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#759 See You In Shul?
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Q. I work at a social service agency where I have both Jewish (some observant) and gentile clients. Recently the local food bank moved to a new location in a church in the same neighborhood. Should I be referring Jewish clients to ....
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Posted 4/24/2015 3:59 PM |
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#758 Spot Clean Only
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Q. If a shirt gets a bad stain on it are you allowed to wash it on chol hamoed?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 534:1) rules that it is forbidden to launder clothing, on Chol HaMoed. Our sages prohibited laundering so that people ....
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Posted 4/24/2015 3:52 PM |
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#757 Keeping Shabbat to the Letter
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Q. After 20 plus years at this job, my employer now wants me to work Saturdays. I have told him no as I never have as this is my Sabbath. He says unless I provide a letter they will make me work and if I do not it is cause to be laid off. C ....
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Posted 4/17/2015 5:47 PM |
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#756 The Matzav of an Early Matzeva
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Q. Can someone order and place a matzeva on his and his wife’s kever while they are still alive? They are afraid that their children may not comply with their wishes. Can they also include their names?
A. It is an establis ....
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Posted 4/17/2015 5:02 PM |
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#755 Don’t Leave the Leaven?
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Don’t Leave the Leaven?
Q. My question on Fleishmann's (aka baking) yeast - I use this to ferment apple and grape juice. Can I assume that I don't have to sell the wine due to chametz (I'm not planning on using it for Pesach)?
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Posted 4/1/2015 10:38 PM |
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#754 Sale While Stock Lasts
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Q. If I buy more chometz after making the Rav my agent to sell my chometz, will the new chometz be included in my sale or is it a davar shelo ba l'olam regarding my original agreement with the Rav?
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Posted 3/31/2015 1:52 PM |
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#753 The Gentle Gentile
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Q. If the door of the hotel room closed on you (the tape placed to stop locking fell) can you ask a Gentile to open the door on Shabbos?
If by mistake you left your medicine on a bag inside the safe box in your room can you ....
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Posted 3/27/2015 5:36 PM |
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#752 Can't Hold the Candle to the Cell Phone Light?
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Q. If you forgot your flashlight and can’t use matches or a candle for searching chometz in a hotel and the table lamp is too heavy and cumbersome, besides the electric cord does not reach far, can you use your cell phone light?
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Posted 3/25/2015 4:05 PM |
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#751 Bible Bilbul
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Q. Someone that due to flight cancellation had to stay overnight in a hotel and did not have any seforim with him, can he use the old testament of the bible provided to learn Torah or go over the parsha? Can he at least look up a tran ....
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Posted 3/20/2015 2:47 PM |
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#750 Areas of Enlightenment
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Areas of Enlightenment
Q. When staying Shabbos or Yom Tov in a hotel, management usually provides a designated safe area with specially protected tables for lighting the Shabbos or Yom Tov candles. Although that area may be in a well-t ....
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Posted 3/20/2015 2:44 PM |
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#749 Key Tov?
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Q. Which is the best way to go (when staying Shabbos in a hotel) with the keyless electronic lock on the door?
A. On Shabbos or Yom Tov you cannot use the electronic card key. Horav Shlomo Miller’s opinion is that you should e ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:36 PM |
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#748 Bar the Mini Bar
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Q What do you have to do (when attending a Pesach hotel) with the food and liquor on the room fridge?
A. Minchas Shlomo (2 p. 237) rules that since the hotel guest is generally responsible for the contents of the ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:32 PM |
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#747 Making Sense of Sensors
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Q. What is one to do with the sensors (when staying Shabbos in a hotel) in the room and at the balcony door?
A. If the motion sensors (they could be standing separately or be integrated into the thermostat) are to avoi ....
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Posted 3/17/2015 10:28 PM |
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#746 Have a Light?
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Q. When doing bedikas chometz at the Pesach hotel can one say the brocho if searching only with a flashlight? If no flashlight available, can one use the table movable electric cfl light with an extension cord?
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Posted 3/13/2015 5:02 PM |
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#745 Are You Searching a Good Pesach Hotel?
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Q. If you are going to spend Pesach in a hotel, do you have to search your hotel room for chometz? When do you do the bedika? Do you make a brocho? What to do if you arrive after midday on Erev Pesach?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:58 PM |
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#744 A Burning Shaile
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Q. If you will not be at home during Pesach, and you do an early Bedika , when do you burn the found chometz?
A. The found chametz to be burned could be set ablaze that same night or in the morning before traveling. ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:42 PM |
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#743 Early Chometz Nullification
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Q. f you will not be at home during Pesach, and you do an early bedika, (see prior question) when and how do you do the Bitul Chametz?
A. After finishing the search he should recite the declaration of Bitul Cham ....
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Posted 3/13/2015 3:29 PM |
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# 742 Searching for not Cleaning
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Q. Is there a way to avoid the cleaning and searching the whole house, if you are going away for Pesach and will not be there at all?
A. Due to the difficulties involved when owning a large house to complet ....
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Posted 3/11/2015 11:21 PM |
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# 741 A Pesach Travelers Guide
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A Pesach Travelers Guide
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld re our conversation on writing a brief guide for the most common questions that people have when traveling to a hotel for Pesach; the following are some of the most common concerns.
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Posted 3/11/2015 11:18 PM |
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# 740 Krum Presume on the Philtrum?
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Q. Is there a source that the indented part of the top lip that people have today is a result of the malach hitting us on the lip in order that we forget the Torah we were taught in the womb by the malach?
A. The Tal ....
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Posted 3/10/2015 12:03 AM |
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