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#662 An Aliya for a Holy Neshama?
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Q. We find among the Rishonim the expression "Ben HaKadosh" in reference to someone who is a son of someone who was killed 'Al Kiddush HaShem'. I have attached a PDF file that contains some sources to that effect
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Posted 11/28/2014 12:11 PM |
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#661 A Matter of Record II
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Q. One more question. A while ago you wrote about recording a class / lecture (question 627 Q. I am a student in a secular university. They have a policy of religious accommodation and if requested, they record classes given on religious holidays s ....
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Posted 11/28/2014 12:08 PM |
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#660 And All your Deeds Are Recorded II
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Q. Thank you very much.
I would like to clarify something that you wrote in [answer 648(b)].
You wrote that the camera records whether you are in front of it or not.
Many of the new cameras have a motion detector and will only ....
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Posted 11/28/2014 12:06 PM |
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#659 Perpetual Reprisal
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Q. When we express, either through writing or speaking, the Tefillah "Hashem Yinkom Damo", what are we asking for? That the murderers be punished? What if the murderers are already dead or have been killed? What additional vengeance are we praying ....
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Posted 11/28/2014 12:04 PM |
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#658 Pray Tell, What Did I Say?
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Q. I have, as everyone else already said Mashiv Haruach more than thirty days, but I still find myself when I lose concentration saying Morid Hatal (I davn sefard), If I can't remember what I said, do I have to repeat shmoneiesreh?
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:28 PM |
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#657 Kashes on the Keshes.
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Q. Is there a minimum shiur of rainbow that has to be seen in order to make the beracha… (in regards) to the number of colors?
A. Ya'aros D'vash (drush 14) quoting the Zohar explains that there are two kinds of rainbows to be observ ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:27 PM |
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#656 A Rainbow Shiur
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Q. Is there a minimum shiur of rainbow that has to be seen in order to make the beracha or is any small amount enough (in length or in number of colors)?
A. Poskim disagree; Biur Halocho (229: 1) queries whether in order to recite a ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:25 PM |
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#655 A Sharp Shaile
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Q. Can I use a metal or stone knife sharpener for fleshig and milchig knifes? Do they require tvila?
A. Poskim permit using the same sharpening stone or steel for meat and milk knifes and utensils even when used that day (Ben Yomo) ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:24 PM |
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#654 Moving the Mourning
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Q. If one's non-frum close relative dies, such as a mother or father, and their home is not an appropriate place to sit Shiva, due to the lack of understanding of the laws of mourning, may one sit Shiva elsewhere?
A. Horav Shlomo mi ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:23 PM |
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#653 The Eruv Tefilos
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Q. If one mixes up his Shabbos Shemoneh Esreis, between Maariv, Shacharis, and Mincha, is he still yotzei?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 268: 6) rules that if one unwittingly exchanged one of the Amidos of Shabbos with another excepting M ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:22 PM |
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#652 The Uber Eruv?
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Q. I have heard that Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a advises against using the eiruv. Is this true? What is the reason for this?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that the Toronto Eruv, supervised by Horav Akiva Steinmetz Shli ....
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Posted 11/21/2014 1:20 PM |
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#651 Two for the Praise or Only One?
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Q. What is the reason that two of the berachot of the sheva berachot are basically the same beracha - yotzair ha'adam? Why the repetition?
A. The Talmud (Kesubos 8a) offers dissenting opinions if these two brochos are one or actuall ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:32 PM |
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#650 Don't Get Even Get Tikun
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Q. Our Sages teach us that we should walk in HaShem's ways. Just as He is merciful, so should we be? However, HaShem is also avenging. Why should we not also be avenging?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that our Sages ma ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:29 PM |
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#649 Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk
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Q. If one goes to a shul and there is a lot of talking, is it better to leave and go to another a minyan or better to stay as some may be insulted if you left?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that in principle it is cert ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:28 PM |
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#648 And All Your Deeds Are Recorded
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Q. "As a matter of record"
Shalom U'bracha, I enjoy reading your shailos and cant wait for you to iy"h publish a sefer with all these teshuvs.
I would like to know what the halacha is with keeping on a surveillance sys ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:27 PM |
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#647 Mourning the Mumar?
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Q. (I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) And assuming he does not leave his wife before his death and insists upon being buried next to her (she is still alive), do the laws of mourning and kaddish remain the ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:21 PM |
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#646 A Gentile Burial?
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Q. (I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile…) If he does die without making this stipulation, do we let him get buried in a gentile cemetery? Should we make efforts to bury him in a Jewish cemetery or exhume his bo ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:19 PM |
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#645 Nay Never the Kever
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Q. I have a relative who is dying. Unfortunately, he is married to a gentile. We mentioned to him recently that he never wrote in his will that upon his death he should be buried in a Jewish cemetery. He said that he wants to be buried next to his ....
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Posted 11/14/2014 1:17 PM |
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#644 Not a Lot Left of Lot's Wife's Lot
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Q. There are two brachot that are said when seeing the salt pillar of Lot's wife as mentioned in Shulchan Aruch. Does that apply today? Do we really know with enough certainty to make a bracha that the site shown to the tourist is the real thing?
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Posted 11/7/2014 12:07 PM |
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#643 An Egg or a Yom Tov? III
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Q. (Re- prior questions 517 & 634.) It is interesting that the Ben Yehoyadah says that a chicken lays an egg daily. The Tosfos Rid on the first Amud of the Masechta avers that if a chicken laid an egg every day, it could not be muktzah accordin ....
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Posted 11/7/2014 12:02 PM |
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