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# 1757 Early Shabbos Kiddush
I thank the Rov for giving all the opportunity to hear the Daas Torah from one of the Gedolei Hador Horav Miller shlita, easily and anonymously. Someone donated a Kiddush (we are a shul in the US) as...
# 1756 Park Your Thoughts
A Jew is reciting the Amidah when he remembers that he forgot to put money in the parking meter, and he sees through the window that there is a police officer in the street who will soon give him a ti...
# 1755 Blessings For Big Thanks
Can one who is not obligated to recite the hagomel brocho, recite it for someone else who is present and cannot say it himself, and be motzi him with the brocho?...
# 1754 What Are You Drinking?
It occurred to me that even those (Poskim), such as Horav Shlomo Miller, who are meikel (lenient) regarding sherry cask whiskeys, would think it appropriate to be machmir (stringent) in a situation wh...
# 1753 Transfusion Confusion
Does G-d allow his followers to get blood transfusions/transfers? (An additional question asked). If you have an opportunity to receive a transfusion should you choose from a fellow Jew?...
# 1752 Convert Alert!
Thank you for getting back to me, let me rephrase the question. A non-Jew that was a very religious dedicated Catholic for many years (actually a priest) and decided to convert to Judaism, since he ...
# 1751 A Shaila Wound Around Your Little Finger
Is there a source for the minhag that some people have to point with their little or pinky finger to the Torah when hagbaah is done? Why that finger?...
# 1750 Keep Alive the Food's Good Spirits
Is someone had some food in his pockets and entered a cemetery, can he eat the food after he goes out? Is there an issue of ruach ra (bad spirit) involved?...
# 1749 Chew This One Over
Does Rav Miller Shlita also hold that you don’t make a brocho on flavored chewing gum (as in Listerine strips see prior question 1739)? Don’t you eat and enjoy the flavoring agents and sweet...
# 1748 A Drinking Problem
Dear Rabbi Bartfeld, Can you please ask HoRav Miller Shlit’a if it is best to refrain from scotch in sherry casks due to the isur hanaah (prohibition of deriving benefit) of stam yayin (non-koshe...
# 1747 Amen? Ken!
If my minhag is not to say Baruch Hashem l’olam in Maariv (due to concerns of hefsek between geula and tefilla), should I also avoid saying Amein to this bracha?...
# 1746 See The Light?
I will fly be"h Sunday June 3 from JFK to Moscow flight time 1:05 AM scheduled to arrive in Moscow 5:20 P.M. local time. Moscow is 7 hours ahead of NY when should I daven shacharis?...
# 1745 A Perfect Stranger?
A Shadchanit called me about a shiduch and we went on a date. She told me that everything was okay with the boy, but on the date I had a feeling that he was somehow "distant", and some of his respons...
# 1744 Have a Gezunt Gut Shabbos
As I mentioned yesterday I have lately some respiratory problems and I am waiting to see a specialist (takes too long). I cannot walk long time,, cannot climb stairs and very often I have some cough...
# 1743 Don't Trip on that Trip
Is one permitted to leave Eretz Yisroel to visit an ailing parent who has intermarried?...
# 1742 Not New - No Sheheya-nu
I live in Eretz Yisroel where varied fruits are not available all year. Rather, they appear in the stores as they are harvested. Around now, after Shavuos, is when ripe sweet grapes are being sold, co...
# 1741 Conflicts in Interest
Question regarding Ribbis. If one jew lends money to another jew and the other jew who is not observant wants to pay back the favor with money or a sizable gift. The lender explains to the the the oth...
# 1740 Sometime One Time is Just Fine
Regarding what Rav Miller wrote that one may attend a university class, etc. on Shabbos, why is it not a Chillul Hashem? Even the goyim understand that for Jewish people Shabbos is a day of rest. And ...
# 1739 Thresh the Bracha on Fresh Breath?
Do you make a bracha on Listerine strips?...
# 1738 A Brocho in a Nutshell
If I made a mezonos brocho on a cracker with peanut butter and I have left some of the peanut butter on the knife I used and want to eat it the leftover by itself, do I have to make a shehakol? What ...