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#5973 -Have a Happy Birthday?
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Q. Kevodo, Are we allowed to celebrate birthday in “bein hametzarim” (vacation) at home with no music and just family?
A. It is permitted to celebrate a birthday party during the Three Weeks until Rosh Chodesh Av. (Laws of Daily Living: The Three Weeks (p. 45) .
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Posted 6/29/2026 8:15 AM |
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# 5972 – The Wisdom Teeth?
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Q. See question above. Does it make any difference if the denture is itself a costly item that provides good luck?
A. It stands to reason that if it is needed for being able to eat, it should be permitted, even if other more simple dentures could be bought, since there would be an added cost.
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Posted 6/29/2026 8:14 AM |
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#– 5971 – A Law with Teeth!
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Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I have an appointment at my dental surgeon to have my dentures placed on the of the Nine Days. Can I keep that appointment or should I change the appointment for after the Nine Days ?
A. Poskim rule that if the procedure involves any danger, if possible, it is preferable to postpone it until after the three weeks are over, .
(See Emes L'yackov 551- ftnt. 515, Kovetz Halachos 7-4 )
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Posted 6/29/2026 8:13 AM |
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#5970 - The Musar of Shiva Asar Betamuz
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Q. See question above. Dear Rabbi. Besides the known tragic happenings mentioned above, were there any other historic occurrences in the past or G-D willing in the future on Shiva Asar Betamuz that which were actually beneficial?
A. Other interesting occurrences on this day include Noach sending out the first dove to see if the Flood waters had receded, (Bereishit 8:8) in 1650 (2100 BCE); Moshe Rabbeinu destroying the golden calf, (Shemot 32:20, Seder Olam 6, Taanit 30b – Rashi) and then ascending back up Har Sinai for the second time where he spent the next forty days pleading for forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf. (Shemot 33:11, Rashi)
The Mishna in Ta’anit 4:8 associates the 17th of Tammuz as the “Fast of the Fourth Month” mentioned by the prophet Zechariah. According to this Mishna, the 17th of Tammuz will be transformed in the messianic era in a day which “shall be joy to the House of Judah” full of “gladness and cheerful feasts.”
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:35 AM |
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#5968 - Much More Mouthwash?
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Q. See question above. How about using baking soda or similar powders to brush teeth?
A. If it’s put on dry without making a paste beforehand or you make a paste before Shabbos it would be permitted.
Yet only a Shabbos Toothbrush may be used.
Regarding tooth powder, besides the possible Shabbos concern, it should not be used even in middle of the week, because of
potential kashrus concerns.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:33 AM |
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#5967 – Mouth the Mouthwash?
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Q. See question above. One more question. Can one swirl in his mouth on Shabbat a cleaning rough powder. Since he spits it out, does it have a hechsher?
A. It could be used with care and indeed it has to be certified Kosher.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:32 AM |
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#5966 – Don’t Rush to Crush the Brush?
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Q. Rabbenu Shalita’a. Can one use on Shabbat a simple total plastic brush that does not absorb any water for brushing one’s teeth? How about just a dental stick with a pointy rubber head?
A. Indeed both could be used, including also toothpicks.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:30 AM |
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#5965 - Enlightening New Lights
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Q. Dear Rabbi, Incandescent new battery powered LED candles are used on Shabbat where real candles are not lit for safety reasons, such as in hospitals and on cruise ships. There are various opinions pertaining to how the bracha over incandescent candles and LED should be said. Do we say Hashem’s name or not?
Thank you.
A. On question 4565 we wrote:.
“Q. Dear Rov. Can one, when no other option is available, such as when a patient is in hospital or one is traveling by plane use halogen lights for Chanuka?
A. On Shailah 673 we received the following question:
“I’m doing my medical internship and I stay in the hospital overnight some days a week. Can I use a sodium battery powered lamp (sometimes used for medical examinations) for Chanuka lights? How about a Halogen light?”
