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#5154 The Torah Misrepresented?
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Q. In a large shul that has the tradition to take out all the Sifre Torah during Kol Nidrei and honor the people who contribute to the institution, can they also take out the Sefarim that are not Kasher?
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:31 PM |
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#5153 The True Yom Kipur
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- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. Since, as you have mentioned, it is most crucial to comply with the mitzva of Teshuva on Yom Kippur. What does Horav Miller Shlit’a maintain that is a mitzva that one can easily comply with and at the same time is truly impor ....
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:26 PM |
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#5152 Questioning the Begging
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- Q. When Yom Kipur coincides with Shabat as is this year, (2024), can one pray for his personal needs on that day? After all one should not pray for his private needs on Shabat.
A. On question 4443 regarding if one can one daven on R ....
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:22 PM |
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#5151 The Greatest True Kiddush!!!
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- Q. See question above. What was the proper behaviour for our Kedoshim who during the terrible times of the Holocaust when they were naked in the gas chambers and knew they were about to be put to death, what would they have to do for saying vid ....
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Posted 10/11/2024 4:11 PM |
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#5150 A Clean Confession
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. As you well know I visit and take care of sick and elderly people, even and specially during Shabath and Yom Tov including Yom Kipur. I have a question that has always bothered me. On Yom Kipur, as I once heard from you, one visit ....
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Posted 10/8/2024 11:06 PM |
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#5149 A Self Standing Tefila
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Q. We have in our shul a most important Baal Tefilah that has been davening for the amud on Yom Kipur Musaf for many years. His Tefilot are very beautiful and pleasant and he is very liked by the Tzibur.
He has a problem now that he ....
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Posted 10/8/2024 10:34 PM |
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#5148 Always Forgive and Forget?
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Q. Does a Talmid Hacham who was insulted in public by the leader of an event, and was prevented from speaking when it was his duty to do so, have to forgive the one who insulted him, before Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur?
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Posted 10/8/2024 3:27 PM |
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#5147 A Blessing for Yourself
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- Q. Kvod Horav Shlit”a. Can one blowing the shofar or making Kiddush on Rosh Hashana second day comply with the questionable brocho of Shecheyanu, by having in mind while reciting the brocho a new piece of clothing that a listening friend is wea ....
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Posted 10/8/2024 3:24 PM |
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#5146 More Easy on the Eyes
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- Q. Re- question 5137 regarding if one should close his eyes when he is blowing the Shofar.
Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a added that the foremost importance is to clearly intend to be “Motzi” (or make comply) the Mispalelim with their ....
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Posted 10/2/2024 3:32 PM |
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#5145 Forgiveness for the Selicha?
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Q. I’m an M.D. and I often have to be in the hospital on a night shift. During this time of the year I’m barely able to make it to a Shacharit minyan when it is still on time for saying Krias Shema.
Can I say the Selichoth after Shacharith o ....
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Posted 10/2/2024 12:10 AM |
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#5144 – A Debate about a Siman Debate
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- Q. A couple had a debate between them regarding some new fruits to be placed on the special meal on the night of Rosh Hashana as is tradition. The argument was if some of those fruits may need special checking since they may contain tiny worms ....
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Posted 9/29/2024 4:58 PM |
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#5143 Virtuous or Righteous?
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Q. Is it better to choose as a Baal Tokea (blower of shofar) someone that is a great expert and knows how to blow the shofar correctly following all details of Halacha, or is it preferable to select someone who is a greater Talmid Chacham, Tzadik ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 12:06 PM |
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#5142 Kiss a Blow?
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- Q. If a Shofar falls on the floor, when you pick it up, do you have to kiss it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion is that since it is not a utensil that has Kedusha it does not have to be kissed as a Sefer or Tefilin would.
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Posted 9/27/2024 12:03 PM |
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#5141 Hearing or Blowing?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit”a. If someone knows well how to blow the shofar, should he offer to the shul to be the one to blow? Is there a greater mitzva to blow the shofar, more than just to hear from someone else?
How about if one already h ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 12:01 PM |
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#5140 The Right Pray on the Right Place
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Q. Hello Rav, Sometimes I need to daven at a minyan where I need to leave the minyan early in order to be on time for work in the morning. I'm able to stay until the kedushah during the repetition of the Amidah. At that point, I could either leave t ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:59 AM |
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#5139 Blowing Away the Smell?
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Q. See question above. We have also in our shul a number of elderly people that wear urinated clothing or worse, and even when they also wear some type of diapers, they stink, but want to stand next to me, the baal tokea.
Can I blow shofar ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:57 AM |
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#5138 The Correct Will of the Yehi Ratzon
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- Q. See question above. Every year we have in our Rosh Hashana minyan an argument whether we should say the Yehi Ratzon (prayer for the auspicious compliance of this mitzva said after the blowing of the shofar, since it may be a hefsek (unnecessary ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:55 AM |
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#5137 Easy on the Eyes?
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Q. Dear Rabbi, I was chosen this year to be the baal tokea for our shul, We have a crowd of a few hundred mitpalelim and I have some questions. First one, should one close his eyes when he is blowing the Shofar?
A. Although closing eye ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:53 AM |
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#5136 Don’t Blow away the Blow
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- Q. Kvod Harav, during Rosh Hashana my great tzadik of a son (he is 18) goes to blow the shofar to the houses of the ill and aged, who can’t come to shul. He does that practically until the shekia (sunset). He wants to know it it is proper to carr ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:51 AM |
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#5135 Kind of Behind your Mind
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Q. Is it permissible to complete a PhD in Applied Transpersonal Psychology. It is a degree done by my own research?
A. Transpersonal psychology is defined by positivepsychology.com as the study that investigates experiences that ext ....
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Posted 9/27/2024 11:45 AM |
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