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# 4551 Get The Picture?
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Q. At a weekly shiur that I attend we were discussing Lo Taasun Itti and we were wondering if 3D holograms of humans would violate it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that although one may argue that it appears as creati ....
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Posted 11/24/2023 12:14 AM |
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# 4550 Is this Bar a Mitzvah?
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Q. Dear Rabbi Bartfeld shelitah: We would like to know if this document (copy sent to you) issued by the Rabbinical Alliance of America is enough to bar the man named from coming to our shul?
He is obviously not respectful of the Dayanim ....
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Posted 11/24/2023 12:00 AM |
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# 4549 If The Shoe Fits...
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Q. Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, I seem to remember your saying that footwear would be OK to use if it hadn't been worn 30 days prior. Is that correct?
Does the same apply to footwear used by women? Thank you.
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:55 PM |
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# 4548 Not a Patch in Ponim
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Q. Can one use a piece of a still usable but not actually constantly being used old taalis, that is kept in a shul for the ones that need it, as when visiting. This is now needed to make a patch of that material to fix a constantly usable taalis? ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:50 PM |
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# 4547 Fast Fix For Fast
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Q. Does someone have to fast if when entering early to shul, he sees of a pair of Tefilin laying on the ground, that apparently fell from their bag when the shul was being cleaned?
A. In principle since he did not cause himself the de ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:37 PM |
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# 4546 A Blessing that is Not the Last
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Q. Why is there no mention of Chanuka when reciting the Beracha Acharona for Mezonot or wine? If someone wants to say it anyway is it correct?
A. Mishna Berura (682: 2) rules that on Chanuka or Purim when reciting the Brocho Acharono ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:31 PM |
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# 4545 Great but not Truly a Good Shailah
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- Q. Dear Rov we appreciate the fact that you can get prompt answers from Gedolim to most unusual question. One from a dear friend and Yeshiva Bachur. He was staying for Yom Tov on one of the houses that were attacked by the Chamas murderers. He ....
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:21 PM |
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# 4544 - Make Yourself At Home
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Q. A yeshiva bachur who is staying in yeshiva for Shabbos Chanuka but eating as a guest elsewhere where should he light? Can he light in the dining room in the same building where all other bachurim light even without eating there?
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Posted 11/23/2023 11:19 PM |
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# 4543 An Early Kiddush
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Q. Kevod Harov Shlit’a. When is the earliest time after an early Maariv after Shekiah that people can say Kiddush Levanah, during winter?
A. On question 3279 we wrote: “Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a mentioned once that a minyan that d ....
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Posted 11/20/2023 6:04 PM |
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# 4542 Our Most Beautiful and Nice Close Family?
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Q. Dearest Rabbi Shlit’a. As we read the current and next Parshios in with the story of Yaakov and his older brother Eisav, describing the foundations and base sources of the Jewish Nation, I wonder at what point was Eisav removed from being part ....
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Posted 11/19/2023 10:27 AM |
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# 4541 Thoughts for Your Penny
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Q. Can one leave on the floor a U.S. penny coin that has the name of G-d on it, and on what people are going to step on it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is permitted.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by ....
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Posted 11/17/2023 10:56 AM |
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# 4540 Sitting in Judgment
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Q. I have a friend who's a convert who was told she can sit for something like a shiva for a non-Jewish parent. How does a convert observe the "yahrtzeit" of a parent? What are their obligations? Should they follow the secular date or the Hebrew ....
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Posted 11/17/2023 10:53 AM |
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# 4539 Intentions that Pave the Road to Heaven
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Q. One who is going away for Shabbos and can get a free ride later in the day on Erev Shabbos or take a bus earlier, and he wants to leave earlier due to Kavod Shabbos, is the expense considered a Shabbos expense?
A. Horav Shlomo Mi ....
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Posted 11/17/2023 10:47 AM |
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# 4538 The Eternal Rush Hour
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Q. Hello Rav, Now my boys are old enough, so we often have a zimmun of 3 men. I know there is a mitzvah to bentch on a Kos of wine/grape juice. I seem to remember it being very common when I was a student in Israel 20 years ago, but these days ....
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Posted 11/17/2023 10:42 AM |
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# 4537 - That’ll Teach Someone Something
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Q. Dear Rabbi. As you know I have been teaching for over twenty in a college where most of the teachers and students are of the left and against Israel. It has lately become very extreme. Can I continue teaching or I must morally quit and loose m ....
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Posted 11/16/2023 9:58 PM |
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# 4536 - Drum Up Conundrum
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Q. If one is from Israel but davening in Toronto. can he lead services as an aveil despite the v’sein tal umatar livracha conundrum?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that since there are many different issues involved in thi ....
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Posted 11/16/2023 9:55 PM |
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# 4535 So Far - So Near
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Q. If a person in 2023 is still unwilling to go on the bimah for an aliyah (because of health issues) and insists on standing 12-15 away on the floor of the Shul, can he be given an Aliyah LaTorah?
A. Re- questions 2610, 2624 a ....
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Posted 11/16/2023 11:23 AM |
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# 4534 - Bigger than Yom Kippur Kotton
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Q. Rov, I have a Shiur Kavua with four talmidim, at the time the Yom Kippur Kotton will be tomorrow (Monday, Nov 13 - 23) due to the emergency conditions in Israel, Do I have to cancel the shiur? The talmidim can’t join me at the ceremony.
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Posted 11/13/2023 4:21 PM |
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# 4533 The Better, Best, Beautiful, Beginnings
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Q. “Kvod Horav Shlit’a. I’m the Menahel (director) of a traditional Torah Cheider (Yeshiva for younger boys). From many years of experience, I have noticed that teachers often behave in two very specific and contrary educational processes towards ....
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Posted 11/12/2023 10:28 AM |
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# 4532 Travel Alert
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Q. Where, specifically, at what point do we say Tefilas Haderech i’m leaving Toronto to New York?
A. On question 920 we were asked; “When I drive out of Toronto, to the north, west or east, at what points specifically do I need t ....
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Posted 11/9/2023 8:19 PM |
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