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# 3928 Is it Really Night Already?
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Q. I have young children that would very much like to eat in the Suka the first night, but I we wait for Tzeis Hakochovim (stars being seen) they may fall asleep. Can we do Kiddush after the Shekiah (sunset)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's op ....
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Posted 10/9/2022 10:11 AM |
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# 3927 Wow! What a Beautiful Sukka!
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Q. Can you cover your Sukka with just flowers, are they Kasher Schach? Could you use flowers that trap insects?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that flowers could be used for covering the Sukka, and you can also use flowers that ....
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Posted 10/9/2022 10:08 AM |
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# 3926 See the Sea Schach?
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Q. Can one use Schach to cover the Sukka from marine plants that grow in a lake or in the sea?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that marine plants can be used for Schach.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam ....
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Posted 10/9/2022 10:06 AM |
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# 3925 A Fresh Daily Start?
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Q. I heard that Rabbi Dunner of London advises to keep as long as possible the Aravot of the Lulav during Sukot since a mitzva was done with them, one should maintain it and use it as much as possible. Is that correct?
A. Remah (O.H, 65 ....
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Posted 10/6/2022 10:20 PM |
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# 3924 On the Right Side of the Fence
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Q. If there is a solid Mechitza like a wooden fence high four feet surrounding a Suka for at least three sides, can one cover the rest above or next to it with a curtain that moves with the wind?
A. Igrois Moshe (O.H. 1:136) maintains ....
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Posted 10/6/2022 10:15 PM |
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# 3923 Count on the Coat of Paint?
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Q. Dear Rabbi. I heard that there is a spray that can be applied to cut pine trees (used for Christmas) that makes them last and look fresh longer. Could that be used 'Lehavdil' for the Schach of the Suka?
A. Haelef Lecha Shlomo (364) ....
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Posted 10/6/2022 10:03 PM |
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# 3922 Keep an Eye on the Weather
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Q. Is it a mitzva to make a Suka that can withstand a 'Ruach Sheino Metzuya' (an unusually strong wind) when that actually does come on our location from time to time, like every ten years or similar?
A. Kovetz Halochos (4: 7) maintai ....
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Posted 10/6/2022 9:53 PM |
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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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