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# 4444 Low Blow
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Q. Can one on this year that Rosh Hashana that coincides with Shabbos blow the shofar on Erev Shabbos for learning purposes, since after all we won’t be blowing during the first day as it is Shabbos?
A. Mishna Berura (581: 240) mentio ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:26 AM |
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# 4443 Beg in Question
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Q. Can one daven on Rosh Hashana that coincides with Shabbos for one’s personal needs such as health and parnassa (sustent)?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 288: 9) permits in cases of danger of life to pray for those needs on Shabbos.
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:24 AM |
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# 4442 Low-Hanging Fruit
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Q. What to do for מעשרות For Israeli Pomegranate In Toronto which was bought in Toronto?
A. Due to the difficulty and complication in correctly separating Teruma and Maaser ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:21 AM |
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# 4441 Say Can You See?
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Q. Can someone recite Tashlich by just looking at a lake or sea from far? Can one use a telescope to see the lake or sea?
A. On question 2847 we were asked a similar question; “I live on the penthouse of a tall building and I can s ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:19 AM |
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# 4440 Adores Kapores?
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Q. 1) Why does a pregnant women do Kapores for an unborn child. After all the baby doesn’t have any sins that need a כפרה?
2) Also a pregnant mother doesn't eat at the Pesach Seder, additional matza or grape juice fo ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:14 AM |
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# 4439 Really Silly?
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Q. Dear Rov. Is it true that the Shulchan Aruch wrote that the minhag – tradition of doing ‘Kaparot’ is a ‘Minhag Shtus’ (silly act)?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 605: 1) indeed rules that one should avoid the minhag of Kaporos.
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:12 AM |
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# 4438 Meet the Meat
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Q. I put some chicken at the bottom of a pot with veggies on top. Are the vegetables that got steamed but did not touch the chicken enough to make me fleshing?
If I separate them with a plate, or if I put the plate on top of the pot i ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:10 AM |
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# 4437 Let the Meal Count
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Q. Hello Rav, I attended a Sheva Bracha meal recently where we only had 6 men that had washed for bread, but several others that ate other foods. My understanding was that 7 needed to have bread, but a certain young Rav who was present said that it ....
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Posted 9/15/2023 12:07 AM |
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# 4436 A Time to Heal all Wounds
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Q. (translated) Dear Rabbi. I suffer from a severe Skin Cancer, and I have to use medical cream and sun blocking agents when exiting home, specially under the strong sun of Mexico. (When going to shul on Yamim Noraim). I already suffered three ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:50 PM |
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# 4435 A Hard to Breath Shaila
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Q. Hi Rabbi Bartfeld Shlt’a. My mother (and father) have a very hard time falling asleep and they have been using medications for a few years to help them sleep. A couple of weeks ago, my mother got a new prescription from her sleeping docto ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:48 PM |
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# 4434 A Blue Moon Shailah
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Q. Does the recent “Blue Moon” last sighted on Wednesday August 30, in Toronto, have any significance in our lives?
Is there any special blessings to be recited upon seeing this phenomenon?
A. “Once in a blue moon,” is ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:44 PM |
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# 4433 No Fast Fast?
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Q. Should one accept in advance the fast of Erev Rosh Hashana and until when should one fast? Does one have to fast if it was not the tradition of his parents but he davens in a minyan where people fast?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 581 ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:41 PM |
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# 4432 So Far the Shofar
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Q. I have seen trumpet musicians play most beautiful concert and other music using a shofar, Is that permitted?
A. If the shofar was already used for the mitzva of Tekias Shofar, we mentioned on question 4426 above that there are ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:38 PM |
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# 4431 A Brocho that Needs a Brocho
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Q. The Chazan finished the third bracha with Chonain Chada’as by mistake (Instead of HaE-l Hakadosh). He was corrected incorrectly and went back to ata kadosh. Should we avoid saying amen to the remainder of the chazara.
A. In the ab ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:36 PM |
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# 4430 Back Again?
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Q. It is now August 2023. There are no more restrictions in terms of entering or being in a building mask-less or sitting in close proximity to another person. Is it permitted to give an aliyah to a person who is still mask wearing but most imp ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:33 PM |
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# 4429 Forbidden Fruits?
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Q. If we have a fruit tree in our backyard here in chutz ha-eretz, should we separate the first fruit any ways? Can we use the fruit of the tree for eating if the tree is less than 4 years old?
Outside of Eretz Israel and without the Beit ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:28 PM |
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# 4428 Bless the Bagel
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Q. Good morning Rabbi, what would the bracha be on a bagel that was made with fruit juice instead of water? Would it be considered mezonot? How about juice/almond milk in a 1 to 1 ratio?
A. Poskim mentiom that the amounts are not n ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:25 PM |
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# 4427 Have the Book Follow You
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Q. This year Rosh Hashana will fall on Shabbos. I would like to daven Vasikin. (at day brake). However in order to do so I will need to carry my machzor in an Eruv enclosed area, and I personally try to avoid using the Eruv. It is not possible to ....
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Posted 9/6/2023 5:08 PM |
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# 4426 Let’s Be Thankful for what Hashem Gave us
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Q. Dear friend and colleague. A member of our shul donated more than twenty five years ago a beautiful shofar that we have constantly used. Two weeks ago, he offered a very nice similar shofar to replace the first one. Since they are very simi ....
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Posted 9/5/2023 2:18 PM |
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# 4425 Good Great Yom Tov and the Best of Years!
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Q. Since Rosh Hashana is a day of judgment and fear, why do people great each other with a ‘Good Yom Tov’ in that day?
A. On question 1437 we were asked: “Dear Rov, Is there a mitzva of simcha on Rosh Hashana, as in every other Y ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:57 PM |
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