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# 2126 Seder Assets
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Q. How do you handle during the Pesach Seder, the kinyan (acquisitive act) needed to have the matzos gifted to the family and guests, since matzos have to be owned by the eater?
A. Shulchan Aruch (454: 4) rules that one does not comply ....
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Posted 4/12/2019 3:18 PM |
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# 2125 Never Too Late to Learn
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Q. Re - Last question. (How do you arrange a minimal seder for an elderly lady that is mentally OK, but bed ridden at home). What is the minimal Haggada reading that has to be said for her? Does she have to ask the four kashios? Do you need a full ....
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Posted 4/12/2019 3:05 PM |
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# 2124 Mind the Senior Moment
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Q. How do you arrange a minimal seder for an elderly lady that is mentally OK, but bed ridden at home.
What is the smallest shiur of matza, and how do you prepare it with water?
A. Normally Poskim recommend for matza are at least a ....
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Posted 4/11/2019 2:58 PM |
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# 2123 Shemura Segula?
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Q. Is there a segula on eating shmura the entire Pesach?
A. See above question. Moadim Uzemanim (3: 267) writes that even according to the Poskim that maintain there is a mitzva on eating matza the entire Pesach, there is no purpose o ....
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Posted 4/10/2019 3:39 PM |
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# 2122 Be Shomer the Shemura
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Q. Some people have developed a custom to eat only "shmura" matza the entire Pesach. Is there a basis for such a minhag considering even our "non shmura" is generally watched in a fashion that technically would have been considered shmura to be yotz ....
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Posted 4/8/2019 11:09 AM |
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# 2121 Is It Nice to See You?
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Q. Should one make an effort to see a president or a prime minister in our days?
A. Talmud (Brochos 9b) teaches that one should run to see the honour given even to the Gentile kings, since if he merits, he may be able to see the future ....
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Posted 4/5/2019 4:40 PM |
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# 2120 Fake Brocho II
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Q. If one has the opportunity to see a president or a prime minister does he make a special blessing?
If not should one recite without the name of Hashem?
A. In question 173, If it is halachically appropriate to recite a blessi ....
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Posted 4/5/2019 12:58 AM |
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# 2119 Read One Right
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Q. A hospitalized person may be able to go down to the hospital shul on Parshas Zachor. If there is no minyan, can he with help, take out the Sefer Torah and read Zachor for himself even without a minyan?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 68 ....
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Posted 4/5/2019 12:30 AM |
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# 2118 Search and Burn
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Q. One (such as a physician) who is doing bedikas chametz and knows that he might be unable to destroy what he finds the next day, as is customary, because the next day he might be osek in pikuach nefesh the whole day, (he does not have someone to d ....
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Posted 4/5/2019 12:16 AM |
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# 2117 Search Results
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Q. One who is doing bedikas chametz and knows that he will not find a crumb of chametz (and he doesn't have anything to hide), should he refrain from blessing?
A. Rema (432: 2) writes that the minhag is to place some pieces of chometz ....
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Posted 4/5/2019 12:06 AM |
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# 2116 Motzo Matza
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Q. Our minhag is not to eat matzos thirty days before Pesach. Since I only eat shemura matzos during Pesach, can I eat now regular machine matzos. Can I eat gebrocht matzos in soup or matzebrai, since we don't eat gebrochts on Pesach?
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Posted 4/4/2019 11:54 PM |
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# 2115 All of a Sudden Blessing
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Q. One who is in the middle of a Purim seuda and (unexpectedly) receives mishloach manos during his seuda, does he need to make a bracha on the food that he received? Does it make a difference if he was expecting it, or not?
A. Horav ....
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Posted 4/4/2019 11:47 PM |
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# 2114 The Kosher Chazer?
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Q. Is the fact that our sages taught that the chazer-pig will become in the days of the Moshiach a kosher animal a reflection on the artificial meat that Horav Miller is said to be kosher and pareve. One could use the DNA of a pig and create such a ....
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Posted 4/4/2019 11:38 PM |
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# 2113 An Honest Opinion
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Q. I live in Israel. This week I was using a vending machine in the train station. Suddenly it started spitting out coins.
After collecting them all, I had over 170 shekel.
Do I need to return the money?
There will probably not be ....
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Posted 4/4/2019 11:18 PM |
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# 2112 Dreams Come True?
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Q. One who does not read Hebrew and cannot follow along in a Chumash, etc. during Megillah - what is he to do? The mind wanders, and one is not yotzi!?
Or is one still yotzi even if he daydreams.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’ ....
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Posted 4/4/2019 10:54 PM |
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# 2111 No Kavana - No Tefila?
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Q. If someone has problems concentrating and he knows he wont be able to concentrate even on the first bracha of the amida, is he exempt from tefila?
A. Mishna Berura (101: 3) indeed rules that one should not daven if he cannot con ....
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Posted 4/2/2019 3:09 PM |
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# 2110 Beginning at the End
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Q. If someone has problems on concentrating during the complete amida, after having kavanah on the first bracha, should he put effort on concentrating on other complete brachos, even if they are few. Or should he better focus on the end part of all b ....
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Posted 4/2/2019 3:05 PM |
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# 2109 A Paper's Trail
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Q. A very busy student deliberately (lo alenu) desecrated Shabbos by writing an essay because he thought he wouldn't be able to do it unless he worked on Shabbos. He wants to do teshuva. Is he obligated to rip up or delete what he wrote, and re-do ....
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Posted 4/2/2019 2:48 PM |
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# 2108 Fixed Blessings
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Q. If one accidentally said a wrong bracha and he wants to fix it, but he is not sure if it is within toch k'dei dibbur, or it's too late, what should he do?
Can someone say the correct bracha using the name Rachmana instead?
A. ....
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Posted 4/2/2019 1:46 PM |
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# 2107 Lost in the Wash?
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Q. If you touch new shoes that were never worn, or shoes in a store do you require netilas yodaim?
A. Shulchan Aruch Horav (128: 27) quotes Magen Avraham that the reason for washing hands when touching shoes is due to the ruach ra'a tha ....
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Posted 3/27/2019 12:05 AM |
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