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# 4649 The Maximal Animal
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- Q. See question above. If in any way we can diminish the pain suffered by the animals involved. As by giving them pain killers even when they are costly and time consuming, should it be done?
A. It all depends in the real and practic ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:53 AM |
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# 4648 Put the Animal Out of Our Pains?
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Q. I’m a biologist and medical technician involved in medical research, and in the common daily work we do, we put in danger and terminate different animals as rabbits and mice. I often feel really bad for them and their suffering, especially wh ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:49 AM |
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# 4647 The Preaching Convert
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Q. See above question 4644. Can a Ger (Convert) recite that Bracha Acharona or Birchat Hamazon for others?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that indeed since they don’t own in principle yet part of the Land of Israel, and ....
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Posted 2/2/2024 10:43 AM |
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# 4646 Out of the Hole
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Q. Kavod Harav: One has a hole in his (jacket) pocket and a muktza coin fell through all the way down into the lining. Only way to get it out is with the hand. What should one do, especially if one is already outside and in the street during Sh ....
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Posted 2/1/2024 11:07 PM |
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# 4645 Bless the Right Miracle Blessing
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- Q. Dear Rabino amigo. As I have already mentioned, I have a brother that visited our family in a settlement close to Gaza before the massacre of Shemini Atzereth – Simchath Torah last year, and was actually shot by the Arab terrorists inside ....
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Posted 1/31/2024 11:21 PM |
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# 4644 So Praised by the Children
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Q. See question above. Can a mother recite “Al Hamichya” on behalf of the boys in her group and for the cakes that they ate, if they are already Bar Mitzva
A. As mentioned, if the boys are already Bar Mitzva, they should recite ....
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Posted 1/31/2024 8:24 PM |
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# 4643 - So Blessed by Women
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- Q. Can a woman recite for other women after kiddush on Shabbat or another Simcha were food was served the blessing of so each one would not have to recite it by themselves, specially if the do not know it by memory?
A. Poskim di ....
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Posted 1/29/2024 6:56 PM |
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# 4642 – Sing All With Joy!!!
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Q. Should the Baal Koreh (reader of the Torah) on this Shabbat Shirah read the Shirah with much joy and Simcha?
A. Zohar (B’shalach and Terumah) and Midrash, quoted by many Poiskim, exalt the ones who recite Shiras Hayam with great ....
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Posted 1/25/2024 11:47 PM |
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# 4641 Remember To Remember?
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- Q. On this Shabbos Parshas Beshalach, should we have in mind when reading or listening to the Amalek parsha at the end of the Torah Parsha, the mitzva of “Remembering Amalek” and what he did to us?
A. Piskei Teshuvos (685: 9) quotes d ....
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Posted 1/25/2024 11:35 PM |
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# 4640 The Treating of a True Tzadik Tree on Tu Bishvat
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Q. Rov Shlit’a. Our dearest Talmid Chochom and Tzadik grandfather, who you knew well, and as you also know, was niftar a month ago and his Shloshim will be on Tu Bishvat.
He, for many years would organize a beautiful simcha on that d ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 4:02 PM |
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# 4639 Superior Orders
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- Q. When you eat in a Tu Bishvat meal in shul or at home the different traditional fruits what is the correct order of the brochos (blessings)?
A. First is the brocho Hamotzi on the bread or Mezonos (for cakes), followed by the brocho ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 3:59 PM |
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# 4638 - When do the Good Times Begin?
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- Q. Someone that requires a very delicate brain operation, if he can wait should he do so until the ‘Good Mazal” month of Adar, or do it after Tu Bishvat?
A. On a similar question (4107) we wrote:
“On question 1634 we mentioned ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 3:57 PM |
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# 4637 Know Your Place
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- Q. See question above. I still don’t get it. What does it have to do with our trees outside of Israel today?
A. The answer may seem a bit complicated, yet it is simple. One may not eat fruit that grew on a tree the first th ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 3:53 PM |
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# 4636 Ancient History?
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- Q. I just don’t understand why and how is Tu Bishvat so important to us and why we celebrate it outside of the Land of Israel, since as is those once upon time mitzvot do not apply anymore in our days and even on the past they applied only in t ....
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Posted 1/24/2024 3:49 PM |
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# 4635 Planting a Shailah
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Q. Dear Rabino. As you well remember, in Mexico it is already time for planting some new trees. Is there a mitzva to plant new trees on Tu Bishevat?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the mitzva given was for eating new f ....
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Posted 1/23/2024 6:15 PM |
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# 4634 A Rosh Hashanah for Dogs and Cats?
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Q. I truly do not understand, why in our Jewish tradition we celebrate a New Year for trees, that as important as they are, for us the elderly, and many others, our dear pets, dogs and cats, are actually essential for our survival, since for many ....
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Posted 1/23/2024 4:30 PM |
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# 4633 A Very Early Celebration?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. How come we celebrate in Canada and in most of the U.S. and Europe, Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees and their fruits, when we are surrounded by frost and often covered by snow. Is it not ridiculous?
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Posted 1/23/2024 4:26 PM |
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# 4632 The Labor of One’s Fruits
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Q. When and in what way should one eat the fruits on Tu Bishvat?
A. on a similar question 1608, as follows:
“ Q. Why and when is it best to eat the fruits on T’u Bishvat, the night before or during the day? Before the seuda, d ....
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Posted 1/22/2024 3:57 PM |
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# 4631 No AI on BO?
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Q. I heard that Parshas Bo since it is the first one to give us mitzvos, it contains the shorashim (roots) to all other principles of the Torah. If so is there a connection in Parshas Bo to AI?
A. In the history of mankind there ....
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Posted 1/21/2024 10:50 AM |
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# 4630 Good Beginnings – Good Endings II
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Q. Why is the Jewish calendar based on the moon and not on the sun like most others?
A. See
answer above. See also article on the constant renovation of the
universe at BDYC weekly pars
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Posted 1/19/2024 12:34 PM |
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