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#527 Serving with Distinction
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Q. (I, B"H became a complete baal teshuva less than a year ago. I'm now learning at a yeshiva in Israel but my parents who are totally not orthodox want me to spend Pesach with the family together and since they are very good to me I can't say no.) ....
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Posted 4/10/2014 5:41 PM |
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#526 This Night Only Matza?
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Q. (I, B"H became a complete baal teshuva less than a year ago. I'm now learning at a yeshiva in Israel but my parents who are totally not orthodox want me to spend Pesach with the family together and since they are very good to me I can't say no.) ....
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Posted 4/10/2014 5:39 PM |
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#525 Searching for a Baal Teshuvah
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Q. I, B"H became a complete baal teshuva less than a year ago. I'm now learning at a yeshiva in Israel but my parents who are totally not orthodox want me to spend Pesach with the family together and since they are very good to me I can't say no.
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Posted 4/10/2014 5:36 PM |
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#524 Thanks of Aromatic Oils
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Q. I have mint oil, made by extracting it from the mint leaves. What Brachah, if any, is said upon smelling the oil? If I boil the leaves, do I still make a Brachah on the smell?
A. On the essential oil of aparsemon (known also as b ....
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Posted 4/10/2014 5:35 PM |
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#523 Spices of Interest
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Q: I have boiled cloves. The resulting liquid has the pungent smell of cloves. What Brachah, if any, is said upon smelling the liquid? Does it make a difference if the cloves are still in the liquid?
A. Mishna Berurah (216: 19) rul ....
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Posted 4/10/2014 5:21 PM |
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#522 Can I Tell You What Is Wrong With Me?
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Q. Can someone speak lashon harah on himself? I remember hearing a story from the Chafetz Chaim that you are not allowed to, is that correct?
Thank you very much.
A. There are a number of printed versions of this kno ....
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Posted 4/4/2014 1:29 PM |
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#521 Removing Mezuzos when Moving II
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Q. Re- removing a mezuza at the end of a tenancy. If it is a large Jewish owned rental building, but the tenants are not necessarily all Jewish (the majority is) or religious, do I take my Mezuzohs with me when I leave and give the keys back to the ....
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Posted 4/4/2014 1:25 PM |
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#520 Bless the Sweet Smelling Medicine?
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Q. If I smell the cloves liquid for the dubious medicinal benefits or the mint stuff to clear the sinuses, but also have pleasure from the smell, do I make a Brachah?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 217: 2 – 3) rules that you do not recite ....
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Posted 4/4/2014 1:24 PM |
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#519 Medical Diet Vitamins on Pesach
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Q. Can I use these vitamins on Pesach? They are very important for a medical diet that I'm undertaking.
Thanks
PS please see the e mail bellow from Freeda Vitamins
...Thank you for your email. There is no chamet ....
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Posted 4/3/2014 5:34 PM |
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#518 Removing the Mezuzos When Moving.
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Q. If a Jew is moving into a rental property for a six month period while his own home is being repaired (owned by another Jew) can he remove his mezzuzot at the end of the tenancy?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 291 :2) rules that a rente ....
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Posted 4/3/2014 11:08 AM |
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#517 Is it an Egg or a Yom Tov?
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Q. All the tractates of the Talmud are named after the general subject matter contained therein. Why is Tractate Beitzah named so when the name's only connection to the tractate is the first word of the tractate? True there are some early commentar ....
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Posted 4/1/2014 2:21 PM |
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#516 Inducing Kashrus into an Induction Stove Top
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Q. How do you Kasher an induction stove top? Can you during the year use the above stoves for milchik and fleishig? Thank you
A. In energy efficient induction cook tops the conventional burners are replaced with magnetic induction co ....
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Posted 3/28/2014 11:54 AM |
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#515 Kasher your Glass-Ceramic Stove Top Without Cracking it.
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Q. How do you kasher for Pesach a glass-ceramic top stove? What do you do with the area outside of the coils, since the manufacturers recommend that that area should not be covered and you can't use either a blowtorch, because the glass may crack?< ....
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Posted 3/28/2014 11:52 AM |
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#514 Arva Minim in a Space Station?
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Q. [We were learning on the Daf about the fact that you have to hold the lulav and esrog the upside way they normally grow. Since it is only a matter of time until we will be traveling in space,] how do you hold the lulav in space where there is no ....
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Posted 3/28/2014 11:49 AM |
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#513 How do you Hold your Lulav on the Moon?
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Q. We were learning on the Daf about the fact that you have to hold the lulav and esrog the upside way they normally grow. Since it is only a matter of time until we will be traveling in space, how do you hold the lulav on the moon?
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Posted 3/28/2014 11:48 AM |
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#512 Imaging Tefilos III
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Q. (Re- answer 349 and 434) I am not referencing to imaging at all - NO imaging for now, the question is how to built on asking to self-judgment and self-judgment to asking. When mainly Tfila is asking (what I guess 99% doing) so how to base it on ....
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Posted 3/28/2014 11:46 AM |
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#511 What is wrong with Seder Moed?
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Q. The names of the orders of the sections of Mishnah are all written in the plural. Zeraim, Nashim, Nezikin, Kodashim, Taharos. Except for Moeid. Why is it not called Moadim?
A. There are a number of reasons mentioned as to why Sed ....
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Posted 3/19/2014 3:07 PM |
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#510 The Malach Watching Over Your Left-On Computer Screen
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Q. The Aruch HaShulchan (Yoreh Deiah 277) teaches us that if one goes out, one is required to close his sefer or cover it with an article of clothing. Is this ruling true also for Torah being viewed on a computer screen? And would it be sufficient ....
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Posted 3/19/2014 3:06 PM |
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#509 How Many Levite Encampments Where There?
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Q. It is forbidden for a Baal Keri to be in the area designated as Machaneh L'viah. How then did the Leviim engage in marital relations in the Desert?
A. Meshech Chochmo (P. Bamidvar 1:50) addresses this question and answers that th ....
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Posted 3/19/2014 3:04 PM |
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#508 Water Filter on Shabbos
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Q. Is there a problem to use an under the sink filter cartridge on shabbos? I noticed in some shuls the tap for filtered water is covered on Shabbos.
A. Poskim maintain that the most plausible melocho involved in using a water fil ....
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Posted 3/19/2014 3:03 PM |
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