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# 4565 Enlightening New Lights
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Q. Dear Rov. Can one, when no other option is available, such as when a patient is in hospital or one is traveling by plane use halogen lights for Chanuka?
A. On Shailah 673 we received the following question:
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Posted 12/3/2023 11:04 AM |
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# 4564 It’s About Time
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Q. How long is the time that the lights of the Menorah have to remain lighted?
A. Nitey Gavriel (31: 2) maintains that the time needed is measured in “Shaot Zemanios” namely that it varies according to the latitude of the place on ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:13 PM |
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# 4563 A Helpful Wife?
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Q. Is it proper and even desirable that the wife should be the one to fix and prepare the family menorah for lighting, as she usually does with the Shabbat candles?
A. Poskim disagree: A, see Nitei Gavriel quoting Moed Lechol Chai ( ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:11 PM |
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# 4562 Enlightening the Lighting
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Q. Can a patient that can’t light a fire on his Menorah by hospital rules, and has not anyone else to light for him outside the hospital use an electric battery menorah?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that he may lik ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:09 PM |
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# 4561 Protect the Serve
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Q. Can one use an electric light for the ‘Shamash’ (central light in the Menorah)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is preferred to use an oil or candle light for the middle light that is also used for lighting the ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:07 PM |
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# 4560 On Bond Respond
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Q. Lechvod Harav Shlita. A couple of weeks I submitted a question on whether it is permissible to buy State of Israel bonds. My cousin in Sweden had asked me to buy a bond for a Bar Mitzvah boy because he can't do so in Sweden but I do not need i ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:02 PM |
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# 4559 The Good Old Oil?
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Q. Should one use the leftover olive oil from last year Chanuka that looks and tastes O.K. or should one better buy new fresh oil? How about sealed oil cups with a wick already in them? How about if one does not have enough oil and will have to buy ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:58 AM |
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# 4558 Chag Chanuka?
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Q. See question above. Since I’m making a Siyum for my mother’s Shloshim honor, should it be better done during Chanuka as it will be a full seudah banquet serving meat and wine?
A. On question 1976 regarding if there is a Rabbinic m ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:55 AM |
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# 4557 A Freilech’n Chanuka?
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Q. An Avel that during the thirty days after the death of his mother leads the services at the Amud. does he have to do it next week, after all Chanuka is called a ‘Chag’?
A. On question 1222 regarding if Chanuka is called a Yom Tov ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:52 AM |
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# 4556 Uncovering the Uncovered
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. Is it permitted ‘lekatchila’ (on the onset) to use olive oil for Chanuka lights that was left uncovered overnight in a bottle?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that as the Talmud (Chulin 49b) teaches, there is ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:49 AM |
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# 4555- A Shining Lie
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- Q. I inherited from my parents a most beautiful large “silver” Chanuka Menorah. It truly shines and reflects the best of what we can imagine a silver menorah would look like. Yet, it was as often is, only silver plated, but genuinely looked real ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:47 AM |
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# 4554 In Pain and in Joy
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Q. Kvod Harav. During the last days, as also published in Frum Toronto, some Jewish hostages have and are being released from Hamas captivity and it really is a true miracle.
I wonder, just as much as we have and are constantly say ....
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Posted 11/26/2023 11:41 AM |
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#4553 Join In and Enjoy
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Q. The tradition of my family is to light the Chanuka candles on a Menorah that is outside in the front of the house and inside a glass box to protect it from winds and rain. In our days when terrible antisemitic feelings are so common, we are af ....
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Posted 11/26/2023 11:36 AM |
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# 4552 Black Market Day?
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Q. Is it permitted to go shopping on Black Friday?
A. On question 670 we were asked: “Can one take advantage of a sale that is given on a non-Jewish religious holiday or is it as agreeing to the spirit of the celebration? How about Bl ....
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Posted 11/24/2023 10:41 AM |
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# 4551 Get The Picture?
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Q. At a weekly shiur that I attend we were discussing Lo Taasun Itti and we were wondering if 3D holograms of humans would violate it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that although one may argue that it appears as creati ....
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Posted 11/24/2023 12:14 AM |
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# 4550 Is this Bar a Mitzvah?
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Q. Dear Rabbi Bartfeld shelitah: We would like to know if this document (copy sent to you) issued by the Rabbinical Alliance of America is enough to bar the man named from coming to our shul?
He is obviously not respectful of the Dayanim ....
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Posted 11/24/2023 12:00 AM |
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# 4549 If The Shoe Fits...
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Q. Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, I seem to remember your saying that footwear would be OK to use if it hadn't been worn 30 days prior. Is that correct?
Does the same apply to footwear used by women? Thank you.
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:55 PM |
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# 4548 Not a Patch in Ponim
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Q. Can one use a piece of a still usable but not actually constantly being used old taalis, that is kept in a shul for the ones that need it, as when visiting. This is now needed to make a patch of that material to fix a constantly usable taalis? ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:50 PM |
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# 4547 Fast Fix For Fast
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Q. Does someone have to fast if when entering early to shul, he sees of a pair of Tefilin laying on the ground, that apparently fell from their bag when the shul was being cleaned?
A. In principle since he did not cause himself the de ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:37 PM |
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# 4546 A Blessing that is Not the Last
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Q. Why is there no mention of Chanuka when reciting the Beracha Acharona for Mezonot or wine? If someone wants to say it anyway is it correct?
A. Mishna Berura (682: 2) rules that on Chanuka or Purim when reciting the Brocho Acharono ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:31 PM |
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