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# 1050 The Key To the Shlisel
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Q. We have a minhag in our family that we bake a chalah for the Shabbos after Pesach and we place a key inside that chalah, (shilsel chalah) This year due to a simcha my wife will be travelling and not with the family. A number of questions.
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Posted 5/6/2016 3:43 PM |
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# 1049 Illuminating Seder
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Q. Kavod Harav
I will be conducting the seder in the house of a non-religious Jew (both nights). The problem is that they will be turning on the lights during Shabbos, and certainly during Yom Tov. (For example, on Saturday afternoon/ ....
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Posted 5/4/2016 1:13 AM |
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# 1048 Watch Out!
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Q. I tend to walk along the area of Bathurst & Lawrence a lot. I find the boys from the Yeshiva at Bathurst and Lawrence especially when the weather is nice, zoom down and I mean zoom down the sidewalk on their bikes. I have witnessed them ac ....
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Posted 4/28/2016 11:31 AM |
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# 1047 Mix and Watch
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Q. During the year, can you use just one of the four burners of a glass top stove for milchig and the others for fleishig?
Can you use them at the same time?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is certainly ....
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Posted 4/25/2016 12:31 PM |
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# 1046 Hidden Afikomen Gift
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Q. Can I use a gift certificate or card to reward on Yom Tov the child that finds the Afikomen?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that gift certificates and cards are muktza on Shabbos and Yom Tov. We could assume that t ....
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Posted 4/22/2016 1:19 AM |
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# 1045 Top of the Glass
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Q. How does one kasher a glass top stove for Pesach? What if the glass is scratched or was damaged or has aluminum (foil paper) stains imbedded into it?
A. The glass-ceramic top should be totally clean (use the recommended commercial ce ....
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Posted 4/15/2016 6:19 PM |
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# 1044 Hagalah Bizman Kariv
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Q. Can you kasher pots and pans or cutlery by just placing them in an oven and running a self cleaning cycle? (a much easier task than immersing each item separately in a boiling pot)
Can those items be touching each other when being kashered ....
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Posted 4/15/2016 5:39 PM |
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# 1043 If the Glove Fits
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Q. If I use plastic gloves for holding on to the pots and cutlery being kashered for Pesach use in a large pot with boiling water, do the gloves become non kosher? Do I have to get new ones for every use, since plastic can't be kashered?
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Posted 4/15/2016 4:54 PM |
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# 1042 Azoy Shine?
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Q. How about a slightly tarnished silver kidush cup. Does the cup have to be totally polished and shiny before Pesach kashering?
A. Mishna Berura (451: 21) rules that rust stains that do not have any “mamoshus”or substance to them, an ....
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Posted 4/15/2016 3:02 PM |
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# 1041 It's kosher to kasher
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Q. Can anodized aluminium cookware (Kitchen Aid) be kashered for Pesach?
A. Anodization is a process in which by applying an electrical charge on the aluminium vessels, one increases the thickness of the oxide layer on them, ther ....
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Posted 4/15/2016 2:59 PM |
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# 1040 Back into the Past
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Q. Re- question 1035 traveling east from Beijing to JFK, You mentioned that when you cross any of the datelines during Shabbos, you will revert 24 hours to erev Shabbos after keeping Shabbos some hours. Would you then have to make havdalah?
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Posted 4/14/2016 10:37 PM |
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#1039 Shabbat Salad
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Q. Can a mixed fruit salad, made by cutting fruits including grapes be prepared on Shabbos?
A. Some Poskim maintain (see 39 melochos p. 334) that one should preferably abstain from cutting grapes on Shabbos, even if one does not int ....
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Posted 4/10/2016 11:19 PM |
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# 1038 Grapes of What?
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Q. Regarding the issur of mashkin shzavu of grapes on Shabbos, If one has a fruit salad of grapes and other fruits, and there is a collection of liquid at the bottom of the bowl, is the mashke mutar btaruvos? Do we go after rov fruits i.e. rov grape ....
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Posted 4/10/2016 11:13 PM |
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#1035 Will I Cross the Line?
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Q. My friend is flying on April 15th (Friday) from Beijing to NewYork with Air China.
The flight leaves at 9:00AM, and arrives in New York at 10:20AM.
His question is regarding the flight route - is there a possibility that he will b ....
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Posted 4/8/2016 5:25 PM |
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# 1037 Fly Away Another Day
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Q. Should one avoid traveling on Friday on this particular flight?
A. Taarich Yisroel (21: 15) quotes HoRav Eliashiv z"tl who maintains that on the onset one should avoid traveling on Friday if it may come to travel on Shabbos. Ho ....
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Posted 4/8/2016 5:21 PM |
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# 1036 It's Up In The Air
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Q. What should one do when encountering such situation ? (see above question 1035)
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is similar to other Poskims advice to follow the psak of the majority (Horav Moshe Heineman Shlit"a as quo ....
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Posted 4/8/2016 5:15 PM |
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#1034 Sheitl Shaila
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Q. May a married woman that totally lost her hair due to radiation treatment, wear a wig which is attached with glue and remains affixed to her scalp for 30 days, at which time the glue is reapplied and she continues to wear it month after month ....
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Posted 4/8/2016 12:17 PM |
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# 1033 Right from the Beginning
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Q. Following our minhag my son should put on tefilin first time thirty days before his bar mitzvah and that would be on Sunday, the Isru Chag of Pesach. Due to the fact that the family will be together during Yom Tov, can he put on tefilin first ti ....
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Posted 4/7/2016 8:56 PM |
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# 1032 Soliciting an Answer
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Q On Purim we try to fulfill "kol haposhet yad nosnim lo." If I receive an email solicitation on Purim, would that be called "poshet yad?"
If it is, do I have send the money on Purim itself?
How about if I get a solicitation letter ....
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Posted 4/7/2016 2:13 PM |
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# 1031 Siman Tov To Mazal Tov?
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Q. This past Shabbos, Parashas Tzav, we read in the Haftarah the sentence (Yirmiya 7:34) "And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegro ....
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Posted 4/3/2016 5:23 PM |
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