To what we answered: “In question 667 of this forum, we mentioned that in regards to electric lights, Beis Yitzchok (Y.D. 1: 120) opines that they could be used instead of Shabbos candles but not as Chanuka lights since they lack Pirsumei Nissah. or recognition with the Chanuka miracle. Poskim offer other reasons why electric lights do not qualify.
One being that there is no actual fuel present at the time of lightning; it is constantly being generated at the power stations (Pekudas Elozor O.H. 23, Shmiras Shabbos Kechilchoso 43 n.22, et. al.) Accordingly, they would permit the use of a battery powered incandescent light bulb. However, some Poskim do not regard the tungsten filament as a wick. (Maharshag 2: 107, Levushey Mordechai 3: 59) Most Poskim would not sanction the commonly used fluorescent and LED lights for Chanuka use.
Lehoros Nossan (11: 17) permits battery powered incandescent lights when in need and no other option is available, such as one hospitalized. Nitei Gavriel (Chanuk,a Teshuva 1) quotes Be’er Moshe’s opinion that one should light the incandescent light without a bracha.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is also not to recite a bracha even on battery powered incandescent light.
The monochromatic yellow sodium lamp works by creating an electric arc through vaporized sodium metal. Although this lamp also contains a glowing filament, the focal light emanates from the vaporized sodium; therefore they are similar to fluorescent lights mentioned above.
Halogen lights are basically pressurized incandescent lamps, and the glowing filament provides the illumination.”
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:30 AM |
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#5964 – Enjoy all the Enjoyers?
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Q. Dear Rabbeinu Bartfeld Shalit"a, Chodesh Tov, The Gemara in תענית כב עמוד א speaks about the reward of people who make other people happy. (אנן אנשי בדוחי אנן)
How about a non-Jew who makes Jews or non-Jews happy? What reward does he get? Thanks. (The knowledge is needed to encourage much needed good relations.)
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a stressed that although this is not explicitly one of the Seven Mitzvos given to the Non Jews, yet indirectly it is likely part to the basic belief in Hashem that includes all humans.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:29 AM |
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#5963 – Help the Heifer?
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See question above. Q. 3. Is there an obligation to take care of this red heifer and see that it does not get blemished and acquire any Mum or defect which would disqualify it from beoming a “Parah Aduma” Would the Gedolei Hatorah take care of it also?
A. Indeed if the red heifer could be used, it would be reasonable to maintain and keep with care the prospective Parah Aduma.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:28 AM |
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#5962 – The Healing of the Heifer?
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See question above. Q.2. The ear of the heifer is still recovering, provided that it gets completely healed, can it qualify as פרה אדומה?
Thanks.
A. As mentioned in the last answer, it is likely not a candidate for a Parah Aduma.
See next question.
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:27 AM |
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#5961 – The Seider of the Heifer?
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Q. Shalom, Dear Rabbeinu Shalit"a,
A Red Heifer was born in the Galilee just before Parashat Chukat in Israel!
The heifer had a tag on its ear which was removed, and the heifer is still recovering. I have a number of questions.
1. Since it was born by insemination, can it qualify as פרה אדומה?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a suggested that any change in the normal birth and development of the Heifer could likely create a situation of avoidance for the Parah Aduma.
See next question
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:27 AM |
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#5960 – The Seder of the Siddur?
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Q. I've been noticing that there are a wide assortment of siddurim that have the word Siddur printed either as סדור or סידור. At first I thought that it might be a difference between אשכנז or ספרד or even ספרדי or ארי or even a difference in publisher.
Then I noticed that some siddurim would say סדור and סידור on the front even being the same nusach and publisher.
Then I noticed the weirdest thing of all, my Artscroll Sfard Sidur had ספרד written on the cover and סידור written on the spine.
My question is what's up with the switching back and forth? What's with all the interchangeability?
