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#4939 Good News for Good News
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Q Thank you! Quick question...I have been trying to say "Mizmor l'Soda" (Tehillim 100) after hearing good news for many years now. This morning, I had done my negel vasser (washing of hands after awakening), but not my morning brachos and I heard ....
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Posted 4/19/2024 1:47 PM |
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#4938 The Truth in Wine?
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- Q. See question above. Kvod Harav. What is one does not enjoy that wine drinking? Is grape juice sufficient? What is the minimum of wine or grape juice one should drink and how diluted, to comply with the mitzva?
A. Halichos Shlomo (9 ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 6:47 PM |
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#4937 Wine and Dine
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- Q. Does one have to eat meat and drink wine on every day of Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Passover) also?
How much and how many times a day?
A. As is obvious from Shulcsan Aruch, the basic mitzvah of rejoicing during Y ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 6:34 PM |
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#4936 Frozen Energy
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– Q. Re-question 4932 above. My question is that since my family minhag is not to keep chometz gomur (real chometz) even when properly sold as the Rov also mentioned in Horav Miller’s name.
Can I keep that chometz when frozen solid and stored ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 4:52 PM |
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#4935 No Silver Alert
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- Q. Does one have to do Haga'ala (process of making kosher) to a silver vase that one uses for netilat yadaim (washing hands before eating bread) for Pesach?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that it has to be cleaned proper ....
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Posted 4/17/2024 3:15 PM |
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#4934 Please Keep in Touch?
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Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. Although as you know, we are of of a mixed Ashkenasi and Sephardi background, yet our family tradition is not to eat Kitniyos during Pesach.
We are to invite this Pesach some very dear family members tha ....
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Posted 4/14/2024 12:49 PM |
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# 4933 Seder Assets
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– Q. Since I learned that there is a requirement that the matza one eats at the sedder should be the property of the eater, what is one to do if he is invited or invites guest to the seder night?
A. On question 2126 we wrote:
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Posted 4/11/2024 7:10 PM |
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# 4932 Put the Freeze on the Freezer?
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– Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a, Can I put away frozen chametz pastries in a deep freezer that I include in the selling of the chometz utensils and not real chometz products?
A. On a similar question (76) we wrote: “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:59 PM |
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#4931 Cast a Spell?
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– Q. How do you write Passaic, New Jersey and Lakewood in a Kesuba or Get?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that for the use in a Kesuba, Tnaim or similar documents the writing should be;
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:55 PM |
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#4930 The Ring is Ringing
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Q. Do women’s rings need Haga'ala before Pesach, since they touch the Chametz food during the whole year? How about the maids rings in a hotel where they prepare the
food?
A. Poskim differ. Some maintain that if they are clean ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:50 PM |
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#4929 Oy Vay AI?
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- Q. See question above. Can one rely on the AI program above on Shabbat to call the doctor or emergency services, so he won’t do it himself, or should he be machmir (stringent) on Pikuach Nefesh (life danger) and call himself directly?
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:43 PM |
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#4928 Artificial Prayers of a Heart
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– Q. Dear Rov I need an answer soon for this shaila. My elderly and ill father has a pacemaker attached to his heart. If the blood pressure or other factors change,the unit is connected to a phone to call for help and my brothers wanted that the ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:39 PM |
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#4927 Bless One’s Frame of Mind
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– Q. See questions above. If when he changes the place of the mezuza to the other (inside) side of the door’s frame, he gives it to a sofer to check it, does that make a
difference?
A. On question 2824 Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:27 PM |
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#4926 Lord’s Word for Door to Door
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– Q. See question above. If he is permitted to move the mezuza to the other side of the door, when he changes the mezuza does he make a blessing?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that he does not have to recite a brocho whe ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:22 PM |
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# 4925 - Frame the Frame?
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– Q. I asked the Rov if someone is living in a building that has also some unfriendly Muslims that display hate and harm to the Jewish tenants. Is it possible to move the
mezuza from the outside of the frame to the inside of the apartment t ....
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Posted 4/11/2024 6:19 PM |
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#4924 Honor the Guest of Honor
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Q. If I am a guest at a Sefardi home on Passover, do I need to eat on disposable plates because they might have served rice or something else not permitted to an Ashkenazi?
A. On question 4179 we were asked: “I am staying with two sets ....
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Posted 4/7/2024 1:58 PM |
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#4923 Don’t Seek and Hide
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- Q. Dear Rabbi . If I see someone in an Orthodox shul using their phone openly on Shabbat, should I suggest that they do it in the bathroom as I thought public desecration of the Shabbat is a bigger problem than when done in private?
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:23 PM |
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#4922 Not Spoiled by Choice
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- Q. Hello Rav, We had a non Jewish cleaning lady over on Shabbat becasue she wasn't able to come on Friday. We had a busy Erev Sabbat and left a massive pile of various washed eating utensils on the counter to dry out. It was clearly a “borr ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:13 PM |
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#4921 The Hidden Fire?
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Q. See question above: Does that mean that is one is traveling by plane or is (l’a) in hospital and cannot turn on a fire to burn his chometz, or one who for any other reason is unable to burn the chometz on Erev Pesach, should instead eat i ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:09 PM |
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#4920 The Fire in Eating?
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Q. See question above. If one is indeed complying with the mitzva of Biur Chometz, when eating chometz or drinking beer or chometz liquors, although one does not recite a brocho, should not one at least have the intention necessary to comply ....
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Posted 4/4/2024 10:01 PM |
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