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# 1449 It’s Good For Kappores
Shalom Aleichem Harav When doing kaporos with money, can one use a credit card instead of cash and have in mind to donate a specific amount of money to tzedaka? Bevirkas kesiva vachasima tova...
# 1448 The Meat of the Yom Tov
Regarding eating meat on Yom Tov, is chicken/turkey considered meat for the purpose of simchas Yom Tov? Is one required to have meat for both the night and day meal or is meat at one of those meals su...
# 1447 The First or The Many?
I heard that there are those who maintain that it is a greater sin the first time one does it (the sin), but when one becomes used to it, the sin is less (naase loi keheter) and others disagree and sa...
# 1446 A Teshuva to a Baal Teshuva
One who is considering becoming a baal teshuva from scratch, he doesn’t yet keep Shabbos, kashrus, taharas hamishpocho etc. etc. should he now put on tefilin, tzitzis, daven and do other mitzvos, sinc...
# 1445 Strike A Match
Can a Cohen, who is a widower and middle aged and has grown children marry a Jewish middle aged, never married baalas tsuvah woman (frum over 20 years),(never had children), (both parents were jewish)...
# 1444 A Warm Shailah
What is Rabbi Miller’s position on doing chazara on Warming Drawers....
# 1443 Cover story
Individual in his advanced age and was never married. At what point should he start to be m’kayem Mitzvah of Tzitzis with Tallis Godol, being that (due to his age) it is not likely that he will get ma...
# 1442 A Square Meal
Hi. I will be spending Sukkot and simchat Torah with my daughter and son in law. My custom is not not eat in the sukkah on shmini atzeret, but my son in law does. When I’m by his home should I...
# 1441 Lose Sleep Over This
The Mishna says that the Kohen Gadol was made to stay awake leil Yom Kippur and was prevented from sleeping, lest he come to have an emission and become disqualified from doing the avoda. But what is...
# 1440 So What Happened To My Deal?
A local orthodox shul had an annual membership special for new members, 1st year half price off regular fees, 2nd year, 25% off regular fees and 3rd year full fees. Can a new board of directors cance...
# 1439 From One’s Mouth To Hashem
The halacha is that one may not eat before davening, I am diabetic. A normal morning sugar reading is between 70-100. If my sugar reading is, let’’s say, at 300, I am to inject a certain am...
# 1438 Gut Yom Tov or Gut Yohr?
Is one supposed to be happy on Rosh Hashana or worried because it is the Yom Hadin? Does one greet his friend with Gut Yom Tov on Rosh Hashana?...
# 1437 Have a Happy Rosh Hashana
Dear Rov, I have some questions that have bothered me a long time. Q) Is there a mitzva of simcha on Rosh Hashana, as in every other Yom Tov, so a vegetarian should make an effort to eat meat?...
# 1436 That’s One For The Books
Can you make a siyum when you finish learning any sefer?...
# 1435 The End Justifies The Means?
May one make a siyum if certain parts were skipped (due to difficulty or other reason), but the vast majority of the tractate was learned? Does one need to go back and do the few parts that were ski...
# 1434 At Wits’ End
May one make a siyum if certain parts of the masechta were learned mentally, but not verbalized? May one make a siyum if he learned in English (Artscroll)?...
# 1433 You Are Not In Hot Water
Is it permitted to use hot water to wash dishes on Yom Tov? Are there any problems of machshirey ochel nefesh?...
# 1432 An Even Break
Kavod Harav, Q. If one spoke after hearing Kiddush and before drinking the wine (before the cup was passed to him), he has to bless again. but if one spoke after hamotzi, after the baal habayis took...
# 1431 Disagree To Agree
There is a popular Zemer sung on Shabbos morning beginning with the words "Chai HaShem Uvaruch Tzuri". Most of the stanzas, while not making any overt mention of Shabbos, are understandable. However,...
# 1430 Creative Question
Dear Rabbi, I am a writer, and someone pointed me to a website where people can put up videos of themselves teaching any subject they feel they know something about. People pay a monthly or yearl...