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# 830 Mama Rochel Cry
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Q. Is there relevance for what some say that we should not name our newborn baby girl Rochel?
(need answer urgent)
A. In Shaar HaPsukim (Par. Vayetze) the Arizal writes that the names of the Imahos or foremothers that includ ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:36 PM |
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# 829 Picture Perfect Food
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Q. Can one leave on recording security cameras on Shabbos for the purpose of kashrus, bosor shenisalem, bishul akum on a house with a caregiver or in an shul where kidush is served and there is no mashgiach temidi?
A. Although, some Po ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:34 PM |
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# 828 Yichud's Kodak Moment
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Q. Can the security cameras remain on during Shabbos just to save the patient from yichud (seclusion) prohibitions when left alone with the female care-giver?
Horav Nissim Karelitz Shlit”a (quoted in Moriah-Elul 5771 p.146) maintains th ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:32 PM |
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# 827 Candid Camera Care
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Q. An elderly person is under the constant care of a female non-Jewish caregiver. Can the family maintain on Shabbos the recording security cameras to ensure that he is given proper care?
A. In question 648 on this forum we wrote: Ma ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:30 PM |
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# 826 Wave Gut Shabbes to the Camera?
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Q. At a bris mila done on Shabbos, the security camera on the entrance to the hall was left on. Can the family now use the recording to keep a memento and make a recording of the occasion?
A. A similar question is found in Chas ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:28 PM |
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# 825 Come Again?
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Q. After a Ger converted (and was advised to avoid constant contact with his parents that could be spiritually detrimental to the Ger and his family) what frequency of visits is considered to be constant contact?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller' ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:26 PM |
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# 824 Step Parents?
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Q. A Ger who converted many years ago was told not to maintain constant contact with his parents as before his conversion. Now that his mother is aged, ill and alone and requires continual care, and no one else is left to care for her, can he mainta ....
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Posted 7/3/2015 5:24 PM |
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# 823 Nu! a Lender Be
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Q. If thirty days is the time for repayment for borrowing money. If I lend an object such a tool or a book is the term also 30 days?
A. Shulchan Aruch (C.M. 73: 1) rules that the thirty day period for repayment applies only to mon ....
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Posted 7/2/2015 11:23 PM |
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# 822 Pringles Do Grow From the Ground?
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Pringles Do Grow From the Ground?
Q. Good morning Rabbi Bartfeld,
Attached is the Daf Hakashrus with article on bracha on pringles.
Could you please clarify with Rav Miller what is the correct Bracha?
Thank you,
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Posted 6/29/2015 11:17 PM |
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# 821 Keeping Shloishim?
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Q. Thank you so much for answering my previous questions, I have a few more.
I was in shul and someone borrowed a hundred dollars so he could pay for his overdue aliyos. I understood that he would repay it a.s.a.p. the next day. When I ask ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:49 PM |
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# 820 Tovel or not Tovel, That is the Shaila
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Q. What if I'm invited to someones house and I'm not sure if they toveled their dishes, can you eat there?
Thank you. Have a nice day and Shabbat Shalom.
A. In general people who are considered Torah observant maintain a chazaka ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:46 PM |
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# 819 Glat But Not Pure
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Q. What happens if one uses (dishes or utensils) that were not toveled (immersed in a mikva)?
Can you eat the food?
A. According to Tosafos (Avoda Zara 75b – d'h vechulan) it is a Tannaic dispute in the Talmud (ibid.) if after ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:43 PM |
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# 818 Shalal Dunk
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Q. BS"D, Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, Regarding toveling of dishes, utensils, I see nowhere in the Torah, midrash, tanach etc. to tovel dishes, I think that this is strictly a rabbinic law.
Can you please answer why we have to tovel dishes?
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:41 PM |
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# 817 Grandfather Enclosed
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Q. If my father tells me do something that contradicts the will of my grandfather (his father), who do I listen to?
A. Rema (Y.D. 240: 24) mentions the opinion of Maharik that one is not obligated to honor his grandfather. Howev ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:33 PM |
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# 816 Chery-Pick Shaila
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Q. If you do make Shechecheyanu on the cherries, should you wait until Shabbat or the sooner you make the brocho the better?
Thank you
A. Mishna Berura (250: 2) quotes from the Talmud (Beitza 16a), a dispute between Shamai and ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:30 PM |
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# 815 Enjoying the Fruit of Your Labor
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Q. I have a few cherry trees in my back yard and we are now harvesting the new fruits. Do you make a Shecheyanu Bracha on them since you can find cherries all year round? Is the fact that they are dear to me since I planted the trees and rejoice on ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:24 PM |
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# 814 Waiting for Redemption
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Q. A woman gave birth to a baby boy in Yerushalayim on Sunday night י"ג סיון, fifteen minutes after shkia. At the time of the Pidyon Haben the parents and baby will be iy"h in Lakewood. According to the shita th ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:31 PM |
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# 813 A Stirring Shailah
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Q. I recently heard in Rav Miller's name that there is no איסור
הגסה (prohibition of stirring) in a crock
pot even before removing the inse ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:29 PM |
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# 812 Safe Flyers
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Q. Re- on question; When a deceased is being transported from Canada for burial in Israel, is it permitted or advisable to delay the kevura for the sake of a safer Halacha environment for the Cohanim travelling on the same air plane to Israel? ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:23 PM |
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# 811 Medical Dressings
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Q. I am a patient in hospital. I am usually dressed in hospital issue clothing, which consists of a shirt and trousers, basically pajamas. I put my tzitzis on over my shirt in the daytime.
There is a shul in the hospital. If I was home, I wou ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:20 PM |
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