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#305 Bishul Akum in Canned or dried cranberries
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Q. A food item which cannot be eaten raw is soaked in sugar for several days (or heated in water under 40 degrees celcius) and is then dried by a goy at app. 76 degrees celcius. Is this Bishul Akum? At the stage prior to drying nobody eats it becau ....
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Posted 5/27/2013 10:48 AM |
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#304 Washing at a wedding when planning to leave early
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Q. What is better on attending a wedding if you want to leave early, not to eat bread, or wash eat bread and make a mezumman without saying sheva brachos?
A. Poiskim disagree whether the obligation to recite sheva brochos rests only ....
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Posted 5/24/2013 5:16 PM |
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Posted 5/24/2013 5:14 PM |
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Posted 5/24/2013 5:11 PM |
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#301 Saying brachos on the last day of sheva brochos
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Q. On the last day of sheva brachoth, can you still say the brachoth after the beginning of the shkiah and if it is permitted, for how long?
A. Taz (E.H. 62: 3) quotes Maharal's opinion that you can recite sheva brochos on the night ....
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Posted 5/24/2013 5:08 PM |
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#300 Wearing a Citizen Eco-drive watch on Shabbos
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Q. Shalom U'Bracha, Recently I purchased a Citizen eco-drive watch, that gets charged automatically from the light.
My question is: (1) Is it permitted to wear such a watch on shabbos (at home or within an eruv) when the watch has a ....
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Posted 5/17/2013 4:11 PM |
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#299 Using dishwasher detergent without a hechsher
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Q. Does dishwasher detergent need to be kosher? The brand finish use to have a hechsher and now it does not.
A. We forwarded your question to Rabbi Dovid Rosen, COR Rabbinic Coordinator, who advised us that; COR policy is that all d ....
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Posted 5/17/2013 12:44 PM |
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Posted 5/17/2013 12:42 PM |
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Posted 5/17/2013 12:35 PM |
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Posted 5/17/2013 12:30 PM |
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#295 Tefilin dropped off by a Sofer but not returned
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Q. I sent my Tefillin to a Sofer Stam in Toronto for checking almost a year ago. I have called 2x since sending it and have yet to speak to him, and only to his wife. I have not heard from him, and I miss my tefillin very much. I cannot manage to p ....
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Posted 5/17/2013 12:13 PM |
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#294 Newspapers delivered to a Jewish area on Shabbos
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Q. Is a newspaper delivered to North York on Shabbos Muktzah?
A. Presumably Gentiles printed the newspaper after the onset of Shabbos. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that it is not considered nolad or something new created ....
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:29 PM |
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#293 Using a plastic tablecloth cut on Shabbos
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Q. Is a plastic tablecloth which was cut from a roll on Shabbos (by a non Jew) muktzah?
A. It is prohibited to derive benefit from melochos done on Shabbos by a gentile, even if he was not instructed to do them, but he carried them o ....
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:27 PM |
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:24 PM |
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#291 lighting candles early on Shavuos night
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Q. When lighting the Yom Tov candles on the first night of Shavuoth do I have to wait till nightfall if I didn't count sefirah?
A. Piskey Teshuvos (O.H. 494, 4) rules that women should wait to light candles on the eve of Shavuos unt ....
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:12 PM |
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:10 PM |
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#289 Reading Parshas Bamidvar before Shavuos
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Q. I just read in an authoritative Yom Tov sefer and luach that Parshat Bamidvar is always before Shavuoth, wasn't last year Nasso before?
A. This sefer was probably quoting Shulchan Oruch (O.H. 428, 4) that very emphatically rules ....
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:06 PM |
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#288 Making the Bracho on seeing a tree in bloom in Sivan
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Q. We have some fruit trees in our back yard that just now began to bloom… can the brocho still be made this Shabbat as it is already Sivan?
A. This year, due to the earliness of Pesach, the blooming of trees at this latitude occurr ....
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:02 PM |
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Posted 5/10/2013 3:47 PM |
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#286 Brocho on onions from schmaltz herring
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Q. Kevod Harav Shlit"a,
The halacha seems to point out that if one eats raw or even cooked Garlic or Onions, the bracha receited is "Shehakol", as it is not the usual way for most people to eat raw garlic and onions.
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Posted 5/9/2013 4:56 PM |
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