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#5237 The Chanuka Dance
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- Q. My most very dear Rabbi Shlit”a and good friend. As you well know, my beloved family including my neighboring friends, B’H have a very nice great and friendly group of Yeshiva Torah learning children in our mixed neighborhood. Every week when ....
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Posted 12/29/2024 11:44 PM |
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5236 Chanuka Showtime
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- Q. An elderly friend that is now constantly living in a retirement home, and always lit the menorah during Chanuka, wants to know if he can by turning on the florescent light next to his bed comply with the mitzva and make a brocho?
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:22 PM |
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#5235 Choose Your Time?
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- Q. I heard that Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the Misheyakir time quoted on the My-Zmanim chart for Toronto is incorrect. Is that true?
A. The Misheyakir time, is usually quoted for putting on Tefilin daily in the morn ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:17 PM |
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#5234 Oil Rich?
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- Q. Can I light my menorah with oil that was left open and some flies were there?
A. Horav Pam Shlit’a mentioned that the Halacha is that if the oil became inedible for the user it should be avoided for Chanuka menorah lighting.
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:12 PM |
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#5233 Chanuka Geld?
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- Q. Dearest friend and Rabino. My new home in Mexico City is right next to a store that sells many flammable items and the law is that they and their neighbors are not allowed to make a fire outside their home. On Chanukah should I bribe the autho ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:09 PM |
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#5232 Join In and Enjoy
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- Q. Some of my Chasidishe neighbors have a tradition to make a seuda (special meal as the ones done on Shabbos) on every day of Hanukka and they also invite guest and friends including us. Is that a seudas mitzva and I’m obliged to attend?
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:07 PM |
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#5231 Wrong Birthday Party
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- Q. See question above. Is one allowed to sell Christmas decorations when working as an attendant in a store that does, and the refusal would have one fired? How about just wrapping the goods bought?
A. Rema (Yoreh De’ah 141:1, based ....
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Posted 12/27/2024 12:04 PM |
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#5230 False Advertising!!!
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- Q. I work in a store that decorates at this time of the year with Christmas decorations and plays that music. What should I do?
A. On question 4598 we wrote:
Q. One walking or driving during this December time of the year, when ....
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Posted 12/24/2024 4:56 PM |
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#5229 Tell all about Nitel
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Q, We have an old tradition that we do not learn Torah on the night of Christmas, named Nitel. This year (24) it coincides with the first night of Chanuka.
We usually celebrate Chanuka by making an important seuda in shul or a special ....
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Posted 12/22/2024 11:06 AM |
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#5228 A Lion Shailah
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- Q. Can one use a menorah that has a silver lion holding the shamosh candle?
A. On question 1174 we wrote: “Can one keep desiccated animals at home? If not, why are children’s dolls or the lions on the Aron Hakodesh permitted?
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:43 PM |
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#5227 A Mitzva With Strings Attached!!!
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- Q. When we light Chanuka candles at home, Baruch Hashem we have a large family and many children including many of our neighbors that we encourage to join us to bring them closer to keeping mitzvos.
Can we place a string to separate ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:39 PM |
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#5226 Love You, Love Your Dog?
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- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a, I think that you are the right Rabbi for this question.
My neighbor left on a vacation for a week and left his dog in his adjacent backyard to watch the property.
He also left enough dog food container ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 12:13 PM |
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#5225 Relief the Real Grief !!!
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- Q. Just out of curiosity (it happened a few years ago by us). What should one do if a neighbor passes away and there is no one at all that is present or seating shiva for her, there are just no family or friends?
A. Horav Shlomo Mil ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:51 AM |
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#5224 A Consolation that Needs Consolation?
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- Q. See question above. Does one comply with the mitzva of Nichum Avelim (comforting the mourners) if one just asks the secretary of the shul to place the add at the Notice Board of the Beit Knesset or in the well read shul magazine.
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:34 AM |
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#5223 - Just to Just Count on the Account?
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- Q. See question above. Can one name a Shaliach (an agent) that represents him, and is traveling to where the shiva takes place and thus comply with the mitzva. Is the above better than just calling or sending an email? If an e-mail was sent shoul ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:28 AM |
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#5222 A Quick Comfort?
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- Q. Dear Rov we just lost our aunt (and great-aunt) who you knew well. And since she lived in a different country, we have a number of questions.
Can someone comply with the mitzva of Nichum Avelim (comforting the mourners) when ....
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Posted 12/20/2024 11:11 AM |
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#5221 Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder?
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Q. Dearest Rabbi and friend for so many years. As you know I still live in Mexico and I read your truly most interesting questions every week as many many others do.
As you well know Mexico is the “Silver Capital of the World” and on ....
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Posted 12/15/2024 11:59 AM |
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#5220. The True Extreme Brochos?
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- Q. (See the questions 5213 -16 above). Is there a special meaning or Brocho for someone that Hashem gives this most unusual beautiful opportunity to light the Menorah during the same Yom Tov, at both corners of the world?
A. One sho ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:19 PM |
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#5219 Need a Hearing Aid?
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- Q. Someone who uses a removable hearing aid during the week but not on Shabbos, and forgot to take it off before the beginning of Shabbos, can it be removed during Shabbos ? How?
A. He should ask a gentle Gentile to remove it. In nee ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:14 PM |
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#5218 A Freilech’n Chanuka?
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- Q. Should an Avel who davens for the Amud do so during Chanuka?
A. On question 4557 we wrote:
Q. An Avel that during the thirty days after the death of his mother leads the services at the Amud. does he have to do it next week, ....
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Posted 12/13/2024 12:11 PM |
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