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# 3795 All Intents and Purposes
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Q. Since the Kavana and intention of putting on Tefilin is that we should learn Torah, why is that not mentioned at all in the Yehi Ratzon or any Tefilah in the common Sidurim said before putting them on?
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Posted 7/17/2022 3:54 PM |
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# 3794 Pray Together Stay Together?
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Q. A person who Davens Vasikin in a place where they struggle for a minyan, when there is no minyan should he daven beyechidus (no minyan) by the Netz (sunrise) or delay his Shemoneh Esrei a number of minutes past the Netz until the others will com ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:38 PM |
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# 3793 Hot Check
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Q. What temperature does a cheres (clay) Matza oven need to be in order to burn up the left over dough that was not baked before 18 minutes?
A. Horav Aharon Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that whatever temperature burns pro ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:36 PM |
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# 3792 Good New Times?
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Q. Dear Rov I'm moving into a new building that uses facial recognition to let one enter the building. Guest have to ring bells. What should one do during Shabbos?
A. As you also figured face identification triggering electrical circui ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:34 PM |
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# 3791 Ethical Machine?
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Q. See questions above regarding the use of new computer programs, artificial intelligence and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah.
Can one use such a program to give him Mussar and ethical spiritual discourses and awakening ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:33 PM |
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# 3790 Intelligent Friend?
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Q. See questions above regarding the use of new computer programs, artificial intelligence and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah. Can one use such a program to be a Chavrusa or learning company and learn with it, ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:30 PM |
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# 3789 Spin Machine?
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Q. See question above regarding the use of new computer programs and digital libraries as a help for learning Torah.
2) Can you use the computer program above to question it on Halacha and what a person should do on a specific cases? W ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:29 PM |
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# 3788 Don't Lag, Log In
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Q. Kevod Harav. A group of great Lomdei Torah, experts in modern Halacha questions and some skillful computer and information specialists, have been working together to develop different computer programs that can greatly help now and in the incomin ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:27 PM |
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# 3787 Quick Fast
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Q. See question 3780 regarding fasting on Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas. If one follows the vast majority of people who are not even aware of this particular mournful and tragic anniversary of the burning of so many Sefarim and original unique texts, ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:25 PM |
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# 3786 Early Wedding?
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Q. Is it better for one to get married before Shiva Assar Betamuz and then have some of the Sheva Brachot during the Three Weeks, or better wait until after Tisha Beav and do the wedding then?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Bein Hametzarim 1: 1) quo ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:24 PM |
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# 3785 City Veracity
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Q. See question 3771 above regarding that a shul should be higher than the roofs of the city where people live. How do we define a "city" as far as this din is concerned, does it mean the whole city?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a op ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:22 PM |
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# 3784 Lechaim to All
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Q. One that is a guest in a house with small children and the father was away for Shabbat. The wife made Kiddush for all and then she poured some wine from her cup to small glasses for all the guest to partake. Is a man allowed to drink that wine?< ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:21 PM |
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# 3783 Equal Rights?
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Q. In our small early minyan we had a Shaila on the correct shape of a letter in the Sefer Torah,
It was a case that requires a child of about six or seven to recognize the letter. There was only available in the shul a girl that goes ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:20 PM |
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# 3782 A Bundle of Joy
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Q. I was invited to a wedding, being acquainted with one of the parents of the bride. I do not know either the bride or the groom and I am also not the kind of person who is able to gladden the groom through dancing. Is there a problem of eating at ....
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Posted 7/14/2022 10:18 PM |
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# 3781 Address the Stress
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Q. See questions above regarding Ner Tamid . If there is a general blackout in town, does the Gabai in charge, have to go to the shul and light a candle for Ner Tamid?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since Ner Tomid is ....
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Posted 7/10/2022 5:31 PM |
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# 3780 Fast and Furious
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Q. I have a tradition from my parents to fast on Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas, even though we don't usually fast on Fridays. I usually fast the complete fast (Mashlim) until after Ma'ariv when I come back from Shul. Due to health issues we began thi ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:44 PM |
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# 3779 The Right Light
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Q. See questions above. Can one use LED lights for Ner Tamid?
A. Ohel Yitzchok (4) permits using electrical light for Ner Tamid in Shul, since no specific requirement regarding this light is mentioned. Chelkas Yaakov (1: 154) mentions t ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:41 PM |
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# 3778 Where is the Flare?
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Q. Is there are recommended place to place the Ner Tamid in Shul?
A. Many of the Sefarim quoted above, mention that in a similar way to the Menorah of the Beis Hamikdash, it should placed in front and next to the Aron Hakodesh. However, ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:39 PM |
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# 3777 Enlightening the Light
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Q. What is the Talmudic and Halachic source for having this tiny flickering light in the Shul above the Aron HaKodesh, called a Ner Tamid, and what does it symbolize, other than having one more thing in Shul with a plaque honouring the donor or the ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:38 PM |
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# 3776 Magnitude of Gratitude
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Q. If someone is a great swimmer and swims more than five or six hours (about 5 km. there and back) into the sea far from the shore, which is about the common maximum for regular good swimmers, does he have to say Hagomel when he returns?
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:36 PM |
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