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# 820 Tovel or not Tovel, That is the Shaila
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Q. What if I'm invited to someones house and I'm not sure if they toveled their dishes, can you eat there?
Thank you. Have a nice day and Shabbat Shalom.
A. In general people who are considered Torah observant maintain a chazaka ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:46 PM |
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# 819 Glat But Not Pure
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Q. What happens if one uses (dishes or utensils) that were not toveled (immersed in a mikva)?
Can you eat the food?
A. According to Tosafos (Avoda Zara 75b – d'h vechulan) it is a Tannaic dispute in the Talmud (ibid.) if after ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:43 PM |
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# 818 Shalal Dunk
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Q. BS"D, Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, Regarding toveling of dishes, utensils, I see nowhere in the Torah, midrash, tanach etc. to tovel dishes, I think that this is strictly a rabbinic law.
Can you please answer why we have to tovel dishes?
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:41 PM |
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# 817 Grandfather Enclosed
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Q. If my father tells me do something that contradicts the will of my grandfather (his father), who do I listen to?
A. Rema (Y.D. 240: 24) mentions the opinion of Maharik that one is not obligated to honor his grandfather. Howev ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:33 PM |
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# 816 Chery-Pick Shaila
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Q. If you do make Shechecheyanu on the cherries, should you wait until Shabbat or the sooner you make the brocho the better?
Thank you
A. Mishna Berura (250: 2) quotes from the Talmud (Beitza 16a), a dispute between Shamai and ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:30 PM |
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# 815 Enjoying the Fruit of Your Labor
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Q. I have a few cherry trees in my back yard and we are now harvesting the new fruits. Do you make a Shecheyanu Bracha on them since you can find cherries all year round? Is the fact that they are dear to me since I planted the trees and rejoice on ....
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Posted 6/26/2015 3:24 PM |
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# 814 Waiting for Redemption
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Q. A woman gave birth to a baby boy in Yerushalayim on Sunday night י"ג סיון, fifteen minutes after shkia. At the time of the Pidyon Haben the parents and baby will be iy"h in Lakewood. According to the shita th ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:31 PM |
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# 813 A Stirring Shailah
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Q. I recently heard in Rav Miller's name that there is no איסור
הגסה (prohibition of stirring) in a crock
pot even before removing the inse ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:29 PM |
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# 812 Safe Flyers
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Q. Re- on question; When a deceased is being transported from Canada for burial in Israel, is it permitted or advisable to delay the kevura for the sake of a safer Halacha environment for the Cohanim travelling on the same air plane to Israel? ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:23 PM |
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# 811 Medical Dressings
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Q. I am a patient in hospital. I am usually dressed in hospital issue clothing, which consists of a shirt and trousers, basically pajamas. I put my tzitzis on over my shirt in the daytime.
There is a shul in the hospital. If I was home, I wou ....
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Posted 6/19/2015 5:20 PM |
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# 810 No-Name Bracha
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Q. Re- last questions Someone that davens nusach Ashkenaz-Sefard (Chasidish) is he obligated to answer Omain after Mekadeish Shmoi Berabim, when there is no mention of Hashem's name?
If he is not obligated, is he allowed to answer Omain at th ....
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Posted 6/12/2015 6:27 PM |
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# 809 In Heavens Name
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Q. If I hear someone make a bracha, perhaps the chazan in shul, and he mispronounces Hashem's Name as is unfortunately common, either by saying Adinoi or Adeenoi, instead of Ado-noi,
3) May one say Boruch Hu Uvoruch Shemo after the mis ....
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Posted 6/12/2015 2:55 PM |
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#808 Omain in Vain?
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Q. If I hear someone make a bracha, perhaps the chazan in shul, and he mispronounces Hashem's Name as is unfortunately common, either by saying Adinoi or Adeenoi, instead of Ado-noi, I have four (see next shaile) questions:
1) Is one ob ....
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Posted 6/12/2015 2:46 PM |
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# 807 Prohibited Ta'am Kiker
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Q. Is it correct that when lo alenu an ambulance comes to pick up a sick person or there is an emergency such as a fire, the passersby and curious neighbors all concentrate to watch the pain and misfortune of another person at the time they may b ....
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Posted 6/5/2015 6:22 PM |
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# 806 Good Grief
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Q. If one is in the year of aveilus, is he permitted to buy A) a cottage to be used as a vacation home or B) any other investment property that may also serve as a vacation home?
Thank you
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Posted 6/5/2015 1:45 PM |
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# 805 Family Discount
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Q. What if he (one being paid for reciting kadish – see prior question 802) has to say kadish for his own parent?
A. Chelkas Ya'akov (3: 157) rules that one is allowed to accept the kadish recitation for someone else at the same ....
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Posted 6/5/2015 1:42 PM |
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# 804 You Get What You Pay For?
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Q. I recently heard in the Daf that one of the Gedolim (I think it was Rav Shternbuch) recommended to say in the mi sheberach after one gets an aliya and offers to give a donation, the word “Lekesheyiten” or “Baabur Sheyiten” instead of “baabur s ....
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Posted 6/5/2015 1:35 PM |
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# 803 A Blessing in Disguise II
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Q. Re- question 760 ( A Blessing in Disguise) on saying brochos in English for the purpose of kiruv. If one is in doubt whether to say a brocho or no, can it be said in English?
A. As we mentioned on question 760 in case of need, wh ....
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Posted 6/5/2015 1:27 PM |
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# 802 Kadish for the Oilom?
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Q. Can one person who is being paid for saying kadish, do so for other people at the same time and does he have to inform them?
A. Many Poskim rule that one may accept payment to recite kadish for a number of deceased (Even Ya'ako ....
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Posted 6/2/2015 3:49 PM |
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# 801 Lo Yoda Mordechai
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Q. After hearing our Baal Korei attempt to read Mordechai's name in the Megillah with the pronunciation of the Chataf Komatz under the Dales, I realized that he was pronouncing it like a Komatz. Ostensibly, a Chataf Komatz should not be pronounced l ....
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Posted 5/31/2015 2:12 PM |
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