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Expand Article # 2184 Son with a Gun
Q. This may seem as a strange question, but it is important to my young sons. They learned of the tradition of playing with arch and arrows on Lag Baomer, but we could not find one set that is safe for them to play.
Can they use instead s ....


Posted 5/23/2019 10:38 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2183 Won't See You in Church
Q. Can a caterer accept to cater a religious event (non-Jewish) in a church?
The caterer will deliver the food there and will not be entering that place. 

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if he only delivers the fo ....


Posted 5/23/2019 10:30 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2182 Hold on Fast
Q. One that is getting married on Lag Baomer late afternoon, does one have to fast the traditional fast of chasan kallah if one finds it difficult?

A. Mishna Berura (573: 7) quotes different opinions if one should fast in a day when whe ....


Posted 5/22/2019 4:58 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2181 Fight for Life
Q. A family member is tending to an elderly patient that according to his doctor became suddenly susceptible to blood clots and may suffer from a possible heart attack. If that would happen and CPR is needed, but the chest bones of the elder are so ....


Posted 5/20/2019 2:01 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2180 Cross Examine
Q Can a bakery bake cakes or cookies in the shape of non-Jewish religious symbols  (like a cross) for orders they receive from non-Jewish customers?

A. On question 1650 and 1654 in regard to reciting tehilim when facing a cross ....


Posted 5/17/2019 6:34 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2179 Don't Put this On Ice
Q. Does a metal ice-cube tray maker (the tray filled with water you place in the freezer, for making ice cubes) require tevilah? does the glass ice-cubes container and tongs you place on the table require tevilah?
Does an ice pick require tevi ....


Posted 5/17/2019 1:19 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)


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Expand Article # 2178 Is The Adding Adding-Up?
Q. In some shuls it is customary that the rabbi or the gabbai, at the end of shacharis recite without a bracha the sefira of that day. Is this not a case of b'al tosif or prohibited adding to a mitzva, according to those that maintain the mitzva is ....


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Expand Article # 2177 A Monumental Pesach Sheni
Q. I Had the first yortzait this week for my husband a'h. Can I do the Hakomas Matzeva ceremony on Pesach Sheni A. On question 277 in regard to fasting on a yortzait day on Pesach Sheni we wrote: "Poiskim mention different traditions on Pes ....


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Expand Article # 2176 A Storm In a Cup?
Q. What should one do if he is a guest by someone's house, or comes to someone's simcha, and the host makes Kiddush on a small cup of schnapps, as is the Chassidic custom? May one rely on this Kiddush and eat in order to avoid embarrassing the perso ....


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Expand Article # 2175 Crash the Party?
Q. As Pesach Sheini is this Sunday, we invited the whole extended family for a Matza meal and BBQ in our backyard. But the question arouse if you can roast meat, hamburgers and hot dogs on Pesach Sheni, since it is prohibited on the first?
< ....


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Expand Article # 2174 The Third Pesach Seder
Q. I overheard that there an inyan (point) on eating maror and an egg on Pesach Sheni with the matza is that true?

A. Piskei Teshuvos (492: n. 11) and Nitei Gavriel (Pesach 3: 57: n. 14) quote this minhag from Devar Yehoshua, Darchei C ....


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Expand Article # 2173 The Moon Flew Over the Trees
Q. Can you make birchat hailonot by the light of the moon, if you can see the trees clearly? Can you make the bracha if you see them through a window or the windshield of a car?

A. On question 1716 regarding the blessing for the new fr ....


Posted 5/16/2019 5:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2172 Make Yourself at Home
Q. An Ashkenazi became frum in Israel and lived there for many years. his nusach tefillah is like the minhag of Israel (sim shalom on mincha of Shabbos, doesn't say v'shamru before shmoneh esrai at maariv on friday etc).
When he moves to Ameri ....


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Expand Article # 2171 A Shailah on a Knife's Edge
Q. Can you use a single sharpener to sharpen knives fleishig and milchig? How about giving them to sharpen to a non-Jewish company?

A. On question 655 in regards to the use a metal or stone knife sharpener for fleshig and milchig knife ....


Posted 5/14/2019 5:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2170 Kindling the Sparks
Q. Re- last question (2168) regarding Frum people that have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. You mentioned the b'al tashchis concerns as well as the Pischei Teshuva that it can i ....


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Expand Article # 2169 Permitting to Permit the Permitted
Q. Kevod Horav. Many Frum people have a tendency to be machmir on issues that are in fact permitted in Halacha, especially on kashrus shailos. They argue that once any question was raised you have to dispose of the food, and it is not "glat" or "me ....


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Expand Article # 2168 Better Late than Whoever
Q. If one usually davens at a later maariv minyan (follows Rabenu Tam's time), should he preferable change during the sefira weeks to an earlier minyan (before Rabbenu Tam's z'man)?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it ....


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Expand Article # 2167 A Lonely Early Count?
Q. Is it better to count sefira by oneself soon after the zeman begins to do zerizin makdimin and temimos, or wait until one davens maariv with a minyan later on?

A. Beer Heitev (489: 2), Chok Yaakov (ibid, 16), Chayei Adam (: 17 ....


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Expand Article # 2166 Pay The Consequences
Q. In the case where one knocked down a chametz bottle in a (liquor) store, (see question 2156), and the management is demanding that one pay for it, what should he do?
If the management (short of help) offers that if he helps in the cleanup ....


Posted 5/10/2019 2:25 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 2165 No Partisan to the Simcha of Nisan?
Q. I'm a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother to a Yom Hashoah act, that takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very important to them. Should I go?

A. ....


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