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# 3851 An Unplacenta Question
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Q. Thanks for your answer. Here is another question:
I wanted to have a home birth with a midwife until she told me that the practice suggests putting the afterbirth in the freezer until burial. This seemed disgusting to me so I decided to g ....
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Posted 8/22/2022 5:04 PM |
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# 3850 Pardon my Selicha?
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Q. See question above: Still, why is Selichot different than the Tefilos during the rest of the year?
A. Binyan Shlomo (Hacohen 36) further explains that there is a difference between mitzvos that apply to an individual and they are no ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:52 AM |
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# 3849 Finish What you Started
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Q. Why is it that when there is no Avel leading the services we often have different people doing it. We change the Baal Tefila for Barchu etc. Why don't we say since one is already davening let him continue and finish?
A. Remah (O.H. 5 ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:50 AM |
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# 3848 Clear the Mud
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Q. Dear Rabbi if my glasses fell on the mud while in the cottage and the mud became dry can they be washed on Shabbos? Does the same apply to a window?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit'a maintains that the glasses are not different than dis ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:48 AM |
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# 3848 Clear the Mud
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Q. Dear Rabbi if my glasses fell on the mud while in the cottage and the mud became dry can they be washed on Shabbos? Does the same apply to a window?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit'a maintains that the glasses are not different tha ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:42 AM |
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# 3847 A Cover Story
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Q. See question above: Should one cover the phone, so he won't look at it?
A. The above is recommended.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a. ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:41 AM |
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# 3846 See the Phone?
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Q. Hello Rov. in question 3841regarding a small screen that constantly shows what is happening at the Kotel Hamaaravi via a live camera available online as a Zecher Lechurban. You ruled that it should be turned off during Shabbat. I wonder, if someo ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:39 AM |
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# 3845 A New Kind of Hoisafah?
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Q. Last Shabbos due to the fact that many of our attendants to shul are on vacation, the temporary Gabay mistakenly called for Hagba'ah and Gelilah (raising and dressing the Sefer Torah, done at the end of the reading) before the one called for th ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:36 AM |
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# 3844 Cook the Bug?
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Q. See question above. Does the fact that the corn on the cub was very well cooked at least remove the Biblical prohibition of eating a worm, since it probably got decomposed, mushed or shrunk? If that is correct, then the Safek or doubt if there ar ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:33 AM |
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# 3843 Bug Off
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Q. Dear Rabbi I heard that one should abstain from eating fresh corn on the cob in our days, because of the impending number of insect contamination. Is that true?
A. Small thrips (white/yellowish) and aphids can sometimes be found on t ....
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Posted 8/19/2022 12:29 AM |
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# 3842 Let the Happy Times Begin
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Q. Thanks Rov for answering last question so promptly. Someone was offered by his physician to have a leadless pacemaker installed on the week after Tisha Beav but before Tu Beav. The procedure is not urgent, should he preferable wait until the end ....
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Posted 8/16/2022 4:56 PM |
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# 3841 Framing the Picture Frame
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit'a. Is it correct to place as a Zecher Lechurban (remainder to the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash) in our family room a small screen that constantly shows what is happening at the Kotel Hamaaravi via a live camera available onlin ....
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:41 PM |
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# 3840 Indicate how to Meet your Mate
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Q. We have a minhag that we do a Seuda Leiluy Nishmas Reb Yonasan Ben Uziel together with other families of friends on Tu Bav since Seforim say that it is a Segula for finding the right Shiduchim for our children. This year since Tu Beav is Erev Sh ....
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:37 PM |
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# 3839 Too Early an Invitation?
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Q. I had an issue with the fellow in charge of printing the monthly magazine of our shul. They publicize the forthcoming Smachot as weddings, Bar Mitzvas etc. Since I'm marrying off my daughter a few weeks after the end of the Yamim Tovim, the fell ....
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:35 PM |
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# 3838 Guest to Honor
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Q. Given the option, is there a greater mitzva of Hachnassat Orchim or inviting guest to one's home for men guest or women guest?
A. Bikurei Shai (Avos 1: 5) explains the saying of Yose ben Yochanan: "Let your house be wide open, and le ....
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:34 PM |
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# 3837 Happy or Not?
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Q. One that has the family tradition to fast on the day of the Yohrzait of a dear one. If the first Yohrzait day is this coming Friday 'Tu Beav'; Does he fast?
If he does not, is it proper to make a Siyum and a Seuda?
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:29 PM |
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# 3836 Between Life and Death
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Q. There is a tradition in our family to invite our deceased grandfathers to weddings and other S'machot by placing an invitation to the occasion at the Matzeva, usually in the container where the candles are lit. A member of our visiting relatives ....
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Posted 8/11/2022 10:28 PM |
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# 3835 Get a Good Name
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Q. I lead a group that is building a new shul and of course most of the work involved is raising the funds needed. From experience we know that it is easier to get contributions when a name is given to an important article to be acquired ....
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Posted 8/9/2022 3:28 PM |
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# 3834 Draw the Curtain
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Q. There was a disagreement in our shul as to when to put back the Poroches (curtain in front of the Aron Hakodesh) that is removed during Tisha Beav. Is it after Chatzos (midday) or at the time one begins Maariv. What is correct.
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Posted 8/9/2022 11:31 AM |
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# 3833 A Fast Break?
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Q. Dear Rabbi: If someone had to take pills with some water during Tisha Beav as permitted by Halacha due to his medical condition, is he still considered as fasting and can still recite Anenu or get an Aliya LaTorah?
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Posted 8/9/2022 11:26 AM |
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