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# 4673 Address the Dress for Success
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- Q. During these parshiot in which we learn about the way the Cohen Gadol and other regular Cohanim were dressed for performing the Avodah in the Beit Hamikdash, I have seen seffarim included also in the library of the Kolel that show drawings of t ....
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Posted 2/21/2024 11:10 AM |
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# 4672 - Purim Shiurim
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- Q. I have Yohrzait on Purim Katan for my mother A’H. The minhag of our family is to fast on a Yohrzait for parents, but on this occasion I was told I should not fast. Would it be correct then to fast on the day before, since it is called after ....
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Posted 2/20/2024 10:10 PM |
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# 4671 Oy! Now - No Joy!
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Q. Rov. Another question for a Happy Purim Katan. Is it true that the spirit of the great Purim also rests on the small one? Should one great another on Purim Kattan with the blessing of a “Frailechn Purim”?
A, On a similar question qu ....
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Posted 2/20/2024 10:01 PM |
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# 4670 Small Purim Big Deal Meal?
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Q. See question above. I wonder do you have to make a seuda on Purim Katan on Friday or since it is Erev Shabbat, should it not be better in the night? How about the people that dwell in a city were Shushan Purim is celebrated?
A. As m ....
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Posted 2/20/2024 9:59 PM |
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# 4669 The Big Purim Kattan
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Q. On question 4662 above the Rov Shlit”a wrote regarding Purim Kattan this year (2024), that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if the participants say Divrei Torah and sing songs of prize to Hashem for the miracles of survival received ....
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Posted 2/18/2024 12:21 PM |
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# 4668 Torah about Learning Torah
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Q. See question above. How about when one learns Torah. Is it every word one says or thinks or maybe even letters a separate mtzvah that requires intention?
A. Birchas Shmuel, (Kiddushin, 27) questions the known Gaon of Vilna affirmati ....
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Posted 2/18/2024 12:16 PM |
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# 4667 - So, So, Many Mitzvos!!!
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Q. When someone wears Tzitzith, either a Taalith Gadol or Kattan, does he comply with a separate mitzva every second or even a fraction of a second he is wearing it? That would be about 86400 mitzvoth every day! How about if he wears two?
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:08 AM |
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# 4666 A Hint on the Drop
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Q. Is the fluid that drips from the nose of some elderly considered like the mucous from ones nose that requires washing of hands when one touches it before one can recite brochos and learn Torah?
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit”a pointed to ....
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:05 AM |
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# 4665 The Signs of Times
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Q. If ones tradition is to hang a sign by the door that expresses our mitzva of rejoicing during the month of Adar. (Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha). Should one use it to cover the memorial on the entrance for the destruction of the Beth Hamikd ....
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Posted 2/16/2024 11:02 AM |
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# 4664 A Doggone Shailah
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Q. I heard that in a kibbutz woman was killed by Hamas during the Oct 7, when she stayed behind to protect their dog. The rest of the family was already hiding in a safe room and survived.
In Halacha. is that woman to be treated as a hero an ....
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Posted 2/14/2024 10:37 PM |
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# 4663 The Adar Radar
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Q. Shalom Rav Shlit’’a. As we spoke on the phone we are starting a new minyan in a new town in the outskirts of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) and we need and have our own Chevra Kadisha to take care of Hashem Yishmor our deceased. We want to u ....
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Posted 2/12/2024 1:24 PM |
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# 4662 Urim on Purim
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Q. Dear Rabino Purim Katan Is coming, is there something we should do to celebrate this precious day?
A. See question 3560 regarding a group of friends that make a Seudas Purim Koton is it considered a Seudas Mitzva that one invi ....
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Posted 2/9/2024 10:49 AM |
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# 4661 See Beyond your Nose
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Q. Is the fluid that emerges from a runny nose from elderly people considered like mucous and one has to wash hands when touching it?
A. Remoh (O.H. 92: 3) rules that one should wash hands after to be able to recite sayings of kedusha ....
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:43 PM |
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# 4660 Hint the Lint
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Q. See question above. Also, could I clean out the lint trap as that is my custom as I tend to forget when I put a load in or is that stuff muktza?
A. The lint is indeed muktza and should not be removed or cleaned during Shabbos.
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:41 PM |
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# 4659 Do Not Call it a Wash!
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Q. I’m (a single woman that) was staying in my friend's place and came home two hours before Shabbos to a lay on the bed. I put everything in the laundry but forgot to take it out of the dryer before I lit the candles. I know it was dry because I ....
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:34 PM |
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# 4658- It is all for Free!
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Q. Thanks again for all your great and short answers, but Rov is not free of me yet! How wet does the garment really have to be when Shabbos begins in order to remain muktza for the rest of Shabbos?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:31 PM |
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# 4657 –Laundry List
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Q. Thank you Rov Shlit’a, sorry to bother you again, it is still me and more in the list. I don’t understand. why is wet laundry muktza and yet the wet towels that one can still use when washing hands before a Shabbos meal are not?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:27 PM |
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4656 Washing Laundry in Public! A Shailah
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. If my most dearest wife left a piece of my washed needed wet laundry to dry hanging indoors in the bathroom at the start of last Shabbos, could i have used it when it dried as expected during the night?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:24 PM |
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# 4655 - A Great Minor Embarrassment?
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Q. Our kids were acting up in a carpool. I finally lost my temper and said something to the ringleader in front of the other kids. I tried to apologize the next day but he would not talk to me. What should I do?
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Posted 2/8/2024 7:18 PM |
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# 4654 Room For Compromise?
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Q. I’m a Frum woman that has a Jewish girlfriend, and she has a Jewish male tenant who lives in her house. Would it be Yichud for me to sleep over in her home on Shabbos? She is divorced so there is no husband in the picture and she's also an emp ....
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Posted 2/7/2024 4:34 PM |
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