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# 2943 A First Glance
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Q. When no Cohen is present in shul, and when other favoring factors such as being a greater Talmid Chacham or an elder are not applicable, does a Levi get preference for a first aliya? How about for leading in Birchat Hamazon?
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:28 PM |
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# 2942 A Light Touch
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Q. If someone forgot to kindle a Yohrzait candle on that day for a father or mother, what is the correct thing to do. Should one light two candles when he/she remembers? What happens if someone just remembered in the Yohrzait morning, is lighting f ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:25 PM |
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# 2941 Testing the Tester
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Q. In reference to one of your recent teshuvos, I, an insulin user, requires a constant monitoring of my blood glucose level. Until now I was doing it by extracting blood samples, which you wrote, is a severe shailah on Shabbos of an Issur Deuraisso. ....
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Posted 11/26/2020 10:23 PM |
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# 2940 Hold Your Peace
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Q. See question (2939) above. Dear Rabbi, thank you for your prompt answer to our Beis Din shailah. Horav Miller's permission to demand a lie detector test, did have great consequence on our case, since even refusing to take the test, does look very ....
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Posted 11/23/2020 10:19 PM |
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# 2939 The Truth Be Told
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Q. If a Beis Din strongly suspects that the defendant in a very significant monetary litigation is not telling the truth, but they can't prove it, can they demand that the parties should be subjected to a lie detector test?
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Posted 11/22/2020 9:54 PM |
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# 2938 A Fast Accident Waiting to Happen
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Q. Someone took off his tefilin on Rosh Chodesh before Musaf in a hurry and placed them without their cover on a slanted shtender next to him. Then someone else walked by and not expecting that tefilin would be placed there and like that, by accident ....
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Posted 11/19/2020 11:07 PM |
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# 2937 Pressed The Right Button?
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Q. I read on a pamphlet published by Bikur cholim, that when during Shabbos one visits a patient on a high floor of an hospital, for the needs of the patient, when no other option is available one may ask a non-Jew directly to press the button on the ....
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:54 PM |
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# 2936 Looking Under The Hood
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Q. I heard that Rav Shlomo Shlit'a does not permit wearing on Shabbos a raincoat with a hood, unless one is covering his head or hat with the hood. If left uncovered and there is no eruv, one would be liable for carrying on Shabbos . Is that true?
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:44 PM |
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# 2935 All For One or One For All?
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Q. If there is a number of sons and daughters of a deceased father
living together, does each one have to light a separate candle on the
day of the Yohrzait, or is it enough with one?
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:40 PM |
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# 2934 Do The Honors
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Q. When the Torah reading is concluded, we put the Sefer Torah in a temporary box. When Shacharis is over, the Sefer Torah is transported by foot to another place to be stored securely. The shul has only one entrance/exit. It is clear from the Shulch ....
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:32 PM |
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# 2933 Interesting Interest
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Q. Someone borrowed a sefer, but kept it for a long time, then graciously to thank for the favor returns it with a bottle of wine as an act of thanks. Is that a question of ribbis or prohibited interest?
A. Poskim rule that if the borrow ....
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:22 PM |
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# 2932 Shake Someone's Tree
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Q. Can a Cohen walk or stand underneath a tree branch by a cemetery, that is at that point less than a tefach (about 10 cm.)wide, if at the source of the branch, where it stands over a kever (grave), it is wider than a tefach?
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:17 PM |
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# 2931 What Day Is It?
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Q. Kvod Harav. On question above you quoted Talmud Yoma. Is it not the right pronunciation of that Gemara "Yuma" as everyone calls it and not Yoma as you did?
A. The Targum's usual Aramaic translation of 'yom' or day is 'yoma,' (the ....
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Posted 11/19/2020 10:10 PM |
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# 2930 A Brunch of Olives?
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Q. The Gemara says (Horayos 13b) that one of the things that causes one to forget one's learning is one who is "Rogil" with olives.
Since I do not understand the way this works, I do not even know for sure how to formulate the question. Basic ....
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Posted 11/14/2020 7:21 PM |
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# 2929 Carry but don't Fetch
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Q. See questions (2926-28) above regarding a prosthetic electronic arm. Can one wear and carry that electrically disconnected arm or hand in the street, on Shabbat when there is no eruv?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that ....
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Posted 11/12/2020 10:29 PM |
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# 2928 At Arm's Length?
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Q. See questions (2926-27) above. Can one use that prosthetic electronic arm hand on Shabbat? What if it is not connected to the batteries?
A. On question 1221 regarding new technology that enables the totally invalid or paraplegic to dr ....
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Posted 11/12/2020 10:19 PM |
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# 2927 A Helping Hand
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Q. Following question above when using a prosthetic electronic right arm , how should one wash netilat yadaim for eating bread, when he is wearing the artificial very realistic looking hand?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is t ....
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Posted 11/12/2020 10:05 PM |
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# 2926 Give One's Right Arm
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Q. A close relative lost his right arm, from the elbow down, and was able to replace it with a prosthetic electronic arm. We have some important questions. Firstly, since he still has his complete right hand bicep, on which hand should he put on h ....
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Posted 11/12/2020 9:58 PM |
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# 2925 Drop the Other Shoe?
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Q. On question 2924 above you mentioned that historically some Talmidei Hachamim because of their devotion to constantly learn Torah, would sleep shortly with their clothes and shoes on during weekdays. How did these great Tzadikim make the brachot i ....
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Posted 11/12/2020 9:52 PM |
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# 2924 Sleep on This
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Q. The Gemara in Yoma says not to sleep with shoes. Does this apply when falling asleep on a train, or at one's shtender, or only in bed?
A. Indeed Talmud (Yoma 78b) quotes Shmuel's teaching; that one who wishes to experience the tast ....
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Posted 11/11/2020 6:06 PM |
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