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Expand Article #5303 Just Enjoy the Delicious Fruits!
Q. Dear Friendly Rabino. Due to my sad medical circumstances I was hospitalized yesterday (Thursday) during Tu Bishvat (2025), and was unable to eat the fruits together with my family and friends and say the brochos and sing the songs including the ....


Posted 2/14/2025 1:35 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5302 - Walk the Walk?
Q. Is it okay to pace and walk around while I am davening some of the brachas that require standing or don't require sitting, aside from the shemona esrei?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is only permitted in a pla ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:50 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 5301 – Amen to the Amen!
- Q. Someone in the conversion process was told that he can't say amen to other people's brachas. I thought they are supposed to follow all Jewish laws and customs with the exception of completely observing Shabbos. What am I missing?

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Posted 2/14/2025 12:48 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5300 A New World - Really?
- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I have an important question that Gedolei Hatorah have to address.
Since genetically altered fruits and other food items are constantly becoming more common, does their particular status alter any Halacha considera ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5299 A Real Newborn?
- Q. Dear Rabbi. A friend became religious late in life. An orthodox Rabbi was telling him that he should now have a real bar mitzvah. My friend was very offended and then asked if he should also repeat his bris (circumcision) which was done by a ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:41 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5298 Honey, Don’t Pass the Milk!
- Q. Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. I have another shaila. If I we served at a simcha meal Chalav Yisrael. Yet someone noticed that one of the waiters poured a bit of left over milk from another simcha, that was kosher but not Chalav Yisrael, if it wa ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:37 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5297 A Sefer Torah in Aramaic?
- The Talmud (Megila 9) mentions that according to the opinion that allows a Sefer Torah to be written in aramaic, the reason is because it says יפת אל' ליפת which means G-d glorified י– ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:32 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5296 Make it in Aramaic?
- Q. Dear Rov and Magid Shiur. When Hashem spoke to the important people of Babel as, described in the Talmud and Midrashim, did he speak to them in Aramaic?

A. Some significant chapters of Daniel and Ezra, that quote the words of H ....


Posted 2/14/2025 12:27 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5295 The True Tu Bishvat
- Q. The people of our shul have a tradition to make a seuda for Tu Bishvat in which the customary fruits are served. Can they make the Seuda on the night (Wednesday this year 2025) or does it have to be during the (Thursday) day? (They usually do ....


Posted 2/12/2025 10:15 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5294 Go For a True Song
- Q. As we are to read on this Shabbos Shirah the song that gives the name to the Shabbos, does it all have to be read with a special tune

A. There are indeed different traditions. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlita opinion is that indeed th ....


Posted 2/9/2025 10:49 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5293 An Eating Problem?
Q. See question above. I see that frum people go on vacation times or dates to places and restaurants that serve both Kosher and non-kosher food. Is that permitted?
Is there any reason to worry about ma’aris ayin when doing so?

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Posted 2/9/2025 11:36 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5292 A Drink Problem?
- Q. Can someone traveling and being in an airport or plane, consume a coffee or tea served in what seems to be just items that are essentially kosher? What is Horav Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?
Would he drink it?

A. Although it is c ....


Posted 2/7/2025 12:15 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5291 Sounds Are To Good to Be True?
- Q. Kvod Moreinu Horav Shlit”a: What is the Halacha regarding the prohibition of Kol Isha (listening to the voice of a woman singing) if the music in question is changed to either raise or lower the pitch? If the voice now sounds like a mans is ....


Posted 2/7/2025 12:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5290 Don’t Trim the Shovavim!
- Q. See question above. Another explanation is because Shovavim falls after the winter solstice, which is when the days start to get longer.

This connects to the narrative recounted in Avodah Zara (8a) that after Adam sinned, he asc ....


Posted 2/7/2025 12:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5289 The Shovaim Meaning
- Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a: I overheard in our shul that we are now at the very special time of the year known as Shovavim. What exactly is the time period of Shovavim? And what does it mean? Why is it so special?

A. Shovavim is the word ....


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Expand Article #5288 Get the Right Day Right!
Q. See question above . Thanks Rabbi for the enlightenment. Yet, why is the minhag to recite it on that particular day of the week?

A. Sefarim explain that Tuesday was the day that plants, vegetation and fruits were created.
....


Posted 2/7/2025 2:34 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5287 Always “Heaven On Earth"
Q. We were asked a number of Shailos this year, significantly more than in others regarding the reciting this week of Parshas Haman on Tuesday.
I sent to them the following Teshuva, we once wrote:

A. “1606 - Q. What is the sour ....


Posted 2/5/2025 3:49 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5286 Let Women Forget?
Q. See questions above. As Tu Bishvat is approaching and one of the fruits traditionally eaten that we serve are olives, often people ask, (as reflected above), if it is correct to eat olives, since the Sages teach that it affects the Torah lear ....


Posted 2/5/2025 10:35 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5285 Living with Olives V
- Q. We must add the following part to the answers above.
“Does it make a different if the olives are lightly chewed or well-chewed? Does it make a difference if they are eaten by themselves or with garlic or in something (e.g. cottage chees ....


Posted 2/4/2025 9:57 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #5284 Living with Olives IV
- Q. See question above. What is the definition of “Rogil” How often is it?

A. On question 452 and 2550 regarding the eating of olives, we wrote:
“What is meant by Rogil? How often? How many? Does it make a difference in which c ....


Posted 2/4/2025 7:08 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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