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Expand Article #148 - Bedikas Chometz on property being sold for Pesach.
Q. We are going to spend Pesach in another town, but we may be leaving our home on the morning of erev Pesach (Friday). If we make an early mechirah of the complete house to avoid having to clean the house and do bedikah, can we still stay in the h ....


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Expand Article #147 - Minimum amount of money in Canadian funds to be considered Matanos Laevyonim
Q. What is the minimum amount of money in Canadian funds to be considered matanot laevyonim today? Thank you.
 
A. Mishneh Beruroh (694,2) writes in the name of the Ritvo that even a prutah is enough for gifts for the poor, but ....


Posted 3/7/2012 4:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #146 - Fulfilling the mitzvah of drinking on Purim through prescription drugs.
Q. During Purim, can a patient on prescription drugs become inebriated by them and fulfill the mitzvah of drinking on Purim, since he cannot drink wine or any alcohol at all?
 
A. Many Poskim (Rashi Megila 7a - Rambam Megila 2, ....


Posted 3/7/2012 4:12 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #145 - Eating after the fast before hearing Megilah
Q. A woman that because of her need to care for her children attends Megilah reading late at 9.00 PM, can she eat before?
 
A. Shulchan Oruch (O.C. 652,2) prohibits eating before one complies with a mitzvah. Mishnah Berurah (ib ....


Posted 3/7/2012 4:07 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #144 - Listening to Torah tapes while fixing bathroom tiles.
Q. I do occasionally home repair work. Can I work in a bathroom fixing tiles, which may take a few hours, while listening to a Torah tape? I have not yet completed my conversion to Judaism. Thanks.


A. Poiskim write that if ....


Posted 3/7/2012 4:04 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)


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Expand Article #143 - If needed, can parents do the chalakah before a child turns three?
Q) If a toddler is going to be three years on chol hamoed, can his parents do the chalakah before Pesach if needed, as there are visiting family?


A) There are different traditions in regards to the extent of time one should ....


Posted 3/7/2012 3:59 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #142 - Wearing a Kitl during Shono Rishonoh
Q) A choson is in his shono rishoino who makes his own seider, is he permitted to wear a kittl if he wants to?

A) M'kadesh Yisroel (Pesach 315) quotes Maharam Shick (O.C. 28) who endeavors to find a reason why some do not wear the K ....


Posted 3/7/2012 3:54 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #141 - Mezuzahs for small rooms with counters.
Q. As we move to new office headquarters, we have a couple of rooms where we are in doubt of the necessity for a mezuza, because of the small size of the rooms. My rough estimates: Call office: 98 sq ft, but these area is being reduced by counters ....


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Expand Article #140 - Grandparents naming a child.
Q. My granddaughter was born a couple of days ago and I want to know can my husband go to shul and name her. My daughter and son-in-law go to Conservative and are going to name her in a month's time?

A. Poiskim and minhogim disagree ....


Posted 2/24/2012 1:20 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #139 - An Ovel after Shloshim joining a group trip to visit and pray at Kvorim
Q. Can an ovel after shloshim join a group trip that is to travel in Europe to visit and pray at the kvorim of prominent Tzadikim.

A. Shulchan Oruch (Y.D. 380,25) forbids long business trips, as they are very conspicuous and a large ....


Posted 2/22/2012 12:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #138 - Do Parsha sheets require Genizah
Q. I'm cleaning out my room and I found a bunch of parsha sheets in English that I had collected on my desk over the weeks. Am I allowed to put these with the regular recycling or do I have to put them in genizah. The parsha sheets are specifically ....


Posted 2/22/2012 12:53 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #137 - Pesach Shevah Brochos
Q. If a couple are married on the Sunday before Pesach and there are no further Shevah Brochos on the following weekdays, can one say Shevah Brochos on the two Seder nights (Friday and Shabbos) of that week?

A. Poskim agree that the ....


Posted 2/22/2012 12:27 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)


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Expand Article #136 - Tachanun by a Bris when the Mohel leaves early.
Q. If the Mohel left the minyan (because he had to go to a Bris), before the beginning of the repetition of the Shemone Esre, do you say Tachanun?

A. Taz (O.C. 131,10) quoted in Mishna Berura (ibid. 26) recommends that a groom shou ....


Posted 2/10/2012 4:56 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #135 - Reciting the Shira with joy during a time of Availus.
Q. As Shabbath Shirah approaches, we have learned that the Shirah should always be recited with great joy, as this promotes forgiveness of sins. Does one have to recite it that way in a mourners house or in the day of Tisha B'av? How about when the ....


Posted 2/10/2012 4:47 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #134 - Is a brocho recited on a special needs new born baby.
Q. I attended a delivery recently where the newborn had severe internal congenital organ defects. It is customary not to inform immediately the parents of the detrimental situation, as to provide opportunity for the much needed bonding with their o ....


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Expand Article #133 - Saying Yud Gimel Midos with a Minyan.
Q. Often when I daven in a minyan that says yud gimel midos during tachanun, I am unable to say it together with them, as I am still lagging behind. What is the source that 13 midos need a minyan, and is the fact that there is a minyan present reas ....


Posted 1/27/2012 1:15 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #132 - Re - previous shaaileh on kashering crystal glasses.
Q.  Is it necessary to do the whole process of filing with water and changing 3 times the water, isn't there a shortcut?

A. You may place the glasses on a boiling pot as normal kashering is done. We follow the process of Miluy Veir ....


Posted 1/27/2012 11:56 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #131 - Kashering glass and crystal.
Q. The previous owners of the house left us a set of glasses, some glass some crystal. They haven't been used in almost two years and I'm wondering if I can use them. Do I need to kasher them and if so how? Am I allowed to wash them in my sink or d ....


Posted 1/16/2012 11:35 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #130 - Location of a Sholom Zochor.
Q. Does a Shalom Zochor have to be in the house where the mother and baby are, or can it be also, if needed in a friends house?

A. A number of reasons are given to the tradition of making a Sholom Zochor Seudah (meal), which many Poi ....


Posted 1/16/2012 11:16 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #129 - Returning a terminally ill patient, who is close to death, from the hospital to his home.
Q. An elderly terminally ill patient who was diagnosed by his doctors at the hospital as being close to death wants to be returned to his home to be able to die in a place familiar to him and with his family close by. Doctors say that they may be a ....


Posted 1/13/2012 1:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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