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Expand Article # 3878 Make a Name for Yourself
Q. The custom to say a posuk with one's name at end of Shemonei Esrei, how is that done for example Avraham Yisroel, it is the first letter of the first name "A" and the last letter of "L" or last letter of "M"?
or 2 pesukim?

A. ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:26 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3877 A Point of Honor
Q. Can one ask a Cohen seating close by in a Seuda to pass over some food or utensil? Would using a Cohen for that purpose constitute a violation of the mitzva of 'Vekidashto' to honor and show respect to a Cohen?

A. On question 2256 w ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:23 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3876 In a Fix?
Q. When I stayed recently in an old cottage during Shabbos, a pipe of hot water split and started leaking heavily. There was no option to close the water intake (It was very rusty), or to summon a non - Jew.

Could one fix that pipe by ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:21 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3875 Shabbos Private Needs
Q. Would it make a difference if that day coincides with Shabbath?

A. As mentioned on question above in principle one should avoid davening for personal needs during Shabbos and indeed therefore we don't recite Avinu Malkenu when Rosh H ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:20 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3874 Pray Tell Me
Q. Dear Rabbi. If someone has two options; To daven Yamim Noraim in a Shul that is more Halacha minded and serious, as most of the people who daven there are Torah learners or former Yeshiva students, and the davening are said in a solemn and sober ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:18 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3873 Courting a Court
Q. I have heard that there is an obligation to have a viable Beis Din in a town. How big does the community have to be for that obligation to take effect?

A. Indeed, there is an obligation to have a Beis Din in a Jewish town as Horav ....


Posted 9/8/2022 10:48 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3872 Zooming the Blow
Q. As I have told the Rov, I zoom almost daily a good friend who is in hospital talk to him and often learn Torah with him. Is there a point to blow the Shofar of Elul to make him feel better?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:52 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3871 Don't Blow the Blow
Q. In our small shull the Baal Tokea who blows Shofar during Elul was missing one morning. Only another attendant new how to blow Shofar, but he was in the middle of saying the Shema. He actually did blow the Shofar then, was that correct?
< ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:50 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3870 A Fast Break?
Q. One who does not wear Rabbenu Tam's Tefilin by mistake dropped his friend's Rabbenu Tam's Tefilin. Does he have to fast?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that he does, since those Tefilin carry the same name's of Hashem ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:47 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3869 Brand New Brand?
Q. I was recently cleaning up the house and found two Pushka boxes that the label has come off and it is not discernible at all what the original Tzedaka was. What do I do with this money?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is t ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:46 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3868 Melt Away Shailah
Q. See question above. Can one use solid cream cheese for a coffee that will melt, when placed in Keli Shelishi?

A. As far as the Bishul prohibition is concerned regarding congealed fat, butter or margarine, Poskim disagree if they are ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3867 A Dry Run
Q. For the purpose of reheating an already cooked food in Shabbat, how dry does it have to be to be permitted? Are meat balls in their gravy permitted to warm? If yes, how much gravy can it have?

How about if when one began reheating th ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:41 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3866 Dress for the Occasion
Q. A Bachur in Shidduchim who has a smartphone with a filter, may he borrow his grandmothers flip phone for the first date to avoid giving a bad impression or is it forbidden to be dishonest?

A.. Rabbeinu Yehudah Hachosid (Sefer Hachas ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:39 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3865 Offer a Helping Hand Offer?
Q. I saw a house for sale that has since been taken off the market but I was told by the agent that I could still make an offer. I happen to know that the current tenants don't want to move. Is there a problem with me making an offer? It's a very ti ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:37 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3864 If the Cap Fits
Q. Tomorrow morning I need to go from Arad to Tel Aviv to get a week long EEG done on me and I will not put on Tefilin Shel Rosh for that time. Is there anything I can do? I will be wearing a cover cap over my head during that week - (picture incl ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:35 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3863 Facts of Life
Q. Hi Rabbi Bartfeld, Hope you and your family are doing well. It's been a while.

I am looking to ask for guidance on an issue with my dad. My dad has been put in the hospital under the mental health act. He has been diagnosed with A ....


Posted 9/1/2022 10:33 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3862 Up in Arms?
Q. Up to what point does one have to wash hands when touching his arms?

A. See question 2997 regarding washing hands when putting on Tefilin she Yad. We mentioned that Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a maintains that he usually washes his ....


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Expand Article # 3861 What did you Say?
Q. Kvod Horav. I began last year to use a hearing aid. I did not use it during Shofar blowing as pointed in your Shailos. Can it be used during the Shofar blowing during the month of Elul?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is th ....


Posted 8/26/2022 12:03 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3860 Was I There Already?
Q. A father promised his son, who always came late to davening a monetary gift for every day he was one of the first ten people to make the Minyan. If the son came on time to be of the first ten and left his Tefilin on a table, but then exited to a ....


Posted 8/26/2022 12:02 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3859 Identity Crisis
Q. Dear Rabbi, my friend, who is learning for conversion, has the following dilemma:

Her mother died last year on August 25. Her secular name was Romana, daughter of Emilia. She wants to know if it is possible for someone to say kaddis ....


Posted 8/25/2022 11:58 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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