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Halachic questions answered by Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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# 4925 - Frame the Frame?
– Q. I asked the Rov if someone is living in a building that has also some unfriendly Muslims that display hate and harm to the Jewish tenants. Is it possible to move the mezuza from the outside o...
#4924 Honor the Guest of Honor
If I am a guest at a Sefardi home on Passover, do I need to eat on disposable plates because they might have served rice or something else not permitted to an Ashkenazi?...
#4923 Don’t Seek and Hide
Dear Rabbi . If I see someone in an Orthodox shul using their phone openly on Shabbat, should I suggest that they do it in the bathroom as I thought public desecration of the Shabbat is a bigger prob...
#4922 Not Spoiled by Choice
Hello Rav, We had a non Jewish cleaning lady over on Shabbat becasue she wasn’t able to come on Friday. We had a busy Erev Sabbat and left a massive pile of various washed eating utensils on the ...
#4921 The Hidden Fire?
See question above: Does that mean that is one is traveling by plane or is (l’a) in hospital and cannot turn on a fire to burn his chometz, or one who for any other reason is unable to burn the chomet...
#4920 The Fire in Eating?
See question above. If one is indeed complying with the mitzva of Biur Chometz, when eating chometz or drinking beer or chometz liquors, although one does not recite a brocho, should not one at least ...
#4919 The Endless Ending?
Should one who owns a fire place or has a discarded oven burn leftover bread, cookies and cakes during the thirty days before Pesach to comply with the Biblical mitzva of Biur Chametz or the burning o...
#4918 A Broken Vort?
Many years ago, I was engaged to someone who broke up with me prior to the vort. The ring had been bought and was given to me but was too big so it was left with the jeweler to resize. In reflecting w...
#4917 A Household Name
Is it recommended when avoiding the giving of a baby’s name by zoom for the grand-father or other person to be honored, but can’t be present to name a Sheliach (agent) to represent him when naming the...
#4916 A Yum Frum Zoom?
If the naming of the baby was done indeed by zoom, should the Koire Hashem be holding a separate cup of wine? Should in the case above, the person making the Bracha drink the entire cup righ...
#4915 Not This Baby?
If as mentioned above on times of crisis and need zooming could be used for naming a newborn child. Would you then say: ״קיים את הילד ...
# 4914 Bring Bright Bris Future?
See question above. As the Rov of a Shul should I be nervous that this will set a precedent in how people do a Bris in the future?...
# 4913 No Room for the Zoom?
Is there any chisaron (negative outcome) in giving a baby his name when doing the bris, if it is via Zoom?...
#4912 When Should a Present be Present?
Is it better to give the needed to be given simcha presents, like for a bar mitzva or a wedding on Purim to increase the simcha that is after all a mitzvah on that day?...
#4911 The Right Time?
Dear Rov Shlit’a. On this year (2024) when Purim is on Sunday, is it not better at the end of Shabbos, to stay eating shaleshudes, saying Divrei Torah and prolonging Shabbos and then bench just before...
#4910 More Intentions Limitations
See above questions. Are there anymore limitations to that formerly great principle?...
# 4909 – Full Atention to Intention
Rov. the above is indeed very, very interesting and powerful, since all I have to do is daily spend some good, great time after davening, thinking and planing to all the many, many mitzvos and learnin...
#4908 All Purposes of Intent
Dear Rov. If someone avoids doing an avera (sin) our Sages tell us that it is considered as if a mitzva similar or corresponding was performed. If the mitzva involved was Biblical, does one need to ha...
#4907 Not Growing on Trees
– Q. Can I sell my trees over Passover and let them hire someone to cut them over on Chol Hamoed? Can I do this with a fruit tree that is rotting away?...
#4906 The Book Stops Here
If I am saying tehillim while I need to greet someone or say amen to someone’s bracha, can I stop in the middle? Is it better if I stop at the end of a clause, sentence or paragraph?...