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# 4636 Ancient History?
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- Q. I just don’t understand why and how is Tu Bishvat so important to us and why we celebrate it outside of the Land of Israel, since as is those once upon time mitzvot do not apply anymore in our days and even on the past they applied only in t ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 3:49 PM |
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# 4635 Planting a Shailah
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Q. Dear Rabino. As you well remember, in Mexico it is already time for planting some new trees. Is there a mitzva to plant new trees on Tu Bishevat?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the mitzva given was for eating new f ....
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Posted 1/23/2024 6:15 PM |
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# 4634 A Rosh Hashanah for Dogs and Cats?
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Q. I truly do not understand, why in our Jewish tradition we celebrate a New Year for trees, that as important as they are, for us the elderly, and many others, our dear pets, dogs and cats, are actually essential for our survival, since for many ....
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Posted 1/23/2024 4:30 PM |
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# 4633 A Very Early Celebration?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. How come we celebrate in Canada and in most of the U.S. and Europe, Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees and their fruits, when we are surrounded by frost and often covered by snow. Is it not ridiculous?
A. Horav Aha ....
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Posted 1/23/2024 4:26 PM |
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# 4632 The Labor of One’s Fruits
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Q. When and in what way should one eat the fruits on Tu Bishvat?
A. on a similar question 1608, as follows:
“ Q. Why and when is it best to eat the fruits on T’u Bishvat, the night before or during the day? Before the seuda, d ....
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Posted 1/22/2024 3:57 PM |
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# 4631 No AI on BO?
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Q. I heard that Parshas Bo since it is the first one to give us mitzvos, it contains the shorashim (roots) to all other principles of the Torah. If so is there a connection in Parshas Bo to AI?
A. In the history of mankind there ....
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Posted 1/21/2024 10:50 AM |
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# 4630 Good Beginnings – Good Endings II
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Q. Why is the Jewish calendar based on the moon and not on the sun like most others?
A. See
answer above. See also article on the constant renovation of the
universe at BDYC weekly pars
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Posted 1/19/2024 12:34 PM |
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# 4629 Good Beginnings – Good Endings
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Q. Why is the mitzva of Kidush Levana the very first mitzva of the Torah?
Horav Aron Miller Shlit’a mentioned that setting our own Torah system of counting time is essential in establishing the reality of what Hashem c ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 12:30 PM |
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# 4628 The “Unhuman Cannonball”
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Q. Can one that has the Minhag of drinking beer on Tu Bishvat for the mitzva of eating barley, comply by drinking the Unhuman Cannonball beer?
A. On question 4091 we were asked:
“Q. Can one that has the Minhag of drinking ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 12:09 PM |
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# 4627 Blessing the Blessings of the Blessed Land?
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Q. How important is it to eat on Tu Bishvat fruits imported from Israel?
A. On question 453 we wrote: “The tradition to eat tree fruits in Tu Bishvat is mentioned in many Poiskim in (O.H. 131), however there is generally no special ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 11:34 AM |
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# 4626 Help make it a Real Mazal Tov!!!
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- Q. See questions above. How about if one of the new couple is religious and keeps Shabbath etc. while the other does not?
A. As mentioned in last question above, situations are mostly different and usually there are many differe ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 11:30 AM |
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# 4625 A Very Sad Simcha
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Q. See question above. How about if the couple is a mixed one, and one of them isn’t Jewish, what is the proper thing to do?
A. In such a case, one should definitely avoid even any congratulations.
However, it may be worthwhi ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 11:26 AM |
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# 4624 - A Mazal Tov to the Mazal Tov ?
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Q. My colleague, a non-Jew is getting married to another non-Jew next month. So far, I'm not invited to the wedding since I just started a couple of weeks ago. Should I do anything to acknowledge the event or just say congratulations and lea ....
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Posted 1/19/2024 11:24 AM |
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# 4623 Oh! Holy Hologram?
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Q. How should we treat an electric hologram with Hashem’s name on it. Can it be turned off or cut?
A. A hologram is defined as a photographic image recording of a light field, rather than an image formed by a lens or a mirror.
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Posted 1/15/2024 10:39 PM |
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# 4622 Get Ahead with a New Head?
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Q. Dear Rabbi very soon we may find that we can have a being that is only one half human (only head is human) but body is artificial, or it belongs to another younger deceased human. Can we count him for a minyan?
At what point of the ....
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Posted 1/12/2024 11:33 AM |
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# 4621 Looking for a Real Nice Burial Place?
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Q. Dear Rabbi. As trips to our moon have restarted. I wonder if a Jewish person can be actually buried on the moon? (Or send their ashes to be deposited there). In a weird Baal Teshuva movement that i teach and try to be mekarev (bring closer), so ....
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Posted 1/11/2024 6:36 PM |
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# 4620 Nitel to the New Nitel?
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Q. Querido Rabino. Is January 6 a day to avoid weddings since it is a Christian Holiday? How about here in Mexico or in other countries with very sizable Catholic congregations. Is it like Nitel night and learning of Torah should also be avoided.
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Posted 1/11/2024 6:31 PM |
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# 4619 Test the Water
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Q.(See question above). Does the not drinking water tradition at the start of the Tekufa apply every month? How stringent should one be in keeping this tradition?
A. It applies only at the four beginning of the Tekufos every year as ....
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Posted 1/11/2024 6:26 PM |
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# 4618 Reasons for the Season’s Traditions
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Q. See questions above. What is the reason for this tradition Does one have to maintain that most unusual tradition in our times?
A. On question 4063 we wrote: “Luach Davar Beito quotes Sefarim that mention they involve a danger of ....
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Posted 1/11/2024 6:23 PM |
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# 4617 What Time Is It?
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Q. See questions above? Is 4.30 AM on Sunday Israel time? Do we keep the corresponding time here?
A. Most Poskim maintain that for those who follow that tradition, they do.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid ....
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Posted 1/11/2024 6:19 PM |
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