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#5245 The Torah of the Menorah
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- Q. Can one seat and learn Torah using mostly the Menorah light during the beginning of lighting?
A. Shulchan Aruch (673: 1) prohibits. However Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that there are many ways when it can be permitte ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:16 PM |
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#5244 - To Bee or Not to Bee?
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- Q. When using candles for Chanuka, is it better to use bees wax?
A. As discussed with Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a bees wax may involve Kashrus issues and it may be avoided.
However, in practice it can be used.
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:14 PM |
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#5243 - More Light Needed
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- Q. We light in shul and sometimes at home Hanuka candles that were already used properly, yet since the time of correct compliance was over, and people had to leave, the lights were turned off.
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:12 PM |
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#5242 Mexican Poles, Really?
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- Q. Honorable Rabino Nero Yair. I don’t think there is another acceptable Halacha authority we could consult on this most unusual question.
An actually religious neighbor wants to do an important Kiruv Chanukkah Party on the last day ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:09 PM |
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#5241 - Bless the Great Good Wife!
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- Q. Kevod Moreinu Horav Shlit”a. Thank you for all your many great and very well accepted answers. We are planing on the last day of Hanuka to do a big hopefully beautiful and successful family and friends party.
I know that women h ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:07 PM |
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#5240 Love That Picture?
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- Q. See question above. If permitted, are the parents and friends allowed to take a picture of them, since the will be benefiting from a Ner Chanuka?
A. In other common situations when the lighting of the menorah is correct and prope ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:05 PM |
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#5239 - Hold On to The Hold
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- Q. See question above. Q. If it is correct, do they themselves comply with the mitzva?
A. As mentioned above. Not only does one not comply with the mitzva of lighting Chanuka candles, it is likely prohibited for following the customs ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:02 PM |
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#5238 - Hold Out The Holding
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- Q. My dear Rabbi. Our shul is planing to do a large Chanuka party inviting many neighbors that are not our usual attending youngsters and children, the aim is to bring them closer to keeping Torah and Mitzvoth. There have been a number of attract ....
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Posted 1/3/2025 12:01 PM |
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#5237 The Chanuka Dance
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- Q. My most very dear Rabbi Shlit”a and good friend. As you well know, my beloved family including my neighboring friends, B’H have a very nice great and friendly group of Yeshiva Torah learning children in our mixed neighborhood. Every week when ....
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Posted 12/29/2024 11:44 PM |
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5236 Chanuka Showtime
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- Q. An elderly friend that is now constantly living in a retirement home, and always lit the menorah during Chanuka, wants to know if he can by turning on the florescent light next to his bed comply with the mitzva and make a brocho?
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:22 PM |
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#5235 Choose Your Time?
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- Q. I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the Misheyakir time quoted on the My-Zmanim chart for Toronto is incorrect. Is that true?
A. The Misheyakir time, is usually quoted for putting on Tefilin daily in the morn ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:17 PM |
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#5234 Oil Rich?
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- Q. Can I light my menorah with oil that was left open and some flies were there?
A. Horav Pam Shlit’a mentioned that the Halacha is that if the oil became inedible for the user it should be avoided for Chanuka menorah lighting. ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:12 PM |
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#5233 Chanuka Geld?
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- Q. Dearest friend and Rabino. My new home in Mexico City is right next to a store that sells many flammable items and the law is that they and their neighbors are not allowed to make a fire outside their home. On Chanukah should I bribe the autho ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:09 PM |
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#5232 Join In and Enjoy
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- Q. Some of my Chasidishe neighbors have a tradition to make a seuda (special meal as the ones done on Shabbos) on every day of Hanukka and they also invite guest and friends including us. Is that a seudas mitzva and I’m obliged to attend?
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:07 PM |
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#5231 Wrong Birthday Party
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- Q. See question above. Is one allowed to sell Christmas decorations when working as an attendant in a store that does, and the refusal would have one fired? How about just wrapping the goods bought?
A. Rema (Yoreh De’ah 141:1, based ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:04 PM |
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#5230 False Advertising!!!
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- Q. I work in a store that decorates at this time of the year with Christmas decorations and plays that music. What should I do?
A. On question 4598 we wrote:
Q. One walking or driving during this December time of the year, when ....
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Posted 12/24/2024 4:56 PM |
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#5229 Tell all about Nitel
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Q, We have an old tradition that we do not learn Torah on the night of Christmas, named Nitel. This year (24) it coincides with the first night of Chanuka.
We usually celebrate Chanuka by making an important seuda in shul or a special ....
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Posted 12/22/2024 11:06 AM |
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#5228 A Lion Shailah
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- Q. Can one use a menorah that has a silver lion holding the shamosh candle?
A. On question 1174 we wrote: “Can one keep desiccated animals at home? If not, why are children’s dolls or the lions on the Aron Hakodesh permitted?
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:43 PM |
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#5227 A Mitzva With Strings Attached!!!
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- Q. When we light Chanuka candles at home, Baruch Hashem we have a large family and many children including many of our neighbors that we encourage to join us to bring them closer to keeping mitzvos.
Can we place a string to separate ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:39 PM |
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#5226 Love You, Love Your Dog?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a, I think that you are the right Rabbi for this question.
My neighbor left on a vacation for a week and left his dog in his adjacent backyard to watch the property.
He also left enough dog food container ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:13 PM |
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