A. The word siddur comes from the Hebrew root ס־ד־ר, meaning 'order.'
The most common way of spelling the name of our ordinary Prayer Book is Siddur is usually סידור with a letter Yud. This is the universally accepted ktiv malle used in most modern Israeli Hebrew, daily publications, and most printed prayer books today. The yud acts as a vowel writing implement to ensure the word is pronounced with an "ee" sound. However in older Prayer books you may find the title without a Yud.
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2) Ask Kora
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Posted 6/21/2026 7:26 AM |
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#5959 – No Compensation for this Donation?
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Dear Rabbi. As the Rov is likely also aware, when one goes shopping in some supermarkets in our Toronto neighborhoods, the cashiers ask often for a “LGBT” donation. Many likely ashamed of not contributing, just give a small few dollars or cents. The problem may be that the above abbreviation stands for helping Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. Is it correct to contribute? If someone fears of making a Chilul Hashem when other do give a small amount, what is the correct thing to do?
A. Clearly explain that the donation is to help some truly very morally affected sick people!
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:45 AM |
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#5958 – Holy Name or Unholy Shame?
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Q. How could they use the Babylonian names for the months; were they not the idolatrous names of their avoda zarah? (See questions 2487- 88 - 89 above)
A. As mentioned above quoting Ramban rather than remembering the Exodus, the Sages of the time decided that more appropriate was to in some way commemorate the latest deliverance from the nation they had been redeemed from. They did so by taking the very same idolatrous month names of their previous exile and turning them into Jewish names.
The name Tamuz was an avoda zarah, as it is written (Yechezkel 8: 14): And behold there the women were sitting, making the Tammuz weep. Rashi explains it was the statue of an idol, although Radak maintains it was the image of a false prophet.
The Rebbe of Rizhin zt’l (Gam Ani Odecho p. 20) added that the Sages of that time embedded kedusha into those names. Based on this principle, the Sages expounded the names of the months – e.g. Elul is an acronym for “ani ledodi vedodi li” (I am to my beloved, and my beloved is to me”), and Nisan is the month of “nissim” (miracles).
Even though the names of the months are linguistically speaking Babylonian or Persian, they were adopted by the Jews with the understanding that they were Divinely inspired names, and are also laden with Cabbalistic meanings. (See Torah Shleima 10 – 11.)
The process of embedding kedusha into those names and by extension to the people returning from Babel, which was so essential to their return to Eretz Yisroel, was accomplished by Ezra, and could be the reason why we observe his yohrtzait on the ninth of Teves, while many others we don’t, such as the Avos or Aharon Hacohen.
See also questions 1650, 1654 and 2180 in regard to reciting tehilim when facing a cross in an adjoining cemetery or kidush levana on the street, since all Ontario vehicle plates have a cross on them; or the use of coins, stamps or utensils that have a religious symbols on them, which are used in our days only as a decoration. (Shach ibid., Chochmas Odom 85,1. See also Igros Moshe Y.D. 1: 69 in regard to a medallion or an award and Igros Moshe Y.D. II, 53 regarding teaching Greek philosophy.) Poskim argue that since the idols of the Babylonian month names are no longer worshiped or revered, there is no prohibition mentioning them.
Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a pointed out that the reason these names could be used, may be because the different idols were named after the already existing names of the months and not the opposite.
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:45 AM |
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#5957 – Oy Vay! My not god?
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Q. One more question. How come we use for the name of a month the title of a Mesopotamian god. Why is that permitted?
A. The name Tamuz is indeed the epithet of an idolatry, as it says in Yechezkel: (8: 1) And He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Hashem that is to the north, and behold there the women were sitting, making the Tamuz weep. Rashi (ibid) explains: There was an image that they would heat up from the inside, and its eyes, which were of lead, would melt from the heat of the fire, and it would appear as though it was weeping, and they would say, “It is asking for an offering.” “Tamuz” is an expression of heating. It is also true that we are enjoined from using names of idolatry as the Torah ordains: (Shemos 23: 13) The name of the gods of others you shall not mention; it shall not be heard through your mouth. (See Sanhedrin 63: 2).
