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# 3762 Honor the King!
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Q. Do people have to stand when the Chosson gets an Aliya and walks towards the Torah?
A. Poskim write that it is the minhag to stand for him since he is considered as a king. (Orchos Chaim - H. Kiddushin p. 66, Rokeach 355 and others)< ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:08 PM |
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# 3761 Say Kaddish for this Shaila?
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Q. Can a Ger recite Kaddish for his dear father that did not convert, but was very good and helpful to him, practically from the ' Chasidei Umot Haolam', (righteous of the nations)?
A. Z'kan Aharon (2; 86) maintains that although it is ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:05 PM |
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# 3760 Up with the Chosson
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Q. On the Shabbos Sheva Brochos (the one after the wedding), is the Chosson a chiyuv to get an Aliya? What if there is a Yohrzait who always gets Maftir on that Shabbos, who has priority?
A. Mogen Avrohom (282), Biur Halocho (136) and ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:00 PM |
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3759 A Sefer on New Seforim II
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A Sefer on New Seforim II Q. Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when a new Sefer Torah is donated and introduced to the Shul?
A. See question above. On question 3736 we wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the Sefer ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 11:55 AM |
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# 3758 A Sefer on New Seforim
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Q. Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when buying or receiving a new beautiful Shas or any other precious Sefer?
A. Mishna Berura (223: 13) quotes a disagreement between Poskim if a Shecheyanu bracha should be recited for new seforim, si ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:52 AM |
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# 3757 Stay Apart
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Q. When traveling by plane and walking on the corridor, most often one is going to have to walk between two women seating in the aisle seats. To avoid the prohibition involved, should one take a jacket or other object in one hands to create a separ ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:51 AM |
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# 3756 Dressed to Kill?
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Q. See question above. If these two women are, as is common nowadays not dressed with Tz'nius (decor), can I still take out a sefer and learn Torah next to them?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 75: 2) rules that one may not read the shema or r ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:49 AM |
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# 3755 Talk the Walk
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Q. Dear Rov, I have a few questions concerning traveling by plane this days, when the planes are very often totally full.
If I'm given a seat between two women and I have already asked them if they would kindly change seats with me bu ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:47 AM |
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# 3754 Fill Your Boots
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Q. Can one use a wine-skin or Bota Bag Canteen, made from animal skin to carry wine and other liquids?
A. Those wine or liquid containers are mentioned repeatedly in the Talmud and Poskim.
Talmud Shabbos (110b) mentions the ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:45 AM |
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# 3753 Miracles Do Happen
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Q. Dear Rov and friend; As we spoke before, I had an accident last week. I tripped and fell into the street when stepping out from my home, hurt my head on the sidewalk and started bleeding. I was rushed to the nearest hospital, and then a true mira ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:42 AM |
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# 3752 Get Full Testimony
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Q. During the Chupa ceremony the officiating Rabbi after reading aloud the Ketuba, (Marriage Document), gives the document over to the Chosson (groom), so he can then give it to the bride and she usually transfers it to her mother for temporary saf ....
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Posted 6/19/2022 5:39 PM |
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# 3751 Just a Cup?
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Q. Hello Rabbi. Can someone make Kiddush using a disposable plastic cup?
A. It is common in some synagogues that when a large Kiddush is offered, the late comers who are reciting their own Kiddush use the disposable plastic cups. Some ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:45 PM |
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# 3750 The Tzedek Bedeck
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Q. Hello Rav. Q. I'm aware that some Chassanim (grooms) don't wear any decorative items, such as their golden watch gifted, when they enter their Chupa ceremony. Is there a source to that?
A. Indeed this minhag is mentioned in seforim ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:43 PM |
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# 3749 Honor the Father
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Q. Is it recommended that a father who is a Rabbi should be the Mesader Kissushin and officiate at the wedding of one of his children?
A. Although some Poskim do mention that there may be an issue of opening oneself to 'Ain Hora'a' (ev ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:41 PM |
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# 3748 Get Nowhere Fast
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Q. I daven Maariv in a shul where there is a Chiyuv (an 'obliged' person in mourning who leads the prayers) and he davens very fast. I can not keep up with him at the end of the Krias Shema brochos and I'm still saying Hashkivenu, when he is already ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:40 PM |
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# 3747 Sure Cure
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Q. Good morning Rabbi, both my husband and I are diabetics and require frequent visits to the chiropodist. The next appointment was scheduled for July 28, which is the first day of Av. Should we change the appointment? It generally involves cutting ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:37 PM |
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# 3746 Know Where the Bodies are Buried
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Q. Hello, I'm a Ba'al Teshuva with a Jewish sister that married a Non-Jew (who did a conservative conversion of some type). If she wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery (which I believe she would) , I'm wondering if he would be allowed to be buri ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:35 PM |
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# 3745 Don't Foil this Shaila
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Q. I was told that foil disposable pans should not be squashed on Shabbos (to make room in the garbage bin). Is that true for other items like tissue boxes, cereal boxes, pop bottles, etc? what about if I am squashing it and then resetting it to its ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:33 PM |
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# 3744 Just Saying Thanks
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Q. Re - above question, The Rov mentioned that women after saying a Brocho or Tefila, are required to say Kiddush on Shabbos morning before drinking even water. Don't almost all women say 'Mode Ani" when they wake up as men do. If so they should al ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:31 PM |
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# 3743 A Drinking Problem
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Q. Dear rabbi, I understand that on Shabbos morning, a woman may drink coffee, tea, juice, etc before she davens. Is there a time limit to that? if she wakes up at 11 am and her shul is already finished davening, can she still drink at home before ....
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Posted 6/16/2022 10:29 PM |
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