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#5087 The Sooner the Better
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Q. I’m getting married next week for a third time, with a chupa done in a small Shul. Is it best to wait until after T'u Beav is over, or is it sufficient just after Shabbat Nachamu or even after the Tenth of Av?
A. Horav Yaako ....
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Posted 8/15/2024 11:12 PM |
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#5086 The Last Drink?
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- Q. Can one drink diluted fruit juice at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins)? It is very helpful for me. Can one take then a Lechaim zip?
A. Some Poskim permit drinking coffee or tea at the Seudas Hamafsekes (S ....
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Posted 8/15/2024 10:49 PM |
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#5085 – Sure Care to Cure?
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- Q. Rabbi I need help urgent. Never in my life (B”H), I had to take any medicine on a day of fasting. Now I need to take antibiotics. Which is the best Halacha way to swallow them on Tisha Beav? (need urgent answer!).
A. Firstly consu ....
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Posted 8/15/2024 10:22 PM |
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#5084 Fastest Fasting
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- Q. I’am a mother and B’H I have several young children. For serving my children on Tisha Beav fasting day, can I just taste a bit of the food and then spit it out, just to see if it is not too salty or too sweet?
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Posted 8/15/2024 10:08 PM |
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#5083 Kashes on Ashes?
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- Q. Does one have to dip only the bread at the Seudas Hamafsekes (last meal before fasting begins) in ashes or one should also put some ashes on the single cooked food permitted, commonly a hard boiled egg?
Can one deep the bread on exces ....
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Posted 8/15/2024 9:59 PM |
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#5082 We Welcome the Well Wear?
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- Q. A good friend left his raincoat in shul during last week or maybe it was on Friday night. I found it. Can I wear it home on a the early sunny Shabbos afternoon to return it to him, or should I be concerned that people will laugh at me and ....
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Posted 8/15/2024 10:14 AM |
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#5081 Say How You Can See
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- Q. My wife went to the eye doctor because she was having vision problems. The doctor gave her a new prescription for her lenses and she ordered a set of new frames and lenses. For various reasons she couldn’t pick up the new pair of glasses un ....
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Posted 8/12/2024 5:13 PM |
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#5080 Our Best Friends
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Q. Rabbi. Is it true what I heard, that you mentioned that the only real AI entity, that has and will ever exist as an independent entity is the Beth Hamikdash? How could you say something like that???
A. Indeed you heard well, bu ....
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Posted 8/11/2024 11:51 AM |
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5079 The Happy Comming Days
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Q. A kallah is getting married right after Tisha B’av. These days the custom is to make personalized sweaters for the kallah and her family/friends. Is it permitted to decorate sweaters with “iron on” letters during the Nine Days?
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:51 AM |
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#5078 Ponds to Ponder
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- Q. Dear Rov, can one use rivers or ponds for immersion of new utensils?
A. On a similar question (2023) we were asked;
“Lekavod Harav Shlit’a, during these times where access to some of the keilim mikva were restricted, there ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:48 AM |
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#5077 Zoning Shabbos Chazon
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- Q. Shalom LaRav Shlit’a. Is it true what some maintain that we should increase on Shabbos Chazon Simcha, happiness and joy more than any other regular Shabbos? Why not the contrary?
A. Indeed, that is the opinion of Likutei Shlomo ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:40 AM |
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#5076 Room for the Not Yet Frum?
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Q. Is it ok for a woman to be included in the kiddush and homotzi of a man who isn't shomer Shabbat yet? What about havdala?
A. The above should be avoided as it is possible that the man is not yet a proper believer in Hashem and hi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:28 AM |
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#5075 Clothing for Mourning
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- Q. How long do I have to wear my freshly laundered clothes before the 9 days? Can I just leave them unfolded on the bed instead?
A. Poskim write that one hour is enough. Some maintain that one may wear a few pieces at the same time. ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:25 AM |
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#5074 The Ma’aseh on Ma’aser
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- Q. How does one calculate tzeddaka on the sale of a house? I'm assuming that some expenses could be deducted such as mortgage and taxes and maintenance but not consumables such as gas and electricity. Would paying tuition for my kids be consi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:20 AM |
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#5073 Have Something to Eat?
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Q. (As the Rov well knows…), I can't eat fish and only limited dairy products, so can I eat chicken during the 9 days?
A. The answer to this Shaila depends on the assessment of your doctor familiar with your condition and in contact wi ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:16 AM |
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#5072 – What’s In a Name?
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Q. Rabenu Shlit’a. We have a non- Jewish worker that is from Mexico and uses the name “Jesus.” Is it proper and correct to call him by that name and mention it constantly?
A. You may, with his permission and appreciation, call him w ....
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Posted 8/9/2024 11:13 AM |
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#5071 Strict Strait Start
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- Q. Hello Rov. Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Av and the start of the Nine Days. Is it possible for someone who can only daven with a minyan at an early maariv minyan after Plag, do so expressing that he is not accepting the restriction of eating meat u ....
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Posted 8/6/2024 10:23 PM |
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#5070 Avoid the Beaten Track?
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Q.Dear Rov Shlit’a. As the situation in Israel seems to be lately so dangerous, is there a reason to restrict again the travel there as we did during some of the recent years? What is Horav Millers Shlit’a opinion?
A. I did ask Horav ....
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Posted 8/4/2024 5:49 PM |
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# 5069 – Your Other AI Self?
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Q. Moreinu Shlit’a. You have taught us that using a robot that possesses artificial intelligence, even if it performs a prohibition or does a mitzva it is basically the same as if you have done it yourself, because they are programmed by humans ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:28 PM |
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#5068 The Most Happy Tefilin
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- Q. My son is about to become Iy”H Bar Mitzva three weeks after Tisha Beav. We have a minhag that our Bar Mitzva bochurim don Tefilin a month before. We were able to acquire for him an unusually excellent pair of Tefilin both by the maker and the ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:26 PM |
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