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#4967 To The Top of The Tree
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Q. You announced that there will be Birchas Hailonos on Shabbos. Does not the Ben Ish Chai and others rule not to allow Birchas Ilonos on Shabbos?
A. On question 4219 we were asked:
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Posted 5/16/2024 10:41 PM |
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#4966 The Total Eternal Tune
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Q. Rov you mentioned recently (question 4960) that it is a very valuable to recite the complete Shira of Oz Yashir every day since Zohar says that it brings the forgiveness to all our sins. Does that actually mean to sing it with a tune?
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Posted 5/16/2024 10:19 PM |
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#4965 An Enlightening Shaila
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Q. Can a bochur (unmarried one) light the Shabbos candles before the plag, daven Mincha and then after plag recite the brocho on the candles?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should not light Shabbos candles berfor ....
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Posted 5/16/2024 8:38 PM |
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#4964 A Gentle Shailah
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Q. Is a Gentile permitted to pray in Schul?
A. Poskim write that the entrance of Gentiles to a shul should be avoided as much as possible (Yigal Yaakov O.H. 20, Piskei Teshuvos 151:6).
However, Yabia Omer Y.D. (3: 15) per ....
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Posted 5/13/2024 4:19 PM |
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#4963 Searching for the Search
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- Q. Is there a way to search through the "Ask the Rabbi" Q&A? I'm pretty good at searching a database, and why do I need to bother the busy Rabbonim with questions that have already been asked.
A. Go to Bais Dov Yosef website. Bais D ....
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Posted 5/12/2024 9:44 AM |
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#4962 The Al-day Good Way of AI
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. I have been reading your new technology and science shailot and I greatly appreciate your handling and keeping in touch of the constantly changing world we live in.
I have a question regarding my elderl ....
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Posted 5/10/2024 12:34 PM |
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#4961 A Real Bigwig?
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Q. As far as I know women are permitted to trim the hairs of their wigs during Sefira days. Does the same apply to men that wear a wig?
A. On question 101 regarding trimming and fixing a wig during the 3 weeks, we wrote:
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Posted 5/9/2024 11:04 PM |
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#4960 The Most Splendid Daily Permited Song
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Q. It is known that if one sings the shira of Oz Yashir said every day during Shacharis, Hashem will forgive his sins. Does that have to be the complete shira?
A. Indeed, the Zohar quoted by the Mishna Berura (51: 17) teaches that most ....
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Posted 5/9/2024 11:01 PM |
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#4959 Most Beautiful Permitted Music?
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- Q. Can one use during Sefira a music toy box that plays sweet beautiful child music that puts our baby to sleep? Our other kids greatly enjoy it and dance when it is played. Is that permitted?.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opin ....
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Posted 5/9/2024 10:55 PM |
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#4958 A Writing about Writing
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Q. Rov. As per our call a few days ago: I contacted the big Printing House of the Jewish information and they told me that the shuls explained that they cannot accept my Gematria sefer because it has pasukim in it. Even though I comment out the n ....
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Posted 5/9/2024 10:53 PM |
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#4957 Have we Learned Already How to Count?
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Q. We have a debate in our new created minyan as to which is the most correct way to count Sefira. Most mentioned that the use the most common counting by saying Laomer. Yet we have a small group that recites Baomer, What is the correct thing to do ....
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Posted 5/9/2024 10:49 PM |
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#4956 First Come, First Served?
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Q. See question above. How about reciting the Birchos Hashachar (the morning blessings recited before korbanot), can they be said after the Tefila?
A. Poskim disagree. HoRav S’Z Auerbach Zt’l maintains that they are even more importan ....
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Posted 5/8/2024 4:51 PM |
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#4955 Skip a Beat?
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Q.Hello Rav, when the Tur and Shulchan Aruch O.C. 1:4 write that it is preferable to pray a little with Kavana than to pray a lot without Kavana, What parts of davening is he referring to? I had always assumed this applied to the sections of the ....
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Posted 5/8/2024 4:45 PM |
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#4954 Hayom Chamisho Yomim BeMayo?
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- Q. Estimado Rabino - Hashem lo Bendiga- As you well know in our Spanish group there are some that celebrate Cinco de Mayo (the fifth day of May) and make a party for the family and kids and friends getting together and playing games. Is ther ....
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Posted 5/6/2024 11:26 AM |
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#4953 Many Are so Few?
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Q. See question 4946 above. How many is the minimum of people present at the time of davening for the davening to be counted as Berov Am so that one should try to daven at the sametime they do?
A. Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a. Mainain ....
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Posted 5/5/2024 5:30 PM |
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#4952 Really?
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Q. Is there a reason for the strange tradition that many a shul have that one must scream out ka’eylah! when the ba’al koreh reads that maftir part?
A. It could be that it is done to stress that it is not a repetition of the same w ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:10 PM |
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#4951 Best for Those Who Wait
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- Q. Can the counting of the omer be said on Friday night after maariv if it is not yet the time one finishes Shabbat.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should wait, as one does in such an occasion regarding th ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:07 PM |
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#4950 Face the Music
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Q. During the Sefira weeks for one who is very careful with listening to music, can he sit and learn in a Bet Midrash where there is a fellow who sings nice tunes when he learns?
A. On question 1390 regarding if one can listen to tap ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 1:05 PM |
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#4948 - Shtick to Your Gun
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- Q. I was davening in a shul in the States and I noticed that the fellow next to me who is very frum had in the back of the inside holding space of his shtender (personal holding pulpit) in front of him, usually used for storing his taalis and holy ....
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Posted 5/3/2024 12:57 PM |
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#4947 How Early is Early?
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Q. I daven in an early minyan of Mincha and Maariv. It is very likely as it happened to me many times and to others, that if I don’t count then sefira I will forget later on, When is the earliest one can count sefira?
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Posted 5/2/2024 5:53 PM |
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