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# 3006 A Double Blessing
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Q. If someone left his office and forgot making a bore nefashot after eating some fruits, but when he arrived home and was about to have a coffee, he remembered. Since there was a shinui makom or a change of venue, he needs to make a new bracha o ....
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Posted 1/13/2021 2:29 PM |
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# 3005 We All Daven Together
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Q. I have recently become the Rabbi of a small community. Until now, I have always davened with a Vasikin minyan. My community though, davens at a regular time. Is it more important for me to daven with my community when they daven or better to cont ....
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Posted 1/11/2021 2:28 PM |
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# 3004 The Complete Siyum
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Q. Kevod Harav Shlit"a, If a boy under the age of bar mitzvah completes an entire masechta and understands it. Should he also recite the kadish upon completion of the siyum?
A. The common custom is that the kaddish after a siyum is reci ....
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Posted 1/10/2021 3:57 PM |
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# 3003 Open 24 Hours?
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Q. Can Hatoras Nedorim (an act of absolution of wows done in front of a court of three people) be done at night after Maariv?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 228: 3), Rambam (H. Shavuos 6: 6), rule that Hatoras Nedorim can be done at night. Ni ....
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Posted 1/8/2021 12:31 PM |
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#3002 Milk of Human Kindness?
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Q. An individual who was always careful and machmir (stringent) to eat only products of Cholov Yisroel, but due to the fact that he became unemployed during the pandemic crisis he can't afford the high prices of these products and needs to at least ....
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Posted 1/8/2021 12:25 PM |
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# 3001 Tough Answers to Tough Shailes
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Q. My neighbors father lost recently r'l his wife and a son to the covid curse. He became very depressed and is at a high risk of ending his own life. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital by his children, where he is kept mostly drugged and barel ....
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Posted 1/7/2021 10:26 PM |
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# 3000 The Early Late Torah
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Q. Should one go to sleep early, at the expense of learning Torah, in order to wake up early and be from the asara rishonim the next day? (He will learn before Shacharis, but maybe learning more at night is a bigger mitzvah, and maybe one shouldn't ....
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Posted 1/7/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 2999 Unmask the Mask
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Q. Is it permitted to go out on Shabbos with two masks, one for me and one for my friend whose Rav does not allow him to go out with a mask on Shabbos but will be attending a shul where they require it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 3:10 PM |
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# 2998 Rise to be First or to the Sunrise?
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Q. Is it better to be from the asara rishonim or to daven vasikin (but not possible to be from the first ten in the vasikin minyan, only in a regular minyan)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is preferred to daven vas ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 2:54 PM |
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# 2997 Support The Mask
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Q. There is now available a Face Mask Inner Support. It holds up the mask fabric around the mouth to create more breathing space when a mask is put on face. It is basically a concave plastic frame, that separates the mask from the face, thus providi ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 2:32 PM |
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# 2996 A Gut'n Erev Shabbos?
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Q. Can one wish on Shabbos morning after davening a 'Gut Shabbos,' or is that improper? I have seen some people answer back, 'A Gutn Erev Shabbos' as if the salute they received was incorrect.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 2:29 PM |
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# 2995 Say It, Don't Spray It
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A new liquid product that can be sprayed onto cloth face masks is about to become available. The spray coating using electrostatic charges, captures COVID-19 molecules on the surface of the mask, preventing them from being inhaled into the lungs or ....
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Posted 1/6/2021 2:23 PM |
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# 2994 Shoelaces Knotty Issues
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Q. Why do people tie their shoelaces on Shabbat when they are wet as when it rains or they walked on snow. Is that not a case of schita or squeezing out the water absorbed in the shoelaces?
Although, one may argue that this is a case of eino ....
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Posted 1/1/2021 1:24 PM |
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# 2993 Uncovering the Uncovered
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Q. On question 2969 regarding if one can use olive oil that was left uncovered overnight for lighting the Chanuka menorah, and Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that after the fact, one can use it. Now, many have a tradition that they fill th ....
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Posted 1/1/2021 1:13 PM |
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# 2992 Good or Early?
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Q. (Re question 2981, regarding if one should leave even before the start of davening to wake someone up (chessed) if requested to wake them at a certain time. To what we answered; 'The proper procedure is to ask someone else, who is not as careful t ....
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Posted 1/1/2021 12:59 PM |
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# 2991 Let me Tell you, first of All
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Q. (Re- questions 2976,79). Why is it so important to be part of the first ten who make up the minyan?
A. Talmud (Brochos 47b) teaches that Rabi Yehoshua ben Levi said: One should always rise early to go to the synagogue in order to ha ....
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Posted 1/1/2021 12:43 PM |
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# 2990 Ask about Ask One Over
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Q. A person is looking for places to eat on Shabbos is there any prohibition to tell him which families tend to have guests or which ones don't and it is better not to ask them?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that you may ....
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Posted 1/1/2021 12:27 PM |
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# 2989 No News is Good News?
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Q. Is it proper for a gabay in a shul were they usually say a misheberach for the sick on Shabbos, to include the name of a severely sick new covid patient, if the attendants will become very distressed and sad when they hear that familiar name? I ....
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Posted 12/31/2020 10:05 PM |
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# 2988 Accounting for Taste
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Q. Re - question 2987 above. I meant to ask on a water purification plant that prepares and serves the water to our community.
I became aware that often the workers may eat their lunch or snacks close to the water tanks, and it is likely that ....
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Posted 12/30/2020 10:43 PM |
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# 2987 Amount to Nothing?
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Q. When we mention that chometz is prohibited 'Bemashehu,' even to the smallest amount during Pesach, does that mean that the prohibition applies to molecules of chometz too?
A. As far as when dealing with the prohibition created direct ....
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Posted 12/28/2020 3:47 PM |
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