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#5692 – Standing to Your Standing?
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- Q. This is a question it may not be on a practical level. But I am curious what you have to say.
I Learned in regards to saying krias shemah from the gemara we hold like Bais Hillel that you are supposed to read כדר& ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:57 PM |
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#5691 – Trust a Truly Tried Shaliach Tzibur?
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- Q. Rabbenu Shlit’a. As we are about to begin saying Veten Tal Umatar on the amida tomorrow night (Thursday Dec 4, 2025) and if someone forgot to say it he has to repeat the Amida. Can one comply by just listening to the repetition said by the Sh ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:54 PM |
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#5690 – Remind Others of Your Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. Could I advice others and even publicize such great working method?
A. As mentioned above As this Shaila is indeed complicated and locations are different, one should consult with the local proper Rov ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:50 PM |
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#5689 – Is That Truly a Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. If the above works and I use it. Should I be concerned that people may believe that I’m just listening to music during the amida, since they know that I usually don’t use any hearing aids.
A. You shoul ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:48 PM |
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#5688 – Even More Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. See questions above. Could a similar reminder be used for telling me to concentrate on the Amida and not divert my mind to extraneous unrelated thoughts and memories, as it often happens to me. (And I bet others would also profit from such r ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:45 PM |
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#5687 – More Hearing Reminder!
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- Q. See question above. Could a similar reminder be used for other additions and changes that are not essential?
A. The answer would follow the opinions above.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Ho ....
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Posted 12/8/2025 5:42 PM |
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#5686 – Real Hearing Reminder?
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- Q. Kvod Harav Shlit”a. As it is a bit common in our large shul that a few of us forget to say Veten Tal Umatar, that begins tomorrow night (Thursday Nov 4, 2025). Since the Halacha dictates that if one has already ended the amida, it has to b ....
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Posted 12/7/2025 4:14 PM |
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#5685 - Really! More on the Very Kosher Menorah
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- Q. See question above, For a person who is careful to use only Kasher oil, if some of it was left uncovered in a bottle from last year, can it be used?
A. Since most likely it was kept on a shelf in a cupboard or closet, it would be ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:25 PM |
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#5684 – A Mehadrin Kosher Menorah?
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Q. Kvod Horav, Does the oil that we use for lighting Chanuka candles have to be Kasher?
A. Horav Shlomo Kluger Zt”l (Shnos Chaim 218) and Beis Yitzchok (2: 145) and others maintain that it is needed.
Horav Shmuel Kamen ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:20 PM |
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#5683 – More of The Most Poisonous Dust!
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- Q. Can just clean praise be also prohibited?
A. See question above. Sefarim mention that perhaps the most famous case of Avak Loshon Hora is when the statement is pure praise of an individual. On the surface, this would seem to p ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:16 PM |
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#5682 – The Most Poisonous Dust!
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- Q. See question above, How can we listen to a wedding drasha of a Chatan Vekalah, when often what is said about them, is only a partial truth?
A. The Chofetz Chaim (Laws of Loshon Hora 9:1-2) begins addressing the subject of Avak ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:14 PM |
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#5681 – The Bar Mitzva True Drasha?
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- Q. See question above. How can we listen to a Bar Mitzva drasha of visiting Rabbis when the praises that they are telling about the Bar Mitzva boy, are so far away from the reality of him?
A. The Talmud (Arachin 16a) teaches that ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:12 PM |
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# 5680 Only the Truth!
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- Q. Kvodo Shlit’a, Since it is so important for us to tell the truth and live only with it, how can we listen to Torah speakers that tell Divrei Torah or even stories of Gedolim that may not be even true?
A. Indeed, Horav Shlomo ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 11:07 PM |
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#5679 Just One Wife?
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- Q. Moreinu Horav Bartfeld Shlit”a . I’m a recently married young woman and being a Bais Yaakov disciple, I have always wondered since our understanding of Kedusha and marriage is based on total oneness and total exclusivity of the husband and his ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 10:59 PM |
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#5678 – More Black Market Day?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. There are many who go shopping on Black Friday as there are many saving
A. The true origin of the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday lies in the sense of black, meaning “marked by disaster or misfortune.” In th ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 10:52 PM |
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#5677 – Black Market Day?
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- Q. See question above.
Can I have benefit from Black Friday sales, since it seems to be a religious day?
A. On question 4552 we wrote:
“ On question 670 we were asked: “Can one take advantage of a ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 10:35 PM |
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#5676 Gloves With Much Love
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- Q. Moreinu Horav Shlit"a. An accidentally paralyzed patient, now in hospital, is unable to put on now Tefillin by himself; can his wife as she often does with the help of their other children, help put on the tefillin when she is a Nidah ( ....
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Posted 11/27/2025 10:27 PM |
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#5675 An Early Great Meal?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit”a. This coming Friday (Nov 21, 2025) is Iy”H Rosh Chodesh Kislev. If I eat a Seuda meal every Rosh Chodesh with meat and wine, what is the correct way to do it on this Erev Shabbat?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a ....
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Posted 11/26/2025 3:07 PM |
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#5674 Mind your E-Mind?
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- Q. – See questions above. Q. Will it make a difference if that implant is only biologically human or if it is an advanced electronic addition that can interconnect with the brain?
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Posted 11/24/2025 4:07 PM |
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#5673 - Don’t Loose Your Head!!!
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- Q. Most Honorable Rabbi and Posek. I truly like and enjoy your most unusual, new and very interesting Halacha questions, that are also supported by other most meaningful Poskim.
I’m a frum still yeshiva talmid and now also a stude ....
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Posted 11/24/2025 4:01 PM |
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