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#5212 Did We Strike Oil?
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- Q. See question above. What is better to light the menorah with olive oil or vegetable oil without a hechsher, when traveling and no other oil is available? Is it better to light then with candles?
A. On a similar question 1968 we an ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 1:02 PM |
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#5211 The Style of Kosher?
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- Q. Does one have to use Kosher olive oil for lighting the Chanukah menorah?
A. On question 4575 we wrote:
“In principle it is not needed. Yet, Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a, mentioned that since it is most common in our day ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:58 PM |
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#5210 The Head Light Bulb Was Off?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. A Sephardic frum widow, that is about to remarry, when she was trying on the new dress for the important occasion, the woman helping her tore a bit of her dress by her chest.
The bride was terribly terrified and affl ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:53 PM |
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#5209 The Real Best Kiddush
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- Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. If someone that has yohrzait for his father donated the kiddush of this Shabbos morning as he usually does every year, however, this year after the petirah (death) this week of HaTzadik HaGaon HaRav Dovid Shalom Tzadka, ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:42 PM |
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#5208 Hashem Helps Who Help Themselves?
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- Q. If one is in the middle of the amida and does not remember if he said the right words, can he pray to Hashem to remind him?
A. It would seem logically that it is proper to do so, as other Rabbanim mentioned, however Horav Shlomo ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:38 PM |
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#5207 The Say of the AI
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- Q. Does one praying by listening to an AI program for davening or reciting brochos, have to repeat the words being heard?
A. Indeed as we have already mentioned, one has to say the words personally of all brochos and tefilos, since t ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:36 PM |
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#5206 Turn the AI Vay to a Great Way!
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- Q. See question 5203. Is it recommended that the AI program an ill person uses for keeping company, should also be programmed to monitor the patients bio-readings and medicine consumption?
Does the one that oversees and takes care co ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:34 PM |
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#5205 The Best Season Greetings
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlita. I join the thousands that thank you for answering promptly the thousands of very difficult new and most unusual questions we face today and being addressed with the collaboration of a very important and respectable Halacha g ....
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Posted 12/1/2024 12:05 PM |
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#5204 Face the Music and the Lights?
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Q. Can one enter a store or mall at the Christmas season when the music and decorations pertain to Christian religious origins? Should one use hearing plugs that play Jewish music then and also wear dark eyeglasses?
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Posted 11/29/2024 1:05 PM |
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#5203 The AI Vay Way
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- Q. Dear Rabbi this is a question that is right for you, as you were one of the first Rabbis to address AI questions and Halacha.
I have a dear elderly uncle that lost recently his wife after being married almost sixty years in a ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 12:04 PM |
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#5202 Our Good Smelling Parsha
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- Q. On Parshas Toldos we read “Reeh Reiach b’ni kereyach sode asher beracho Hashem”
See that the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that Hashem blessed.”
Talmud (Taanis 29b) explains that it was the smell of a the Eitz Ha ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 12:00 PM |
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# 5201 A Prison Prayer?
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- Q. See question above. Is it similar to Bikur Cholim and you have to say a tefilah for the imprisoned, and if not why not? Is there a special tefilah for the prisoner himself to say as there is for the ill?
A. As mentioned above, si ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:57 AM |
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#5200 A Prison Present
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– Q. See question above. Since I’m wearing a taalit katan, should I offer to leave it with the imprisoned? Is it a mitzva to leave even if I won’t comply with the mitzva until I get back home?
A. Although some Rabbis maintain that he ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:55 AM |
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#5199 –Jail Bait?
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- Q. See question above. If I’m visiting someone imprisoned doing time and can bring something for them as often some correctional institutions permit, should I get for them Tzitzis and Tefilin?
A. Yes indeed if one can provide Tzitzi ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:53 AM |
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#5198 Bikur Asurim?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi, I much appreciate your work on Ask The Rabbi and the variety of questions your answer. (etc.). I’m a lawyer working for a company that also advocates and defends criminals of all kinds. Since I’m religious, I tend to help whenever ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 11:52 AM |
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#5197 Pray the Proper Prayer
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Q. In our shul we say on Shabbat before Musaf a prayer for the Canadian government as our sages have taught us that one should pray for the benefit and success of their government.
What should be done on these terrible times when the gover ....
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Posted 11/25/2024 3:28 PM |
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#5196 The Birth of a Birthday?
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- Q. Kevod Horav Shli’a. I was very surprised when I heard that this last Shabbos (Chayei Sarah), the family of the Rov and the shul offered a Kiddush to honor his birthday.
With all respect to the Rov since when do we frum Torah people ce ....
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Posted 11/24/2024 11:39 AM |
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#5195 - A Peaceful Wild Man?
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- Q. Is it true that the Chafetz Chaim mentioned that Ishmael was a “Pereh Adam” or wild man not to be friendly to and will remain so?
A, Rabbi Dichovsky, of blessed memory, in his book, “Neot Desha,” on concluding a tractate of Talmu ....
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:28 AM |
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#5194 Must Leave or Lean on the Muslims?
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Q. Can one in our days accept as a convert (Ger) Muslims and then marry them?
Can one invite home for a Shabbat meal a friendly Muslim Arab (a business customer) that is considering conversion to Judaism?
A. Horav Shlomo Mill ....
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:24 AM |
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#5193 Name the Name Ishmael?
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Q. See question above. If indeed the Arabs recanted and now they don’t believe the story of our Torah, can we name today a child Ishmael. Is that not the common name of a Tana in the Talmud and who we quote daily in davening?
A. Althou ....
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Posted 11/22/2024 10:14 AM |
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