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# 2244 What Can I Tell You?
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Q. When the economic situation of a family is known widely in the country they reside, can someone inform others of it in a different country? Is this a case of an item that is already publicly and openly known to many (Apei Tlassa) that one is perm ....
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Posted 7/12/2019 1:41 PM |
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# 2243 Expounding the Spread
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Q. Someone that has from very dry skin on his hands and thus suffers greatly, can he put some Vaseline on them on Shabbos?
A. Poskim disagree whether rubbing Vaseline is included in the Biblical prohibition of Memareach or smearing (a t ....
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Posted 7/12/2019 1:33 PM |
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# 2242 A Hot Water Test
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Q. Our water kettle stopped working on Shabbos and we went to the neighbors to get some hot water. Can you cover the utensil with a towel to keep the water hot? Can you use a thermos flask if you leave it uncovered?
A. Shulchan Aruch ( ....
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Posted 7/12/2019 1:12 PM |
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# 2241 What Was the Name Again?
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Q. In a simcha of a large family that share one grandfather, there may be cousins that share the same name. What is to be done if there are 2 people with the same name and the name was called for an aliyah?
Who is to receive the aliyah?
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Posted 7/12/2019 1:01 PM |
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# 2240 Say Yes to the Yeast?
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Q. B"H Shalom. Dear Rabbi,
Recently, scientists in Israel were able to reproduce wine and beer from remnants of yeast they had found in jugs (estimated to be from 850 BCE found in Gath near Yerushalayim!)
1.Would it be halachically perm ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 7:30 PM |
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# 2239 The Rack on the Rack
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Q. Does one have to tovel (immerse in a mikva) the metal racks inside a stove oven? With a brocho?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that, even if occasionally someone places food directly on the oven racks, (such as when plac ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 2:45 PM |
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# 2238 Policing the Police?
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Q. When one sees Israeli authorities acting in a violent and life threatening manner towards chareidim or any other yiddin, is it permissible to inform the American/Canadian embassy of their actions or any other human rights organization? Is this pe ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 2:29 PM |
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# 2237 On Safe Hands?
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Q. A person who is extremely terrified when having a blood test and he will literally pass out, is he allowed to hold (or squeeze) the nurse's hand for emotional support to avoid fainting?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is th ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 2:21 PM |
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# 2236 Ten Out of Ten
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Q. One who came to shul among the first ten, but stepped out to wash his hands or to relieve himself in preparation for prayer, and someone else came in. Who has the zechus of bringing in the Shechina - the person who was originally the tenth, or the ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 2:14 PM |
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# 2235 A New Old Shaila
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Q. One who has only chodosh bread on the first night of Sukkos. Is he allowed to eat it or no? If yes, how much should he eat? What about having only chodosh bread for the Shabbos seudos?
A. Chodosh, literally "new", are products ma ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 2:05 PM |
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# 2234 A Light Bulb Moment
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Q. Someone forgot to remove the light bulb from the refrigerator before Shabbos. If it is not possible to get food from a neighbor or from somewhere else. Is it better to open the door with a shinui, or take money and go to the store and buy food (in ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 1:42 PM |
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# 2233 Put to the Test
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Q. There is a concern in Jewish law or custom that advises to refrain from certain parameters of medical testing. If a doctor recommends a stress test (heart) out of general concern due to age and family history of a patient, but not out of any spe ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 1:38 PM |
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# 2232 A Lesson in Teaching
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Q. A teacher employed at School A concurrently subs on contract an identical course at School B for a few months of someone's maternity leave. The teacher's tests are proprietary and were developed before and independent of School B. School B never ....
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Posted 7/5/2019 1:30 PM |
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#2231 Peace Offerings
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Q. Hello Rabbi Bartfeld, can you please forward this inquiry to Rabbi Hirschman? Thanks.
Hello Rabbi Hirschman,
What is the halachaic ruling if a husband goes to a shul he’s happy with and belongs to a tzibbur, which his wife and family ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 6:28 PM |
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# 2230 You Need to Know the Answer
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Q. (Re - questions 2227, 2228 and 2229 above). If sciences and philosophy are not part of the Torah, why did the Rambam study philosophy and other religions?
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Posted 6/28/2019 2:22 PM |
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# 2229 The Real Menorah Torah?
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Q. (Re- questions 2227 and 2226 above). How can we not include the different fields of knowledge and science as part of the Torah? Does it not say that the branches of the one- single piece golden menorah of the Beis Hamikdash represent them all, a ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 2:13 PM |
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# 2228 Breaking a Story
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Q. (Re- question 2227 above .) If the answer to the above question is no, (Studying math and sciences, when used for Torah purposes, can be counted as actually learning Torah), why would it not be similar to the history stories or even the funny s ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 2:09 PM |
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# 2226 Pick and Choose
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Q. I went to a crowded kiddush on Shabbat and there was not enough place to hang the raincoats. The guests just pile them on a table. After the kiddush, they were searching the pile. each picking coats from the mixed pile, and putting down the unwan ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 1:49 PM |
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# 2225 Watch And Wear
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Q. May one wear bigdei Shabbos for a date or job interview, or other cases of need, or is this a chisaron in kavod Shabbos? May one trim his nails or get a haircut l'kavod a date or an interview? (In poskim, the actions of trimming nails and getting ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 1:41 PM |
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# 2224 Getting a Good Name
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Q. I heard in the name of Horav Miller that the name of the masechta we are currently learning in Daf Hayomi is not to be called "Eiruchin", as most do, but rather "Arachin." Is that correct.
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Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that ....
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Posted 6/28/2019 1:26 PM |
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