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# 3921 Just Nod - I Did and I Do
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Q. As the Rov knows from the other questions that I have asked regarding ill patients in an old age home and some, that some cannot speak.
Is it proper to prepare a short Viduy of common Averot (sins) that people commit and read i ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:19 PM |
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# 3920 Let's Have a Drink?
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Q. Since it is a Mitzva to eat on Erev Yom Kippur, does that include drinks also and water?
A. Horav Shlomo Millers's Shlit'a opinion is that drinking other drinks is a mitzva. however, water depends if he recites a brocho on it as h ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:15 PM |
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# 3919 Just Grab a Bite?
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Q. Dear Rov. If someone has to eat during Yom Kippur and he has the option to first eat small amounts which are less that the Shiur that is set for the Biblical prohibition. But then as the day goes by he may have to actually eat a larger amount t ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:14 PM |
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# 3918 You Better Confess?
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Q. If a woman does not usually daven Mincha at all, does she have to daven on Erev Yom Kippur to say Viduy?
A. Poskim disagree. Kovetz Halochos (27: 5) maintains that they should daven Mincha on Erev Yom Kippur in order to recite the ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:12 PM |
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# 3917 The Open Secret
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Q. Kvod Harav, since Yom Kippur is also the true day of Kabalat Hatorah, as the permanent Luchot were given on that day, why is there no mention at all in all the Tefilot and Pizmonim of this Holy Day of anything about it?
A. Horav Shl ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:11 PM |
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# 3916 All Intents and Purposes
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Q. Does one need to have in mind to comply with the mitzva of Teshuva when reciting Viduy?
A. Kovetz Halochos (26: 10) rules that since it is part of the Biblical mitzva of Teshuva, one has to have intention to comply, otherwise one ma ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:10 PM |
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# 3915 Listen All Now
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Q. Re- question above. Can Viduy then be said for many patients together that cannot speak?
A. Following the above reasoning it can when in need. (Kovetz Halochos 26).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Hora ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:08 PM |
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# 3914 Listen to Reason
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Q. Dear Rov. As you well know, I take care of elderly people in a populated old-age home.
I try to help the ones that can't attend the services and stay in their beds to make Teshuva on Yom Kippur as much as possible. Since some of them can't ....
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Posted 10/4/2022 5:07 PM |
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# 3913 Got So, So Many Mitzvos! How?
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Q. Dear Rov. If someone does Teshuva out of love, we know that the sins turn into mitzvos. Since this is a most important point in being successful in the Days of Judgment, I would like to know. Is that love achieved by learning Torah as we say ....
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Posted 10/3/2022 5:46 PM |
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# 3912 Aliya or Yerida?
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Q. In a large shul, a wealthy member bought an expensive Rosh Hashana Aliya. When he was about to be called to the Torah, he told the Gabai that he wants the Aliya to be given to his father instead. The problem was that the father does not keep Sha ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 11:00 PM |
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# 3911 Crime Doesn't Pay
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Q. If someone sees that the fellow davening next to him has a Machzor that was obviously stolen from a shul and tell him that he may not comply with the davening as it is a Mitzva Haba'a Beavera, (a mitzva done by doing a sin)?
A. On q ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:58 PM |
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# 3910 The Right Site of the Bed
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Q. Thank so much Kevod Horav for answering the difficult questions involved in the blowing of the Shofar in a large retirement home. Is it permitted for a sick old man to be brought into the shul of the institution in his bed, and place it on a sid ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:56 PM |
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# 3909 Time to Learn?
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Q. Another question Rov. My family minhag has been to learn Mishanayos Rosh Hashana during the four meals of those Holy Days. However, when we have guest men and women who don't follow the learning, my wife claims that this learning should be avoid ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:53 PM |
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# 3908 Watch What you Eat
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Q. Dear Rov. I know that during the Ten Yamim Noraim Days one should be more stringent in the foods one eats, including avoiding 'Pas Akum' or bread not baked in a Jewish Bakery. Does that include pretzels, Cheerios and wheat cereals?
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:51 PM |
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# 3907 Don't Lose Sleep Over This
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Q. Can one sleep when putting his head on a Shtender during Rosh Hashana afternoon, when it says one should not sleep?
A. Although the Arizal is lenient and permits sleeping in that afternoon, other Poskim are stringent such as the Mat ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:50 PM |
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# 3906 Allow the Blow?
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Q. Can a Baal Tokea blow the Shofar for training on Erev Rosh Hashana?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 581: 3) rules that one should not blow Shofar on Erev Rosh Hashana.
Whether, one may blow for teaching or training, seems to d ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:48 PM |
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# 3905 Make the Bread to Brake
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Q. Is it correct that on the night of Rosh Hashana you are supposed to make the bracha and cut the upper Chalah? Why?
A. Indeed Mate Ephraim rules that the upper Chalah should be cut first on Rosh Hashana(583:1).
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:46 PM |
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# 3904 Collecting Thoughts on Collection Times
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Q. Does a woman have to make her own Pruzbul at the end of the Shemita year?
A. See questions 614, 871, 872, 873, and 879 on the meaning and Halachos of Pruzbul.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in general circumstan ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:37 PM |
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# 3903 Choosing the Rosh Hashana Best
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- Q. Dear Rabbi; I have an option of davening in a shul where they have an excellent Baal Tokea, (Blower of the Shofar) that follows all the dikdukim, halachos and kavanot (Halacha details and intentions) of the mitzva of Shofar.
I ....
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Posted 9/25/2022 4:05 PM |
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# 3902 A Real Sound Problem
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Q. As we spoke by phone, I blow the Shofar for a large group of members of a retirement home that tries to serve the religious needs of a mixed group where only about 20% are orthodox. In the floors where the patients are bed bound and they don't at ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:32 PM |
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