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Expand Article # 3136 Saving Who's Life?
Q. If an elder patient waiting for a life saving organ transplant is given a date, but he knows a young yeshiva bochur who needs the same transplant, can he offer his place in the list? (he will only be removed one or two places).

A. T ....


Posted 4/19/2021 2:49 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3135 Hartzige Music During Sefira
Q. What does the Rav hold regarding listening to Hartzige music "nigunei neshama" during sefira?
A. On question 1313 we wrote: See questions1305 and 1312 above in regards to what kind of music is permitted during Sefira.
Although, Oz ....


Posted 4/19/2021 2:37 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3134 If the Shoe Fits Bless It
Q. If someone bought some expensive shoes for Pesach that he usually makes sheheyanu on them, but did not use them then. Can he wear them on Shabbos after Pesach and say the brocho?

A. See question above regarding reciting Shehecheya ....


Posted 4/19/2021 2:28 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3133 A Blessing Happy Mother
Q. Does the mother say Shecheyanu on the birth of her daughter? Does she say it also during the days of Sefira?

A. Mishna Berura (223: 2) maintains that the father and the mother, when they actually see the newborn daughter should re ....


Posted 4/19/2021 2:14 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3132 Sefira Baby Blessings
Q. If someone had a baby girl during the mourning weeks of Sefiras Haomer, should he recite the brocho of Shehecheyanu?

A. Poskim disagree if there is a source or reason at all, to avoid reciting Shehecheyanu during the weeks of Sefi ....


Posted 4/19/2021 2:09 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3131 Adding or Subtracting?
Q. On above question 3130: The Taalesim also had the unusual condition of having the small added corner patches on both sides of the cloth. Is that correct?

A. It stands to reason that since now on this particular Taalis one cannot tell ....


Posted 4/18/2021 5:31 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3130 Make Whole the Hole
Q. I received from Eretz Yisroel some Taalesim Ketanim that I requested. But they had the Tzitzis installed following the minhag of two adjacent openings and the tzitzis hanging in the front only. Since that is not my minhag and I'm unable to return ....


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Expand Article # 3129 The Bottom of the Food Chain?
Q. Should not all medical pills be permitted during Pesach or when from an non-kosher source during the whole year, since they are after all a non edible food that even dogs would not eat?

A. Indeed Poskim do mention that reason as a h ....


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Expand Article # 3128 A Taste of One's Own Medicine
Q. Would it be better for someone needing to take questionable pills on Pesach, or any other time if they could be non kosher, to wait and take them after a heavy meal when one is completely satiated. At that state it would be considered an Achila G ....


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Expand Article # 3127 Didn't Remember To Remember
Q. If one was asked by a friend who is unable to come to shul to say Izkor for his parents, but didn't open the email or forgot the request. What should he do? Does he have to inform his friend that he didn't comply with his request?

A ....


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Expand Article # 3126 A Hard Pill to Swallow II
Q. On a question 3122 above regarding swallowing pills for someone who has to take them during Pesach that may contain Kitniyos, you answered that it is not permitted.
I don't understand isn't any deviation of the normal way of doing a mitzv ....


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Expand Article # 3125 Forgot the Remembrance Light
Q. What should one do if one forgets to light an Izkor candle for parents as he always lights?

A. On question 2942 regarding If someone forgot to kindle a Yohrzait candle on that day for a father or mother, what is the correct thi ....


Posted 4/12/2021 2:36 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3124 Can't Live by Matza Alone
  Q. During one of the days of Pesach I had left over a large piece of Shmura Matza from a meat meal; Next day I wondered if I could eat for breakfast cheese with the leftover Matza. Is that permitted?

A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 89: ....


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Expand Article # 3123 Seeing Eye to Eye
Q. In 2017 my optometrist, saw a hole in my left retina, and was able to book me in fast, to see a Retinologist, who in turn was able to seal the hole in my retina by laser on that very same day. Failure to act promptly to a torn retina often result ....


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Expand Article # 3122 A Hard Pill to Swallow?
Q. Someone who has to take pills during Pesach that may contain Kitniyos (grain products that are not true chometz, but Ashkenazim prohibit). Should he preferably place his pill on a glass with water and then just swallow the pill with the water, li ....


Posted 4/11/2021 9:42 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3121 Everyone Has Their Praise
  Q. After a woman gives birth, does she bench Hagomel or can her husband say Hagomel for her.

A. On question 610 we wrote: Shulchan Oruch (O.H. 223: 1) rules that when a son is born one recites Hatov Vehametiv. For a daughter Mis ....


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Expand Article # 3120 The Reason to Listen
Q. Our grandfather is living at an old age care facility due to his sensitive health status. We, his grandchildren take turns to visit him and a this time count Sefiras Haomer with him. But sometimes he barely repeats some of the words, does this co ....


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Expand Article # 3119 We All Count when We Count Together
Q. We daven in our shul Maariv early after Plag and don't count sefirah then as it is too early. I join later on a Zoom Daf and I'm trying to convince them to count at the end of the shiur, when it is already certainly night, to count Sefirah togeth ....


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Expand Article # 3118 Weak on the Weeks Too
Q. On the last question, (3117 - when one mentions during the day the Sefira count without any intention to comply with the mitzva), if he also omitted the count of the weeks, will he still be yotze?

A. Hisorerus Teshuva (2: 93) rules t ....


Posted 4/8/2021 9:52 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3117 I Can't Remember What I Forgot
Q. If I forgot to count sefiras Haomer on the second night, but during the day I commented to my friend how bad my memory is since already on the very second day I lost it. Now since I did mention that it was the second day, although I didn't have a ....


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