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# 4181 Grab a Bite
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Q. An Orthodox rabbi told me it's okay to eat a little during the (Hagada recitation at the) Seder if I get hungry. I just have to make sure to say the appropriate after bracha before starting the meal. Is this standard practice as I never heard ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:15 PM |
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# 4180 Be My Guest
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Q. See above question. The other friend's family is very laid back. Can I just go along with them or do I have to keep my usual minhagim?
A. I assume that as opposed to the question above, you mean this family is more lenient than you ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:10 PM |
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# 4179 Guest of Honor
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Q. I am staying with two sets of friends this Pesach. One is very machmir *stringent) and follows Chabad minhagim. Is it okay if I do my own thing (I eat a special diet) and eat on disposable plates so I can enjoy my usual Passover cuisine?
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:09 PM |
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# 4178 Women Included?
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Q. See question above. Would that apply also to the women?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 472: 14) rules that women are obligated to keep all the mitzvos of the Pesach night. Mishna Berura (44, 45) explains that it includes not only the four cu ....
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Posted 3/30/2023 11:06 PM |
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# 4177 Please, You Tell Them the Story
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Q. Shalom Ubracha Kvod Harav Shlit’a. A dear friend of us, due to L’A an operation on his throat a few weeks ago, for a malignant growth lost his voice. He is very distressed and wants to know if he can comply with the mitzva of telling the H ....
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Posted 3/26/2023 3:29 PM |
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# 4176 Not the Brightest Shabbos Clock
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Q. I have a digital clock which adjusts its brightness automatically based on the brightness in the room. There is no way to turn this feature off. If the clock is on can I enter the room or open/close the blinds in the room on Shabbos if it will m ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:43 AM |
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# 4175 Must Mention Intention?
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Q. On question 4160 and others you mentioned the importance of learning now the Halachot of Pesach. I heard that this is a Mitzva M’deuraita (Biblical Mitzva), can that be true? Does then one have to have special intention for complying with it, as ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:40 AM |
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# 4174 Trial by Fire
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Q. Dear Rov. I attended a wedding in which the Rov also officiated. A woman walking down the line after the Bride, tragically got her dress caught in fire by some decorative candles that were placed on the floor on the way to the Chupa. Hatzala wa ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:25 AM |
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# 4173 Not the Brightest Candle
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Q. If someone by mistake lit a Yohrzait candle on the wrong day, and then realized his error, can he extinguish the candle and saved it for the right day.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that he can extinguish the candle and ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:21 AM |
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# 4172 Tend to the Traveling Treasure
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Q. A group of family and friends are traveling for Pesach to a settlement of rented houses and we are planing to have a minyan. Since we are traveling with luggage and children, which is the best way to carry a Sefer Torah
A. Piskei Tes ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:19 AM |
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# 4171 History in the Making
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Q. Shalom Rabbi Bartfeld. As per our phone discussion, I am sending you this email to ask for some guidance on how to find solid evidence that my wife and I have Sephardic Bnei Anusim ancestry. Since we want to convert in an Orthodox manner, we are ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:16 AM |
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# 4170 The Proven Oven
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Q. On Question 3793 regarding the temperature that a cheres (clay) Matza oven needs to be in order to burn up the left over dough that was not baked before 18 minutes, you wrote:
“Horav Aharon Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that whatever temperat ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:14 AM |
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# 4169 Meet the Mat
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Q. See above question. Since the LoMi mat is used at high heat, can it be considered as becoming kosher between cooking and used for milk after meat and opposite?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should not use the ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:12 AM |
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# 4168 Roll Out the Welcomed Mat
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Q. See question above. Can one use the LoMi Cooktop Mat, that is a piece of white cloth material made of silica clot and silicon dioxide. It is heat resistant from 1050°F to 2000°F. They advertise that “All our products are Kosher certified. Also o ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:09 AM |
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# 4167 Kashering it – Not Cracking it
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Q. Dearest Rov amv”s. We are traveling out of town for Pesach and renting a house that has a glass top stove. How do we Kasher it and use it on Pesach?
A.On question 515 we wrote “Kosher certifying agencies agree that prior to kos ....
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Posted 3/22/2023 10:24 PM |
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# 4166 A Freilechen St. Patrick's day?
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Q. I attend a daily minyan, that as others do, offers an after Shacharit Kiddush with a drink and mezonot. The attendants before drinking a small cup of liquor, as tradition goes wish each other 'Lechaim', Mal Tov, or if it is aYohrzait, ' ....
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Posted 3/20/2023 10:54 AM |
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# 4165 A Brisk Bedika Beginning
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Q. The Rabbi in our Shul (he learned in Brisk) has a tradition that the night before Pesach, after Maariv and before everyone goes home and does the search, repeats the Halachot Bedikat Chametz and that takes about fifteen minutes. Is that correct ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:26 PM |
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# 4164 Have a Clean Touch
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Q. If a blind person owns a dog that he constantly touches, does he have to wash his hands every time before he makes a Bracha?
A. From Talmud (Nazir 48a and Rambam – H. Tumas Ochlim 15: 9) is obvious that one who is prohibited to beco ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:21 PM |
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# 4163 Searching for a Search Answer
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Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We will be Be’H spending Pesach with our children in Israel. We will be travelling about two weeks before Yom Tov. We are also planning to sell our house on an early sell, the day before Erev Pesach, so we won’t have to cl ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:20 PM |
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# 4162 Clean Intentions
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Q. If always when cleaning the house from chametz before Pesach one already complies with the mitzva of ‘Tashbisu’ since this is a Biblical mitzva, in order to comply one has to have Kavana or intention to comply with the Mitzva. Is this correct? I ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:17 PM |
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