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Halachic questions answered by Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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#5066 Dream Away
Kvod Ha Rab. I know that we do not put much into dreams. However, this dream has remained with me and it is a bit disturbing as it was very vivid. In this dream, we were sitting at the table ready to ...
#5065 Best Way to Stay Awake or Fall Asleep?
Someone that needs to hear music during work or while he is driving to calm him down or to help him not falling asleep, is that permitted during the Three Weeks?...
#5064 Turning It Into a Good Dream?
I recently read that the Gerrer Rebbe summoned a special minyan to his home to recite Hatavas Chalom (“Making good a Dream” The prayer said when someone has a bad dream). Do you really need a minya...
#5063 Room for Groom ?
Dear Rabbi. Is one allowed to cut nails during the Nine Days? How about going to the mikva for one who usually is tovel before davening? If he is allowed can he take a short shower immersing to keep ...
#5062 All Hands Off Deck
We B’H have and enjoy the great Bracha of Hashem that blessed us with a truly outstanding home with seven very beautiful children, most of them are not Bar or Bat mitzva yet. Although, as is obvio...
#5061 Lining for the Clean linen?
– Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’ll have Iy’H in during the Nine Days my children and their families visiting us. What is the correct thing to do for them when providing fresh linen and towels as they ...
#5060 Questioning the Questions
“Dear Rov Shlit’a. As you well know I give a few weekly shiurim to a large group of mispallelim in our shul. I often wondered which is best, to let the listeners ask questions during the time I speak...
#5059 The Right Side of the Bed?
See question above. Rabbi you may remember that in that particular old age home they made once a minyan with a whole friendly group of more than ten people, that were very aged and bedridden, but wer...
#5058 Enough of a Feast?
Dear Rabbi. A group of elderly and ill residents in our old age home, who are allowed by all opinions to eat on a fast day even on Tisha Beav and they sit together in a table, can they recite Birchat ...
#5057 Stranger to Danger?
– Q. Can one on a much needed vacation go and do regular scuba diving during the 3 weeks? How about water skiing?...
#5056 The Ninth Labyrinth
Is there a minhag at all to mourn on the Ninth of Tamuz since that was the day when the walls of Jerusalem during the First Temple?...
#5055 A Lesson on a Lesson
– Q. My dearest Rov Shlit’a. B’H I was hired as an organ and piano player to an important and very needed and well rewarding position. It is in a wedding and other simches popular Hall. I’m to b...
#5054 Fast Slowly
My naturopathic doctor said that I should not fast (in days like 17 Tamuz) so I was thinking to wake up early to eat breakfast and then eat lunch later in the day. However, I forgot it was a fast day ...
#5053 The Correct Current Swim
Dear Rov. We are staying at the cottage by the lake this Shiva Asar Betamuz, since I wake early before Alos Hashachar (day brake) to eat a meal so I can fast easier, can I then also go swimming in the...
#5052 One Kiddush For All?
See question above. In general when we do have a number of people who want to give a kiddush to honor a dear departed one, is it better to give it all together if possible and to make it greater and m...
#5051 The More Kidushin The Better?
This coming Sunday is the 15 day of Tamuz and is the Yohrzait of two great Gedolim. The Shaagas Aryeh and also the Orach Chaim ZT”L. We want to give a Kiddush this Shabbat to honor their memory. ...
#5050 Trump Up Trump!
Dear Rabbi. This week we were witnesses to the attempted murder of President Donald Trump as his truly miraculous salvation. Since he has been and is a very great friend of Israel and the Jewish commu...
#5049 Testing the Tasting
– Q. Kvodo, my father Shlit’a although he does fast on Shiva Assar Betamuz has to take now very necessary pills and needs water to swallow them, normally he does not recite a blessing on that water, s...
#5048 – Calling on the Calendar
The Rov of our shul mentioned that people should help in determining and publishing the times for davening and shiurim of the shul. He said that there is a very special and great mitzva for someone to...
#5047 Dish Wishes on Dishes
Last Shabbos, we were taking part in a beautiful Sheva Brochos Kiddush. Sadly someone serving tripped and a large pile of dishes fell on the floor and mostly broke. Was it better, since the broken pie...