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#5463 Is This the Good Day?
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- Q. Kvod Rabenu Shlit’a. We are buying Be”H a new house we much want and need, and the agent wants to do the closing on this coming Thursday (19 of June 2025) that corresponds to the 23 of Sivan. I heard that this day is on the list of the ....
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Posted 6/17/2025 6:25 PM |
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#5462 - A Most Tragic History Story
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- Q. What is the source for the mourning of the Twentieth of Sivan? (Monday 16, 2025).
A. In the year 1171 in the French town of Blois, a local Christian servant claimed to have seen a Jew throw the corpse of a child into the Loire Rive ....
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Posted 6/15/2025 10:43 PM |
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#5461 - Hashem Help Us!!! Our Cry on This Shabbos.
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- Q. Dear Moreinu Horav, as you are familiar with our group of young bachurim studying in a Yeshiva High School, I was asked to send you this question.
Our group has many family members in Israel, and the latest news this week of t ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:56 PM |
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#5460 - Fast or Feast?
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- Q. Rabenu Shlit”a, Can I attend a wedding on this coming Monday (June 16. 2025) the 20th of Sivan?
On question 1095 we wrote:
“Q. I have a close friend that is getting married this Sunday, the 20 of Sivan. I heard that there may ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:46 PM |
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#5459 Screening the Screens?
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- Q. Is it permitted to place on the entrance to the shul area of davening, against a side wall on the back a large screen that contains all the information for davening times as well as shiurim and other activities and the times for Shabbat etc.
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:40 PM |
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#5458 No Equal Rights? Really???
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- Q. Is it true that there are opinions that the shiurim (amounts) for the eating of mitzvos and benching, are different for women than men?
A. Surprisingly! true indeed. Shita Mekubetzes (Kesubos 64b) quotes Talmidei Rabeinu Yonah opi ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:33 PM |
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#5457 Devote to Vote?
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- Q. Dear Rov. Elections in Lakewood N.J. are next week (April 10). I live in Toronto, do I have to make an effort to vote since I can if I try? What is HoRav Shlomo Miller opinion?
A. As mentioned already in a number of Teshuvos, Ho ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:28 PM |
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#5456 No More Info Vaccum
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- Q. Kevod Horav Shlit”a Can one stand on a vacuum cleaner that was left next to a bookcase, to reach a high sefer to learn on Shabbat, after all it is muktza?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that one may do so, when not to ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:26 PM |
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#5455 Expanding the Chupa?
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- Q. Rabenu Hachasuv Shlit’a. Thanks for your answer on the chupa for the Sefer Torah.
It is me again and we were all wondering, since the spring and summer days are here, if the same principle of opening the above canopy could be us ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:23 PM |
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#5454 - A Motion to Permit a Motion Detector
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- Q. Dear Rabbi, Is there an issue walking past a motion-sensor LED light that is always on but increases its brightness when you walk by it? It should be noted that it is possible to see and walk even when the light is at its dim, baseline leve ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:15 PM |
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#5453 – Torah Has Always The Great Beginning!
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- Q. See above question. Since our shul’s large ladies group is very interested in starting a cycle of women shiurim and conferences, is this week Parshat Behaaloscha the right correct time?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller and the other Rabboni ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:10 PM |
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#5452 – An Important Parsha for Women?
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- Q. Kevod Harav Shlit”a. I just overheard in a women’s Torah shiur that there are opinions in the Sifrei Kabbalah that this week’s Parshat Behaaloscha is especially significant and important to women, why? (see next question).
A. Hor ....
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Posted 6/13/2025 1:07 PM |
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#5451 - A Real True Kidush Hashem Blessed Sarifice!!!
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- Q. Kevodo, This week we experienced a really great sign and message of Hashem. As recorded in YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem: “It was the bodies of two hostages which were recovered in a daring military operation in the Khan Younis area of Gaza o ....
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Posted 6/7/2025 11:55 PM |
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#5450 A Non - Blessed Death!
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- Q. Dear Rabino, Larga Vida. In our community down south in the continent, we have a Cohen who was suffering from a very dangerous severe viral infection. He was warned by his doctors to stay home and not to go to work.
But he didn’ ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 1:07 PM |
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#5449 A Truly Great Beginning
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- Q. In our great Shul, a great well to do member donated a beautiul Sefer Torah and decided to make the ceremony as it is appropriate on the second day Shavuot. As customary they used a Chupa or Canopy to carry the Sefer Torah to the shul. Was t ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 12:15 PM |
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#5448 Getting Our Acts Together
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- Q. Hashem Bless you Rov. I once did early mincha/marriv erev Shabbat to take Shabbat in early, and when we got to my host's home (well before shekiah - sunset), he found out his wife had not lit candles yet and said we will wait outside until she ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 12:11 PM |
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#5447 – B”H, Not another Last Meal Question!
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Q. One more question, I have seen people that on Isru Chag collect all old sefarim and Torah discarded papers also from yeshiva and school attendants and take them to the Geniza on Shavuot Isru Chag, is there a reason for that?
A. Inde ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 12:01 PM |
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#5446 - Truly! Where is the Real Last Meal question?
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- Q. See question above. In our difficult times should we maintain the above tradition?
A. On question 4478 we added: “Regarding the Seuda sources and obligation of Isru Chag (the day after Yom Tov) we usually celebrate. On this terrib ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 11:40 AM |
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#5445 - More of the Last Meal, Really???
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- Q. See question above. How really important and meaningful is to eat and celebrate the special meal of Isru Chag?
A. On questions 3675 and 4477. we were asked the following. “We often have our children and their families staying wit ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 11:33 AM |
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#5444 The Very Last Meal?
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- Q. Should one make a special meal on Isru Chag (the day after the end of Yom Tov) with meat and wine? What is Horav Miller’s opinion? Does he himself do it?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 429: 2) writes that it is a tradition to increase s ....
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Posted 6/6/2025 11:26 AM |
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