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#5712 – The Little Yom Kippur!
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- Q. Following my question above. I wonder, is not the day before every Rosh Chodesh named Yom Kippur Katan (“Mini Yom Kippur”) and is usually kept by many, including myself as a day of introspection and repentance for any wrongdoings during the pa ....
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Posted 12/19/2025 11:39 AM |
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#5711 - Still on the Fifth Day of Chanuka!
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- Q. Why is the night of the fifth of Chanuka so special for many of our neighbors?
A. Every night (and day) of Chanukah is a time of joy and celebration, but the fifth night holds a special place in many traditions, including Chabad ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:46 PM |
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#5710 - The Fifth Day of Chanuka!
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I often attend your shiurim and I also much appreciate the openness of your questions and answers. My question now. In a shul I often attend they make a special kiddush on the day we light the fifth candle of Chanuka. W ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:40 PM |
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#5709 – Say Cheese! on Chanuka?
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- Q. See question above. I also heard that there is a tradition to eat on Chanuka cheese, why?
A. The Book of Yehudit. (A Sefer not considered part of the 24 Books of our Bible, as also the Book of Maccabees containing the Hanuka ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:34 PM |
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#5708 – The Mater of the Milk?
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- Q. See question above. What is the reason for the tradition to drink milk or milky foods on Chanuka?
A. A reason for the custom of drinking milk or eating milk products on Chanukah is that the Hebrew word for milk, חל ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:27 PM |
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#5707 – Milk the Cheese for All it is Worth!
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- Q. DEAR Rabbi Is there the minhag (tradition) to drink milk on Chanuka?
A. There is indeed a tradition to eat cheese on Chanuka as mentioned in Shulchan Aruch." (Shulchan Aruch 670:2, Rem"a; Mishnah Berurah 670:10).
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:12 PM |
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#5706 - The Real Chanuka Story
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- Q. Estimado Rabino. What is the source in our Bible for Chanuka?
A. There is no open source in the Five Books of the Torah, yet it is told in The Book of Yehudis . (A Sefer not considered part of the 24 Books of our Bible, as als ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:09 PM |
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#5705 Take the Less Traveled Path
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- Q. Kvod Harav. Last year I had this sad experience. If on Chanuka someones overseas flight was delayed until almost daybreak, until when can one still light the Chanuka candles.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that on ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 8:01 PM |
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#5704 More Hard Work!
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- Q. See question above. Until what time do women have to avoid working on Chanuka nights?
A. There are several opinions as to the amount of time that women customarily refrain from doing the above housework. Most poskim hold that th ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 7:59 PM |
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#5703 – So Hard to Define the Hard Work?
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- Q. See question above. What kind of work is prohibited for women when the menorah lights are lit on Chanuka ? Does it apply also to unmarried women? Or girls?
A. There are various opinions as to what “work” means vis-a-vis this cu ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 7:57 PM |
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#5702- Don’t Women Always Work So Hard???
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- Q. Dear Rabbi , What is the reason that some women don’t do any work when the menorah lights are lit on Chanuka?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 670: 1) writes that women have the custom not to do work while the Chanuka candles are on. Th ....
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Posted 12/18/2025 7:52 PM |
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#5701 Need Better Early Lights
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- Q. Dearest Rabbi I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. In need, how early can you light Chanuka Candles before Sunse ....
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Posted 12/12/2025 1:26 PM |
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#5700 An Early Light?
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– Q. I’m with Hashem’s help, planing to take a very necessary health trip for an open hearth surgery on Chanuka. I have to be hospitalized at the very beginning of night. How early can you light Chanuka Candles before Sunset?
A. On ....
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:35 PM |
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#5699 – Enlightening the Lighting
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- Q. Kvod Harav Shlit’a. In our Shul we light the Chanuka candles between Mincha and Maariv. It is then mostly already after the Shekiah, yet sometimes not? is that correct, How about at home?
A. Let me answer the second qu ....
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:28 PM |
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#5698 The Weak Wick?
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- Q. Estimado Querido Rabino, As we approach Chanuka, I have a number of questions.
We recently expanded our house, as we were digging we discovered a n amount of Sheimot, also discarded Tefilin, Jewish Torah magazines, and some Talitot and ....
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Posted 12/11/2025 10:04 PM |
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#5697 - Very Special Day Today! For Whom?
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- Q. Moreinu Harav Shlit’a. Thank you for answering immediately, by using for Torah purposes, the modern communicating technology now available. When we read your email for all in shul, some of the present mentioned that it was mainly kept by Chabad ....
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Posted 12/9/2025 10:32 PM |
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#5696- Today a Very Special Day! Really Why?
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Ask Vayeshev 86 Q. Moreinu Harav Shlit’a. Someone mentioned in shul today (Dec 9 2025) that the day was a very special day for some of our members, as it is the 19 day of Kislev, or י"ט כסלו on the luach. What ....
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Posted 12/9/2025 10:11 PM |
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#5695 – More on Non Elevated Elevators?
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– - Q. Dear Rov. Can one invite as a Shabbat guest an elderly friend who is not religious yet and since we live on the ninth floor should I ask him that when he takes the elevator he should wait until another non Jewish person arrives and he direc ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 8:30 PM |
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#5694 An Elevated Elevator?
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- Q. Dearest Rov. Is it truly correct and permitted to use in our days of constantly changing AI a Shabbat elevator?
A. On question 476 we wrote:
“The fact that an elevator has been programmed to stop in all floors during ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 8:24 PM |
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#5693 – Saved from Separation?
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- Q. Kevod Mori Horav Shlit’a. I go every day (when possible) to be Tovel (immerse) in our close to shul Mikva before davening (praying). When I come out I make effort to dry up as good as possible. Yet sometimes (depending on the weather) my hai ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 6:10 PM |
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