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Expand Article # 3113 The Children's Kerias Yam Suf?
Q. The background of our family is Chasisdic and there was a minhag in the 'Alter Heim' (the old country) that the Chassidim would during Sehvii Shel Pesach pour some water on the floor and then Rebbe would dance back and forth on the water puddle, ....


Posted 4/2/2021 6:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3112 Make it Count
Q. If I have an option to daven Maariv at an early minyan and count sefira then which is already after an accepted Zeman, or to daven later and count after Rabbenu Ta'am Zeman, that I usually keep on Motzei Shabbos, or should I better daven early b ....


Posted 4/2/2021 6:00 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3111 Mark Your Early Leave
Q. When one wishes to leave in the middle of davening to go to another shul when they need help with the minyan, what is the earliest one may leave? May one leave after completing the quiet SE, if necessary to arrive to the other shul on time.
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Posted 4/1/2021 10:39 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3110 Long Lean on the List?
Q. I have list of cholim whose names I insert in Shmone Esrei.. How often do I need to ask if the people should still be on the list? What if I can't contact the person who gave me the name? Are there any criteria for adding someone's name to the l ....


Posted 4/1/2021 10:26 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3109 Is the Adding Adding Up?
Q. I have a Chassidic friend that keeps in his home almost in every room a luach (calendar) of Sefiras Haomer to remind him and his children to count Sefira. Whenever he goes by any one of them, he counts again the Sefira of that day, without a bro ....


Posted 4/1/2021 5:31 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3108 Life From the Dead?
Q. The Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine is about to become available in some locations. Since it relies on the use of material derived from human fetal tissue, which is prohibited, since one may not derive benefit from the dead, can one ....


Posted 3/29/2021 10:03 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3107 Eat Away but Near
Q. This Shabbos Erev Pesach, we will be eating our chometz chales on Friday night and Shabbos morning at our back porch. We plan to eat the meal inside at the already cleaned and ready for Pesach dinning room and eating Pesach food. What is the prop ....


Posted 3/26/2021 1:18 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3106 Hear This Well
Q. Shalom U'Bracha Kevod HaRav! What's the Halacha about wearing hearing aids on Shabbos? And next week that Shabbos is Erev Pesach -The batteries don't last long, how can the person who wears it read and explain the Hagada if one can hardly hear? ....


Posted 3/26/2021 1:07 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3105 HaZoom es Hakol?
Q. Our elderly and ill grand mother is hospitalized and alone, since the family is not allowed to visit her. She is very distressed since this is the first year she will not be in the seder with her children and grandchildren. Can we zoom a seder fo ....


Posted 3/26/2021 1:01 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3104 Muktze Matza?
Q. This year's Shabbos Erev Pesach, one may not touch the Matza Shemura since one can not eat it. So how can one make the eruv for carrying beginning on this Shabbos that is placed for a Shabbos that it can't be used?

A. Indeed Pri Mego ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:50 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3103 Pesach Dishes for Shabbos Use?
Q. I heard that during every regular Shabbat the utensils set aside for Pesach use are muktza.

If one bought new utensils for Pesach and decides to use the old ones on Shabbat a week before Pesach, for chametz purposes, can he use them ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:42 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3102 Facing the Face Shields
Q. Can one use during Pesach the plastic full face shields that one wears duacing the Face Shieldsring the year?

A. Since the shield cannot be used when eating, even if sometimes it was placed on a table where food was served, if it is ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:31 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3101 Under the Sanitizer Influence ?
Q. Can one use during Pesach the hand sanitizer usually available in the shul that contains Ethyl Alcohol?

A. On question 2622 published a year ago regarding if one can one use during Pesach sanitizers that contain alcohol, that could b ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:25 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3100 What Does it All Amount To?
Q. If one has digestive problems and resulting inflammation that is debilitating, and (during the seder) it affects the ability to serve the meal to the rest of the family and guests, does one have to eat the full shiur of matza each time during the ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:45 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3099 A Juicy Meal?
Q. Can one drink a reviis of grape juice for a bemakom seuda need on Shabbos or only wine? (Consumption of an extra reviis wine is considered in Halacha as having eaten a meal).

A. See question above, where we asserted that grape juice ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3098 The Matter of the Juice
Q. Does the bracha on grape juice include other beverages, or only wine?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 272: 2) rules that one can squeeze a cluster of grapes and recite on the product Kiddush. Mishna Berura (ibid. 6) adds that even if it was ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3097 Accounting for Tastes?
Q. Can someone that was affected by Covid and l'a lost his sense of taste, eat on Pesach Seder maror (bitter herbs) with a bracha?

A. Talmud Pesachim (115b) teaches that if someone swallows maror (without chewing it first) he does not c ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3096 No Skin of One's Teeth
Q. How does one clean his teeth on Shabbat this year when Erev Pesach is Shabbat?

A. One can rinse one's mouth and use Kosher Lepesach mouthwash and a floss pick or similar, being careful not to draw any blood. As mentioned in a questio ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3095 A Soft Sell?
Q. Can you zoom mechiras chometz or sell it on line? How does one do then the Kinyan?

A. Poskim, in our contagious pandemic days, permit and many suggest to do it on line or by fax.
No kinyan (acquisitive act) is actually needed w ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:01 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3094 Feels on Meals
Q. I have some questions about the meals of Erev Pesach. Both my husband and I must have breakfast before the tefillah because health issues. We consider breakfast our second Shabbat meal, and lunch would be Seudat shlishit. I was thinking this Er ....


Posted 3/18/2021 9:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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