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Expand Article # 3103 Pesach Dishes for Shabbos Use?
Q. I heard that during every regular Shabbat the utensils set aside for Pesach use are muktza.

If one bought new utensils for Pesach and decides to use the old ones on Shabbat a week before Pesach, for chametz purposes, can he use them ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:42 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3102 Facing the Face Shields
Q. Can one use during Pesach the plastic full face shields that one wears duacing the Face Shieldsring the year?

A. Since the shield cannot be used when eating, even if sometimes it was placed on a table where food was served, if it is ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:31 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3101 Under the Sanitizer Influence ?
Q. Can one use during Pesach the hand sanitizer usually available in the shul that contains Ethyl Alcohol?

A. On question 2622 published a year ago regarding if one can one use during Pesach sanitizers that contain alcohol, that could b ....


Posted 3/26/2021 12:25 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3100 What Does it All Amount To?
Q. If one has digestive problems and resulting inflammation that is debilitating, and (during the seder) it affects the ability to serve the meal to the rest of the family and guests, does one have to eat the full shiur of matza each time during the ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:45 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3099 A Juicy Meal?
Q. Can one drink a reviis of grape juice for a bemakom seuda need on Shabbos or only wine? (Consumption of an extra reviis wine is considered in Halacha as having eaten a meal).

A. See question above, where we asserted that grape juice ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3098 The Matter of the Juice
Q. Does the bracha on grape juice include other beverages, or only wine?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 272: 2) rules that one can squeeze a cluster of grapes and recite on the product Kiddush. Mishna Berura (ibid. 6) adds that even if it was ....


Posted 3/21/2021 5:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3097 Accounting for Tastes?
Q. Can someone that was affected by Covid and l'a lost his sense of taste, eat on Pesach Seder maror (bitter herbs) with a bracha?

A. Talmud Pesachim (115b) teaches that if someone swallows maror (without chewing it first) he does not c ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3096 No Skin of One's Teeth
Q. How does one clean his teeth on Shabbat this year when Erev Pesach is Shabbat?

A. One can rinse one's mouth and use Kosher Lepesach mouthwash and a floss pick or similar, being careful not to draw any blood. As mentioned in a questio ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3095 A Soft Sell?
Q. Can you zoom mechiras chometz or sell it on line? How does one do then the Kinyan?

A. Poskim, in our contagious pandemic days, permit and many suggest to do it on line or by fax.
No kinyan (acquisitive act) is actually needed w ....


Posted 3/18/2021 10:01 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3094 Feels on Meals
Q. I have some questions about the meals of Erev Pesach. Both my husband and I must have breakfast before the tefillah because health issues. We consider breakfast our second Shabbat meal, and lunch would be Seudat shlishit. I was thinking this Er ....


Posted 3/18/2021 9:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3093 In Deep Water?
Q. Is it permissible to use regular bottled, filtered water for "mayim shelonu" to be mixed with the flour to make the matzah?

A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H 455: 1) based on Talmud (Pesachim 42a) rules that the water used in matza baking must ....


Posted 3/18/2021 9:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3092 Thank You for Not Sharing
Q. When staying in an apartment with a non-religious roommate, does one need to tell him to throw out (or keep separately) his chametz during Pesach, or may one allow him to store his chametz in the shared refrigerator, such as on a separate shelf?< ....


Posted 3/15/2021 4:36 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3091 An Early Start Solution
Q. A few weeks ago in our morning minyan, the 10th man, fairly young, walked out of the minyan to the uproar of our daveners, some of whom are saying kaddish. 
He was coaxed back in and explained almost tearfully that he can't keep up with ....


Posted 3/15/2021 3:58 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3090 Selling Point
Q. We have organized in the last year a new shul, and this is the first time that we will be selling chometz. The shul has a significant amount of donated chometz liquor that we are selling. Although we are a registered charity and we have a presi ....


Posted 3/15/2021 3:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3089 Lose or Win One's Shirt?
Q. Regarding what it says in the Mishna Berura not to wear the same clothing (shirt) multiple Shabbosim in a row due to Ezra Hasofer takana, may one be lenient if the shirt is still clean, or is it necessary to have one's Shabbos shirt cleaned and ....


Posted 3/14/2021 4:07 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3088 Same Again
Q. I f a person knows that he was exposed to the Corona virus for a brief time, is he obligated to immediately stop attending shul, or may he continue attending shul since there are many doubts involved (whether he has it, and whether he is contagiou ....


Posted 3/14/2021 3:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (1)


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Expand Article # 3087 Informing or Inculpating?
Q. If one suspects that a certain person has corona (such as the person is coughing or appears to have a hard time breathing), is one obligated to immediately inform the Rav or Rosh Yeshiva and have that person banned?

A. Horav Shlom ....


Posted 3/14/2021 3:34 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3086 Run and Eat
Q. If someone eats in a kiddush or an after davening lechaim for a yohrzait, where mezonos are also served, and eats standing up is he considered as pasul leidus or unfit to testify?

A. Talmud (Kidushin 40b) teaches that the one who ea ....


Posted 3/14/2021 3:25 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3085 Into the Drink?
  Q. Recently you posted a Q&A about drinking on Purim where ones parent has asked a child to not drink on Purim. In the answer you write that the boy should listen to his parents and not drink. However you then write in the name of Rav Sh ....


Posted 3/12/2021 11:02 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3084 Name your Dream
Q. My partner (see question above) also had a dream were his mother told him that his true name is not just Moshe as he has maintained all his life, until the dream and as is written in his Kesuva. She revealed to him in that dream, that he was also ....


Posted 3/11/2021 11:20 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)



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