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# 3330 The Brief on Brief
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Q. I'm going to blow Shofar for a relative of mine in hospital that cannot be moved from his bed. Since there are other non-Jewish patients on that room, the administration from past years experience is reluctant to permit blowing the shofar on the ....
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Posted 8/27/2021 11:06 AM |
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# 3329 Forgive and Forfeit?
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Q. Someone was insulted by a 'friend' and answered back with a similar insult. As the Yemei Hadin approach and the provoking offender does not seem to be interested in asking 'Mechila' or saying he is sorry. Does the offended have to ask forgivenes ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:52 PM |
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# 3328 Don't Give Up
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Q. Someone who has been a Baal Tokea for many years but now due to age and health issues finds it a bit difficult to continue. should he still make an effort to be the Baal Tokea if he can still do it well?
A. It seems it would depend ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:49 PM |
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# 3327 Sweet and Sour?
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Q. Can someone consume mayonnaise on Rosh Hashana since it usually contains vinegar and we are to abstain from bitter foods on that holiday?
A. On question 115 we wrote:The Minhag not to eat bitter or sour foods as a Siman or symbol for ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:44 PM |
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# 3326 The Rules of The Bending
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Q. After having read your answer (3322) regarding all the possible Halacha difficulties and problems in buying a Kosher Shofar these days, I went to buy a Shofar at a respectable Judaica store owned by honest frum people who I fully trust. I did ask ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:38 PM |
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# 3325 A Matter of Record
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Q. When someone is blowing Shofar in a hospital and there are cameras with recording machines on, is it correct to do there Tekias Shofar?
A. On question 3245 we mentioned that in our times it is common to have security cameras outside ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:35 PM |
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# 3324 Care To Join Us?
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Q. See question 3323 above. Someone is walking to his shul on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur and as he goes by an outdoor minyan or even a regular small minyan, they ask him to come in and complete the minyan; Does he have to join them?
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:29 PM |
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# 3323 Not Sacrificing For Others?
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Q. If one has the choice to daven B'rov Am (large group of attendants) in a yeshiva or to help out a struggling minyan (where it is questionable if there are even ten davening), which is better?
A. On question 3319 regardi ....
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Posted 8/26/2021 10:25 PM |
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# 3322 Let The Concerned Care?
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Q. Is it correct to announce in shul this Shabbos - Parshas Ki Seitze that we are going to read the Parsha of Amalek, so people can pay attention and have in mind to comply with this Biblical mitzva. This is needed since this coming year has an e ....
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Posted 8/20/2021 5:18 PM |
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# 3321 Grab the Shailos of the Horns
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Q. If one buys a new Shofar does it need a certificate of Kashrut?
A. I quote from HaSofer.com:
"The only way you can be sure that you are buying a kosher shofar is if it has a hechsher, certification certificate, physicall ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 11:14 PM |
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# 3320 Don't Blow It
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Q. Can I use a very old shofar that has been in our shul for many years. Do I have to be concerned that it may not be kasher anymore?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that you should bring it to a competent Rov and have ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 11:11 PM |
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# 3319 Sacrificing for Others
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Q. I would like to thank the Rabbi for setting up this shailes network that gives an accurate Halacha answer from Gedolim like Horav Miller Shlit'a to important shailes and also provides complete anonymity for the people asking them. Yasher Kochache ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 11:07 PM |
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# 3318 Not a Good Sign?
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Q. Hello Rav, I am Baal Teshuva. I was told that since my grandparents have no frum descendants aside from me, that I should say Kaddish For them on their Yarhtzeit as long as my parents (who are alive) are okay with it. My question is: why would my ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 11:04 PM |
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# 3317 Your Wake up Call
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Q. Rav Shlomo Miller paskened that it is more important to be from the asara rishonim than to wake someone up for davening, as an alarm clock can be used. if the person says that the alarm clock is not so effective, or one feels obligated to do the ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:52 PM |
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# 3316 Grilling the Grill
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Q. My family owns a cottage we use during the Summer months, and we often go away for several days or during weekends. We wonder if we leave on the outside garden a large BBQ grill, if we have to be concerned that someone may have come and used it ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:50 PM |
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# 3315 Beauty is on the Mouth of the Blower
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Q. My father bought me an Israeli shofar that has a decorative silver covering. Can I use it on Rosh Hashana.
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 586: 16-18) rules that if a shofar has a gold decorative covering and it reaches the place of the mout ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:49 PM |
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# 3314 Have Your Shofar and Eat Too
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Q. Can women who always are careful to come to the blowing of the Shofar, eat before? Do they have to make Kiddush?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 589: 3, 6) rules that although women are exempt from the mitzva of Tekias Shofar, since it is t ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:47 PM |
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# 3313 Have a Good Night
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Q. I heard that some Sefarim rule that a Shofar is muktza on the night of Rosh Hashana and cannot be handled when you are not allowed to blow it. Is that correct?
A. Kovetz Halachos (Rosh Hashana 10: 11, p.126) quoting Horav Shmuel Ka ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:45 PM |
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# 3312 Patience with the Patient
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Q. Someone visits periodically a chronic old age patient in an Old Age Hospital. The patient is intubated and can't communicate verbally, but his mind seems fine and answers with signs and smiles. Can he put on tefilin on him? Can he recite a bracha ....
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Posted 8/19/2021 10:40 PM |
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# 3311 Smell Test
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Q. If someone stores in the garage smelly garbage cans, that often contain diapers too, is that garage exempt from a Mezuzah?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the garbage cans should be kept inside another bigger contai ....
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Posted 8/16/2021 5:33 PM |
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