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#5066 Dream Away
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Q. Kvod Ha Rab. I know that we do not put much into dreams. However, this dream has remained with me and it is a bit disturbing as it was very vivid. In this dream, we were sitting at the table ready to start eating a kind of pasta dish with meat ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:18 PM |
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#5065 Best Way to Stay Awake or Fall Asleep?
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- Q. Someone that needs to hear music during work or while he is driving to calm him down or to help him not falling asleep, is that permitted during the Three Weeks?
A. We had a similar Shaila:
“4215 Can someone who is in need ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:15 PM |
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#5064 Turning It Into a Good Dream?
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Q. I recently read that the Gerrer Rebbe summoned a special minyan to his home to recite Hatavas Chalom (“Making good a Dream” The prayer said when someone has a bad dream).
Do you really need a minyan for Hatavas Chalom in sidurim is ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:10 PM |
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#5063 Room for Groom ?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. Is one allowed to cut nails during the Nine Days?
How about going to the mikva for one who usually is tovel before davening? If he is allowed can he take a short shower immersing to keep the mikva clean?
A. Mishn ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:05 PM |
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#5062 All Hands Off Deck
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- Q. We B’H have and enjoy the great Bracha of Hashem that blessed us with a truly outstanding home with seven very beautiful children, most of them are not Bar or Bat mitzva yet.
Although, as is obvious it has to be permitted to wash ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 1:00 PM |
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#5061 Lining for the Clean linen?
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– Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’ll have Iy’H in during the Nine Days my children and their families visiting us. What is the correct thing to do for them when providing fresh linen and towels as they need? Is it permitted?
A. The above ....
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Posted 8/2/2024 12:56 PM |
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#5060 Questioning the Questions
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Q. “Dear Rov Shlit’a. As you well know I give a few weekly shiurim to a large group of mispallelim in our shul. I often wondered which is best, to let the listeners ask questions during the time I speak or set a specific time at the end of the cl ....
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Posted 7/28/2024 9:54 AM |
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#5059 The Right Side of the Bed?
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Q. See question above. Rabbi you may remember that in that particular old age home they made once a minyan with a whole friendly group of more than ten people, that were very aged and bedridden, but were taken by the special elevators to the shul. ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 11:01 AM |
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#5058 Enough of a Feast?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. A group of elderly and ill residents in our old age home, who are allowed by all opinions to eat on a fast day even on Tisha Beav and they sit together in a table, can they recite Birchat Hamazon together and say the brachot of Mez ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:57 AM |
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#5057 Stranger to Danger?
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– Q. Can one on a much needed vacation go and do regular scuba diving during the 3 weeks? How about water skiing?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a opinion is that if it can’t be postponed until after the three weeks, and one is well t ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:54 AM |
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#5056 The Ninth Labyrinth
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Q. Is there a minhag at all to mourn on the Ninth of Tamuz since that was the day when the walls of Jerusalem during the First Temple?
A. Sefer Yermeyahu (39.2, 52.6–7) states that the walls of Yerushalaim during the First Temple wer ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:50 AM |
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#5055 A Lesson on a Lesson
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– Q. My dearest Rov Shlit’a. B’H I was hired as an organ and piano player to an important and very needed and well rewarding position. It is in a wedding and other simches popular Hall.
I’m to begin immediately when Elul starts. Yet ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:45 AM |
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#5054 Fast Slowly
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- Q. My naturopathic doctor said that I should not fast (in days like 17 Tamuz) so I was thinking to wake up early to eat breakfast and then eat lunch later in the day. However, I forgot it was a fast day and scheduled an appointment to donate bloo ....
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Posted 7/26/2024 10:42 AM |
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#5053 The Correct Current Swim
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Q. Dear Rov. We are staying at the cottage by the lake this Shiva Asar Betamuz, since I wake early before Alos Hashachar (day brake) to eat a meal so I can fast easier, can I then also go swimming in the lake?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. ....
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Posted 7/22/2024 5:07 PM |
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#5052 One Kiddush For All?
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- Q. See question above. In general when we do have a number of people who want to give a kiddush to honor a dear departed one, is it better to give it all together if possible and to make it greater and more beautiful seuda, or to do them separate ....
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Posted 7/22/2024 5:03 PM |
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#5051 The More Kidushin The Better?
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Q. This coming Sunday is the 15 day of Tamuz and is the Yohrzait of two great Gedolim. The Shaagas Aryeh and also the Orach Chaim ZT”L. We want to give a Kiddush this Shabbat to honor their memory.
Is it better to give one great k ....
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Posted 7/22/2024 4:59 PM |
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#5050 Trump Up Trump!
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Q. Dear Rabbi. This week we were witnesses to the attempted murder of President Donald Trump as his truly miraculous salvation. Since he has been and is a very great friend of Israel and the Jewish community, some people in our shul want to serve ....
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Posted 7/19/2024 12:35 PM |
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#5049 Testing the Tasting
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– Q. Kvodo, my father Shlit’a although he does fast on Shiva Assar Betamuz has to take now very necessary pills and needs water to swallow them, normally he does not recite a blessing on that water, since it is not drank for pleasure. However, in a ....
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Posted 7/19/2024 12:32 PM |
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#5048 – Calling on the Calendar
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- Q. The Rov of our shul mentioned that people should help in determining and publishing the times for davening and shiurim of the shul. He said that there is a very special and great mitzva for someone to write the times and schedule of the tefilo ....
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Posted 7/19/2024 12:29 PM |
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#5047 Dish Wishes on Dishes
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- Q. Last Shabbos, we were taking part in a beautiful Sheva Brochos Kiddush. Sadly someone serving tripped and a large pile of dishes fell on the floor and mostly broke. Was it better, since the broken pieces are muktza that just one (the one that ....
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Posted 7/19/2024 12:25 PM |
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