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Expand Article # 1019 Physical or Spiritual Workout?
Q. Can one use the gym and a trainer before shacharis ?

A. Aley Siach (p. 64) writes that Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita answered to a similar question, that it is not correct to do so. Yosef Daas (p.157) mentions different opinions.< ....


Posted 3/18/2016 4:25 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1018 Purim Hair Dressing
Q. Can you take a haircut or go to the hairdresser on Purim?

A. Divrei Malkiel (5: 237) and Pischei Sheorim (Megilla 5b) mention that although working in Purim is permitted when it is needed for the day (O.H. 696: 1), one should ....


Posted 3/17/2016 10:18 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1017 Singled Out?
Q. I've been told that single people's mitzvos don't count. Any validity?

A. They definitely count. There are very few mitzvos and traditions that a single individual after bar mitzvah does not have to observe and fulfil. Some of them a ....


Posted 3/16/2016 10:28 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1016 Grammer Manners
Q. In Keddusha deSidra, the Targum Onkelos of “Hashem reigns forever” is “Hashem, His kingdom rules forever.” Why is the verb “rules” masculine when its subject is “kingdom” is feminine?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a explained that whe ....


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Expand Article # 1015 Chocolate Musings
Hi Rabbi Bartfeld,
I hope all is well.
Two questions the Rabbonim in LA wanted to know Rav Miller's position:

Q1. Liquid Chocolate (not hot) that is poured on Ice Cream and when it comes in contact with the ice cream it harde ....


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Expand Article # 1014 Careful - Hot Water!
Q. If you are staying Shabbos in a hotel, can you use the hot water from the cafeteria that was warmed by the dining-room attendants on Shabbos to make yourself a coffee? What about a Pesach Hotel?


A. See prior question (1012.) Ho ....


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Expand Article # 1013 A Perfect Ten
Q. In order to fulfill the mitzvah of tefilla b'tzibbur, is it necessary to have 10 men davening S"E (Shmone Ezreh), or is it enough to have six of them davening S"E while the other four are just standing around, or learning Torah, or reciting other ....


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Expand Article # 1012 Water Wonders
Q. Is there an Isur of Bishul Akum on water?
If not, if my gentile butler boils himself a kettleful of water on Shabbos, may I drink what he leaves in the kettle after he's taken whatever he needed for himself?

A. The prohibition ....


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Expand Article # 1011 The Rights of Copyrights
Q. I borrowed a cookbook from the library. Can I photocopy a recipe from it?

A. Poskim endeavour to explain and define what exactly are the Halacha rights that an author may have on the written words he has created or printed. Words ....


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Expand Article # 1010 The No Answer - Answer
Q. I borrowed a car and had an accident that damaged the bumper of the car to the extent that the bumper had to be replaced. The car was leased and was going to be returned just a week after when the accident happened. There was existing damage of ....


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Expand Article # 1009 You Buy It - You Brake It?
Q. If someone while shopping at a frum food store places items into the shopping cart provided by the store, does he acquire the items when he picks them up or when he places them in the cart?
If not and they only become his property when h ....


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Expand Article # 1008 Transplant Ponder
Q. If someone due to an accident, had to undergo a penis transplant from a non-Jewish uncircumcised cadaver source;
1) Does he have to wait for the bris until he regains complete sensation on the organ? (that takes longer, that other funct ....


Posted 3/4/2016 4:36 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1007 Question Mark
Q. If one has a problem cleaning himself after a bowel movement - no matter how much he cleans, he is still dirty, whether with excrement or excrement mixed with blood - may he daven and learn? If one discovers after davening that he was slightly di ....


Posted 3/2/2016 9:51 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1006 Time is of the Ess'n
Q. Also, (see prior question) how much time does he have to eat the egg's volume of bread?

A. Poskim disagree. B’kurei Yaakov (639), Mate Efraim (H. Suka 625), Tehila Ledovid quoting Shulchan Aruch Harav, maintain that the complete bei ....


Posted 3/1/2016 1:35 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1005 Turn Up or Turn Down The Volume?
Q. Al netilas yadayim is recited when eating an egg's volume of bread; less than that, one washes without a bracha. What if one is not sure how much bread he will eat?

A. Indeed, Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 158: 2) mentions the opinion of th ....


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Expand Article # 1004 You Must Hear This
Q. Can you give an aliya to a mute individual?

A. Poskim rule that a mute should not be given an aliya since he cannot recite the brochos. Keren Ledovid 27, Shevet Halevy 7: 20, Yad Bekrias Hatorah 24: 3.)
However, Pri Megadim (M ....


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Expand Article # 1003 Torah for the Untaught
Q. Is one permitted to receive an aliyah if one cannot (does not know how to) read along with the baal koreh?

A. Remo (O.H. 139: 3) disagrees with the Mechaber and rules like the Maharil that nowadays we may give an aliya to a blind p ....


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Expand Article # 1002 I See The Answer
Q. Can we call to the Torah a blind person?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 139: 3) rules that the blind are not called for an aliya since one may not read the written Torah from memory. However, Remo (ibid.) quotes Maharil, that nowadays sinc ....


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Expand Article # 1001 A Big Little Sefer
Q. How big does a sefer have to be for the purpose of this mitzvah? (writing a sefer on the internet- see prior question 1000)

A. The Talmud Shabbos (115b) teaches that an old Sefer Torah that has a minimum of eighty five survivin ....


Posted 2/26/2016 4:43 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 1000 Virtual and Real Sefer
Q. Can one fulfil the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah these days by writing a sefer on the internet that is open for all to learn from and to download?

A. The opinion of the Rosh (beginning of Hilchos Sefer Torah, quoted in Tur ....


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