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# 4270 Coffee Talk?
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Q. Blessings Kvod Harav. Can one, who suffers from acid stomach difficulties when drinking coffee, take pills to stay awake during the learning night of Shavuos?
Chag Sameach.
A. On question 3226 regarding if one who is ....
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:38 PM |
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# 4269 Women of Letters
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Q. Are women supposed to be present in shul during the reading of the Ten Commandments
on Shavuos, since after all the were present at the giving of the Torah and also answered ‘Naase Venishma”
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:34 PM |
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# 4268 Best Medicine
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Q. Shalom Rav. In our well populated shul, as they do in many others, they sell the Aliyos of Yom Tov to the highest bidder. One of the most expensive ones is the Aliya of the Ten Commandments since it is known that the one who gets it will be s ....
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:32 PM |
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# 4267 Begin with a Good Note
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Q. I always wondered, since on Shavuos one is to start the Yom Tov only at the time of when the stars show and true night begins, so the Seven Weeks will be complete. If so how does one comply with the mitzva of Tosefes Yom Tov or adding some ti ....
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:30 PM |
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# 4266 End with a Good Note
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Q. Dear Rov I received on the email a film of a Siyum on Talmud Sota, that was done by a group of apparently very Frum women. They did the Siyum reciting the words that men would do then. Is that correct?
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:28 PM |
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# 4265 A Honest Day Pay?
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Q. I was going to a Vasikin minyan and the Rabbi was paying me through a yungerman (young man) who was giving me the money. The Rabbi was hospitalized and the yungerman tells me to give back the last few payments because he was actually giving fr ....
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Posted 5/24/2023 10:23 PM |
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# 4264 Give me a Break
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Q. If someone learning in a Beis Medreh many hours, needs to take a break and sleep some time. In order to avoid loosing too much time, can he just fall asleep on his Shtender, which is permitted in a Beis Hamedresh, or is it better to go to the p ....
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Posted 5/21/2023 3:41 PM |
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# 4263 Does This Add Up?
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Q. Someone that davens in a minyan where Mincha is before the Plag and Maariv after, should he have special intention not to comply with the mitzva of Kerias Shema at Maariv, since he may transgress on the prohibition of Ba’al Tosif, or adding the ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:27 PM |
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# 4262 Not For the Birds?
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Q. Shalom Rabenu. A couple that has been married for years and has not been able to have children wants to know if they should comply with the mitzva of Shiluach Haken, as they heard that it is a Segula or help to conceive?
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:26 PM |
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# 4261 Conscience Clean
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Q. Dear Rov; After one has put on tefilin and has touched the upper arm, that you once mentioned one has to wash his hands, can he meantime for reciting the blessing just clean his hand with the Taalis?
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:23 PM |
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# 4260 The Only Daughter!
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See question above - Q. Would the same apply if the one involved in that accident was a daughter?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it would indeed be the same.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shl ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:19 PM |
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# 4259 My Only Me?
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Q. A Dr. who is a member of Hatzalah was summoned to attend to a terrible car accident in which a number of Yeshiva bachurim were involved and one of them was L’A his own son. The car was already smoking and time was of the essence. Can he attend ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:15 PM |
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# 4258 No Pain – Yes Gain
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Q. See question above. How about when a patient is conscious, but is suffering and in pain constantly, what should his family daven for?
A. See question above. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should daven that Hash ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:09 PM |
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# 4257 Pray Together, Stay Together?
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Q. See question above. Can we include him in the regular Mi Sheberach said for the sick by Torah Leining?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that we should not. However, once included in the list he should not be removed.< ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:07 PM |
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# 4256 Pray Tell Pray
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Q. If one has a dear one that is brain dead already for years and the doctors say that there is no real chance for recovery, do we still have to daven for him he should have a long life?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is th ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:03 PM |
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# 4255 Rise and Shine
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Q. Dear Rabbi. I recently heard that when wearing Tefilin one should not rise his hands overt them, like to pick up a Sefer from a high bookshelf, as this is similar to the Cohen Gadol not rising his hand over the ‘Tzitz’ (golden plate on his fore ....
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Posted 5/18/2023 11:00 PM |
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# 4254 Long Live the King
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Q. I work as an accountant for a large company that has important relations with British and Commonwealth companies. The company is celebrating King Charles III’s coronation with a party that will play the recording of the event. Taking into acc ....
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Posted 5/14/2023 3:20 PM |
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# 4253 A Far Shave
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Q. If I keep the Minhag of the Sefira prohibitions only until Lag Baomer as other Ashkenazim also do in our days. If I’m permitted already to shave on Lag Baomer? would it be better to wait until Friday and shave lekovod Shabbos?
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Posted 5/12/2023 1:02 AM |
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# 4252 Little to Late
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Q. It says we cannot daven mincha in front of a Tzibur that was Mekabel Shabbos. (accepted Shabbos). Can one do melacha in front of them such as a person off the street coming in to put on a light in a shul?
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Posted 5/12/2023 12:58 AM |
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# 4251 Don’t Sink the Kitchen Sink
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Q. Hello Rav, I'm wondering how to properly wash parve utensils. We have a meat sink and a dairy sink and each has their own sponges & brushes. What is the proper way to wash a parve item? Is it good enough to check the meat (or dairy) sponge to e ....
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Posted 5/12/2023 12:53 AM |
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