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Expand Article # 4913 No Room for the Zoom?
Q. Is there any chisaron (negative outcome) in giving a baby his name when doing the bris, if it is via Zoom?
A. On a similar question 2644 during the recent covid pandemic times resulting in the pandemic assistance and travel restr ....


Posted 4/2/2024 10:36 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4912 When Should a Present be Present?
Q. Is it better to give the needed to be given simcha presents, like for a bar mitzva or a wedding on Purim to increase the simcha that is after all a mitzvah on that day?

A. Our Rabbonim Shlit’a agreed that there is no real cause or ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:21 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4911 The Right Time?
Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. On this year (2024) when Purim is on Sunday, is it not better at the end of Shabbos, to stay eating shaleshudes, saying Divrei Torah and prolonging Shabbos and then bench just before Maariv about a half an hour later, to permi ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:18 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4910 More Intentions Limitations
- Q. See above questions. Are there anymore limitations to that formerly great principle?

A. Sadly there are. Nesivos Hatalmud (Nesiv 5) maintains that it only applies to the mitzvos we do directly for Hashem’s name, but not on th ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:15 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4909 – Full Atention to Intention
- Q. Rov. the above is indeed very, very interesting and powerful, since all I have to do is daily spend some good, great time after davening, thinking and planing to all the many, many mitzvos and learning Torah that I can possibly do and really, ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:11 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4908 All Purposes of Intent
Q. Dear Rov. If someone avoids doing an avera (sin) our Sages tell us that it is considered as if a mitzva similar or corresponding was performed. If the mitzva involved was Biblical, does one need to have in mind the Kavana to keep that mitzva, a ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:07 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4907 Not Growing on Trees
– Q. Can I sell my trees over Passover and let them hire someone to cut them over on Chol Hamoed? Can I do this with a fruit tree that is rotting away?

A. Although it may be the right time for the trees to be cut, one should not do i ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:04 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4906 The Book Stops Here
- Q. If I am saying tehillim while I need to greet someone or say amen to someone's bracha, can I stop in the middle? Is it better if I stop at the end of a clause, sentence or paragraph?

A. You may just stop at the end of the pasuk. ....


Posted 3/29/2024 12:02 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4905 Noise Not Nice
Q. I know that I'm not supposed to interrupt my davening amida or benching but if the alarm on my cell phone goes off or I forgot to turn off the ringer and the noise is bothering me, can I pause briefly to just flick it off?

A. Inde ....


Posted 3/28/2024 11:59 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4904 Small Sefer - Big Reading
Q. See question above. Someone waiting in a hospital for an operation can he take with him a small sefer Torah an read Zachor by himself?

A. On question 2119 we answered to a similar question the following:

“Shulchan Aru ....


Posted 3/25/2024 3:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4903 Know Beans About Beans?
Q. Hello Rav! I wanted to add some canned beans to a salad on Shabbat. After I've dealt with the opening up the can issue, I then had an potential borer (prohibited choosing and separating) issue in rinsing the beans.

I'll expl ....


Posted 3/25/2024 2:40 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4902 Don’t Forget to Remember
Q. Kvod Harav. My husband is ‘Lo Alenu’ chronically ill and finds it very difficult to come to shul early. What should he do with Parshas Zahor?

A. On a similar question 4143 we wrote:
“Since listening to Parshas Zachor is ....


Posted 3/23/2024 11:20 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4901 Symptoms of Costumes
Q. Can a woman get dressed up with men’s clothes as a Purim costume?
Can a girl get dressed with a costume that is half woman in front and half man in the back?

A. Rema (O.H. 696: 8) permits on Purim for men to wear women's clot ....


Posted 3/21/2024 10:52 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4900 Milk for Human Kindness
Q. Dear Rabino. How can someone warm milk on Shabbat morning for the elderly in our retirement home that is very needed for them for breakfast? It can’t be left overnight even on a covered stove.

A. On Teshuvos Minchas Aviv (p.49) we w ....


Posted 3/21/2024 10:31 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4899 – Awakening to Wokeness
Q. Is making fun of 'wokeness' in the category of 'Leitznuso D'Avodah Zoro Mitzva', and is this meritorious behaviour to be occupied with during the Purim Se'udah, on par with or even more important than Purim Torah?

A. Wokeness is a ....


Posted 3/21/2024 6:32 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4898 This is Not a Joke
Q. See question above. Can one prepare Purim jokes and funny stories while in the bathroom?

A. On question 1278, we mentioned that Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if you are repeating or thinking of verses and words of o ....


Posted 3/21/2024 6:29 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #4897 No Rest in Restroom?
Q. Can I learn “teitch” (explaining) words from the Jastrow dictionary in the bathroom. (it has lashon hakodesh and also he brings down pieces of gemora and Tanach). is there a difference if I’m doing this so I can understand gemorahs, or if I’m d ....


Posted 3/21/2024 6:24 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4896 Oy Vay AI?
Q. Kvod Harav. An associate of mine, who has designed and implemented similar commercial selling merchandise and marketing programs, is trying to develop an AI program that will inspect all info available, accounts, mail, phone calls, etc. etc. a ....


Posted 3/16/2024 11:18 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4895 - This Is Not Purim Torah
Q. Is it correct to say Purim Torah during the Seudas Purim? Why is it not making fun or embarrassing our Holy Torah?

On question 1276 explaining the reason for the strange minhag of saying Purim Torah. We wrote:
A. Osri Lagefen ....


Posted 3/14/2024 8:39 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 4894 Purim Flowers?
Q. Can one send flowers or a nice vase as Shalach Manot to an elderly woman that is often intubated on line support and suffers from severe diet restrictions and comply with this mitzva.
A. On question 4145 we answered:
“On question 307 ....


Posted 3/14/2024 8:34 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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