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Expand Article #5188 Healthy Ill Visiting
- Q. Is it permitted for a man to visit an ill woman for Bikur Cholim purposes?
The question is when she is in a private room in a hospital.

A. If the door is kept a bit open so a passerby can see inside the room it is permitted. ....


Posted 11/22/2024 10:04 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5187 A Bikur On Bikur Cholim
- Q. If one visits a person in a hospital and sees that he is not complying with the basic mitzvos he usually keeps as Tefilin, davening and even saying Shema, and when asked why he replies that the room is dirty by other patients and he himself is ....


Posted 11/22/2024 10:01 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5186 Note and Take Note
- Q, See question above. If one visits a sick person, yet he is not available for visiting, as he may be sleeping or under treatment, did he comply with the mitzva of Bikur Cholim?
How about if he lives a written note with a proper message, ....


Posted 11/22/2024 9:59 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5185 Call In the Sick?
- Q. Moreinu Horav Shelita. If someone texts or send an email to a sick friend does he comply with the mitzva of bikur cholim?

A. On a similar question (4049) we wrote:
“Q. Can one comply properly with the mitzva of Bikur ....


Posted 11/17/2024 11:04 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5184 Who Are U?
- Q. Can one invite a guest home, that one is not sure if he is truly Jewish, since his mother is very assimilated?

A. There are many cases of kiruv of assimilated people in which doubts of the true Halacha of Jewish identity are comm ....


Posted 11/15/2024 1:21 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5183 Honor the Guest?
Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I have a number of questions concerning Hachnasat Orchim or the mitzva of inviting guest for Shabbat, that is the prevalent in this week’s Parsha of Vaera.

1) Can yo invite a non religious guest that may be ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5182 An Everyday Yohrzait
- Q. Rabbenu Shlit’a. Why do people celebrate the Yohrzait of Rachel Imenu more than any other of the Avot (Patriarchs)? When exactly is the day of the Yohrzait?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that Rachel Imenu cried ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:25 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5181 Popping Only With Corn?
- Q. Hello Rav, My teenage daughter was asking me if it would be permissible to eat movie theater popcorn.
She has no intention of watching a movie there, and is comfortable with Chalav Stam.She just wants to try the popcorn! We shelter our ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:23 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5180 A Peace Sacrificial Offering?
- Q. Dear Rov: On question 5175 above, you apparently permitted frum people when in need to attend the Kristallnacht anniversary. Is that not a most unusual and uncommon minhag for Bnei Torah?

A. Although commonly Bnei Torah and Yeshi ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:19 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5179 A Tinfoil Hat?
- Q. Hello Rav, My family occasionally stays at the home of a frum ashkenaz relative for up to a week. In their home, they have one microwave that they will use for meat and dairy and apparently were told by their Rav that they can use it for an ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5178 Early and Bright?
- Q. (See above question). How important is it then to make the great effort and wake up so early to daven then?

A. Poskim write that as valuable and important praying with the Netz is, if it would interfere with the crucial intenti ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:11 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5177 Everything is Under the Sun
- Q. A choshuve (important) Marbitz Torah in Toronto told me that the main reason for davening K'Vasikin in the morning is in order to praise HaShem for the benefits of the sun. Does the Rav know on what that is based?

A. Although, I ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:08 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5176 At Hashem’s Earliest Convenience
- Q. Dear Rabbi, What are the benefits of davening early Vasikin, (when the sun rises) and how much effort should one do for it?

A. “Tefilas Vasikin” in the Ashkenzi tradition, refers to the very early morning prayer of Shacharis. This ....


Posted 11/15/2024 12:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5175 – Kristallnacht Clear?
Q. Dear Rov. Some members of my family keep in their shul the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" on Nov 10. They have invited me to attend with them. Is there an issue in Halacha on going?

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Posted 11/10/2024 11:16 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5174 Collect one’s Thoughts on Collect
- Q. Can I send a collection agency after a Jew who didn't pay their bill of $6K.

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that it is permitted when in need.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav ....


Posted 11/8/2024 12:26 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5173 Some More AI-Vey
- Q. Kvod Rabenu. If someone was informed by an AI service email, that is part of a mortuary institution of the death of a close friend, should he already then make the bracha of Dayan Emeth?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion i ....


Posted 11/8/2024 12:20 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5172 Wash and Dry and…
Q. Can one use a tissue paper towel or a napkin used for drying ones hands after washing for a Shabbat meal, to further clean and dry hands, mouth or nose, during the meal, when it still is wet and it may involve prohibited Sechita or squeezing?


Posted 11/8/2024 12:17 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5171 Good Times Begin with a Blessing!
- Q. Dear Rov this is a Shaila I‘m sure you will love and we need a real prompt answer. Today in the very early hours of the morning we became aware that Donald Trump won B’H the election. Two questions. 1) Do we say Tachanun this morning or do we t ....


Posted 11/6/2024 12:35 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5170 Justifying Justice
- Q. If someone a few times a year walk to a shul on Shabbos that is close to a Jewish cemetery and as he comes close he can see clearly the burial places and the Matzeivos (stones) on them, does he recite the customary brocho of “Yotzar Eschem Ba ....


Posted 11/5/2024 6:47 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5169 Red Strings Attached?
- Q. Dear Rov Shlita. Am I allowed to wear during Shabbat where one isn’t allowed to carry, a small piece of the afikoman left from the seder I ate while visiting my grandparents last Pesach? They said it is a segula for not forgeting them and ....


Posted 11/3/2024 10:33 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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