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Expand Article # 1118 Write or Right?
Q. If you find a common ordinary ballpoint pen that is similar to many others on a table in a shul or other frequented Jewish institutions, can you use it or even keep it?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that ....


Posted 7/15/2016 1:21 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1117 Go to G-d to Godol
Q. Is it correct for a teacher to keep on telling his students that they can all grow to be Gedolei Yisrael, when it is obvious that they don’t have the mental or any other abilities to be so and later in life they will become heavily discouraged a ....


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Expand Article # 1116 Avoid the Avoda Zara
Q. Hi, I wonder if it would be OK, halachically right to use a golden cross and melt it to make it into a Magen David necklace? I was thinking about the golden calf that was destroyed and it's gold not reused, and I suspect it might be avoda zara t ....


Posted 7/14/2016 10:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1115 One At A Time
Q. Is there a problem for a Beis Din in a time of need to take a group of gerim and do the tevila and kabalath mitzvoth together?

A. See question above where Poskim maintain that there is at least a mitzva “kiyumis” in converting a su ....


Posted 7/12/2016 11:53 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1114 Love the Ger
Q. Is there a mitzvah to accept proper gerim?

A. From Talmud (Yebamot 47: 2) it would seem that there is a mitzva to accept gerim, since the Gemara mentions in regards to the immediate circumcision of a ger: “We do not delay a mitzva. ....


Posted 7/12/2016 12:03 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1113 Red Tape on a Red String?
Q. What is the source of the red string or roite bendl that some people wear on their wrist?
Is it permitted or is it Darkei Haemori?

A. Poskim disagree as to the propriety of this popular segula. Orchoseicha Lamdeni (140) p ....


Posted 7/10/2016 11:08 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1112 The Plot Thickens
Q. Re: question 1107 and 1111. Could a person who wants to become a ger, and accepted keeping all mitzvos except being buried in a Jewish cemetery, be accepted for gerus?

A. The Talmud (Yebamot 47a-47b) teaches that the prospective ....


Posted 7/10/2016 10:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1111 A Good Plot?
Q. Re- question 1107. Is there an actual prohibition to be buried in a non-Jewish cemetery?

A. Talmud (Sanhedrin 46b) debates whether there is only an allusion (remez) in the Torah for the need of burial from the posuk (Devorim 21 ....


Posted 7/8/2016 4:24 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1110 A Kashe Oif a Maisse
Q. There is a famous story where the Chofetz Chaim tells Rav Shimon Schwab that he is a Kohen while Rav Schwab is not because when Moshe Rabbeinu called out "Mi Lashem Eilai", his father answered the call, while Rav Schwab's did not. And therefore, ....


Posted 7/8/2016 3:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1109 Have you Heard?
Q. If one recited Shema before davening, may he skip it during davening (and just say the brachos) in order to have tefilla b'tzibbur?
A similar question, If one davens ma'ariv after plag, can he shorten or rapidly read the Shema in order to ....


Posted 7/6/2016 10:11 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1108 Too Little Too Early?
Q. My nine year old daughter attends a Bays Yaakov type school. Can she in the hot summer days wear short sleeves in the backyard or house?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that on the privacy of the backyard or home, w ....


Posted 7/4/2016 3:29 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)


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Expand Article # 1107 The Promised Land
Q. A widow who has become very interested in converting to Judaism. She is quite serious and committed. However she promised her late husband that she would be buried next to him. Obviously the cemetery is not a Jewish cemetery. She wants to know ....


Posted 7/1/2016 3:59 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1106 Of Little Interest
Q. If i gave a school 50 cents more than I owed but they didn't know how much i owed, is it a problem?I did it for convenience ($10 bill as opposed to $9.50).


A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit”a opinion is that regardless of ....


Posted 7/1/2016 1:41 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1105 Lost His Pants?
Q. I was in a clothing store trying on a pair of pants. One of the employees in the store began marking the pants I was trying on for the purpose of alterations. Just then, the fire alarm went off and everyone had to empty the store. While we wai ....


Posted 7/1/2016 1:31 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #1104 Don't Fall Into the Trap
Q. This may sound silly, but I have often wondered why, when putting an energetic, running toddler on an enclosed crib or playpen on Shabbat or when closing the door to children in a room, there is no prohibition of Tzeida or hunting?

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Posted 7/1/2016 1:21 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1103 Scroll Down For The Answer
Q. I have mezuzos that were checked properly when bought and they are stored in transparent glass tubing containers where you can clearly see that even the plastic they are wrapped in, is sealed and intact. Do you have to check them every three an ....


Posted 7/1/2016 1:18 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1102 Able Kaddish
Q. I have seen different minhagim with regard to saying kaddish in shul. Specifically, if there is no person saying kaddish yasom after aleinu, should a person who has previously been an avel say kaddish or should it not be said at all? Also if so ....


Posted 7/1/2016 1:11 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #1101 Hot Shayla
Q. Can I do all the above (ask a Goy or place a hot item on the thermostat, see prior questions) if it is too hot and we need to turn on the AC?

A. Turning on an A.C. unit involves more severe prohibitions than turning it off, since ....


Posted 6/27/2016 11:05 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1100 Put On Ice Shayla?
Put On Ice Shayla?

Q. If I can’t find a Goy can I put a small bag of ice on the thermostat and eventually it will turn itself off? See question 1098 above, in regards to turning off the AC when it is too cold.)

A. Horav Shl ....


Posted 6/27/2016 10:57 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1100 Put On Ice?
Q. If I can’t find a Goy can I put a small bag of ice on the thermostat and eventually it will turn itself off?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is preferable to ask a child to place the bag of ice cubes when in n ....


Posted 6/24/2016 5:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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