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Expand Article # 3984 Get Your Priorities Right
Q. Does one have to feed his dog before he feeds his small children?

A. Pele Yoetz (Erech Baalei Chaim)mentions that just as it is prohibited to pain one's animals or pets that depend on him, certainly it applies to human beings that ....


Posted 11/18/2022 12:21 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3983 Tell a Fish Shaila
    Q. See question above. Does one have to feed the fish in his aquarium before he eats his own meal?

A. Sheilas Ya'avetz (1:17) addresses the prior question regarding eating one's meal before feeding his cat or dog. He d ....


Posted 11/18/2022 12:19 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3982 Cat in the Sack?
Q. Is it true that it is correct to own a pet like a cat or dog to comply with the mitzva of feeding your animal before you eat?

A. Sefer Chassidim Hechodosh, indeed writes that one should own some pets in his home, so they can be fe ....


Posted 11/18/2022 12:14 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3981 Pray Tell How to Pray
Q. In our Shemonah Esrei when saying the 8th bracha for Refuah and inserting names for cholim, is it appropriate to include individuals with mental health issues? Should one also include names for individuals with a chronic illness (physical and/or ....


Posted 11/18/2022 12:09 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3980 Enlighten the Lights
Q. I know that Shabbat candle-lighting is supposed to be either where I eat my meal or sleep. I was supposed to eat supper in one location and sleep in another but was (late) coming from home. At the last minute, the sleeping arrangements fell thro ....


Posted 11/18/2022 12:01 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3979 For the Record -
Q. See question above. What about my cell phone? Would it matter if it was still on or would it have to be turned off since it might record steps.

A. if the phone was left unwittingly on and it is recording without the owners int ....


Posted 11/17/2022 11:58 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3978 Callback the Knapsack?
Callback the Knapsack?  Q. I have a Shabbat dinner to go to and was wondering if I got there before candle-lighting, can I store my Presto/bus card in my knapsack over Shabbos since I  will not be returning home? Do I&n ....


Posted 11/17/2022 11:46 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3977 The Shaila Was Not Forgotten
Q. Re- question (3975) above that one of the actions mentioned by Talmud Horios (13b) that causes forgetfulness of Torah learning is using one's clothes as a pillow and laying one's head on them.
Is it permitted for one to sleep on a pillow ....


Posted 11/14/2022 3:50 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3976 Lots of Lots
Q. Dear Rabbi we kindly need a prompt answer. This Shabbat as often happens, we have two attendants that have Yohrzait for their fathers in the same week and are candidates for receiving the Maftir Aliya.

In such a situation we usuall ....


Posted 11/10/2022 11:05 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3975 A Not to Forget Shailah
Q. Dear Rov. As is well known one of the actions mentioned that causes forgetfulness of Torah learning is using one's clothes as a pillow and laying one's head on them. Why then do people commonly even in a Beis Medresh when seating next to a Shte ....


Posted 11/10/2022 11:02 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3974 Welcome to the Welcome
Q. Another Hachnasat Orchim (welcoming of guest question) - Rabbi. My wife and I, are engaged for years in being Mekarev people by inviting then to the Friday night Seuda. These are individuals, men and women that are not necessarily religious at a ....


Posted 11/10/2022 11:00 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3973 Honor the Guest of Honor
Q. Rabbi. Some relatives are visiting and staying with us and we are expected to pick them up from the airport. If I usually attend at that time a Torah shiur. Is it correct that I should call an Uber service and attend my daily Torah Shiur.
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Posted 11/10/2022 10:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3972 The Thoughts that Count
Q. Dear Rov. My grandfather became totally paralyzed, but seems to be he is conscious. I know he would very much like to put on Tefilin every day as he did all his life. Can I put Tefilin on his paralyzed hand? Can I make a bracha for him?
< ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:53 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3971 Identity Crisis
Q. A most unusual case was encountered by a Yeshiva student that is part of a Baal Teshuva family, On a recent Friday, while looking through some old family documents, found the conversion certificate of his maternal grandmother. To his overwhelmi ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:51 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3970 Break the Ice Bread?
Q. If one is missing a Chala for Lechem Mishna can he use a frozen one from the freezer?

A. On question 1582 regarding an individual (invited) at the meal has a dietary restriction and can only eat certain special types of bread (e.g., ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:48 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3969 Know Where You Stand
Q. Does one have to stand and honor a Rabbi, parent or elderly person when he is seen through a window, a glass or plastic partition in a shul (Mechitza) or a mirror?

A. Horav Chaim Palachi zt'l in Zechira Lechaim (Behaaloscha) mention ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:43 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3968 Stand Corrected?
Q. Dear Rabbi. I have always wondered since I'm both a son and a father, why is it that children don't stand for their parents in our days when they enter the room they are? Is that not part of the mitzva of Kivud Av Vaem (honoring your father and ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:39 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3967 Pray Tell Me!
Q. On question 1892 you mentioned that Horav Miller rules that a person who is davening Maariv on Motzei Shabbos 50 minutes past sunset, and his custom is to prolong Shabbos for 72 minutes, to say the Havdala of Ata Chonantanu, even if he still k ....


Posted 11/10/2022 10:36 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3966 When Hashem Wills
Q. Is saying Im Irtzeh Hashem (If Hashem wills) when asked to perform a mitzva such as attending a shiur or a minyan similar to saying Beli Neder or without promising?

A. It would seem to depend on how it is said and with what imp ....


Posted 11/6/2022 3:32 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3965 Don't Draw First Blood
Q. Kevod Harav. When one has to inject during Shabbat pain killers or insulin, does one have to be careful not to inject into a vein?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that indeed one should be careful and avoid injecting dire ....


Posted 11/3/2022 10:26 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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