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# 2717 Face to Face
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Q, When davening in the backyard, if the Sefer Torah is kept on an aron inside the family room that has a door open to the porch and can be seen from there, do you fall tachanun on your face then?
A. Remah (O.H. 131:2) rules that on a ch ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 7:34 PM |
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# 2716 Follow Out?
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Q. I am staying BE"H in a bungalow colony and there is only one minyan and they daven early. I'm obliged to daven with them, and also start Shabbat early?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 263: 12) and Mishna Berura (51) maintain that if there ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 12:08 PM |
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# 2715 Apron Strings
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Q. In summer days when the husband davens early Kabbolas Shabbos, and as mentioned in last question, if it is done for convenience, he does not impose Shabbos restrictions on his wife. Can she do work for him also?
A. Igrois Moshe (O ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 12:01 PM |
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# 2714 Bright and Early Shabbos
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Q. In summer days when the husband davens early Kabbolas Shabbos, does his wife have to abstain from doing melochos at that same time and light candles then?
A. Igrois Moshe (O.H. 3: 28) rules that is the husband decides to attend an ea ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 11:53 AM |
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# 2713 An Offer One Can Refuse
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Q. Thanks for your answer that shows both expertise and common sense. I have another question, I was offered the position of president of my synagogue and it is possible that I can be effective in bettering things there. But I'm afraid it is going t ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 11:50 AM |
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# 2712 Live In a Tree?
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Can one place a siddur on a tree or lean on the tree without moving it?
A. Mishna Berura (336: 3) explains that the ruling of Shulchan Aruch that it is prohibited to use a tree on Shabbos, includes not placing any objects on it. On the p ....
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Posted 6/19/2020 11:35 AM |
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2711 Why Not Pick Up?
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Q. Re - question 2710 above. How about if the siddur fell on some delicate flowers, can one also pick it up? If not, what should one do with it?
A. Mishna Berura (336: 14) mentions that the permission of the Remah mentioned on the p ....
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Posted 6/18/2020 1:11 PM |
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# 2710 Don't Let the Siddur Down
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Q. If someone is davening outside and he dropped on Shabbos his siddur on some plants on the edge of the grass and can't pick it up without moving the leaves of the plant, can he pick it up? How tall can the plant be?
A. Remah (O.H. 33 ....
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Posted 6/18/2020 1:04 PM |
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# 2709 Growing Pains
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Q. As we many of us daven these days on the backyard minyanim, if there is some flowerpots growing outside on the edge of the fence of the deck facing the grass, can someone stand bellow the pot while davening? Maybe it is asur since he is blocking ....
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Posted 6/15/2020 12:22 PM |
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# 2708 Identifying Signs of Time
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Q. Does one transgress the prohibition of etching a tattoo, if one does not have the intention of writing or illustrating any words, symbols or forms at all. A dot will be tattooed in a specific place, simply to be able to identify a person, that ....
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Posted 6/12/2020 3:47 PM |
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# 2707 Question Mark
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Q. Is the prohibition of tattooing oneself prohibited by the Torah only when done for avoda zarah purposes only but other decorative tattoo marks are only Rabbinical? (see next question for what difference does it make).
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Posted 6/12/2020 1:48 PM |
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# 2706 A Wild Goose Chase II
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A. I heard that Rav Miller discouraged people to do shiluach haken on geese since they may be considered kosher birds and eaten and there is no such tradition. Why did you write that shiluach haken does apply on them?
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Posted 6/12/2020 1:22 PM |
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# 2706 A Wild Goose Chase II
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A. I heard that Rav Miller discouraged people to do shiluach haken on geese since then they may be considered kosher birds and eaten, and there is no such tradition. Why did you write that shiluach haken does apply on them?
A. On que ....
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Posted 6/12/2020 1:21 PM |
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# 2705 A Pretty Penny
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Q. Can I give $0.01 Cdn tzedakah or do I have to use only American pennies now that ours are out of currency.
A. On question 1187 regarding the value of a prutah today, we wrote: "The value of a perutah according to the opinion of the C ....
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Posted 6/12/2020 1:06 PM |
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# 2704 Never Too Late?
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Q. Someone that davens maariv after plag hamincha, while it is still day, and forgot to say korbanos before mincha, can he say them after maariv?
A. As Horav Shlomo Miller is out of town, Horav Aharon Miller Shlit'a consulted with his f ....
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Posted 6/12/2020 1:00 PM |
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# 2703 The Aron or the Mizrach?
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Q. We daven in a backyard minyan these days. During Yom Tov we took out a mobile Aron Hakodesh with a Sefer Torah, but due to the circumstances it was placed to the north side of the yard, although the shtender of the baal tefila was facing mizra ....
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Posted 6/10/2020 9:47 AM |
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# 2702 Open to Questions
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Q. Today, June 8th 2020 the government of Ontario announced that commencing this Friday June 12th, places of worship including Shuls can be used provided they operate at 30% capacity.
Please tell me if Rabbi Shlomo Miller permits ....
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Posted 6/9/2020 4:23 PM |
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# 2701 The Rabbis Too?
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Q. Thank you for your answer (2699) explaining well why do Cohanim turn their back to the Aron Hakodesh. The fact is, that it is not only the Cohanim who behave so, in most shuls and yeshivot, the rabbis when they address the congregants, also turn t ....
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Posted 6/5/2020 4:45 PM |
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# 2700 Don't Feed the Animals
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Q. Every Shabbos on the last few months a squirrel shows up at the window of our house at the exact time when we make hamotzi in the day, because my kids feed it with a small piece of chalah. Is that permitted?
A. On question 2296 reg ....
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Posted 6/5/2020 12:08 PM |
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# 2699 Face The People
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Q. Why do Cohanim turn their back to the Aron Hakodesh when reciting their blessing to the people? Is that not an act of disrespect?
A. Talmud (Sota 38a) teaches that Birchas Cohanim should be said "ponim keneged ponim" or face to fac ....
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Posted 6/4/2020 3:08 PM |
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