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Expand Article # 3252 What's Your Pleasure?
Q. One who must continue to take medications on a fast day since he suffers from a chronic condition and the pills must be taken with water. Does he make a bracha on the water on that day since he much enjoys the water on a Taanis?

A. ....


Posted 7/8/2021 6:30 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3251 A Shining Example
Q. Can one polish silver plates and similar during the Nine Days?

A. Kovetz Halochos (8: 3: n. 5), quotes Horav Shmuel Kamenetzki Shlit'a saying that it is permitted since those silver utensils are usually used during Shabbos, and for ....


Posted 7/8/2021 6:20 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3250 Better Never than Late?
Q. When breaking the fast on Sunday night motzoi Tisha Bav, is it better to wash on bread to be yotzi meleva malka, which some say can be until Tuesday?

A. On question 2919 we wrote: "Shaarei Teshuva (O.H. 30: 1) writes that the Neshama ....


Posted 7/4/2021 9:40 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3249 Only Hope in Hashem
Q. A woman that has a sister living in the recently collapsed building in Miami and lost all contact with her. She assumes that likely she is L'A not alive anymore as a week has already elapsed. Can she attend the Bar Mitzva of a close relative or s ....


Posted 7/1/2021 10:54 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3248 Season of no Greetings
Q. May one write a greeting on Tisha Bav, such as to write good afternoon in an email or to text good morning to his nonreligious mother?

Can one answer an email from a non-observant, or a Gentile with a greeting, since otherwise it ....


Posted 7/1/2021 10:40 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3247 Words On a Clean Mouth
Q. See question 3240 above. Can one use a bit of mouthwash while brushing during a Ta'anis Tzibur ? Is it better than water?

A. Some Poskim prefer the use of mouthwash over water, when it is permitted in need during brushing in a Ta'ani ....


Posted 7/1/2021 9:45 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3246 Your Secrets are Safe with Us?
Q. See question 3245 above. Is it permitted to have a security camera inside a Mikva for men?
Should one avoid attending such a Mikva?

A. On an Israeli newspaper article also published on-line on 05.12.15 it was mentioned that a ....


Posted 6/30/2021 5:01 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3245 Smile and Daven
Q. Is it permitted to have security cameras inside a shul? Do you have to inform the attendants that they are being taped?

A. In our times it is common to have security cameras outside the shuls, schools and other community institutions ....


Posted 6/29/2021 11:48 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3244 Pill Pileup?
Q. Regarding one taking a sleeping pill during late afternoon Shabbos, for having effect after Shabbos. It is needed to be taken early, since otherwise it will affect that person in the morning after and will not be able to wake up on time. Is tha ....


Posted 6/29/2021 6:02 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3243 A Flying Visit?
Q. When one goes to the cemetery to take part in a Matzeva unveiling, if he arrived early, can he first visit the Kever of his relatives buried nearby?
If he walked by the Kever of his parents on the way to the unveiling, can he still go a ....


Posted 6/29/2021 5:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3242 Maftir Mazal
Q. If two people have yohrzait on the same Shabbos, can they cast a Goral Ha'grah or any other lots or raffle, to decide who gets maftir.
If the one who gets Maftir also pays for the kiddush after davening, can they still do it?



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Expand Article # 3241 Spin the Doctor?
Q. The rofim mumchim (expert physicians) in the New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM), CHOP, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and of Boston, and Sick Kids in Toronto do NOT RECOMMEND that children up to the age of 20 take the shot. Does this ....


Posted 6/29/2021 5:22 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3240 Spit In?
Q. Can one brush his teeth on a Ta'anis without using any water or toothpaste, just one's own saliva and then spiting it?

A. Mishna Berura (567: 11) rules that when in pain and discomfort one may wash the mouth with water, while being c ....


Posted 6/28/2021 6:18 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3239 Testing the Tasting
Q. Because of my medical condition, I'm permitted to take pills during the fast of Shiva Assar Betamuz. The pills have to be taken with a glass of water. Do I make a bracha on the water?
Although, we don't usually say a bracha on water used f ....


Posted 6/25/2021 1:22 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3238 A Fast Sheva Brochos?
Q. Someone making a Sheva Brochos for a couple that got married this week (the week before Shiva Asar Betamuz) can they play music from a tape on Motzei Shabbos, which is the night of the fast, as it is on Sunday? It is also a Melave Malka.


Posted 6/25/2021 12:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3237 Deck the Suka?
Q. Is one allowed during the three weeks to build a backyard deck that will be used for building a Suka on it? The posts for the Suka's schach will be constructed also then.

A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in need it c ....


Posted 6/25/2021 12:25 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3236 Don't Forget This
Q. How long is one allowed to leave a sefer one is learning from open, when exiting a room?

A. Shach and Taz (Y.D. 277: 1) quote Bach and Yerushalmi Megila, that the one who stops learning and goes to another room, leaving an open sefe ....


Posted 6/24/2021 10:46 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3235 The Hot Droshos
Q. One who fainted because he attended an outside lengthy ceremony under the sun and in the heath of the day and was taken on an ambulance to a hospital since he had very low blood pressure.

Be'H he was released some hours later aft ....


Posted 6/24/2021 10:43 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3234 One's for the Asking?
Q. After accepting Shabbos may one directly tell a Jew to do melacha (work) or only through hinting? I accepted Shabbos and afterwards someone wanted to borrow my phone. Can I tell them where it is and give them the password so they can use it?


Posted 6/24/2021 10:32 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3233 Can't Join Them, Don't Beat Them
Q. A person was hired to help out a minyan. He attended but did not daven with them. Most days they managed to have six mispallelim without him. They are only makpid to have six, not ten. On a few occasions it was only five mispallelim. he says that ....


Posted 6/24/2021 10:23 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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