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#653 The Eruv Tefilos
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Q. If one mixes up his Shabbos Shemoneh Esreis, between Maariv, Shacharis, and Mincha, is he still yotzei?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 268: 6) rules that if one unwittingly exchanged one of the Amidos of Shabbos with another excepting M ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:22 PM |
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#652 The Uber Eruv?
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Q. I have heard that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a advises against using the eiruv. Is this true? What is the reason for this?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that the Toronto Eruv, supervised by Horav Akiva Steinmetz Shli ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:20 PM |
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#651 Two for the Praise or Only One?
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Q. What is the reason that two of the berachot of the sheva berachot are basically the same beracha - yotzair ha'adam? Why the repetition?
A. The Talmud (Kesubos 8a) offers dissenting opinions if these two brochos are one or actuall ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:32 PM |
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#650 Don't Get Even Get Tikun
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Q. Our Sages teach us that we should walk in HaShem's ways. Just as He is merciful, so should we be? However, HaShem is also avenging. Why should we not also be avenging?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that our Sages ma ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:29 PM |
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#649 Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk
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Q. If one goes to a shul and there is a lot of talking, is it better to leave and go to another a minyan or better to stay as some may be insulted if you left?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that in principle it is cert ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:28 PM |
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#648 And All Your Deeds Are Recorded
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Q. "As a matter of record"
Shalom U'bracha, I enjoy reading your shailos and cant wait for you to iy"h publish a sefer with all these teshuvs.
I would like to know what the halacha is with keeping on a surveillance sys ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:27 PM |
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#647 Mourning the Mumar?
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Q. (I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) And assuming he does not leave his wife before his death and insists upon being buried next to her (she is still alive), do the laws of mourning and kaddish remain the ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:21 PM |
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#646 A Gentile Burial?
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Q. (I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) If he does die without making this stipulation, do we let him get buried in a gentile cemetery? Should we make efforts to bury him in a Jewish cemetery or exhume his bo ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:19 PM |
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#645 Nay Never the Kever
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Q. I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile. We mentioned to him recently that he never wrote in his will that upon his death he should be buried in a Jewish cemetery. He said that he wants to be buried next to his ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:17 PM |
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#644 Not a Lot Left of Lot's Wife's Lot
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Q. There are two brachot that are said when seeing the salt pillar of Lot's wife as mentioned in Shulchan Aruch. Does that apply today? Do we really know with enough certainty to make a bracha that the site shown to the tourist is the real thing?
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Posted 11/7/2014 12:07 PM |
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#643 An Egg or a Yom Tov? III
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Q. (Re- prior questions 517 & 634.) It is interesting that the Ben Yehoyadah says that a chicken lays an egg daily. The Tosfos Rid on the first Amud of the Masechta avers that if a chicken laid an egg every day, it could not be muktzah accordin ....
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Posted 11/7/2014 12:02 PM |
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#642 Ladies First?
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Q. A Widowed husband that lives with his daughters, should he light the Shabbat candles or one of his daughters?
A. Poskim disagree as to who takes precedence in lighting the candles, the widowed man of the house, as it is his obliga ....
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Posted 11/7/2014 11:59 AM |
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#641 A Vort from the Convert
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Q. Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul…. can he be invited to say a dvar Torah on a kidush?
A. Horav Shlomo Mil ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 5:19 PM |
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#640 Gentle Gentiles
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Q. Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul, ….If he owns a lulav and esrog can he do hakafos around the bima or the mitzvah of Hosh ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 5:18 PM |
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#639 Convert's Course
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Q. Someone who is preparing himself to become a Ger and is already enrolled in a learning program, is in contact with the Beis Din and attends regularly a Shul, Can he be dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah or be given pesicha of the Aron Hakodes ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 5:00 PM |
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#638 Gratuitous Gratifying
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Q. If you travel by car is there schar pesios?
A. Torah Lishmo (40) and Tzitz Eliezer (12: 17) both write that the main Schar Pesios is when one exerts, puts effort and work in the compliance of the mitzvah. That is comparably minima ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 4:52 PM |
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#637 Stepping or People?
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Q. What is better to attend a shul that is further away and there is schar pesios, or to daven in a shul where there are more people berov am?
A. Avnei Yoshfe (7: 23) quotes Bais Boruch (17: 5) that Rov Am preempts Schar Pesios and o ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 4:51 PM |
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#636 A Shaile on a Kashe
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Q. What Bracha does one make on buckwheat cakes, HoAdama or Shehakol?
A. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat or to any of the five types of grain that we recite Hamotzi or Mezonos over them. Buckwheat is a legume, wh ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 4:50 PM |
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#635 How to Raise Praise on the Rice
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Q. Before eating rice cakes, does one make Borei Pri HoAdama or Mezonos (because the pieces are stuck together)?
A. Poskim disagree as to the first brocho on rice cakes. Many maintain that since they are produced by applying hot air, ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 4:48 PM |
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#634 An Egg or a Yom Tov? II
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Q. I am beginning to learn Maseches Beitzah. While reviewing your information below in answer to a past query of mine, (question 517) I realized that none of the information really answers the question, "What connection does the word 'Beitzah' have ....
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Posted 11/5/2014 4:47 PM |
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