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#2623 Mind Your Language
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Q. As in this critical mageifa (pandemic) days we all daven at home, if someone is used to add his own private prayers for his needs during shemoneesre in English, can he still do so when he davens without a minyan?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O. ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 5:43 PM |
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# 2622 Don't Have an Alcohol Problem
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Q. Can one use during Pesach this year the sanitizers that contain alcohol, that could be chometz?
A. Alcohol-based versions of the commercially available sanitizers typically contain some combination of isopropyl alcohol, ethanol (eth ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 1:29 AM |
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# 2621 If you Can't Burn Them, Join Them
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Q. I heard that Horav Miller Shlit'a ruled that if you are burning little pieces of chometz that may not contain each separate one the full size of a kezais as required, you should place all those small pieces in a container that will be metzaref (j ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 1:27 AM |
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# 2620 The More The Better?
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Q. If one has many pieces of chometz left, is it better to burn them all, or is it enough to just burn a kezais and the rest he can throw out or flush down?
A. Moadim Uzmanim (3: 194) asserts that one complies with the mitzva of burning ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 1:24 AM |
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# 2619 Moves on Cloves
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Q. (See question 2618 above - regarding a person that is prone to seizures). I also started eating cloves ie tziporen because has been B'H helping me with stopping the seizures from starting. Can I get a heter for that too?
Can one use clove ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 1:21 AM |
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# 2618 Why Not Kitniot?
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Q. Can I (a person that is prone to serious seizures) get a heter for buckwheat and or quinoa and or chick peas during Pesach. Because I eat buckwheat every day and its a part of kitniot. I was told by doctors that I need to avoid carbohydrates and ....
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Posted 4/8/2020 1:17 AM |
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# 2617 You'll Drink to That
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Q. I'm a frum physician working in a hospital... (See question 2616 above). I probably will have to be working in the hospital, during the first or even the second seder this week. I'll probably reach home by uber around 11.00 pm. My wife will mak ....
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Posted 4/6/2020 5:47 PM |
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# 2616 Man Alive!
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Q. I'm a frum physician working in a hospital that is very busy these days and I have a few shailos. There is a significant number of Jewish patients that I with the rest of the staff attend to. Due to the great need for room in our hospital these da ....
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Posted 4/6/2020 4:54 PM |
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# 2615 Let All the Hungry Come and Eat?
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Q. May one invite someone for the seder or Yom Tov meals if the guest does not have any symptoms and would have nowhere else to go, due to everyone else's reluctance to invite people during this time? May one trust in the merit of the mitzvah to pr ....
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Posted 4/6/2020 4:05 PM |
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# 2614 A Peace of the Moon
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Q. when saying kiddush levana, if you are by yourself as we mostly are in this (covid) crisis, can you call a friend by phone and say shalom alechem to him? Can you tell it to your wife?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is th ....
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Posted 4/5/2020 1:58 AM |
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# 2613 Disposal At Your Disposal
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Q. Is it true that Rav Shlomo Shlit'a paskened (ruled) that one can dispose of the chometz by just throwing it out on the garbage containers when they will be collected during Pesach? Really!!
A. Indeed on the drasha of Shabbos Hagodol ....
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Posted 4/3/2020 5:13 PM |
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# 2612 The Party Line?
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Q. What to do about the siyum Erev Pesach? Can it be done by phone, online or zoom?
A. On question 531 regarding someone joining a siyum Erev Pesach while still traveling via telephone we wrote; "On question 198 we mentioned: If you ....
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Posted 4/3/2020 2:00 PM |
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# 2611 The Longest Aliya Ever?
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Q. When the Eibeshter will have rachamnus (compassion) on us and the shuls will be able to resume, should we lein (read) all the missed parshiyos?
A. Remah (O.H. 135: 2) rules that if we missed the reading of a parsha, the next Shabbo ....
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Posted 4/1/2020 1:45 PM |
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# 2610 The Neighboring Minyan
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Q. A group of five neighbors that share different sides and corners of their back yards, with one standing in the middle. He wants to organize a minyan during these critical covid times. Since each family has one or several bar mitzva children and t ....
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Posted 4/1/2020 11:42 AM |
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# 2609 Have a Healthy Shabbos
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Q. Can someone that does not usually take vitamins, take them now even during Shabbos, to build resistance to the Corona virus?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that you should first consult with your doctor as to which v ....
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Posted 3/31/2020 4:35 PM |
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# 2608 What's In a Name?
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Q. Should the custom be not to call this (Coronavirus) disease by name as is the custom with other dreaded diseases?
A. There is indeed a tradition followed by some not to call a frightening disease such as cancer by its name, and t ....
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Posted 3/31/2020 3:37 PM |
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# 2607 Travel Light
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Q. Is it true that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a just prohibited this year yeshiva bachurim to come home for Pesach? We have 3 boys learning in yeshivos in the States. where can they go? Can you urgently enlighten us please!
A. Recently, ....
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Posted 3/31/2020 12:36 PM |
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# 2606 And The Name Is...
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Q. A few days ago Beezras Hashem my wife gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl. We follow the Rov's instructions and we don't go these days to shul. My question is what do we do with giving her a name. Can we just choose the name and be mefar ....
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Posted 3/30/2020 11:27 PM |
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# 2605 Lashon Hatov?
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Q. If a friend confided to me that he tested positive to the Corona virus illness, but he doesn't want other people to know, and I should keep it to myself. Should I tell others? Would that be lashon hora?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's ....
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Posted 3/30/2020 10:16 AM |
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# 2604 Turn Shabbos On
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Q. Can I leave on my computer during Shabbat, without sound just to read if any emergencies are happening with the coronavirus pandemic?
A. Horrav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that at this point in time (3/28/20) there is no reason to leav ....
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Posted 3/28/2020 11:13 PM |
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