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#5574 Ois Noise?
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- Q. See questions above. I also wonder if someone learning Torah in a side room in a Shul and hears the laud recitation of the Thirteen Midos, does he have to stop his learning and repeat with all?
A. Poskim disagree on the above. Ni ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:36 PM |
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#5573 No Poison Noise!
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- Q. See question above.
I also wonder if one walks by a non orthodox synagogue during Rosh Hashana, does he have to cross walk on the other side of the street to avoid listening to the shofar blown next to their microphone?
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:34 PM |
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#5572 Stop the Noise?
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- Q. My Dear Rov Shlit”a.
As you well know, my elderly and ill father can’t go to Shul anymore even on Yom Kippur. We have a similar guest staying with us now and he leaves his phone on a very low volume. He sleeps in the same room with my ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:31 PM |
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#5571 Apart Art of the Start!
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- Q. I still have another question. On a Shiur (On-Line), I think I heard that Rosh Hashana itself is a hidden Holiday. How and why is that?
A. The Magen Avohom (O.H. 284:7) mentioned above, seems to understand that this pasuk sited ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:26 PM |
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#5570 Bless the Best?
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- Q. As I mentioned before, I also wonder why the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh is titled “Shabbat Mevorchim” and not the one before Rosh Hashana?
A. The reason mentioned by Poskim in Shulchan Oruch (O.H. 284:7) is that after the read ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:22 PM |
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#5569 Month After Mouth
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi.
I’m a woman that davens almost every Shabbat at home (and daily too), with and for my, bless Hashem many young children and when it is the Shabbat Mevarchim (Special blessing recited for the incoming new month), I also ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:19 PM |
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#5568 Blowing the Blow?
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- Q. K’vod Rabbenu Shlit”a.
I’m the new chosen Baal Tokea (blower) of the Shofar in our large new shul, and I need still lots of training and preparation. I avoid blowing at home as it disturbs the family. Is it permitted to blow in ....
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Posted 9/5/2025 12:15 PM |
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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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