Ask The Rabbi
Halachic questions answered by Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
5,519 questions and answers
# 3415 Take Another Seat
An individual during the time of Avelus and as part of it, has to undergo Shinui Makom or the change of one’s everyday established place in shul to a different unusual one. Can an Avel when he n...
# 3414 Is It Time to Call it a Day?
Can one apply in case of need the principle of Miktzas Hayom Kekulo, or part of the day counts as the whole day, to end shiva to the night of the seventh day, before davening in the morning as it is u...
# 3413 Saving a Life
Can one restrain the body of a terminally ill unconscious patient from getting I.V. fluids, when the doctors maintain that the temporary live will be extended if this is done?...
# 3412 Saving a Life
Can one abstain the body of a terminally ill unconscious patient from getting I.V. fluids, when the doctors maintain that the temporary live will be extended if this is done?...
# 3411 Signs of Life?
What are the ’Simanei Gosses" or signs of imminent death in our days? Blood Pressure? Heart beating?...
# 3410 Facts of Life
Can you embrace or kiss a dying patient if the doctors maintain that it will not affect the patient, and on the contrary it may extend temporarily his life?...
# 3409 Get Some Teeth Into This?
Is there a Inyan (sense or significance) to bury teeth? If dentures that contained some real teeth were removed at intubation in the hospital and then the patient died, do they have to be replaced in ...
#3408 Last Trip
When the body itself is buried, do the severed and saved body members, require to be buried with the body? How are they to be transferred to Eretz Yisroel?...
# 3407 Body Parts
2) See question 3406 above. Do other body parts as internal organs? Appendix, Eyes, Kidneys, do they have to be buried? If yes where and how?...
# 3406 Out on a Limb
A number of Shailes were aroused by the painful death of my older brother R’ Yisroel Yehuda Bartfeld zt’l, and are as follows: 1) What is done with the severed legs or hands, cut from pat...
# 3405 Another Fish Story
Is there a prohibition to eat parts cut from a fish while it was still alive. I have seen that done in various fish stores. Is that not Eiver Min Hachai? (eating a piece of a live animal)....
# 3404 Better Never Than Late?
If the Chupa will be at night after Maariv, should the Chassan say Vidui also after Maariv?...
# 3403 Grooming for Confession?
A Chassan (groom) that is getting married on Rosh Chodesh and therefore he is not fasting, does he say Viduy (confession) when he davens Mincha?...
# 3402 Assume the Position?
(See question above) Can I just apply for a customer service representative position to answer customer calls and book service appointments in a conservative shul? This job will also have other genera...
# 3401 Don't Ask me, I Just Work Here
Can I apply for a Part-Time Synagogue Operations Administrator in a Conservative shul that requires to work closely with the Spiritual Leader and Creative Director, collaborate and contribute to the o...
# 3400 Greetings or Salutations?
Someone is in quarantine together with his family. When making Birchas HaL’vono from his uncovered porch, can he satisfy the thrice-declaration of saying Shalom Aleichem by saying it to his wife ...
# 3399 The Code of Silence
Hello Rav, During the repetition of the Amidah, its forbidden to talk. I’m wondering what would the Halacha be if during the Chazara repetition I leave the shul to use the washroom, could I say ...
# 3398 Just Wait and See
Hello Rav, I am wondering what is permitted to do between the time I’m done my personal Amidah and the time that the Shaliach Tzibbur starts the Chazara repetition. Am I permitted to say tehillim...
# 3397 What's in a Name?
Sometimes the minhag is to name someone using their mothers name, and sometimes using the fathers name. Why is this? what is the rule when? Mothers name only when davening for Refuah? what about dov...
# 3396 Lost in the Wash?
Hello Rav, I wanted to get some clarify on what is permitted in a room that has a shower only (no toilet) that is used regularly for bathing. I understand that Rav Ovadia allows one to listen to a Tor...