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# 2560 Tailor Made Evaluation
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Q. Can you rely on a non-Jewish tailor, when he assures that there is no linen in the wool suits he makes for you, specially when you have been his client for many years and he is afraid to loose a customer?
How about, if you and others have ch ....
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Posted 3/6/2020 12:32 PM |
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# 2559 Look Out and Look in?
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Q. Do you have to check for shaatnez a suit that according to its label it 100% polyester etc. and does not contain any wool?
A. Many of the shatnez cases in our days are likely only Rabbinically prohibited. Shatnez is the acronym for ....
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Posted 3/6/2020 12:30 PM |
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# 2558 A Fresh Start
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Q. Should preference for reciting sheva brochos in the case above (Q. 2555) be given to the one that led the benching since he started with the mitzva?
A. Poskim maintain that it can be given to someone else lechatchila, and that is ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:45 AM |
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# 2557 Pray For The Medicine?
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Q. If someone keeps his medicines in the bathroom, can he say the tefila mentioned above (2556 - “Yehi ratzon milfanecha, Hashem Elo-hai, she’yehai eisek zeh li li’refuah ki rofai chinam atta," - May it be Your will, Hashem my G-d, that this activit ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:33 AM |
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# 2556 Bless One's Medicine?
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Q. Does one say a special tefila or bracha before taking any medicine constantly taken with Hashem's name? Does one say it on Shabbat or Yom Tov?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 230: based on Talmud Brochos 60a), does indeed rule that before ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:14 AM |
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# 2555 One's Cup of Wine
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Q. Is the case above any different than the common sheva brochos done in shul by shaleshudes during Shabbos?
Is the cup of wine drunk before havdalah?
A. Poskim disagree as to what to do when the chosson-kallah are present at a s ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:08 AM |
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# 2554 Chosen Celebration
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Q. If the newlyweds join the bris mila seuda (see question above) and they have fulfilled all of the requirements needed (extra food, their own place of honor, their own added people, and nigunim with songs also take place). When it comes to birchas ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:05 AM |
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# 2553 Many Happy Simches
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Q. We have invited our just married cousins to the bris mila of our son. (There should B'H be many simchas by all). I was told that if we add some more food to the seudas habris, we can recite sheva brochos, which would be very beautiful since some ....
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Posted 2/28/2020 1:04 AM |
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# 2552 A Family United
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Q. Can a woman recite kiddush Friday night for her elderly father (who cannot say it himself) and for her daughters already bas mitzva, and other women guest, when her husband is not in town?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 271: 2) rules t ....
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Posted 2/23/2020 11:01 PM |
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# 2551 No Straps Attached?
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Q. The straps of my tefilin are only about ten years old. On the tefilin shel yad, at the top place, where it ties over the biceps and goes around the loop of the kesher, since I place them tight, the strap has shrunk a bit. Is the retzua still kos ....
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Posted 2/23/2020 10:36 PM |
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# 2550 The Branch of Olives
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Q, We are learning about eating olives at the Daf. Is it true that the detrimental eating of olives that makes one forget his learning, does not apply to someone who is a Talmid Chcham? (It was so mentioned in our shiur).
A. On questio ....
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Posted 2/20/2020 11:13 PM |
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# 2549 Bless The Hostess?
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Q. When a guest is reciting during Birchat Hamazon after a meal the blessing for his host, should he not include the hostess also? Why is she is not usually included in the established different nuschaos or versions? (See first question above.
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Posted 2/20/2020 11:03 PM |
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# 2548 A Very Blessed Trip
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Q. When someone is staying in a Jewish hotel or traveling El Al, should one say the blessing for the host after eating and reciting Birchat Hamazon?
A. Mishna Berura (193: 27) rules that one who recites birchas hamazon at a Gentiles ho ....
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Posted 2/20/2020 11:02 PM |
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# 2547 The Place of Honor
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Q. (Re- question 2546 above). Where is the correct place for the guest to recite the blessing honoring and thanking his host after the meal, during Birchat Hamazon?
A. As mentioned above, there are two established versions of the bracha ....
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Posted 2/20/2020 10:59 PM |
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# 2546 Thank G-d For Small Blessings
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Q. Why is it that only some of the guest bother to bless their hosts at the end of a Shabbat or other meal, with the extended bracha mentioned in the Gemara, and they say only a short Horachaman, mentioned in sidurim by Birchat Hamazon?
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Posted 2/20/2020 10:57 PM |
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#2545 Thanks But No Thanks
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Q. A gabay goes around the shul with a pushka during pesukei dezimara (by Vaiborech Dovid) to collect tzedaka for the shul. He often says yasher koach or thank you to the givers and he argues that it is not a hefsek or interruption,sin ....
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Posted 2/20/2020 10:18 PM |
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# 2544 Make a Name for Yourself
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Q. When reciting a mi sheberach for a sick person, we usually quote his mothers name. If he is a Cohen or a Levy, should the gabay say Hacohen or Halevy after his name or after the mothers name, as we usually do with the father?
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Posted 2/20/2020 10:16 PM |
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# 2543 Tefilah Multitasking
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Q. Re - above question (2542). When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos., otherwise the blessing may be in vain and prohibited. How much is ....
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Posted 2/17/2020 11:23 PM |
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# 2542 Are You Really Listening?
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Q. When repeating the amida, Halacha requires that we must have at least nine people listening to the shaliach tzibur and answering amen to his brochos. Since in our days it is unusual for someone to maintain constant attention that long, should th ....
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Posted 2/17/2020 11:20 PM |
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# 2541 Enjoy At The Right Time
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Q. Does the principle of choosing to make a brocho on "choviv" or the items one likes, apply to all foods being served? Would that mean that one should make the required brocho on the dessert one specially likes if already on the table, before the r ....
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Posted 2/17/2020 1:13 PM |
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