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# 840 Stealing Your Mind with Fake Flowers?
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Q. Can you place (during the Nine Days) an outside planter and plant it with artificial flowers? (Is that permitted the whole year, or is it gneivas daas?)
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit”a opinion is that it should be avoided since i ....
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Posted 7/19/2015 10:26 PM |
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# 839 Roll Out the Green Carpet?
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Q. Are you allowed (during the Nine Days) to spread on the deck a carpet made of artificial grass without nailing it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit”a opinion is that it is permitted, however a permanent installation should b ....
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Posted 7/19/2015 10:23 PM |
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#838 All Hands Off Deck
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Q. Is it permitted to wash the house floor during the nine days? How about the deck outside if dirty?
A. In question 594 on this forum we wrote; Although you may vacuum clean a carpet during the Nine Days, even a Gentile should n ....
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Posted 7/19/2015 10:20 PM |
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# 837 Crazy Cooking
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Q. If the caregiver asks one of the halachic shote patients above to turn on the stove, is that bishul akum for others?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is not bishul akum, since the Rabbinical prohibitions on the ....
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Posted 7/14/2015 2:42 PM |
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# 836 Sombre Shote
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Q. A patient who is so depressed that becomes irrational, is he a halachic shote at that time?
A. In the expressions of our sages one suffering from depression is named a Baal Moro Shechoro or suffering from Melankolio. Divrei Malki ....
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Posted 7/14/2015 2:39 PM |
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# 835 Did he Find his Mind?
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Q. If he (a patient that has lost most of his memory) regains some memory only from time to time and only then is rational, is he liable on mitzvos when he is well?
A. See prior answer where Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a indicated t ....
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Posted 7/14/2015 2:37 PM |
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# 834 Maybe Confused But No Shoiteh
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Q. A few questions concerning elderly patients. A patient that has lost most of his memory but is still rational and understands and can follow a conversation, is that patient considered a shote and is he exempt of mitzvos or can he still make kidu ....
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Posted 7/14/2015 2:33 PM |
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# 833 No-Name Bracha II
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Re: Question (810) about Mekadeish Shemo Borabim
Q. I pray Nusach Ashkenaz-Minhag Frankfurt where the Nusach for that Bracha is "Mekadeish Es Shimcho Borabim." I have noticed that it is unlike any other Bracha I have encountered. E ....
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Posted 7/14/2015 2:30 PM |
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#832 Talk To Him
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Q. Why when we say a brocho we begin by speaking directly to Hashem, as in Baruch Ata (blessed be You) and when we end the bracha we speak of Hashem in third person, as in Bore Pri Haetz (who created the fruit of the tree)?
A. T ....
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Posted 7/10/2015 6:55 PM |
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#831 Lip Service?
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Q. I wonder constantly why do we say every day three times a day in the amida in the bracha dedicated to the coming of Mashiach, the words “ki lishuat'cha kivinu kol hayom,” or “since we hope for Your salvation the whole day, and wait” Is that ....
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Posted 7/7/2015 5:16 PM |
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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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