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# 1454 Thirst For Knowledge
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Q. Kvod Harav.
Right before the beginning of the taanis, people often take a last drink of water. They are not thirsty then and it is only for preventing thirst later. Do they make a brocho on the water?
A. On question 1409, in ....
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Posted 9/29/2017 2:21 PM |
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# 1453 Leather Never
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Q. is it permissible to wear leather insoles or leather heel lifts in one’s sneakers on Yom Kipper?
A. Many Poskim maintain that even if a small amount of leather is part of a shoe, it becomes prohibited, They maintain that “shoes” r ....
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Posted 9/29/2017 2:13 PM |
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# 1452 No Pay, No Pray
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Q. People who have a private minyan on Shabbos and yom tov come to a shul to pick up a sefer Torah before Shabbos, and the gabbai gives it to them. One day, they came close to Shabbos, and the gabbai did not feel comfortable giving them the Torah ....
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Posted 9/29/2017 2:08 PM |
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# 1451 The Beginning of the End
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Q. In the case of a person who learned a masechta but skipped certain parts of it (although the vast majority was done), or failed to understand certain parts, the Rav told me (see question 1435) that this is not a siyum. Nevertheless, if he already ....
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Posted 9/24/2017 11:12 PM |
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# 1450 Don’t Count Your Chickens
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Q. My family was always very medakdek to shlog kappores with a chicken and so does my brother, but I find it impossible to have the time for it. Can I share with him the price, and he will capture the image of the chicken on his phone camera, whil ....
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Posted 9/20/2017 3:35 PM |
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# 1449 It’s Good For Kappores
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Q. Shalom Aleichem Harav
When doing kaporos with money, can one use a credit card instead of cash and have in mind to donate a specific amount of money to tzedaka?
Bevirkas kesiva vachasima tova
A. A Poskim disagree wheth ....
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Posted 9/20/2017 3:20 PM |
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# 1448 The Meat of the Yom Tov
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Q. Regarding eating meat on Yom Tov, is chicken/turkey considered meat for the purpose of simchas Yom Tov? Is one required to have meat for both the night and day meal or is meat at one of those meals sufficient to "cover" that day of Yom Tov?
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Posted 9/20/2017 3:06 PM |
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# 1447 The First or The Many?
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Q. I heard that there are those who maintain that it is a greater sin the first time one does it (the sin), but when one becomes used to it, the sin is less (naase loi keheter) and others disagree and say the opposite. When time and effort is limit ....
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Posted 9/20/2017 12:47 AM |
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# 1446 A Teshuva to a Baal Teshuva
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Q. One who is considering becoming a baal teshuva from scratch, he doesn’t yet keep Shabbos, kashrus, taharas hamishpocho etc. etc. should he now put on tefilin, tzitzis, daven and do other mitzvos, since the mitzvos may go to feed the klippois and ....
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Posted 9/19/2017 5:14 PM |
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# 1445 Strike A Match
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Q. Can a Cohen, who is a widower and middle aged and has grown children marry a Jewish middle aged, never married baalas tsuvah woman (frum over 20 years),(never had children), (both parents were jewish), who due to surgery cannot have children (hyst ....
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Posted 9/18/2017 11:52 PM |
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# 1444 A Warm Shailah
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Q. What is Rabbi Miller’s position on doing chazara on Warming Drawers.
A. Our sages imposed a prohibition on placing or returning any food, even if fully cooked, directly on a blech or covered fire or other heat source on Shabbos unle ....
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Posted 9/18/2017 11:50 PM |
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# 1443 Cover story
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Q. Individual in his advanced age and was never married. At what point should he start to be m’kayem Mitzvah of Tzitzis with Tallis Godol, being that (due to his age) it is not likely that he will get married?
A. See question 1194, in ....
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Posted 9/18/2017 11:10 PM |
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# 1442 A Square Meal
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Q. Hi. I will be spending Sukkot and simchat Torah with my daughter and son in law. My custom is not not eat in the sukkah on shmini atzeret, but my son in law does.
When I'm by his home should I eat in the sukkah? In the dining room?
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Posted 9/18/2017 12:45 AM |
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# 1441 Lose Sleep Over This
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Q. The Mishna says that the Kohen Gadol was made to stay awake leil Yom Kippur and was prevented from sleeping, lest he come to have an emission and become disqualified from doing the avoda.
But what is the problem - wasn't there a substitute ....
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Posted 9/18/2017 12:42 AM |
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# 1440 So What Happened To My Deal?
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Q. A local orthodox shul had an annual membership special for new members, 1st year half price off regular fees, 2nd year, 25% off regular fees and 3rd year full fees. Can a new board of directors cancel the deal and demand full payment, if ....
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Posted 9/15/2017 4:31 PM |
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# 1439 From One’s Mouth To Hashem
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Q. The halacha is that one may not eat before davening,
I am diabetic. A normal morning sugar reading is between 70-100. If my sugar reading is, let's say, at 300, I am to inject a certain amount of insulin which will help the sugar flowing in ....
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Posted 9/15/2017 4:25 PM |
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# 1438 Gut Yom Tov or Gut Yohr?
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Q. Is one supposed to be happy on Rosh Hashana or worried because it is the Yom Hadin? Does one greet his friend with Gut Yom Tov on Rosh Hashana?
A. See above question 1437. In principle a person should worry and fear the Yom Haddin, ....
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Posted 9/15/2017 4:17 PM |
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# 1437 Have a Happy Rosh Hashana
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Dear Rov, I have some questions that have bothered me a long time.
Q) Is there a mitzva of simcha on Rosh Hashana, as in every other Yom Tov, so a vegetarian should make an effort to eat meat?
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Posted 9/15/2017 4:14 PM |
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# 1436 That’s One For The Books
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Q. Can you make a siyum when you finish learning any sefer?
A. There are a number of sources for celebrating a Siyum at the end of learning a complete Mesechta (Talmud Shabbos 118b, Bava Basra 121a, Midrash Shir Hashirim 1, Midrash K ....
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Posted 9/15/2017 3:21 PM |
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# 1435 The End Justifies The Means?
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Q. May one make a siyum if certain parts were skipped (due to difficulty or other reason), but the vast majority of the tractate was learned?
Does one need to go back and do the few parts that were skipped?
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Posted 9/14/2017 8:37 PM |
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