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# 4192 Zoom In or Out?
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Q. Dear Rabbi, thanks for your condolences for the recent Petira of my father zt’l. Can an Avel, like me who is a Bechor also (first born) attend a Siyum on Erev Pesach so I won’t have to fast. After all an Avel, should not learn Torah, is it then ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:24 PM |
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# 4191 Real Hot – Hot Dogs
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Q. I attend a Pesach Hotel that although it has a very good Hechser, it offers the kids during Chol Hamoed hot dogs in buns that look and taste exactly like the real ones, yet they are not Chametz since they are made from potato starch. Is that pe ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:22 PM |
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# 4190 Great Grains of Enlightenment
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Q. Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Can someone who usually lights Neiros Shabbos and Yom Tov using oil, light during Pesach with Kitniyos Oil?
A. Mishna Berura (453: 10) rules that in principle it is permitted since the Kitniyos prohibition ap ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:19 PM |
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# 4189 Don’t Spill this Shaila!
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Q. The new Kiddush cups we use for Pesach, have exactly the correct Shiur amount needed to comply with the mitzva of four cups.
If someone hands tremble can he recite Kiddush and the additional Hagada parts while his cup rests on the plate ....
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Posted 4/5/2023 6:16 PM |
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# 4188 The Time to Thank
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Q. Dear Rabbi. I really would like first to thank you for giving the opportunity to all, men and specially women of all ages and status the opportunity to ask with total anonymity Torah and Halacha questions that can be answered by Gedolim such Hora ....
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Posted 4/3/2023 6:10 PM |
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# 4188 The Time to Thank
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Q. Dear Rabbi. I really would like first to thank you for giving the opportunity to all, men and specially women of all ages and status the opportunity to ask with total anonymity Torah and Halacha questions that can be answered by Gedolim such H ....
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Posted 4/3/2023 6:04 PM |
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# 4187 Artificial Matza?
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Q. Dear Rov. I know that you were one of the first Rabbanim to deal and post the question if artificial meat made by placing DNA from meat cells into non-meat nutrients is Kosher. I now wonder if the same would apply to bread (or Matza) made in a ....
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Posted 4/3/2023 5:54 PM |
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# 4186 Thanks, but Yes! Yes!!! Thanks.
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Dear Rabbi; I live in a building where there are some tenants that are some kind of weird frumies? (or at least dress like that, I don’t). Yet these fellows very seldom say “thank you” or “please,” when you help and carry somethi ....
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Posted 4/1/2023 9:51 PM |
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# 4185 The Best Speaker
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Q. A father who spends the Seder with his son and grandchildren, who should recite the Hagada the grandfather or the son who is after all the ‘Baal Habait’ (house owner) and the father of the children?
A. On a similar question (363 ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:23 PM |
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# 4184 Garbage In?
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Q. See question above. Can you and how do you then return the containers from the curb?
A. On question 2626 regarding how one can return from the curb the garbage bins that were collected during Yom Tov? (this is important since in s ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:20 PM |
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# 4183 Garbage Out
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Q. How do we deal with the disposal of the garbage that contains Chametz when the cans are only emptied and collected during the first day of Pesach?
A. On question 2613 on a similar situation we wrote: “Indeed on the Drasha of Shabbo ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:18 PM |
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# 4182 Join the Best Sale
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Q. What is Horav Miller’s Shlit’a opinion of selling one’s Chometz via the internet as is very common in our days?
A. Although in principle the naming of the Rabbi as an agent to sell may be done via the internet. However, it is prob ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:16 PM |
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# 4181 Grab a Bite
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Q. An Orthodox rabbi told me it's okay to eat a little during the (Hagada recitation at the) Seder if I get hungry. I just have to make sure to say the appropriate after bracha before starting the meal. Is this standard practice as I never heard ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:15 PM |
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# 4180 Be My Guest
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Q. See above question. The other friend's family is very laid back. Can I just go along with them or do I have to keep my usual minhagim?
A. I assume that as opposed to the question above, you mean this family is more lenient than you ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:10 PM |
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# 4179 Guest of Honor
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Q. I am staying with two sets of friends this Pesach. One is very machmir *stringent) and follows Chabad minhagim. Is it okay if I do my own thing (I eat a special diet) and eat on disposable plates so I can enjoy my usual Passover cuisine?
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:09 PM |
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# 4178 Women Included?
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Q. See question above. Would that apply also to the women?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 472: 14) rules that women are obligated to keep all the mitzvos of the Pesach night. Mishna Berura (44, 45) explains that it includes not only the four cu ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:06 PM |
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# 4177 Please, You Tell Them the Story
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Q. Shalom Ubracha Kvod Harav Shlit’a. A dear friend of us, due to L’A an operation on his throat a few weeks ago, for a malignant growth lost his voice. He is very distressed and wants to know if he can comply with the mitzva of telling the H ....
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Posted 3/26/2023 3:29 PM |
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# 4176 Not the Brightest Shabbos Clock
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Q. I have a digital clock which adjusts its brightness automatically based on the brightness in the room. There is no way to turn this feature off. If the clock is on can I enter the room or open/close the blinds in the room on Shabbos if it will m ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:43 AM |
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# 4175 Must Mention Intention?
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Q. On question 4160 and others you mentioned the importance of learning now the Halachot of Pesach. I heard that this is a Mitzva M’deuraita (Biblical Mitzva), can that be true? Does then one have to have special intention for complying with it, as ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:40 AM |
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# 4174 Trial by Fire
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Q. Dear Rov. I attended a wedding in which the Rov also officiated. A woman walking down the line after the Bride, tragically got her dress caught in fire by some decorative candles that were placed on the floor on the way to the Chupa. Hatzala wa ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:25 AM |
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