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Posted 6/5/2012 5:20 PM |
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#174 - Brit Milah officiated by a female mohel.
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Q. I recently attended a brit milah officiated by a female mohel. What is the law on this matter?
A. Although it would appear that historically women have performed circumcisions, such as Tzipporah (Shemos 4,25) or the two women ex ....
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Posted 6/5/2012 5:05 PM |
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#173 - Making a Brocha when seeing a King or Prince.
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Q. Upon seeing Prince Charles or Queen Elizabeth, is it halachically appropriate to recite a blessing? Thanks.
A. Shulchan Aruch( O.C. 224,8) quotes the Talmud (Brochos 58a): "On Gentile Kings one blesses "He bestowed from His glory ....
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Posted 6/5/2012 5:02 PM |
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#172 - Eating bee honey that is unfiltered
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FrumToronto Staff Note: A follow up on this is pending.
Q - Is there an Issur to eat bees honey that is unfiltered because there may be bee parts in it or do we say that the bee parts if in there may be too small too see therefore there ....
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Posted 6/1/2012 11:33 AM |
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Posted 5/25/2012 3:47 PM |
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Posted 5/25/2012 3:41 PM |
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#169 - Filling in Letters in a Sefer Torah
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Q) I recently attended the giving of a Sefer Torah, and was invited to write a letter for a donation. The letters were already outlined in ink, I just filled in the blank inner space, isn't that letter kosher anyway, if so what is my mitzvah?
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Posted 5/25/2012 3:34 PM |
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#156 - Updated: Taking exams on Shabbos
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Q. A medical resident that is completing his residency must take an advanced trauma licensing course. The available courses at this time are offered on shabbat throughout Canada. When the course is completed there is a test. The test is multiple ch ....
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Posted 5/25/2012 12:27 PM |
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#168 - Eating an item that required bitul to permit it
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Q. On a recent kashruth question, the Rabbi who supervises the product told me, that it is totally permitted lekatchila, even though Bitul Beshishim was used as a Heter. Is this correct? Should not one abstain lekatchila from eating anything that r ....
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Posted 5/18/2012 3:22 PM |
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Posted 5/18/2012 3:18 PM |
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#166 - Counting people in one’s mind.
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Q. Can one count in one's mind the ten people needed for a minyan?
A. It is prohibited to directly count Jewish people, even for the purpose of doing a mitzva (Yuma 22b - Rambam, Temidim 4,4).
Horav Shlomo Miller's S ....
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Posted 5/17/2012 5:16 PM |
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Posted 5/11/2012 1:37 PM |
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Posted 5/10/2012 5:31 PM |
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#163 - Using thick paint for a Lechi
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Q. I have heard that a piece of tape (10 tefachim long) attached to a post can be used as a lechi to resolve the min hatzad problem. Can you also use thick paint that can be pealed off?
A. Mishna Berura O.C. 363,26 writes that paint ....
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Posted 5/10/2012 4:24 PM |
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#162 - Non-contiguous Tel Hamislaket slope
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Q. On the tel hamislaket issue, you informed in the name of Horav Miller that a slope of 25 degrees is required. Now, if the slope is made partially of irregular big rocks, that in overall, as measured in a straight line, from the surface of proper ....
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Posted 5/10/2012 4:22 PM |
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#161 - Earliest time one can cut hair on Lag Baomer.
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Q. What is the earliest time I can cut my hair on Lag Baomer, can it be done erev Lag Baomer after already reciting Maariv, following the Plag Hamincha?
A. Remah (O.C. 493,2) rules that one should wait until the morning of Lag Baomer ....
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Posted 5/10/2012 4:13 PM |
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#160 - Correct time for eating matza on Pesach Sheni.
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Q. When is the correct time for eating matza this year, Sunday day (Pesach Sheni) or Sunday night?
Thank you
A. There are different traditions in regards to eating matza on Pesach Sheini, or the "second Pesach" given to those ....
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Posted 5/4/2012 3:35 PM |
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#159 - Could shrubs be used for "mechitzos"?
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Q. I have a portion of "mechitzos" on the cottage eruv, that are made from trimmed shrubs that are more than ten tefachim high and are over a foot wide. Though, when the wind blows, the branches and leafs shake, depending on the strength of the wi ....
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Posted 5/4/2012 3:26 PM |
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#158 - What is the minimum permitted angle for
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Q. I have in a section of my property that faces the lake and there is more than ten tefachim from the edge of the water to the top of the land. This is slanted, as a 'tel hamislaket'. What is the minimum permitted angle for "tel hamislaket"?
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Posted 5/4/2012 3:15 PM |
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#157 - Using a light pole for tzuras hapesach
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Q. I'm trying to make an eruv for my cottage yard, can I use a light pole for "tzuras hapesach", that it's base is wide and has a marked indentation were the diameter of the pole becomes smaller (by about an inch). This base is well over a meter hi ....
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Posted 5/4/2012 3:11 PM |
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