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# 3272 A Healthy Havdalah?
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Q. A man is ill and has to eat on Tisha Beav. As Halacha requires he will say Havdalah before he eats. Should his healthy wife listen to the Havdalah then as always or should she make her own on Sunday night before she eats?
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Posted 7/15/2021 11:16 PM |
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# 3271 Sleep Like a Log?
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Q. Someone is camping out during the Three Weeks including Tisha Beav and sleeping on the ground the whole time. Should he on the night of Tisha Beav sleep directly on the floor without his sleeping bag?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H.555: 2) ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 11:13 PM |
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# 3270 The Smell Test
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Q. On Tisha Beav can a woman wear perfume or a man spray deodorant?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 554: 15) rules that although 'Sicha' or anointing is forbidden during Tisha Beav, it is only when done for pleasure. One who has scabs on thei ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 11:06 PM |
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# 3269 Tzitzis Emphasies
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Q. On Tisha Beav morning someone wearing his Taalis Kotton, should he kiss the tzitzis after Boruch Sheomar or Parshas Tzitzis?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the established tradition is not to kiss the tzitzis of th ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 11:00 PM |
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# 3268 Question Mark III
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Q. Re- questions 3258-59 on tattoos. Can one put on tefillin on top of a tattoo or is it a chatzitza (interposition)?
A. On question 542 regarding a woman that became a Baalas Teshuvah and she has a tattoo that she is planning to remo ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 10:52 PM |
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# 3267 Safe Space
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Q. One whose minhag is to make his own Havdala due to concerns of spacing out or another reason, can he make his own in the Nine Days or better be yotze with someone else to minimize drinking wine in this time?
A. One spacing out and u ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 10:45 PM |
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# 3266 Hearts and Flowers
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Q. May I give flowers to my nonreligious grandmother for her birthday during Nine Days?
A. On question 3260 regarding one that buys flowers for home every Friday Lik'vod (in honor of) Shabbos, if he should also do so for Shabbos Chazo ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 10:24 PM |
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# 3265 The Able Avel II
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Q. Can an Avel get an aliya on Tisha Beav?
A. See question 3264 above regarding the attendance of an Avel to shul during Tisha Beav,
Nitei Gavriel (Ben Hametzarim 2: 60: 11) quotes a number of Poskim that permit an Avel to receiv ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3264 The Able Avel
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Q. Since Tisha Beav is called Moed or a Yom Tov, can an Avel siting Shiva go to shul and daven at the amud?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 559: 6) rules that an Avel attends shul on Tisha Beav in the night and also in the day until the end ....
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Posted 7/15/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3263 Keep on Eating
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Q. When someone bentches (recites Birchat Hamazon), before the Shekiah on Shabbos Chazon that is followed by Tisha Beav as it is this year (2021 - see question above), can he still eat after bentching until sunset, if he didn't had in mind to do so ....
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Posted 7/13/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3262 Make it Interesting!
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Q. A Shul prepares Shalosh Seudos also on Shabbos Chazon that precedes Tisha Beav on Sunday, and the people stay after Mincha and eat there and stop eating as required before sunset. Is it better that they recite Birchat Hamazon (bentch) with a cup ....
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Posted 7/13/2021 9:54 PM |
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# 3261 Get in Tune with the Times
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Q. Is it correct to sing on Friday night - Shabbos Chazon the niggun of Lecha Dodi using the sad tune of E-li Tzion that we sing after Kinos on Tisha Beav? Is that not "Avelus Befarhesia" or a case of open mourning that is prohibited on Shabbos?
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Posted 7/13/2021 9:49 PM |
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# 3260 A Shabbos Without Flowers?
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Q. One that buys flowers for home every Friday Lik'vod (in honor of) Shabbos. Should he also do so for Shabbos Chazon, (Shabbos before Tisha Beav)?
A. As mentioned in a question 3255 above, Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 551: 2) rules that from ....
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Posted 7/11/2021 4:22 PM |
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# 3259 Question Mark II
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Q. (See question 3258 above). If one is not obliged to remove tattoos one acquired when he was still a Gentile or was not frum, would the same apply to tattoos that express immoral messages and show libertine female figures?
A. Poskim m ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:39 PM |
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# 3258 Question Mark
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Q. A friend of mine who used to be frum asked you a question regarding being buried in a Jewish cemetery when marked with tattoos.
He would like to know what is the Halacha and if he needs to remove the tattoos before the burial?
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:35 PM |
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# 3257 Buen Provecho
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Q. In certain countries like Mexico it is customary to greet a friend eating a meal with Buen Provecho, similar to Bon Apetite in french or Beteavon in Hebrew. One encountering friends eating and not greeting them as mentioned, could be considered a ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:25 PM |
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# 3256 Say It and Spray It
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Q. Can one install a grass sprinkling system during the Nine Days?
A. See question 3255 above. Kovetz Halochos (8: 14: n. 17) permits due a to the fact that the sprinkling system is basically irrigating water and keeping the plants ali ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:19 PM |
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# 3255 Garden Variety
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Q. Can one have his gardener cut the grass, spread weed killer and fertilizer during the Nine Days?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 551: 2) rules that from Rosh Chodesh Av until after Tisha Beav one should avoid a 'Binyan Shel Simcha' or buildi ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:16 PM |
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# 3254 Clothes Make the Time?
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Q. If someone is invited to a Bris Milah or a Bar Mitzva during the Nine Days, can one wear Shabbos clothing?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that is is permitted.
Piskei Teshuvos (559: 8) permits the parents of ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 10:14 PM |
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# 3253 Stay Put?
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Q. If someone attends a shiur by Zoom and the others can see him attending, is he allowed to leave early? Could this be considered as abandoning the mitzva of 'Berov Am Hadras Melech" (a mitzva should be done by many) and we hold that Ein Maavirin ....
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Posted 7/8/2021 6:47 PM |
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