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#5159 The Love of Hashem Trumps Hate
B’nai Brith of Canada, has revealed that antisemitic acts more than doubled between 2022 and 2024. Since our lives and the lives of our children are now at a real risk in Canada. I humbly think th...
#5158 Thanks B”H – But No Thanks
See question above. Since we live close by to the school, do we have to come to shul and recite the customary Bracha of Hagomel? What would the case be if it happened during actual classes and our chi...
#5157 No Amen to this Omen
Dear Rabbi, Long Life to you and all your family. As you certainly heard, Bais Chaya Mushka School for Girls close to you on North York (Toronto) was hit by bullets this Yom Kipur night, (yesterday), ...
#5156 A Freilechen St. Patrick’s day?
What is one permitted to do on Thanksgiving day?...
#5155 Are Women Better Than Angels?
Do women also repeat aloud on Yom Kippur, when they pray in the Ezrat Nashim, the phrase of “Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto,” when reading the Shema, aloud as men do?...
#5154 The Torah Misrepresented?
In a large shul that has the tradition to take out all the Sifre Torah during Kol Nidrei and honor the people who contribute to the institution, can they also take out the Sefarim that are not Kasher?...
#5153 The True Yom Kipur
Dear Rov Shlit’a. Since, as you have mentioned, it is most crucial to comply with the mitzva of Teshuva on Yom Kippur. What does Horav Miller Shlit’a maintain that is a mitzva that one can easily comp...
#5152 Questioning the Begging
When Yom Kipur coincides with Shabat as is this year, (2024), can one pray for his personal needs on that day? After all one should not pray for his private needs on Shabat....
#5151 The Greatest True Kiddush!!!
See question above. What was the proper behaviour for our Kedoshim who during the terrible times of the Holocaust when they were naked in the gas chambers and knew they were about to be put to death, ...
#5150 A Clean Confession
Dear Rabbi. As you well know I visit and take care of sick and elderly people, even and specially during Shabath and Yom Tov including Yom Kipur. I have a question that has always bothered me. On Yom ...
#5149 A Self Standing Tefila
We have in our shul a most important Baal Tefilah that has been davening for the amud on Yom Kipur Musaf for many years. His Tefilot are very beautiful and pleasant and he is very liked by the Tzibur....
#5148 Always Forgive and Forget?
Does a Talmid Hacham who was insulted in public by the leader of an event, and was prevented from speaking when it was his duty to do so, have to forgive the one who insulted him, before Rosh Hashana ...
#5147 A Blessing for Yourself
Kvod Horav Shlit”a. Can one blowing the shofar or making Kiddush on Rosh Hashana second day comply with the questionable brocho of Shecheyanu, by having in mind while reciting the brocho a new piece o...
#5146 More Easy on the Eyes
Re- question 5137 regarding if one should close his eyes when he is blowing the Shofar. Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a added that the foremost importance is to clearly intend to be “Motzi” (or make...
#5145 Forgiveness for the Selicha?
I’m an M.D. and I often have to be in the hospital on a night shift. During this time of the year I’m barely able to make it to a Shacharit minyan when it is still on time for saying Krias Shema. Ca...
#5144 – A Debate about a Siman Debate
A couple had a debate between them regarding some new fruits to be placed on the special meal on the night of Rosh Hashana as is tradition. The argument was if some of those fruits may need special ch...
#5143 Virtuous or Righteous?
Is it better to choose as a Baal Tokea (blower of shofar) someone that is a great expert and knows how to blow the shofar correctly following all details of Halacha, or is it preferable to select some...
#5142 Kiss a Blow?
If a Shofar falls on the floor, when you pick it up, do you have to kiss it?...
#5141 Hearing or Blowing?
Dear Rabbi Shlit”a. If someone knows well how to blow the shofar, should he offer to the shul to be the one to blow? Is there a greater mitzva to blow the shofar, more than just to hear from someone e...
#5140 The Right Pray on the Right Place
Hello Rav, Sometimes I need to daven at a minyan where I need to leave the minyan early in order to be on time for work in the morning. I’m able to stay until the kedushah during the repetition o...