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# 4135 A Shocking Earthquake
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Q. See question above. Does one say a bracha when experiencing a killer or damaging large earthquake?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 227: 1) rules that on earthquakes as well as lightening and thunder, or on very strong winds
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:25 PM |
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# 4134 A Fair Shake
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Q. History tells us that in Eretz Yisrael, roughly every one hundred years there is a very large earthquake, of magnitude 6 or above along the Dead Sea fault. Nadav Wetzler, an Israel Geological Survey seismologist mentioned recently that the last ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:24 PM |
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# 4133 Death Us Depart?
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. Firstly as an active member of Bikur Cholim, thank you for your efforts in answering and providing help to the many difficult Shaalos and doubts involved in our days, especially in Canada, in not terminating the elderly, the si ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:22 PM |
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# 4132 Moral Fibers
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Q. Does a woman from a Chassidik background that due to her tradition of Tzniyus and modesty usually goes out from the house covered completely, however, when at home she only covers as Halacha requires have to behave the same way, covering herself ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:20 PM |
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# 4131 Hit The Bottle?
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Q. I was a guest by someone on Shabbos. He and his Rebbetzin were having a hard time opening a bottle and asked me if I could open it. What is the correct and courteous response can I simply reply that my custom is not to open bottles during Shabbos ....
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Posted 3/2/2023 10:19 PM |
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# 4130 Join the Party of Life
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Q. In our large Shul there is a tradition that on Zain Adar (day 7 of Adar) there is a Seuda Given in honor of the Chervra Kadisha as is also customary in other places. The Seuda is open for all Shul members to attend, and to give honor and recogni ....
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Posted 2/27/2023 5:29 PM |
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# 4129 A Flap on the Clap
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Q. Can one play hand clapping games with children or adults?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”’a opinion is that it is better to avoid them since although it is a game done voluntarily, and usually it avoids hurting one another, it ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 11:00 PM |
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# 4128 Clean Hands
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Q. Women immersing in a mikva, when they recite the bracha have to place their hands over their middle to separate their upper part from the bottom. But how can they then recite with the name of Hashem a bracha, if with their hands they are touchi ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:58 PM |
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# 4127 Some Light on Night Light
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Q. If we are planing to invite some travelling guest for the Purim Seuda and they may arrive after the Shekia (sunset), is the fact that they arrive and there is light in the house permit them in need to eat then as a well lighted room helps in o ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:56 PM |
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# 4126 The Brim of the Grim in Purim
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Q. See question above. Dear Rabbi. My father L’A is about to have an brain operation to remove a tumor and it is programmed to take place on the Monday before Purim. He won’t be able to hear the Megilah on Purim. Can he hear it on the Sunday befor ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:53 PM |
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# 4125 A Glad Door to Adar
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Q. The Gemara teaches that when the month of Adar begins we increase our Simcha and happiness. How exactly is that reflected in practice? Do we do anything special or extra to comply with this mitzva? If not, what does it mean, since we always have ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:51 PM |
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# 4124 More Words on More Words
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Q. Hello Rav, Thank you so much for your timely response. I just want to clarify one issue please. You wrote "The accepted tradition in our days is that a person receiving an Aliya can recite the brocho following his own singular pronunciation, w ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:49 PM |
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# 4123 Enlightening the Candle Lighting
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Q. A woman began Bentching Licht (lighting Shabbos candles) early. Is this a Neder that her husband can annul so she can still do Melacha (work prohibited during Shabbos)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”’a opinion is that she wou ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:46 PM |
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# 4122 A Tip on Scale Tipping
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Q. Kvod Harav Shlita, Being that there is a Issur (prohibition) of just owning and having in one’s possession false weights even if one never uses it to cheat or steal from anyone, is one forbidden to have a food scale that when the battery gets ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:42 PM |
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# 4121 Uncharted Waters
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Q. A Bachur forgot to put Negel Vasser (water used for washing hands immediately after one wakes up from sleep) by his bed. May he ask a Cohen in the dorm to bring it to him, may he ask a Cohen to do basic things in the dorm like helping to bring ....
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Posted 2/23/2023 10:36 PM |
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# 4120 A Lifting Question
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Q. Dear Rav Shlita. Is there any problem to teach my teenager son to do Hagba’a (lifting) on a Sefer Torah, when it is not during Krias Hatorah? Is there a Bizayon (embarrassment) to the Torah to take it out just teach and allow one to practice doi ....
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Posted 2/21/2023 4:23 PM |
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# 4119 Mind Your Read
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Q. An elderly and ill individual that only goes these days to shul for Mincha on Shabbos being taken on a wheelchair. This next Shabbos is Parshas Shekolim, since he will not be there in the morning when that parsha is read, can it be read for him ....
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Posted 2/16/2023 10:59 PM |
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# 4118 How Can You Help
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Q. A person who is machmir not to carry even when there is an Eruv, should he make an exception to bring food to a sick home bound neighbor or rather let the neighbor fend for himself?
A. The best choice is to ask someone that does ca ....
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Posted 2/16/2023 10:56 PM |
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# 4117 Speak for Yourself
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Q. Rav, If someone gets an aliyah at a shul with a different Nusach (tradition of pronunciation) than his, which version of the bracha should he say? For example, a Sephardi would add "et Torato" in the bracha after the aliyah. Is that appropriate ....
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Posted 2/16/2023 10:49 PM |
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# 4116 The Doctor's Doctor
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Q. When in need for saving a life of a sick person during Shabbos, and one has an equal choice of similar doctors to call, yet one is Jewish but not Frum and the other is a Gentile, which one should one call.
A. Although some Poskim ma ....
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Posted 2/16/2023 10:47 PM |
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