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# 3392 Set the Agenda
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Q. Since you mentioned that Igros Moshe warns that one should not make Thanksgiving an established holiday that we must keep, can the Calendar from a religious school show that day as Remembrance,Victoria and Labour days are showed?
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:19 PM |
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# 3391 Go Cold Turkey?
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Q. See question 3390 above. 2) Is it permitted to eat a roasted turkey on Thanksgiving?
A. Poskim disagree. Rivevos Efraim, and Rabbi Yehuda Hertzl Henkin. (Bnei Banim 3,:37), explain that Thanksgiving is “only a day of thanks and no ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:13 PM |
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# 3390 Thanks But No Thanks?
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Q. I'm a Baal Teshuva that belongs to a family still in the process of Kiruv and becoming close to Hashem. We are a closely united family and we try to maintain seriously that Shalom Bait.
We usually, as far as I can remember, celebrat ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3389 Walk The Talk
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Q. There is a Baal Teshuva that is fully integrated into the Haredi community with the exception of the fact that he cannot learn in Lashon Hakodesh and only learns from English sefarim (translated Gemara, Mishna Berura, sefarim on halacha). Other ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 10:00 PM |
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# 3388 The Easy Minyan?
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Q. An individual that comes to our shul suffers from a Multiple Personality Disorder. Although he can basically take care of himself, we are not sure if we should give him an aliya or even count him as part of the minyan. What is Horav Miller's opi ....
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Posted 10/14/2021 9:35 PM |
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# 3387 Out of One's Hair
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Q. If someone combs his hair, touches it or his beard and some hair comes off, does he have to wash his hands three times using a vessel as after having a haircut?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 4: 19) writes that one who cuts his hair has ....
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Posted 10/10/2021 5:40 PM |
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# 3386 Bring Back to Life?
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Q. I'm a Frum physician that was called out on Shabbat to travel and attend a suicidal woman that poisoned herself by swallowing a large amount of pills. Since this person had given up on her own life, as can be read in the letter she left, did I h ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 11:07 PM |
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# 3385 Will Cause Eyebrows to Rise
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Q. Regarding question 3384 above. Recently the Rov mentioned in a shiur the prohibition for men to trim his eyebrows as women do. What happens if a man is taking a haircut, and without him noticing the barber begins to trim his eyebrows, can he le ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:55 PM |
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# 3384 Ask and Tell
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Q. When exiting shul after davening on Shabbos we witnessed a severe car accident in front of the shul and a victim died. Police arrived immediately and began asking questions from the standby witnesses, writing their names, what they saw and wher ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:46 PM |
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# 3383 An Early Night?
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Q In our Shul we daven these days Mincha before the Shekia and Maariv right after. Sometimes, the Shaliach Tzibur davens Mincha fast and we may end up having to start Maariv, a few minutes before the Shekia.
Is saying the Shir Ha ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:41 PM |
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# 3382 Most Eloquent Silence
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Q 3. (See questions 3379 - 80 above) Could I rotate the hours of the Tzom Dibbur, or do they have to be static, for example, from 8am to 10am?
A. On question 3354 regarding how to tell others that one is engaged in a Taanis Dibbur we ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:36 PM |
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# 3381 Fighting Talk
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Q.2. (See question 3380 above) As I have to deal with my husband's caregivers, and they look for instructions, could I interrupt the Tzom just to give short and to the point instructions and then continue, or do I have to start all over again?
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:28 PM |
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# 3380 Fast Talk
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Q. I have been doing Tzom Dibbur (a fast or a day of restriction on speaking) on Yom Kippur for several years. This year, I decided to do a Tzom Dibbur for part of the day every day, and I have some questions:
1). May I do a Tzom Dibu ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3379 Oppose or Attract?
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Q. When I come (to shul to be) from the Assara Rishonim there is a person who comes and tells me Lashon Hara and disturbs my learning. Is it better to come later, since If I refuse to listen to him he will get offended and he is lonely with no fami ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3378 Is Early Better than First?
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Q. On question 2998 regarding if it is better to be from the Assara Rishonim or to daven Vasikin. you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is preferred to daven Vasikin (at sunrise), than being from the first ten, when there is ....
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Posted 10/7/2021 9:56 PM |
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# 3377 Inviting Ghosts to the Feast?
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I heard recently (Izkor Shemini Atzeres) from our Rabbi that we invite during Izkor the Neshamot (souls) of our parents and grandparents and other dear ones to come join us and share the Yom Tov with us. I honestly think it is a very weird and biza ....
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Posted 10/3/2021 3:19 PM |
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# 3376 It All Adds Up
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Q. During Simchat Torah due to the lack of space, we had to serve Kiddush inside the large Suka that we have in our shul. Is there a problem of "Baal Tosiff" or adding to the mitzvot that Hashem gave us, since we do not sit anymore in the Sukka on ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:43 PM |
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# 3375 Murky Waters?
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Q. I sleep in a Sukka with two other people but we have only one bowl for Negel Vasser. (Water to be used for washing hands when one wakes up. After washing the water is considered to possess a spirit of impurity). May I wash over the bowl and the ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:23 PM |
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# 3374 A Balancing Act
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Q. It became popular in some places to use during Hoshanos on Sukos, when doing Hakofes, a little siddur that one attaches with a type of clip to the basket-holder attached to the Lulav and the Haddassin and Arovos. That is a good way to be able ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3373 The Sooner the Better?
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Q. Is it correct that one should dismantle his Suka immediately after the end of the Yom Tov?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Sukos 103: 5, p. 476) indeed quotes from the Talmid of the Arizal, the Seder Hayom, that one should dismantle the Suka ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:05 PM |
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