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# 1329 Put Cards On The Table
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Q. (Re- prior question 1328) What is HoRav Miller’s opinion in regards to the card being muktza because it is a utensil dedicated to a prohibited task and then you would be permitted to carry it with you in the hotel and give it to a staff member to ....
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Posted 5/19/2017 4:36 PM |
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# 1328 Take Offense
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Q. ( Re- question 1327). Thank you for your comprehensive answer on using an electronic key-card on Shabbat. I have two more questions. You mentioned that there is at least a rabbinic prohibition for using the card. What exactly is the offense bas ....
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Posted 5/19/2017 4:14 PM |
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# 1327 Out Of Key?
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Q. Is there any heter for using an electronic key card in entering a hotel room during Shabbat, if there is no light that goes on or if the light is covered?
A. The use of electronic key cards has become common worldwide for diffe ....
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Posted 5/19/2017 11:33 AM |
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# 1326 The Beginning Of The End
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Q. Since we require that the seven weeks counted before Shavuot should be temimot and complete, we wait until night to say Maariv. Why is that some women light candles early and even say shecheyanu then?
If a woman that has the minhag to lig ....
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Posted 5/18/2017 10:38 PM |
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# 1325 Lag's Gilgulim
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Q. In our shul we make a seuda every year likvod Rashbi on Lag Baomer, we light candles and say divei Torah in his honor. Someone suggested that since it is also the yortzait of the Remoh, we should also include him in the divrei Torah and candle ....
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Posted 5/17/2017 11:27 PM |
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# 1324 Along For The Ride
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1) An elderly lady who uses a wheel chair is going to be staying at an hotel during Shabbos where the bar mitzva of her grandson is taking place. Can she take the elevator if her caregiver presses the buttons?
The caregiver was instructed bef ....
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Posted 5/15/2017 10:53 PM |
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# 1323 A Close Shave?
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Q. Someone who is going to surgery on Thursday night (Lag Baomer is Sunday). Can he shave and take a haircut Thursday evening after the shekia? He keeps sefira prohibitions from Rosh Chodesh until before Shavuos?
A. On question 84 ....
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Posted 5/12/2017 5:29 PM |
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# 1322 Right To Life
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Q, Dear Rav Bartfeld.
I hope this finds you well. I'm wondering if Rav Miller Shlita has a position on organ donation, specifically regarding the Ontario driver license option of listing oneself as a donor and being able to exclude certain or ....
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Posted 5/12/2017 5:13 PM |
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# 1321 Shul Shiva
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Q. If avelim are given permission to sit shiva and daven in a Beth Midrash that does no ordinarily have a daily minyan, does the ba’al tefila omit tachanun and lamentzeach (ya’ancho Hashem) and all tefilos not said in an Ovel’s house?
Is se ....
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Posted 5/12/2017 9:24 AM |
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# 1320 Take One’s Medicine?
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Q. Hello Rav!
My wife needed some medication from her purse on shabbat, which brought up an interesting question in muktza. I believe medicine and purses are muktza, but the medicine becomes permitted if its needed. Since the medicine was acci ....
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Posted 5/11/2017 12:02 PM |
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# 1319 Smell Test
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Q. During Havdalah, one recited a benediction over spices and then realized that he is completely unable to smell them and has thus recited a blessing in vain. Should he recite baruch sheim etc. immediately, or wait until after he drinks the wine? I ....
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Posted 5/10/2017 12:55 PM |
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# 1318 Miss Fire
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Q. My half sister who was my mother's daughter lives in... and is gravely ill in hospital. My mother's first husband was an avowed atheist and taught my sister to be one too. My mother became a BT (after divorce) and renewed her commitme ....
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Posted 5/10/2017 11:58 AM |
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# 1317 Blessings Of Life
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Q. The bracha of sheheheyanu is recited on mitzvos that come from time to time (e.g., sukkah, shofar, Yom Tov). Why is this bracha not said when making an eruiv tavshilin?
A. One may argue that you do not recite shecheyanu on a mitzv ....
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Posted 5/8/2017 11:30 PM |
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# 1316 The $100 Baby Bill
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Q. A Jew is walking on Shabbat and sees a baby crawling in the street. He picks up the baby and gives it to the mother who is nearby. She slips a $100 bill in his pocket to thank him and walks away. What should he do? He cannot take out the money b ....
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Posted 5/8/2017 12:57 PM |
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# 1315 Day One, One Day or One A Day?
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Q. I just learned that according to the Chazon Ish, as brought in Orchos Rabeinu, vol. 2, p. 94, one who said Today is the first day etc. is NOT yotzi sefiras haomer (he needs to say Today is one day, as opposed to first).
However, up until n ....
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Posted 5/8/2017 9:38 AM |
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# 1314 A Matter Of Life Not Death
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Q. Can you say a shloshim hesped thirty days before Yom Tov for a community Rabbi?
Do you recite E-l Mole Rachamim?
If permitted, why is it different than others?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H.547: 3) rules that one should n ....
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Posted 5/5/2017 4:10 PM |
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# 1313 Shiras Hachaim – A Song For Life
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Q. We, who follow Minhag Aschkenaz, Minhag Rainus, are stringent during Sefiras HaOmer, after Rosh Chodesh, not only not to listen to music, but also not to sing. This stringency was adopted by Chachmei Aschkenaz due to the added tragedies during t ....
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Posted 5/4/2017 5:32 PM |
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# 1312 Give Us A Ring
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Q. Is one allowed to have a telephone ringtone that's a segment of a song with musical instruments?
A. In question 104 we mentioned that in regards to the avelus of the Three Weeks, which is usually more stringent than than Sefir ....
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Posted 5/4/2017 4:58 PM |
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# 1311 Raise The Spirits
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Q. Father was hospitalized and went into intensive care the day before Erev Pesach. Before he was given sedatives I reminded him to do bitul chometz which he did. I’m taking care of business for him and I sold early next day his chometz via a mes ....
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Posted 5/3/2017 9:59 AM |
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# 1310 Children Should Be Seen And Heard?
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Q. Grandparents visiting their children in Israel for Peisach, should they be joined by the children and grandchildren on the second seider so the grandparents can comply with the mitzva of vehigadta levincho, even when they only keep one day?
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Posted 5/1/2017 1:33 PM |
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