
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Q. On the mitzvah of drinking on Purim does it have to be wine only? Can you drink some wine, like a cup and then other liquor?
A. Rashi (Megila 7b) explains that the drink is wine. Biur Halocho (695: 1) quoting Eliahu Rabba, ment ....
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Posted 3/4/2015 3:22 PM |
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# 736 Purim Tehilim
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Q. Since Purim is a special day for tefillah, is one allowed to say tehillem on Purim night? Or is tehillem not allowed to be said by an individual at night?
A. Indeed Purim is a special day for tefilos, similar to Yom Kippur (Tik ....
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Posted 3/4/2015 3:19 PM |
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#735 A Time to Dance?
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Q. Why is there a custom to dance after saying kiddush levana?
A. In only one instance the Remo praises and extols dancing and that is in Darkei Moshe (426) in regards to Kidush Levana. He mentions that the reason f ....
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Posted 2/27/2015 3:10 PM |
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#734 Our Teacher Was a Real Angel
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Q. Does a malach teach a non-Jewish baby all of the torah? Or only the 7 mitzvos of Noach?
A. The Talmud (Nida 30b) teaches that during the days of pregnancy the fetus or rather his neshama (Maharsho – Chidushei ....
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Posted 2/27/2015 3:05 PM |
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#733 Interrupting Kidush II
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Q. What if someone says shalom aleichem to you while you are in the middle of the beracha (of Kidush Levana) can you respond?
A. (Please see question 575 in this forum) Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 66: 1) rules that in t ....
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Posted 2/25/2015 3:00 PM |
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#732 Peace to All?
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Q. Can one say it (Shalom Aleichem at Kidush Levana) to one person or it needs to be said to three different people?
A. The most established tradition in Ashkenazi communities is to address three different peopl ....
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Posted 2/25/2015 2:57 PM |
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#731 Rav Shalom Im Yareach
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Q. Why do we say shalom aleichem (in kiddush levana) three times?
A. Most Poskim mention greeting Shalom Aleichem three times, as cited in Tur from Maseches Sofrim. Some see the strength of chazaka (usually a strong, establ ....
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Posted 2/25/2015 2:53 PM |
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#730 Moon Greetings
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Q. Why do we say shalom aleichem in kiddush levana?
A. A number of reasons are mentioned for saying Shalom Aleichem at Kidush Levana; some are:
1) Mishna Berura (426: 16) quotes from Mogen Avrohom that we ....
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Posted 2/25/2015 2:49 PM |
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