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# 1362 Attention Pay
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Q. On a ta'anis, by Mincha, a guy spaced out and, forgetting that there is krias hatorah, said Hashem Sefasai Tiftach and Baruch ata Hashem (ie. he began SE). May/ should he stop, say lamdeini chukecha, listen to krias hatorah, and then daven toge ....
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Posted 6/25/2017 4:58 PM |
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# 1361 All Options Smell?
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Q. My son's class is planning to spend Shabbos in Northern Israel (in the Golan) in the town of Nov. It is a nice place, where most of the best Hadassim in Israel are grown.
I was once there and due to the enormous cow farms they have t ....
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Posted 6/23/2017 7:24 PM |
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# 1360 If The Shirt Fits.....
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Q. May a woman wear a man's shirt? The difference is only the direction the buttons are buttoned.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if it is noticeable and the shirt was tailored and sold as a man’s shirts (not unis ....
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Posted 6/23/2017 6:20 PM |
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# 1359 A Hot Answer
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Q. 2) (See question above, on serving hot fleishig cholent on the same plate people ate their shmalzherring). Most important, since the cholent it is a hot solid dovor gush, why is it not mevashel the oil of the herring, left on the plate?
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Posted 6/23/2017 2:32 PM |
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# 1358 Fish Gets Its Own Dish
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Q. 1) Why is it that at many kidushin they usually serve hot fleishig cholent on the same plate people ate their shmalzherring, is that correct?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y. D. 116: 2) based on Talmud (Pesachim 76b) rules that one must be ....
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Posted 6/23/2017 2:31 PM |
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# 1357 Cover Story
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Q. Can a man wear a wig?
A. If the wig is a man’s hairpiece it is permitted (Yalkut Yosef – Kisui Harosh 2: 23, Lebush Malchus 2, Chashukei Chemed - Bava Kama p.445, Nishmas Avrohom 3 p.76 in regards to covering one’s head).
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Posted 6/23/2017 2:15 PM |
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# 1356 Address The Uni-Dress
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Q Can a man wear a unisex outfit?
A. The Talmud (Nedarim 49: 2) relates that the wife of Rabi Yehuda fashioned a wool coat that both she and her husband would wear when needed. Poskim (Birkey Yosef 183: 3, Pesach Einaim - Nedarim ....
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Posted 6/20/2017 12:32 AM |
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# 1355 Make Clothes For The Man
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Q. Is a man allowed to wear any clothing (a night gown) of a woman, when no one else is present or it is cold and he doesn’t have anything else to wear at night?
A. It is biblically forbidden for a man to wear women’s clothes or for a ....
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Posted 6/20/2017 12:10 AM |
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# 1354 Open Secret?
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Q. Many people are very secretive about publicizing when they are expecting the birth of a child. Is there a inyan to do so for any point of the pregnancy? Also, many people don't do any preparations until the baby is born, and then rush to get the ....
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Posted 6/18/2017 4:47 PM |
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# 1353 Save That Kidush!
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Q. I saw someone make kiddish on Shabbas day for many people at a "kiddish" at shul. He only took a very small sip of wine (for sure not a "maleh lugmov" (cheek-full).
1. If nobody else there drank any wine, is there any opinions that ....
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Posted 6/18/2017 3:54 PM |
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# 1352 Make My Day
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Q. I read that you can't prepare on the 1st day of Yom Tov for the second, but something insignificant like taking a challah out of the freezer a few hours before the second day starts would be okay. Other sources say things like "Even something t ....
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Posted 6/18/2017 3:44 PM |
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# 1351 The Stream Of Whipped Cream
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Q 1. Re question 1331, the Rav permits icing a cake...with whipped cream from ..an aerosol can....I read somewhere that using such a can on Shabbos was forbidden due to the melacha of molid. Can the Rav please clarify?
A. I’m quoti ....
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Posted 6/16/2017 5:15 PM |
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# 1350 For The Ages
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Q. My daughter is going to separate chalah and make a brocho on her Bas Mitzva party, as many others do this days. However, because the vacations start soon, we are making the party early and she will be short a month from being 12. Can she still s ....
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Posted 6/16/2017 3:44 PM |
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# 1349 News To Me
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Q. The... Star newspaper has started randomly delivering their Saturday paper to several houses in the Clanton Park area. We never asked for it, it just started showing up. Although I plan to likely cancel mine because of inappropriate pictures that ....
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Posted 6/16/2017 3:04 PM |
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# 1348 Hair Today Hair Tomorrow
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Q. 1. There are those that have "male pattern baldness," that choose to get rid of all the hair on their head in order to look cleaner/better. Since there is a prohibition in cutting the payos areas down to the skin, is there any way that these peop ....
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Posted 6/16/2017 2:13 PM |
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# 1347 On E-Autopilot
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Q. E-commerce & electronic transactions on Yom Tov (when unlike Shabbos the markets & banks are open):
Although there's already different contemporary Poskim ruled on the above, I'd very much like to know your and Rav Miller's ruling specific ....
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Posted 6/12/2017 11:01 PM |
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# 1346 A Delicate Condition
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Q. If one is offered something that is cholov stam, and he is not interested in explaining that he cannot eat it, or getting into an argument with someone who relies on Rav Moshe's so-called heter*, may he lie and claim to be lactose intolerant? Is ....
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Posted 6/12/2017 6:40 PM |
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# 1345 Shiva Shevuei Torah?
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Q. According to Rebi’s opinion on gemorah Shabbos, we have seven Seforim on the Torah, divided in this parsha, and the Halacha seems to follow him. Why is it then that we always mention five Chumshei Torah and that there are 24 sefarim in Tanach and ....
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Posted 6/9/2017 3:23 PM |
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# 1344 A Walk In The Park
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Q. Can I carry items in a park inside a city that has an eiruv on Shabbos? Does it make a difference how big the park is? If it is surrounded by a fence and has gates? If it has benches, many trees or water fountains?
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Posted 6/9/2017 3:12 PM |
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# 1343 Behind Closed Doors
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Q. Re- question 1327 on using a hotel key-card on Shabbos and the challenge this almost universal change now presents to the observant traveler, I heard from Rabbi M. Skobac an easy way out. It is to fasten a cord to the inside handle the lock, a ....
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Posted 6/6/2017 11:33 PM |
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