Thursday, February 06, 2025
  
Homepage - Start here...
log in  •  join

Current Password:
New Password: (5 Char Min)
Confirm New Password:

User name (email)
Password
Remember Me:
Forgot Password?
| Home
Directory
Calendar
Alerts
Classified
Shuls & Tefillos
Contact Us
 Browse the directory by:
Business Listings
Categories
Search the directory for:
 
Important Numbers

Doctors and Physicians (14)
Emergency Numbers (12)
Hospitals (22)
Pharmacy (20)
Pharmacy - 24 Hours (4)
Pharmacy - Midnight (15)
Shatnez (1)
Toronto Jewish Social Services (1)
Walk-in Clinics (3)


FRUMToronto Topics

 Audio and PDF's:
Rabbi Ganzweig>
Weekly Publications>
 Articles:
Articles of Interest (223)
Ask The Rabbi (5105)
Bulletins & Alerts (64)
Community Events Blog (23)
Frum Toronto Staff (2)
Gut Shabbos & Gut Yom Tov (68)
Inspirational Stories (7)
Kuntrus Ramach Avarim (2)
Message Board (11)
Parenting (149)
Parsha Pearls (487)
Readers Recipes (4)
Shemiras Halashon (178)
Shmiras Haloshon Yomi (128)
Special Prayers (34)
Tehillim (99)
Thoughts for the Week (191)

FRUMToronto Links

Advertising Rates>
Eruv Toronto>


From:  Email: 
Enter characters before submitting:

FRUMToronto Articles Ask The Rabbi Show More
Show Less

Have a question? Send it in! Questions are answered by Rabbi Bartfeld.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256

Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #422 Can you Extinguish the Shul Menorah After Maariv?
Q. When finishing the tefilah (after maariv during Chanukah), the last one to leave extinguishes the lights of the menorah before a half an hour of being lit has passed, as they do in many Shuln that I know, is that OK?

A. Some Poi ....


Posted 12/6/2013 12:59 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #421 Can you Light Chanuka Candles Before Sunset?
Q. Can you light in a shul (the menorah) before the shkiah (sunset)?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 672: 1) rules that "you do not light the menorah before the shkiah – and one opinion is that in need you may light after plag hamincha" [on ....


Posted 12/6/2013 12:54 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #420 Lighting the Menorah at a Chanuka Party
Q. When making a Hanuka party in a large room that was in the past used for a Shul and now is only used for shiurim and only occasionally for a minyan, can you light there the menorah at the party with a bracha?

A. Minchas Elozor (O ....


Posted 12/6/2013 12:51 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #419 Are You Allowed to Take a Picture of a Menorah?
Q. Hi Rabbi, Can I take pictures of my kids and family by the Hanukah menorah or is this considered as deriving benefit from the light of the Hanukah candles?

A. Chelek Levy (Y.D. 124) permits taking photographs from a matzeivah and ....


Posted 11/29/2013 1:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #418 Can I Light the Menorah in My Car?
Q. Thanks for your prompt response. Is it possible to light the menorah (while in the hospital attending my husband, who is in intensive care) in our car parked in the parking lot of the hospital, and me staying a half an hour with only one candle ....


Posted 11/29/2013 1:10 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #417 Chanuka Lighting on an Out of Town Wedding
Q. I am going to a close family relative wedding in Bklyn., NY during Chanukah and they are putting us up in a neighbors house for 3 to 4 nights. My first night there is the last night Chanuka. My question is that also the situation is that my wife ....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #416 What is a Kivud at a Wedding?
Q. If someone wants to honor a close family member the highest honor possible at a wedding, what is considered according to CHAZAL a bigger honor, is it a Brocha at the Chupa or is it leading the Benching at the Seuda of the wedding?

