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#5363 An Inyan for a Minyan?
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- Q. I have seen that in some shuls a minyan gathers to recite the bracha on the trees. Do you really require a minyan?
A. No minyan is required. However, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a mentioned that since we usually maintain that “Berov ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:44 PM |
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#5362 A Blooming Shaila!
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- Q. In Gibraltar, they are saying Bircat Ha’ilanot after minchah today! When should we say it?
A. On question 288 we wrote; “This year, due to the earliness of Pesach, the blooming of trees at this latitude occurred very late on the ....
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Posted 4/4/2025 12:41 PM |
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#5361 - Searching a Good Hotel?
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. You know us well as I daven often in your shul. This is the first year, due to health issues that we will spending Pesach in a Hotel, and I have a number of questions. Do I have to do Bedikas Chametz in the hotel room?
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Posted 3/30/2025 11:20 AM |
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#5360 The "No Mas Atlas of Muchas Tortillas"
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- Q. Estimado Honorable Rabino. Are tortillas made of corn that is kitnioth permited when care is taken to make them and bake the as one would do with Matza Shemurah?
Why should Kitniot that is only prohibited by the Ashkenazi tradit ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:52 AM |
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#5359 A Blessed Sale?
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- Q. Someone that is traveling away for Pesach and will be selling the complete house with all the food included on a transaction that will take place, as organized by a competent Rabbi before the night of the 14th or Erev Pesach begins, so he wi ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:38 AM |
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#5358 All Menchen Must Have Intention!
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- Q. If as Poskim write that one complies with the mitzva of “Tashbisu” or destroying the chometz already thirty days before Pesach, then one should have the intention of complying with this mitzva when eating bread and other chometz during that t ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:33 AM |
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#5357 Very Busy with Sushi?
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- Q. See above question. As we already asking about sushi what is the correct brocho on sushi. We have heard different opinions. What is Horav Shlomo Shlit’a opinion?
A. On question 3495 we wrote:
"Q. What is Horav Mill ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:27 AM |
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#5356 A Kashi on the Sushi?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We have a great family of friends that need to be invited for Peisach and are having a difficult time getting an invitation. We would love to invite them and their children.
An issue is that they are Sepharadi ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:21 AM |
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#5355 The Brocho of Gebrochts?
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- Q. We usually invite guest for the Peisach Seder that may not be very Frum yet, as we are trying to be mekarev them while complying with the mitzva of Hachnasat Orchim.
It is not unusual to see our guest dip the matza or place piec ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:17 AM |
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#5354 Invite the Real Hero?
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- Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit”a. We are preparing for the Pesach seder and the guest we want to invite and we are considering our choices.
Is it a greater mitzva to invite a bochur who learns in Yeshiva and is already very learned and like ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:11 AM |
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#5353 Address the Dress!
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- Q. From what age on do the girls who come to shul have to be dressed with Tznius?
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit’a pointed out that in regards to the prohibition of reading words of holiness in front of undressed children Mishna Berura (75 ....
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:04 AM |
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#5352 One More Hagada Question?
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- Q. Dear Rov, I heard that there is a special Mitzva when one is invited to a Seder on Pesach to bring your own Hagada, which is basically very similar to the ones being offered by the host. Is that true?
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Posted 3/28/2025 11:01 AM |
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#5351 Joys Of Spring?
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- Q. Dearest Rabbi. As our family is traveling away for Pesach and we are staying with one of our children, when, if and how, do we have to comply with the ceremony of searching for the chamets, as we do at home every year?
A. The ....
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Posted 3/23/2025 2:33 PM |
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#5350 Small Sefer – Big Reading?
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- Q. In the case when one can not attend shul early enough, should one take out after davening the sefer Torah and just read it as is, without a minyan?
A. On question 4904 we wrote:
Q. Someone who is waiting in a hospital ....
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:45 AM |
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#5349 Never Heard This?
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- Q. If someone did not have any intention at all when listening to the parsha of Parah we are going to read this coming Shabbat (2025), does one comply?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the fact that one was present and ....
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:42 AM |
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#5348 Par up for Parshat Parah?
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Q. – As the Rabbi knows, we have established a new minyan an we are wondering if we have to publish a letter and remind our members including women to attend this coming Shabbat to hear the Parsha of Parah?
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:39 AM |
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#5347 Have You Heard, Really?
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- Q. Kvod Harav Shlit”a, how come we don’t comply with the obligation for hearing Parshas Parah when we read it as the regular custom is in shul on Parshas Chukas?
A. On question question 2249 we wrote:
“Q. We became ac ....
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:36 AM |
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#5346 The Atara of the Parah?
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi. How important is it for a woman to go to shul and listen to Parshat Parah, since I’m a bit indisposed? I would certainly go to hear Parshas Zachor even in my condition.
A. On question 577 we wrote:
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:31 AM |
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#5345 Lean to Clean and Begin!
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- Q. Rov, is there a mitzva or an obligation to begin cleaning ones home thirty days before Pesach?
A. Maharil (p. 11: 5 and 13: 2) and others rule that there is . See also Nitey Gavriel (4: 3) and others.
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:27 AM |
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#5344 Learning How to Learn?
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- Q. See question above. Can we just ask the people to download the shiurim on Halachot of Pesach on line, and the choice is great and good, or just read them?
A. Bach, Shulchan Aruch Horav, Nitey Gavriel (1: 2) and others mention that ....
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Posted 3/21/2025 11:23 AM |
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