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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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#507 How Many Dollars for Purim?
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Q. How much is it today the dollar amount for Matanot LaEvyonim and Machatzith Hashekel?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a advises to give at least a dollar for matonos loevyonim, (a Zichron Binyomin dollar is also good). The reason is ....
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Posted 3/14/2014 4:52 PM |
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#506 Inedible Shalach Monos
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Q. If I give a milchik box of chocolates as shalach monos to someone who has begun his fleishig Purim seuda, is it a mitzvah?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that you do comply with the mitzvah of shalach manos. True, he ....
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Posted 3/14/2014 4:51 PM |
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#505 Why Care About Amalek?
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Q. I keep wondering, we have a mitzvah to erase any remembrance of Amalek, and we are to remind ourselves every day of it. If it wouldn't be because of this mitzvah that we keep so diligently, would not have the name of Amalek been forgotten a long ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:38 PM |
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#504 A Brocho on Remembering Amalek?
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Q. Why don't we make a bracha before reading Parshat Amalek?
A. A number of reasons are given for not reciting a brocho on reading Pashas Zachor.
a) You don't make a brocho on something destructive, such as executing ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:35 PM |
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#503 A Bar Mitzva Without the Bar Mitzva?
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Q. To be considered a seudas mitzvah, does the bar mitzvah bochur have to be there? (On the bo bayom he had to go to shiur, but he was there at the beginning)
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the bar mitzvah bochur ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:34 PM |
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#502 Kesuvah for a Baalas Teshuvah II
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Q. Re- your answer (483) on how to write a Kesuvah for a woman that was married and divorced from a Gentile. What do you write following Mohar?
Thank you
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a recommends writing Mohar Meah Zuzey Dec ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:34 PM |
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#501 A Seudas Mitzva without the Seuda?
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Q. Can you make a seudas mitzvah just with mezonos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that if you are kovea seudoh, meaning that mezonos are the main part of what is being served, as is often the case in a kiddush or a s ....
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Posted 3/13/2014 6:33 PM |
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#500 How Old is an Orphan?
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Q. The Torah said in Mishpatim, that someone should not afflict or pain an orphan.
How old is an orphan? Is it one who is 10 years old? 20 years old? 50 years old? How long is one an orphan?
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:35 PM |
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#499 Good Intention Endings
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Q. Is there a point on just having kavanah at the end of the brachah, if you can't do it complete?
A. Mishna Berura (101: 1) quotes the Tur (ibid.) who maintains that one should have kavanah at least on the end of every brocho of th ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:12 PM |
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#498 What was I Not Thinking?
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Q. I was taught in yeshiva that you have to have a minimum kavanah in the entire shmone esreh of standing in front of the King. Is that correct? I think very few people that I know have that kavanah the whole time?
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:11 PM |
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#497 Will Reciting Tehilim Grant Great Children?
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Q. Are there specific Tehillim that should be said for success in raising erlichen children? Thank you.
A. Mishna Berura (256: 2) writes that those who help and inspire others to start early and keep Shabbos properly will merit hav ....
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:09 PM |
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#496 Thinking After Saying?
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Q. Does kavanah in tefilah mean having in mind the significance of what you are saying before you say it and while you are saying it, or can you also count as kavanah when the thoughts came to your mind only after you have already said the words?
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Posted 2/28/2014 2:07 PM |
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