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# 3292 What a Cover Up!
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Q. Some cemeteries in Latin American cities, due to zoning restrictions, are located on very poor and crime ridden neighborhoods. It is not unusual to find garbage or feces thrown over even relative high fences. Can attendants to a Levaya or the unv ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 9:44 PM |
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# 3291 True Undivided Love
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Q. Sefer Haikrim writes that true love is only when it is undivided and totally dedicated only to one entity. He thus explains the closeness and following of Hashem Echad, He is the only One with Veahavta, you shall love Him, in the parsha of Shem ....
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Posted 8/3/2021 5:56 PM |
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# 3290 It's All About Love
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Q. Recently we learned in the parsha the greatest mitzva of loving Hashem mentioned in the Shema. How can one be commanded and compelled to love anything? After all love is fundamentally a feeling of the heart and emotion that you either have or y ....
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Posted 7/30/2021 12:03 PM |
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# 3289 The Lacking of the Lakes
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Q. My friend is visiting first time Canada and has never seen Lake Ontario, should he say a blessing on it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is than one should avoid reciting a brocho with Hashem's name on common lakes sin ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 5:49 PM |
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# 3288 Blessing the Forces of Nature
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Q. What Brocho does one say if any when seeing first time Niagara Falls?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is than one can recite 'Ose Maase Bereishis.' However, if one has recited that blessing within thirty days, as in the cas ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 5:34 PM |
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# 3287 Thanks in Advance?
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Q. Somebody traveled by plane on Motzei Shabbat on this last Tisha Beav that fell on Sunday. When should he have said the bracha of Hagomel?
A. Piskei Teshuvos (551: 54) quotes Sdei Chemed and Yofe Lalev that it is better to wait until ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 5:18 PM |
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# 3286 Be in Safe Hands
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Q. Can one that disinfected his hands with the commonly used hand sanitizer that contains glycerin and ethanol touch food, without any concern of kashruth?
A. Glycerin is a sugar alcohol derived from animal products, plants or petroleum ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 5:07 PM |
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# 3285 Good News for Good News
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Q. My daughter is finishing High School and plans to attend college and get a bachelor's degree in journalism, and communications, since her dream is to become a reporter. Should we discourage her since that involves so much Lashon Hara'a, lies and ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 4:55 PM |
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# 3284 Step Into your Shoes
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Q. My mother was very careful not to let her children walk around the house while wearing only socks. Is there a source for such a minhag?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Bein Hametzorim 2: 94: 1: n. 4) indeed mentions that since people in mourning w ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 4:10 PM |
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# 3283 Don't Paint Yourself into a Corner
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Q. If someone has a pair of tefillin that have some scratches on the batim, which expose a lighter colour underneath, can he use a black marker to touch up the tefillin himself, or is he obligated to take the tefillin to a Sofer for retouching?< ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 3:15 PM |
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# 3282 First Things First
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Q Hi. I am embarking on my teaching career at a frum girls' school and I wish to be in lemudei kodesh. I have one offer to teach Chumash but unexpectedly received another offer to teach biology at a much better time for my schedule and ....
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Posted 7/29/2021 3:03 PM |
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# 3281 His Head Light Bulb Was Off?
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Q. I was attending some time ago a chupa and I witnessed something strange.The Shamash used a (presumably burnt out) light bulb as the glass keli (utensil) the Groom was to step on and brake at the end of the wedding ceremony. Although it was cov ....
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Posted 7/23/2021 12:42 PM |
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# 3280 A Repeated Answer of One's Prayers
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Q. If one already davened and is in a shul where they are davening, should one say over Ashrei or Shema if it's Tisha B'Av when we don't learn or say Tehillim?
A. In regard to reciting Tehilim on Tisha Beav, Mishna Berura (554: 7) qu ....
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Posted 7/22/2021 6:12 PM |
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# 3279 An Early Reach for the Moon
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Q. Can you say Kiddush Levana with a minyan after Tisha BAv ends, but before 72 (minutes after sunset, which is the opinion of Rabbenu Tam) if you are makpid (careful) to wait 72 for other things?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a mentio ....
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Posted 7/22/2021 6:09 PM |
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# 3278 Sing Another Tune?
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Q. This year (5781) when Shabbos Chazon was Erev Tisha Beav, after benching on Shaleshudes before the Shekia (sunset), can one still sing Zemiros of Shabbos?
A. There are different traditions. The more Litfishe (Lithuanian)and Yeshiva ....
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Posted 7/22/2021 6:05 PM |
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# 3277 Up to Date
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Q. Can a dating couple wear Shabbos clothing when dating during the Nine Days?
A. Shebet Halevy (9: 131: 4) permits on the onset. However, Halichos Shlomo (14: D'var Halocho 15) maintains that if possible it should be avoided, but in ....
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Posted 7/22/2021 6:02 PM |
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# 3276 A Happy Birthday?
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Q. Do the attendants to the shul say Mazal Tov to the Bar Mitzva boy or is it like all other salutations and greetings that are prohibited on Tisha Beav?
Can he receive gifts then?
I must mention that my son is somewhat depresse ....
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Posted 7/22/2021 6:00 PM |
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# 3275 Blessing the Freedom on Time
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Q. Do I as a father usually does, also say the bracha of 'Baruch Sheptarani' (literally, blessed be the One who freed me from the punishment of this one), on Tisha Beav after my son gets his aliya, or should I wait until next day Monday?
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Posted 7/22/2021 5:57 PM |
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# 3274 A Tisha Beav Initiation
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Q. My son is having his Bar Mitzva birthday on Tisha Beav and we have a number of questions.
1) Does he get an aliya laTorah, on that like all other Bar Mitzva boys? (We are planing to do Be'H a big seuda on Shabbat Nachamu).
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Posted 7/22/2021 5:55 PM |
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# 3273 An Answer to a Prayer Shaila
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Q. On this year that Tisha Beav is Motzei Shabbat, I heard that Horav Shlomo said that women should try to attend shul at night for Maariv. Why?
A. Indeed, the Rov Shlit'a maintains that women on this occasion should daven Maariv (not n ....
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Posted 7/18/2021 5:54 PM |
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