However, as the Talmud above points out, the names of the avoda zaras recorded in the Torah can be used, yet it seems hard to understand why such a title was chosen.
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:43 AM |
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#5956 – The Tamuz Minus?
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Q.. Another question. As we are about to begin the sad month of Tamuz, what exactly is the meaning of that name?
A. Tamuz, the fourth month of the Jewish calendar, has two primary meanings: It is and an ancient Mesopotamian god of fertility and agriculture. The word itself stems from the Akkadian form Tammuzi, which ultimately is deriven from Sumerian. The name of the month was adopted from the Assyrian and Babylonian month Araḫ Dumuzu, named in honour of the Mesopotamian deity Dumuzid.
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:43 AM |
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#5955 – The Sivan Minivan?
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Q. What actually occurred on the 20th of Sivan?
A. Yisod Veshoreash Hoavodo (Shaar 9: 11) mentions that the twentieth of Sivan became a day of fasting due to the many tragedies which began on that day.
On the 20th of Sivan (1171) - The first blood libel in France - tens of Jewish men and women including three great tzadikim, were burned alive in the French town of Blois because of the accusation that Jews used the blood of Christian children in the preparation of matzah for Pesach.
The Shach was from the first who instituted this day as a fast day, commemorating the “Gezeiros Tach V’Tat,” (the catastrophic Chmielnicki massacres in Southern Poland and the Ukraine in 1648-1649). It would seem, however, from his own words, that he had established the fast day only for his family and descendants. This would explain why, in 1652, the Vaad Arba Hoarotzos (Council of the Four Lands) also declared a fast on 20 Sivan; they were establishing one for the public at large. It became accepted mostly in Poland. (Taz O.H. 566)
Mishna Berura (566: 10, 574: 2) mentions in regards to the reading of Vayechal, that the 20th of Sivan in his days became less established as a day of fasting, and only a few observed it. He also, by quoting Mogen Arohom and Pri Megodim, debates about eating at a bris mila or other seudas mitzva on that day and what to do on Erev Shabbos.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that today the twentieth of Sivan is not a well known occasion at all and the minhag for most is not to fast or say selichos. Therefore, one may attend the wedding of a close friend and comply with the biblical mitzvah of rejoicing with the chosson and kallah.
There is also no need to search for a minyan that says selichos, which may be hard to come by, unless one has a family tradition to do so.
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:42 AM |
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#5954 – Ending the Wedding?
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Q. Hon. Rabino Larga Vida. I was invited to a wedding last Thursday night which corresponded to the 20th day of Sivan. Since they are good friend, I did attend. Some of my very frum friends told me that we don’t celebrate weddings on that day. Did I do something incorrect? Actually the wedding was performed by an Orthodox Rabbi and most of the attendants were also frum. What is the real Halacha?
A. We once wrote that Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that today the twentieth of Sivan is not a well known occasion at all and the minhag for most is not to fast or say selichos. Therefore, one may attend the wedding of a close friend and comply with the biblical mitzvah of rejoicing with the chosson and kallah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Y. Hirshman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs, and Horav Dovid Bartfeld consulting in need Horav Hagaon Rav Yitzchak Berkowitz Shlit’a
See next question.
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Posted 6/15/2026 12:41 AM |
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#5953 – Can We Fight for Our Soldiers?
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Q. Is there anything that we here can do about the tragic situation some religious Israeli soldiers encounter?
A. Some circles and Shomrei Torah groups of Israel suporters world wide indeed have organized and sent their opinions as done in the past to their right and actually helpful Israeli authorities. One who has the opportunity should also do so.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Y. Hirshman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs, and Horav Dovid Bartfeld consulting in need Horav Hagaon Rav Yitzchak Berkowitz Shlit’a
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