....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #415 Time Lapse for Dairy After Meat in Intensive Care.
Q. My husband (hospitalized and in intensive care) is restricted to eat only paste like food, which is labeled as meat. He can't have fluids like water, because he chokes on them. The drink is labeled as OU- Dairy (Meat is supplied by Baycrest), h ....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:52 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #414 Electric Menorah in Hospital
Q. I'm spending practically every day and night in hospital with my husband who is in intensive care. Bikur Cholim offered us an electric menorah. Can I make a bracha when lightning or is it better to name an agent that should light for us?
....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:50 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #413 Crashing Into an Illegally Parked Vehicle (B)
Q. If I did contact the owner and offered to pay for the repair, (to avoid contacting the insurers) and I have a place that fixes at a lower rate, but the car owner wants to go to the dealer because he gets a rented car, do I have to agree? (Sequen ....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #412 Crashing Into an Illegally Parked Vehicle (A)
Q. If someone parked his car in an illegal parking position in the back of my properly parked car and I backed when driving out from my spot and crashed into that car that should not be parked there, do I have any liability and do I have to contact ....


Posted 11/28/2013 10:40 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #411 Phoning into Shabbos
Q. May a person in Israel call his relative in Toronto when it is still Shabbos in Toronto and leave a message on his answering machine?

A. Most Poskim permit telephone calling or answering, from a place where Shabbos has not yet be ....


Posted 11/22/2013 1:31 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #410 Shabbos News on a Weekday
Q. Can I watch or read the news happening in Israel on Friday night when it is only Friday afternoon here in Toronto?

A. Horav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Zt"l in Shulchan Shlomo (22: 2) addresses this question and prohibits listening to ....


Posted 11/22/2013 1:29 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #409 Blackmailing with Chalitza?
Q. Is it mutar to withhold chalitzah from my brother's widow in order to secure and blackmail her for more of the inheritance?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that matters that are under dispute between two or more parti ....


Posted 11/22/2013 1:23 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #408 Halacha Rights on Naming a Child
Q. [In regards to which parent has the right to name their child], what does the Halacha say?

A. Traditionally in Ashkenazi communities we do not follow the custom quoted in Ramban and Rabboseinu Baalei Hatossafoss and Teshuvos Maha ....


Posted 11/22/2013 11:55 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #407 In Tanach, Which Parent Named the Child?
Q. I noticed that with all of the sons of Jacob, the mothers named them. For Benjamin, his mother and father named him. How come Jacob did not name his sons? Is this a sign or message from the Torah that the women are supposed to name the children? ....


Posted 11/22/2013 11:53 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #406 Semi-Concealed Holy Names
Q. While on it, a few years ago we took some pictures by a bris and the shemos on the omud came out in some of the pictures, but you can only see them when the picture is placed by a strong light or the sun. On another picture you can only read th ....


Posted 11/19/2013 2:02 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #405 Shaimos on a Kitchen Counter
Q. The counter in the kitchen was wet with a sticky substance. Somebody placed an open sidur facing down on it, the letters got stuck to the counter and when the sidur was picked up we ended with a shem glued to the counter. What do we do now?


Posted 11/19/2013 1:59 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #404 Creating Bubbles on Shabbos.
Q. When washing for Shabes morning use, last night dishes with cold water can you use soap that creates bubbles?

A. Most Poskim maintain that there is no prohibition on creating soap bubbles when using an already properly diluted, c ....


Posted 11/15/2013 1:26 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


Blog Image: AskTheRabbi.jpg
Expand Article #403 Spraying Canned Whipped Cream on Shabbos
Q. Is it permitted to spray whipped cream from a spray can on a dessert on Shabes?

A. The main issue with using canned sweetened whipped cream propelled by nitrous oxide, for decorating desserts, ice creams and cakes on Shabbos, is ....


Posted 11/15/2013 1:24 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256



Toronto Eruv
Eruv status verified Friday afternoons. For email notification,  CLICK HERE



Toronto Weather

Home  |  About Us  |  Business Directory  |  Classified  |  Directory Rates  |  FAQ  |  Weekly Specials
Community Calendar  |  Davening Schedule  |  Weekly Shiurim  |  Zmanim  |  Contact Us
www.frumtoronto.com  - Contact Us