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# 3708 Light The Fires!
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Q. What is the source of people lighting bonfires on Lag Baomer?
A. Sefer Ranu LeYaakov (p. 214) mentions echoing Chassam Soffer, that the source for this very widespread tradition, is the pasuk "Eish Das Lamo' (Devarim 33: 2) that we ....
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Posted 5/19/2022 4:26 PM |
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# 3707 Fit to Light the Candle?
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Q. We have a minhag in our shul that we make a seuda on Lag Baomer and we lite 33 candles, and we honored different people to light. Our shul has B'H grown a lot in the last years and the new board wants to sell the lightning of the candles for mu ....
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Posted 5/19/2022 4:22 PM |
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# 3706 A Happy Yohrzait?
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Q. Kevod Harav. Why is the Yohrzait of Moshe Rabbenu, the Seventh of Adar considered a day of mourning and is kept as the day dedicated for the Chevra Kadisha, while Lag Baomer which is the day we commemorate the Yohrzait of Rabi Shimon Bar Yocha ....
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Posted 5/19/2022 4:17 PM |
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# 3705 Feeling the Burn
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Q. Our Shul saves the Schach, Arovos and Lulavim of Sukos to be used as fire material for the Lag Baomer bonfire. As it is indicated that once a mitzva was done with an object, it should be preserved to be used for another mitzva.
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Posted 5/19/2022 4:08 PM |
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# 3704 Let the Party Begin
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Q. How early can one begin this year (82 -22) when Lag Baomer is Thursday the Simcha by the fireside on Wednesday evening?
A. On a similar question (2189) regarding when one make a Lag Baomer party (with a siyum) on Wednesday night, ....
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Posted 5/17/2022 4:07 PM |
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# 3703 Hide and Seek?
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Q. See question (3702) above. Is one even supposed to watch a lunar eclipse?
A. On question 1419 regarding if one can tell other people about a solar eclipse. we wrote: "On the introduction to Chidushei Hagranat (p. 14- relating the ....
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Posted 5/17/2022 2:38 PM |
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# 3702 A Mask on the Moon
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Q. Dear Rabbi. Since we are going to experience tonight (Sunday May 15 2022) a full lunar eclipse we were wondering if we say a Bracha as we do for other unusual or impacting natural phenomena like lightning or earthquakes reciting 'Ose Ma'ase Be ....
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Posted 5/17/2022 2:33 PM |
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# 3701 Fit and Trim
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Q. Can a woman trim her eyebrows and shave or pluck hairs from her face during Sefirah days, so she will not become unpleasant to her husband?
A. Poskim indeed permit the above when one is dealing with maintaining pleasant family re ....
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Posted 5/15/2022 11:01 PM |
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# 3700 Food for Thought
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Q. A Jewish organization is having a golf day. Can I volunteer, even if the food is not cor supervised, if I do something non-food related?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that you should not attend since others may incorre ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:18 AM |
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# 3699 Out of Your Tree?
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Q. Until when can one recite the Birchat Hailanot (Blessing on the blooming trees)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it can be recited until the buds turn into an edible fruit.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:16 AM |
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# 3698 The Labor on Ones Fruits
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Q. Querido Rabino, We have a small melocoton (peach) tree in our backyard that isn't yet 4 years old and it is blooming. Can we recite the bracha of the blooming trees on it?
A. Poskim rule that during the first three years of the tree ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:14 AM |
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# 3697 Elevator Music
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Q. Since the Rov mentioned that the period between Pesach and Lag Baomer is propitious for Refuos and healing, I made a serious of appointments by my dentist. The problem is that there is a constant background of happy music at his dental clinic. D ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:12 AM |
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# 3696 Wearing More Than One Hat
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Q. Aside from the fact that a Yarmulke is part of men's clothing, why are men alone obligated to cover their heads, to be aware of Who is above them? Why don't women have such an obligation?
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:10 AM |
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# 3695 Though Egg to Crack
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Q. See two questions above. How about when the boiled or soaked matza was mixed with eggs and then fried with just a little oil and even if the pieces were less than a kezais they now stick together by the fried eggs, what is now the brocho?
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:08 AM |
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# 3694 Strike Oil?
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Q. What would be the brocho in the case above when the bread or matza was mixed and cooked in deep oil?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the mix was fried in deep oil the brocho would become Mezonos.
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:06 AM |
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# 3693 Matza Brei Bracha
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Q. Hello Rav, I wanted to double check what the bracha would be in making matza brei in the following way: water is boiled in a kettle and placed into a bowl (kli sheini), small broken pieces (less than a kzayis) are then placed into the hot water ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:05 AM |
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# 3692 A Matter of Time
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Q. Hello Rav, I know playing games on Shabbat is not the best thing, but if one is playing a game and needs to measure time (eg. 60 seconds), is it permissible to do so by looking at a clock?
Thanks.
A. Indeed, you are right one s ....
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Posted 5/13/2022 12:02 AM |
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# 3691 Process the Bless
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Hello Rav, If I start to make a Borei Peri Ha'adama on a cucumber and I've said everything except the ending "Borei Peri Hadama", then realize I've already said that bracha and that cucumber is already covered, can I quickly take another food type ....
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Posted 5/12/2022 11:58 PM |
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# 3690 The Impending Future
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Q. Why are Gog and Magog only mentioned in the prophecies of Y'chezk'el HaNovi?
A. A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since Novi Yechezkel was given most of his prophecies of transcendence outside of Eretz Yisroel (Mo ....
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Posted 5/8/2022 5:46 PM |
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# 3689 You Must Be Kidding!
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Q. See question above. Thanks for the answer. Is it also true what I heard that there is a Segula (protection or charm) for healing to stand during the days from Pesach to Shavuos, outside when it rains and have the rain fall on you? C ....
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Posted 5/5/2022 10:55 PM |
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