1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
|
|
|
|
# 2871 A Heavenly Smell?
|
|
|
Q. Is it permitted to use as schach for the suka, flowers that have a good smell?
A. Rema (O.H. 68: 2) quotes two opinion whether if one is allowed to use good smelling hadassim as schach for the suka. Ran (Suka 18a) maintains that it i ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/8/2020 3:24 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2870 Clean Up Act
|
|
|
|
Q. It is common in our warm country to make the sucot on the central court yards of buildings. On those yards, sewage pipes are installed on the outside of the walls and connect to each apartment. Can a Suca be built there if those pipes will end the ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/8/2020 3:17 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2869 Sleep On This
|
|
|
|
Q. Due to the fruit trees growing nicely on our back yard, we decided this year to make the suka on the front yard facing the street. The problem is that our neighborhood is lately not that safe anymore, and the kids and me too, are afraid to sleep ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/7/2020 12:33 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2868 Together But Not Together
|
|
|
|
Q. The minhag in our family is always to have guest for sukot, especially the ones that don't have access to a suka. In our scary corona days, we want to continue our so important kiruv tradition. To protect us all, we want to place between the seats ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/6/2020 3:56 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2867 Beyond Relief?
|
|
|
Q. Can someone that needs caffeine relief on Yom Kippur to be able to fast and daven properly, use a caffeine suppository that also contains Tylenol, even if that medicine is not needed?
A. Chelkas Yaakov (2: 83), based on Maharsham ( ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/6/2020 12:31 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2866 Frum by Zoom
|
|
|
|
Q. I give a parsha shiur that meets these days twice a week on zoom. We are all friends and neighbors that know each other for many years. As Yom Kippur approaches and we don't meet this days face to face, can we all ask mechila from each other on th ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/6/2020 11:39 AM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2865 A Safe Pair of Hands
|
|
|
Q. I was wondering when one touches his shoe or covered areas of the body with only one hand, does he have to was both hands as when one goes to the bathroom? This seems to be important on Yom Kippur when one must avoid unnecessary washing.
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/5/2020 10:07 AM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2864 Be Good with Your Hands
|
|
|
Q. When washing hands with sanitizer on Yom Kippur, as we do in these pandemic days, can you wash your whole hand or only up to your knuckles, as we do when we wake up?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since one is not ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 10/5/2020 10:04 AM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2863 Strike the Gold?
|
|
|
Q. Re question above. I also heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women can wear in shul gold jewelry in Yom Kippur. Is that true?
A. Ritva (Rosh Hashana 26b) writes that a "taalis mezucheves" or gold decorated taalis can be wo ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/27/2020 2:20 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2862 Know Where You Stand
|
|
|
Q. Some time ago I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller paskened that women in shul do not have to stand up when the Aron Hakodesh is opened. Is that true?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in principle women do not have stan ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/27/2020 2:17 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2861 A Clean Slate on Clean Hands
|
|
|
Q. Is it allowed to use disinfectant cleaning fluid on Shabbos or Yom Kippur? Does it matter what kind of liquid it is?
A. On question 997 and 2020 regarding the use of liquid soap and soap that changes from liquid to foam as well as han ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/27/2020 2:00 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2860 Wipe Out the Wipes?
|
|
|
Q. What is Horav Shlomo Miller's p'sak re baby-wipes on Shabbos? (And Yom Kippur?)
A. Contemporary Poskim present different opinions regarding baby-wipes, and they mostly depend on the nature and attributes of the wipes.
Thi ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/27/2020 12:24 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2859 Is the Shoe Fit?
|
|
|
Q. I'm a nurse at a hospital close to me and although I tried, I can't avoid having to put some hours during Yom Kippur to care for my patients, mostly Gentiles.
I have often wondered, if I have to put or take off leather shoes from patients ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/27/2020 12:11 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2858 Forget the Forgive?
|
|
|
|
Q. Dear Rabbi, I spoke some awful lashon haraa and divulged a bad secret of a friend of mine, when I was asked info. about him for a shiduch. But I felt I had to tell the truth. The shiduch would have been a great deal for him and I know he was ve ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/25/2020 5:07 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2857 Pay Back
|
|
|
|
Q. A bochur took some money from someone and now wants to make teshuva and return it. He so did, he put it back and is sure that the owner didn't notice that it was missing. Does he have to tell him and ask mechila, (forgiveness)? He would be very e ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/25/2020 5:03 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2856 Holy Mask!
|
|
|
|
Q. A friend of mine told me that in his shul, they are very careful with distancing and all attendants have to wear masks. The baal tokea had a mask on when he was blowing the shofar. How? Before Yom Tov he prepared a mask by making a hole where th ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/24/2020 10:28 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2855 Biting More Than One Can Chew
|
|
|
Q. One of my young children grabbed the shofar I use in our shul and was playing with it, putting it into his mouth and biting with his small but sharp teeth, the outside surface of the shofar. Is that a problem, can I still use it?
A. H ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/24/2020 10:25 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2854 Bowing Out?
|
|
|
|
Q. My grandfather told me that in his shul in the 'alter haim' (old country), when Rosh Hashana fell on Shabbos, they did not kneel on aleinu leshabeach. I have told to many including Rabbonim, about this minhag and they all tell me that it is incorr ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/24/2020 10:23 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2853 Have a Nice Day
|
|
|
Q. Is there a mitzva of oneg Shabbat, when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat?
A. On question 1437 regarding if there a mitzva of simcha on Rosh Hashana, as in every other Yom Tov, and if therefore a vegetarian should make an effort to eat me ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/24/2020 10:19 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 2852 Ring, in the New Year?
|
|
|
Q. How often does Rosh Hashana fall on Shabbath, as it does on this year (5781-2020) and we don't blow the shofar, it seems so unusual?
A. Actually, during the last fifty years there were fifteen occasions when the first day of Rosh Ha ....
|
|
|
|
|
Posted 9/22/2020 3:03 PM |
Tell a Friend
| Ask The Rabbi |
Comments (0)
|
|
|
Important Numbers
