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# 3192 Outwitting the Smart Lights
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Q. I live in a building that uses in the halls a new type of electric bulbs. When one comes close to them they go brighter and then, as one walks away they dim. It is an individual process of each bulb. Can these be used during Shabbos? I find it ex ....
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Posted 5/27/2021 10:18 PM |
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# 3191 That is So Cool
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Q. I became aware that the cool water being pumped out of Lake Ontario and other major cities, before it reaches the treatment stages, is also used for cooling the pumps themselves and the motors that operate them. Is that not a case of water that ' ....
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Posted 5/27/2021 10:09 PM |
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# 3190 The Ring of Life
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Q. See question 3189 above. I heard that in Mexico City where armed street robberies are common, they permit carrying cash money on Shabbat in case one is assaulted and if he doesn't have what to give to his assailants, he may be shot. What is Hora ....
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Posted 5/27/2021 10:02 PM |
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# 3189 Are you Afraid of the Shots?
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Q. I heard that Horav Miller Shlit'a opposes carrying a gun on Shabbat, even on places where there is a valid safety concern, I don't understand, doesn't Sakanat Nefashot, or the danger to life supersede other Torah prohibition? How about when wal ....
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Posted 5/26/2021 10:29 PM |
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# 3188 Wait and Hear
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Q. On question 3187 above, even if one cannot comply with Tefilah, Shema or Brachot using using this technology, would he be able to use it on Shabbat just to communicate with his family?
A. On question 2928 (See also questions (2926- ....
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Posted 5/24/2021 5:39 PM |
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# 3187 Hearing Somebody's Thoughts
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Q. My father will because of cancer have his vocal cords removed. He will not be able to articulate any speech or words sound at all. Can he be yotze Keriat Shema and Tefilah by just moving his lips? Could he use other future types of creating voi ....
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Posted 5/24/2021 5:25 PM |
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# 3186 Testing the Test
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Q. I saw that there is a clinic in my neighborhood that does Covid testing on Saturday. If it is in walking distance and I don't have to do any melachos, can I go for a nasal swab?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if ....
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Posted 5/24/2021 4:53 PM |
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# 3185 Casting Aside Traditional Greenery
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Q. After Shavuos do the branches of the trees and flowers that were used for decorating the shul, have to be treated like the Schach or the Hoshanos after Sukos, and bury them properly?
A. On question 1882 we wrote: "Shulchan Aruch (O. ....
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Posted 5/24/2021 4:43 PM |
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# 3184 Fuss the Feathers?
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Q. See question 3183 above. When the cat brought me a live bird it caught on Shabbos, there were feathers everywhere. Since I am allergic to them, I automatically cleaned them up. Then I wondered if they are mukztah and if I should have don ....
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Posted 5/23/2021 5:54 PM |
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# 3183 For the Birds?
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Q. My cat brought me a live bird on Shabbos (door to backyard was open). Usually, when it does that on weekdays, I wrap it in a towel and release it before my cat kills it.- Fortunately, the bird went on its own into my garbage can, so as it ....
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Posted 5/23/2021 5:32 PM |
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# 3182 Watch Out for That Shemira
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Q. Can a woman be a Shomeres and watch over a deceased? Can the wife of the deceased do so?
A. Poskim disagree whether women can do shemira even for other women. Beer Sorim (2: 77) prohibits, while others permit for women (Zichron M ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 11:22 PM |
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# 3181 To The Last Drop
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Q. If one made a bracha on a drink and it spilled out, is one mechuyev to take a drop with his finger from the floor?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a advise is that he should rather take a drop from the container where the liquid was h ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 11:17 PM |
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# 3180 Let The Minyan Count
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Q. If five people already davened and five need to daven, may one of those that already davened say a tefillas nedava so that there will be six mispallelim? May this be done in a case of need, such as where they will be very hurt by not having tefil ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 11:02 PM |
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# 3179 Lost in the Wash?
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Q. My wife entered a bathroom during davening in order to obtain a tissue or piece of toilet paper with which to blow her nose. A local Rebbetzin told her that even in such a case she is supposed to wash her hands before continuing to daven.
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:48 PM |
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# 3178 Thank You, but Yes Thank You
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Q. The Mishna B'rura says that the reason, according to the Ramo, for joy on Lag BaOmer, is that the disciples of R. Akiva stopped dying on that day.
The custom is to behave with signs of mourning on the days on which they died. When they sto ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:39 PM |
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# 3177 Just a Handshake?
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Q. Re- question 3176 above. If I use a virtual office of the new Gather Town technology, with holographic Avatars that really resembles the person it represents and it shakes hands with a customer in a business deal will that become a kinyan as when ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:10 PM |
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# 3176 Look At Me!
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Q. I'm of a Chasidic background and I run an office for a company that is planing to update their Zoom office program, (as we work from home, and it is likely to continue) to the new Gather Town technology. Basically it has the added component of se ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:06 PM |
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# 3175 Have a Number on Mind
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Q. We learned recently on the Daf that one should not count people directly. When making sure one has a minyan for davening, can one count the present attendants mentally, by just looking at them?
A. Although some Poskim are lenient, Ho ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 10:02 PM |
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# 3174 No Tears On a Tear
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Q. If someone touched his hair on his head or pulls or tears some hair from his head or beard, does he have to wash hands three times?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H . 4: 21) rules that someone scratching his head should wash hands. Poskim writ ....
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Posted 5/20/2021 9:57 PM |
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# 3173 Earn One's Daily Bread Brocho
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1) Q. In reference to question 3156, since the flour goes through a process and the result is only wheat starch, why isn't it different than other starches or products that have totally changed their form? When an apple changes its form into apple sa ....
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Posted 5/13/2021 6:15 PM |
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