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#4923 Don’t Seek and Hide
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- Q. Dear Rabbi . If I see someone in an Orthodox shul using their phone openly on Shabbat, should I suggest that they do it in the bathroom as I thought public desecration of the Shabbat is a bigger problem than when done in private?
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:23 PM |
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#4922 Not Spoiled by Choice
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- Q. Hello Rav, We had a non Jewish cleaning lady over on Shabbat becasue she wasn't able to come on Friday. We had a busy Erev Sabbat and left a massive pile of various washed eating utensils on the counter to dry out. It was clearly a “borr ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:13 PM |
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#4921 The Hidden Fire?
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Q. See question above: Does that mean that is one is traveling by plane or is (l’a) in hospital and cannot turn on a fire to burn his chometz, or one who for any other reason is unable to burn the chometz on Erev Pesach, should instead eat i ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:09 PM |
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#4920 The Fire in Eating?
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Q. See question above. If one is indeed complying with the mitzva of Biur Chometz, when eating chometz or drinking beer or chometz liquors, although one does not recite a brocho, should not one at least have the intention necessary to comply ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:01 PM |
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#4919 The Endless Ending?
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Q. Should one who owns a fire place or has a discarded oven burn leftover bread, cookies and cakes during the thirty days before Pesach to comply with the Biblical mitzva of Biur Chametz or the burning of the chometz? Since even just diluting them ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 9:51 PM |
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#4918 A Broken Vort?
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Q. Many years ago, I was engaged to someone who broke up with me prior to the vort. The ring had been bought and was given to me but was too big so it was left with the jeweler to resize. In reflecting why it is taking me so long to remarry, I ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 9:45 PM |
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#4917 A Household Name
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Q. Is it recommended when avoiding the giving of a baby’s name by zoom for the grand-father or other person to be honored, but can’t be present to name a Sheliach (agent) to represent him when naming the baby?
Should the Shaliach ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 9:41 PM |
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#4916 A Yum Frum Zoom?
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Q. If the naming of the baby was done indeed by zoom, should the Koire Hashem be holding a separate cup of wine?
Should in the case above, the person making the Bracha drink the entire cup right away or wait till after ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 9:39 PM |
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#4915 Not This Baby?
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Q. If as mentioned above on times of crisis and need zooming could be used for naming a newborn child. Would you then say: ״קיים את הילד הזה״ or is there ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 9:35 PM |
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# 4914 Bring Bright Bris Future?
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Q. See question above. As the Rov of a Shul should I be nervous that this will set a precedent in how people do a Bris in the future?
A. On question 3898 we wrote: “Usually, any Zoom contact does not contribute to mitzvos that requi ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 3:22 PM |
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# 4913 No Room for the Zoom?
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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 ....
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Posted 4/2/2024 10:36 PM |
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#4912 When Should a Present be Present?
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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 ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:21 AM |
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#4911 The Right Time?
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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 ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:18 AM |
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#4910 More Intentions Limitations
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- 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 ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:15 AM |
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# 4909 – Full Atention to Intention
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- 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, ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:11 AM |
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#4908 All Purposes of Intent
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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 ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:07 AM |
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#4907 Not Growing on Trees
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– 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 ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:04 AM |
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#4906 The Book Stops Here
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- 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. ....
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Posted 3/29/2024 12:02 AM |
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# 4905 Noise Not Nice
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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 ....
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Posted 3/28/2024 11:59 PM |
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# 4904 Small Sefer - Big Reading
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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:
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Posted 3/25/2024 3:09 PM |
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