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Expand Article # 906 The Drosho Better be Good
Q. If a Seudas Bar Mitzva is done on Motzei Shabbos a week after the bochur's birthday (he was born bein hashmoshos, so it could not be done on the prior Shabbos) is it still considered a Seudas Mitzva?

A. Mogen Avrohom (O. H. 225), r ....


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Expand Article # 905 Dog-Gone?
Q. I was attending a neighbourhood Simchas Bais Hashoeva and a neighbor walked in in the sukkah with his friendly, well behaved but rather large family dog, that did not seem to bother anyone and trilled the children. Is it correct to bring in a dog ....


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Expand Article # 903 No Mitzva, But Someone Has To Take It Down
Q. Is removing, taking care and storing the suka properly, so it will in good condition and ready for the next year, considered already as the mitzva of building a suka? (For the purpose of osek bemitzva patur min hamitzva or zrizim makdimin and doi ....


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Expand Article # 902 Step On It?
Q. How small do the pieces of remaining pine schach or hoshanos leafs that fell on the floor have to be to be considered batel or not important, so it is permitted to step on them? (Pine schach especially on the outside is hard to completely remov ....


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Expand Article # 901 In the Beginning Questions Were Created
Q. BS"D, Hello Rabbi Bartfeld, my question is why didn't Adam punish and chastise Cain for
slaying Abel? Usually it's the parents that mete out punishment. And also, why did Adam
and Eve wait 130 years to have Seth? Thank you. Have a nic ....


Posted 10/9/2015 9:07 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 900 Best Version of Windows?
Q. My sukka is indoors and it is covered by a number of horizontal windows that open each individually.
The size of the opening of each window is 55cm. by 2 meters (the beam structure separating the widows is 25cm.) Do I have to open at lea ....


Posted 10/4/2015 4:58 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 899 Deliver us From Deliveries
Q. I ordered last week from Amazon.com an item and they emailed me that the delivery will be on Monday. I forgot then that this is the first day of Yom Tov. Taking in account that the item by now on motze Shabbos is already in the way and some typ ....


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Expand Article # 898 Raising the Roof?
Q. If a Goy builds my suka and also puts the schach as instructed by me. Do I have to lift the schach a tefach or 3 to make it kosher lechatchila?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 635: 1) permits a Suka that was made by a Gentile as long ....


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Expand Article # 897 Global Working
Q. Our Currency Exchange company employs an Israeli resident living in Israel. Can he on the second day Yom Tov contact our non-Jewish clients in Canada? If yes, is he also allowed to contact them when Yom Tov has ended in his location, but here it ....


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Expand Article # 896 Fast Decorating Tips
Q. If I already have some schach on top of the suka, but not all of it has been placed, can I already start hanging decorations that are not kosher for schach (plastic flowers and paper chains)

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opin ....


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Expand Article # 895 Pop-Up Shaileh
Q. If you travel Chol-Hamoed and take with you a pop-up suka, that has a floor area of about one square meter, can two or more people stand there or sit on stools at the same time and eat?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion i ....


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Expand Article # 894 Sukos Meshulash?
Q. Can you make a triangular suka? (using two standing house porch walls at 90°, you place a third closing both, creating a right triangle)

A. Afarkasta De'Aniya (O.H. 2: 98) mentions that in principle there is no Halachik proble ....


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Expand Article # 893 Location, Location Location
Q. Do I have to be careful each year to place the same wooden planks in my suka, in the same original position, so that the plank that was in the mizrach last year will remain there, as it was done in the mishkan?

A. Kaf Hachaim ( ....


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Expand Article # 892 All On Your Knees?
Q. Do women also kneel on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipur?

A. Rivevos Efraim (3: 421: 2) quotes different opinions of contemporary Poskim, such as Responsa Shavit who maintains that women would do so in some congregations such as Frankf ....


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Expand Article # 891 Women's Rites
Q. Do women answer Baruch Shem Kevod on Yom Kipur loud as men do? Do they also have to stand during the repetition of Shmone Ezreh?


A. Poskim disagree if women should say Boruch Shem aloud or not. Yeshuos Yaakov (619:2, Gu ....


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Expand Article # 890 Freedom Waters?
Q. Can a parolee who wears a waterproof ankle monitor immerse in a mikva Erev Yom Kipur or is it a chatzitza? If permitted, would the same apply to a woman's tevlila?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the tether's ....


Posted 9/22/2015 3:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 889 Fell Fast But No Fast
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld,
Q. After davening I put my tefillin into its bag and into a larger bag.
While walking out of shul - my tefillin bag fell out of the larger bag and onto the floor.
Do I need to fast.  If so is that to ....


Posted 9/22/2015 3:41 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 888 When Life Gives You Lemons, Does It Make You Fleishig?
Q. If I use a fleishig spoon to juice a lemon is the lemon fleshig?

A. Most Poskim agree that lemons are considered a dovor chorif or foods with a sharp taste. (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 96: 4 et. al.) However, Shach (96: 20) mentions th ....


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Expand Article #887 A Toast To Muffins
Q. English muffins are typically eaten after toasting them, does toasting make them pas Yisroel?

A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 112: 12) quotes two opinions whether bread that was fully baked and is then further baked or toasted to impro ....


Posted 9/22/2015 3:37 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 886 Away in the Milky Way
Q. According to the OU web site the heter for baking bread which contains milk is that the milk is nullified. May one eat them with meat?
English muffins are typically eaten after toasting them, does toasting make them pas Yisroel?



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