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#5223 - Just to Just Count on the Account?
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- Q. See question above. Can one name a Shaliach (an agent) that represents him, and is traveling to where the shiva takes place and thus comply with the mitzva. Is the above better than just calling or sending an email? If an e-mail was sent shoul ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:28 AM |
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#5222 A Quick Comfort?
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- Q. Dear Rov we just lost our aunt (and great-aunt) who you knew well. And since she lived in a different country, we have a number of questions.
Can someone comply with the mitzva of Nichum Avelim (comforting the mourners) when ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:11 AM |
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#5221 Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder?
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Q. Dearest Rabbi and friend for so many years. As you know I still live in Mexico and I read your truly most interesting questions every week as many many others do.
As you well know Mexico is the “Silver Capital of the World” and on ....
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Posted 12/15/2024 11:59 AM |
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#5220. The True Extreme Brochos?
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- Q. (See the questions 5213 -16 above). Is there a special meaning or Brocho for someone that Hashem gives this most unusual beautiful opportunity to light the Menorah during the same Yom Tov, at both corners of the world?
A. One sho ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:19 PM |
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#5219 Need a Hearing Aid?
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- Q. Someone who uses a removable hearing aid during the week but not on Shabbos, and forgot to take it off before the beginning of Shabbos, can it be removed during Shabbos ? How?
A. He should ask a gentle Gentile to remove it. In nee ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:14 PM |
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#5218 A Freilech’n Chanuka?
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- Q. Should an Avel who davens for the Amud do so during Chanuka?
A. On question 4557 we wrote:
Q. An Avel that during the thirty days after the death of his mother leads the services at the Amud. does he have to do it next week, ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:11 PM |
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#5217 Enlight Others With Your Lighting
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- Q. Rov, since I know that there are other Jewish friends and coworkers with us that are also partaking in our work and business team, although they are not frum at all, should I invite them to the Menorah Lighting with us in our home? Is that pro ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:07 PM |
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#5216 – Really? More Real Pirsume Nes Shailos???
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- Q. A s mentioned I will be traveling to the extremes north and south of the continent, although my wife and son will be with me, should I better ask someone in my home town in Canada to light for me at my house, even when no one is there, or sh ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 11:58 AM |
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#5215 More Real Pirsume Nes Shailos
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Q. See question above. Are there any other valid and better opinions?
A. Indeed there are: Horav Isroel Lipschitz Zt’l , in his commentary Tiferes Yisroel, writes that in polar regions there is allways a 24-hour day, as proven by the ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 11:54 AM |
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#5214 The Real Pirsume Nes Shailos
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Q. See question above. It is likely that for my business promotional requirements I will come to my knowledge some very amazing questions. If when I will be traveling in the north of Canada and even reaching Alaska during Chanuka, when and where ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 11:51 AM |
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#5213 It’s About Time
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Q. I will be traveling a lot during Chanuka for my business requirement, and have some important questions. What is the minimum time that the Chanuka candles have to stay on?
A. Nitey Gavriel (31: 2) maintains that the t ....
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Posted 12/8/2024 8:01 PM |
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#5212 Did We Strike Oil?
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- Q. See question above. What is better to light the menorah with olive oil or vegetable oil without a hechsher, when traveling and no other oil is available? Is it better to light then with candles?
A. On a similar question 1968 we an ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 1:02 PM |
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#5211 The Style of Kosher?
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- Q. Does one have to use Kosher olive oil for lighting the Chanukah menorah?
A. On question 4575 we wrote:
“In principle it is not needed. Yet, Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a, mentioned that since it is most common in our day ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:58 PM |
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#5210 The Head Light Bulb Was Off?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. A Sephardic frum widow, that is about to remarry, when she was trying on the new dress for the important occasion, the woman helping her tore a bit of her dress by her chest.
The bride was terribly terrified and affl ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:53 PM |
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#5209 The Real Best Kiddush
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- Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. If someone that has yohrzait for his father donated the kiddush of this Shabbos morning as he usually does every year, however, this year after the petirah (death) this week of HaTzadik HaGaon HaRav Dovid Shalom Tzadka, ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:42 PM |
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#5208 Hashem Helps Who Help Themselves?
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- Q. If one is in the middle of the amida and does not remember if he said the right words, can he pray to Hashem to remind him?
A. It would seem logically that it is proper to do so, as other Rabbanim mentioned, however Horav Shlomo ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:38 PM |
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#5207 The Say of the AI
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- Q. Does one praying by listening to an AI program for davening or reciting brochos, have to repeat the words being heard?
A. Indeed as we have already mentioned, one has to say the words personally of all brochos and tefilos, since t ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:36 PM |
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#5206 Turn the AI Vay to a Great Way!
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- Q. See question 5203. Is it recommended that the AI program an ill person uses for keeping company, should also be programmed to monitor the patients bio-readings and medicine consumption?
Does the one that oversees and takes care co ....
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Posted 12/6/2024 12:34 PM |
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#5205 The Best Season Greetings
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlita. I join the thousands that thank you for answering promptly the thousands of very difficult new and most unusual questions we face today and being addressed with the collaboration of a very important and respectable Halacha g ....
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Posted 12/1/2024 12:05 PM |
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#5204 Face the Music and the Lights?
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Q. Can one enter a store or mall at the Christmas season when the music and decorations pertain to Christian religious origins? Should one use hearing plugs that play Jewish music then and also wear dark eyeglasses?
A. On similar ques ....
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Posted 11/29/2024 1:05 PM |
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