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# 4336 Count Your Chickens
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Q. Lab-grown chicken, meat could soon find its way onto American plates after USDA approval, Billed as "meat without the slaughter," lab-grown or "cultivated" meat made by two manufacturers has been approved for sale to U.S. consumers. What is Ho ....
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Posted 7/14/2023 12:13 AM |
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# 4335 Collect your Wits
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Q. There is commonly Hefker clothing offered in yeshiva after Rosh Chodesh. May one take it even though it is 9 days since it will be gone when one returns for Elul Zeman?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the Yeshiva o ....
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Posted 7/14/2023 12:09 AM |
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# 4334 On the Edge of One’s Chair
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Q. What should one do if a wheelchair bound individual requests on Shabbos to be wheeled to or from his Shabbos host, when the eruv is either unreliable or one personally have a minhag not to rely on it?
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Posted 7/14/2023 12:06 AM |
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#4333 Take the Best Seat
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Q. Dear Rabbi. Does the low seat or stool used during Tisha Beav has to be less that three Tefachim high?
A. A Tefach according to Rabbi Chaim Naeh is about 8 cm, (3.2 inch.), whereas according to the Ch ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 1:13 PM |
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# 4332 In Troubled Waters
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Q. Is it permitted to use the water in a swimming pool when collected in a cup or similar to wash hands for eating bread?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it should not be used as it may be considered water t ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 1:06 PM |
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# 4331 An Essential Email?
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Q. If one was Mekabel Shabbos before receiving an email confirming that the Eruv is up, does he need to avoid carrying on Shabbos until he hears that it is up from someone who was Mekabel (received it) later?
A. The fact is that one c ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 1:02 PM |
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# 4330 Intent the Right Intention
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Q. What is the correct intention to have when reading the shema at a minyan that davens Mincha just before the Plag and Maariv immediately after?
A. Horav Dovid Pam and Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a recommend that since it is only th ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 11:08 AM |
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# 4329 Choose Your Lion
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- Q. Dear Rabbi and friend. Our great Shulchan Aruch begins with the eternal words commanding us that “One should strengthen himself like a lion, to stand up in the morning to serve one’s Creator.” I truly wonder, is that not against common medica ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 11:05 AM |
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# 4328 Answering Aneinu
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Q. Kavod Horav. Since due to age and illness, I’m unable to fast the complete coming fast of Shiva Asar Betamuz, and I have to eat before Mincha. When I daven Mincha do I say Aneinu?
A. Halichos Shlomo (13: 7) rules that one who alrea ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 11:02 AM |
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# 4327 Your Mezuza in Your Home
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Q. See question above. Who has to pay for the Mezuza?
A. Bachurim pay for the Mezuzos. This is due to the Halacha that the obligation to place a Mezuza is on the one living on that location or “Chovas Hadar.” (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 291 ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 11:00 AM |
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# 4326 The Chosen Bachurim
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Q. Bachurim in a yeshiva in America, if the yeshiva rents a basement for them, who is responsible for getting the mezuza and may they delay for 30 days in putting it up?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the Bac ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 10:58 AM |
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# 4325 Now I See
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- Q. Good evening Rabbi. My husband has very poor vision, and his doctor has recommended a magnifying glass with light for him to read.
The magnifying glass may be used with or without the lights, but the usefulness is greatly enhanced w ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 10:55 AM |
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# 4324 Not That Intelligent the Artificial I.
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Q. Can one use a computerized scanning machine to check a Mezuzah?
A. On question 3736 we wrote, “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that in our days the Sefer Torah should undergo a computerized test to check if no letters ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 10:52 AM |
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# 4323 Women Rule?
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Q. See question 9 above. Can a woman be trained and after learning well the Halachot of Mezuza be able to check and certify the Kashruth of a Mezuza?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that a woman should not engage in checking ....
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Posted 7/7/2023 10:48 AM |
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# 4322 Toys Are Us?
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Q. “Dear Rov, as we spoke by phone, I work with a group that designs and manufactures toys and a few of them are quite advanced and expensive. We recently were asked to develop a toy-bear that has very advanced AI (artificial intellige ....
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Posted 7/2/2023 11:00 AM |
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# 4321 Some Intelligence on Artificial Intelligence
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Q. I’m a Frum surgeon that performs delicate medical operations. Could you kindly ask Horav Miller the following; can I partake according the Halacha in an operation in which I’m assisted by an AI (artificial Intelligence) controlled computer-m ....
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Posted 7/2/2023 10:31 AM |
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# 4320 Shomer Yisroel?
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Q. Dear Rov. After I get married, during the days of Sheva Brochos, I know that as a Chassan I should not be by myself, but constantly accompanied by my new wife or a Shomer (keeper). If I have a necessary business meeting I have to attend, can ....
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Posted 6/30/2023 11:06 AM |
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# 4319 An Isha and her Mezuza
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Q. Can a woman that removed a Mezuza for having it chequed place it back also? Does she make a bracha then?
A. On question 3943 regarding if a woman living alone, can place a mezuza on the entrance of her home,w e wrote:
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Posted 6/30/2023 11:01 AM |
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# 4318 Rebuilding the Churban
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Q. See question above. Kvod Horav, as you know we have a shiur for Yeshiva Bachurim and young married men, in which we promote not only the learning of Torah, but more even also the writing of Chidushim and even ‘Vorts’ that we publish in a month ....
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Posted 6/30/2023 10:59 AM |
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# 4317 Mourning the Burning
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Q. We are Iy’H making a Bris for our newborn on this coming Friday Erev Parshas Chukas – Bolok. We usually served meat during the Seuda of the Bris of our other children. Yet I heard that it should be avoided on this Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas (B ....
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Posted 6/30/2023 10:55 AM |
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