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Expand Article # 868 The Proof is in the P'tur?
Q. Can you use an old get certificate of divorce (ptur - the Beis Din is not extant, but they were reliable Rabbanim) to prove that the man or the woman named there went trough a proper act on conversion?

A. See Piskey Din (Rabbanut Y ....


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Expand Article # 867 Blowing in the Night II
Re- Question # 858 above

(Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, please tell Rav Miller Shlit"a) that the ancient Minhag Aschkenaz during Elul was to blow Tashrat 3 times after Shacharis and after Arvis (including Motzoei Shabbos). This Minhag is sti ....


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Expand Article # 866 A Matter of Record V
Re – question 863 above
Q. Thank you - but I learned that when a goy does a melacha for a Yid on Shabbos, the melacha is not forbidden in benefit forever. The Yid can benefit after Shabbos if he waits the amount of time it took to do it.


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Expand Article # 865 Is the Earth to be Abandoned?
Q. is there any problem with taking out from Eretz Yisroel earth, stones or sand?

A. There is an ancient tradition to place earth or sand from Israel on the body of the deceased at burial outside of Israel. (Or Zarua 199, Remoh Y.D. 363, ....


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Expand Article # 864 They Gave a War and Nobody Came
Q. I have a question on Parshas Shoftim that no one has given me a satisfactory answer. We learned there that people who committed any sin would not join a voluntary war. The Cohen would call out before going to war, that any individual who is af ....


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Expand Article # 863 A Matter of Record IV
Q. If one will be absent from class (school) on yom tov, is one allowed to have a goy record the classes for him? If a goy offers to do it, should one refuse?

A. please refer to questions 627, 661, and 704 on this forum
Horav Sh ....


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Expand Article # 862 Strapped by My Straps
Q. I am ordering Tefillin straps. Unfortunately, the quality of straps today are poorer than when I became BarMitzvah. The straps do not absorb paint as well and therefore the tefillin paint comes off faster. Therefore, they have invented a new Z ....


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Expand Article # 861 K9 on Almenar?


Q. One of the members of our congregation recently returned to shul after a long illness in which he lost the use of his eyes.

He is now unfortunately totally blind and gets around with the help of a seeing eye dog ( a m ....


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Expand Article # 860 He Blew It
Q. Is an engraved shofar (with outside decorations that are only superficial) kosher? What if it is only my initials? Can I place a label on the shofar with my name?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 586: 17) rules that it is improper to pain ....


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Expand Article # 859 Shofar So Good
Q. I'm learning to become a Baal Tokea but the friend teaching me can only do it at night is that OK?

A. See question above. It would depend on the opinions quoted. Aruch Hashulchan (581: 12) rules that one should not blow the shof ....


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Expand Article # 858 Blowing in the Night?
Q. If someone didn't hear the shofar during Elul in the morning should he blow at night? What if he has no minyan?

A. Poskim disagree whether one should blow the shofar at night Remoh (O.H. 581: 1) writes that there are places plac ....


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Expand Article # 857 Is the Left Right?
Q. Is There a difference between the shofar of the right side of the head of the ram or the left side?

A. Afarkasta De’anya (116) quotes Maharil that the intention of the verse (Yishaya 27: 13) ....


Posted 8/14/2015 6:16 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 856 A Shofar in Hot Water

Dear Rabbi a few questions on acquiring a shofar
Q. I was given a shofar as a present, it has a good sound but it is rather straight and only slightly bent. I was told that if you heat the shofar you can soften it and bend it, is th ....


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Expand Article #855 Holy Hangings
Q. A neighbor was moving out & he offered me this object that was hanging in his house rather than throwing it in the garbage. Is it just a wall hanging or could it have come from a Sefer Torah?
(See attachment.)


A ....


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Expand Article # 854 From the Beak of Parrots
Q. Dear Rabbi.
I found a parrot on my backyard a few days ago and I placed found-a-parrot signs on the posts on the neighborhood. A Jewish neighbor came shortly after and gave as a siman, a name (his) that the parrot repeats when it sees him. ....


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Expand Article # 853 Little One's Big Miracles
Q. My three year old son had a miracle. He was standing by the fridge. when the whole cabinets crashed in the kitchen. What stopped it from collapsing totally on him was the Shabbos water heater, where it rested on. Do I bentch gomel for him?  ....


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Expand Article # 852 Early Blessings
Q. Is it correct when someone speaks at a wedding on Tu Beav to already wish everyone a Kesiva Vechasima Tova or is it out of place?

A. Chasidic sources maintain that it is proper for one to salute from Tu Beav onwards with the bles ....


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Expand Article # 851 Fast Before Feast
Q. Does a Chosson- Kallah fast on Tu Beav if they get married later on that day?

A. See prior question. Mishna Berura (573: 7) rules in the name of Mogen Avrohom (ibid.) that there is no ta’anis chasonim on Tu Beav, and the choson ....


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Expand Article # 850 Have a Great Yom Tov
Q. Is there an inyan to make in our days a siyum on Tu Beav since it is considered one of the greatest Yomim Tovim?

A. The Mishna (Ta’anis 26b) quotes Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel saying that; There were no greater Yomim Tovim than t ....


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Expand Article # 849 Falls Apart?
Q. Hi,
I am thinking of driving to Niagara Falls USA to  get a social security card for our daughter next week Tuesday.
We might stop by the falls while we are there to stretch a bit and rest.

My wife feels this i ....


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