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#5016 You Eat What You Are?
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- Q. I was at a shul kiddush that accidentally served a salad with parmesean cheese on the same table as the meat cholesterol and think I might have eaten both.
I threw away my plate and assumed that I could not eat either milk or meat for ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:37 PM |
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#5015 Obstacle Obstruction?
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Q. Can one remove nail coloring on Shabbos before washing hands for eating Challah, when it is already falling apart and is unattractive, and thus is a “chatzitza’ or a barrier for washing hands or mikva imersion?
A. Horav Shlomo M ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:12 PM |
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#5014 Tried and Tested
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- Q. See question above: What is indeed the correct way for blood sugar or alcohol testing on Shabbos?
Can someone that after a meal during Shabbos and needs to test blood sugar or alcohol levels insert clinical test strips into ones u ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:09 PM |
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#5013 Testing the Test
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- Q. Choshuver Contemporary Rov Shlit’a. I take care of an elderly person and take him to shul on a wheelchair on Shabbos.
On this troubled times, there is often a patrol police car stationed outside our large shul during and after davening ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:06 PM |
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#5012 Guess the Guest?
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Q. See question above. Would the same apply if the forefathers were not Frum (religious)?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a suggested that after death the departed neshamos are likely to become tahor and pure after undergoing the usual ti ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:02 PM |
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#5011 Guests of Honor
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- Q. Honorable Rabbi. As you know, we are planing to do the wedding of our first child and I heard that there is a tradition to invite the Neshamot of our forefathers, grandparents by visiting the Kevarim where they are buried. I’ve heard that some ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 1:00 PM |
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#5010 Opposites Attract
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– Q. Why are there two Meshichim in Yiddishkeit, Moshiach ben Yosef and Moshiach ben Dovid? Couldn't the abilities of both be invested in one person?
A. Our Sages teach us that the Universal Creation of the world involves usually two o ....
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Posted 6/21/2024 12:56 PM |
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#5009 Single Honest Honor?
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Q. See question above. If a group of mispalelim in a shul or as in our case just one well to do member, wants to offer a kiddush on the Shabbos before or after fathers day to give honor and recognition to his dearest father and show his appreciati ....
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Posted 6/19/2024 10:47 AM |
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#5008 Honor the Honor?
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- Q. Is there anything wrong with celebrating the recent Father's Day to honor and give the rightful thanks and recognition to one’s father? Is that not a real great Mitzvah? How about if they openly declare and imply that one always needs to give ....
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Posted 6/18/2024 8:42 PM |
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#5007 A Light Reply
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– Q. One who usually lights a Yohrzait candle for his father on the day when Izkor is recited in shul. Due to sudden sickness issues he was in hospital and unable to do so this last day of Shavuos, should he light a candle when he returns h ....
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Posted 6/16/2024 12:24 PM |
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#5006 Head on the Bread
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- Q. Dear Rabbi. We have in our shul after Yom Tov lots of left over Chalos that were not used during the Yom Tov’s meals served in shul.
If one has the choice to eat on Shabbos a complete challa that is only a Kezais big or a biger o ....
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Posted 6/14/2024 3:18 PM |
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#5005 – Calling Callers Calendar
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Q. I’m B’H married, settled and learning and teaching in a Kolel in Yerushalaim, so I only keep one day Yom Tov.
I’m visiting my father in the States and since I daven for the amud for my recently deceased dearest mother O”H, I was ....
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Posted 6/14/2024 3:14 PM |
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#5004 – An Early Start
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Q. Kvod Rabbenu Shlit’a. I usually keep Rabbenu Tam’s Zeman for ending every Shabbos, do I have to wait on the first night of Shavuos till then before we make kiddush?, After all we have guest and children that want and need to eat earlier?
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Posted 6/11/2024 1:47 PM |
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#5003 Accurate Timing
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Q. B’H I live in Yerushalaim, but I visit my parents often during Yom Tov. They have asked me why I keep two days Shavuos, or why they should even do so, since after all we counted the Omer with a brocho and Hashem’s name, so we clearly know whi ....
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Posted 6/11/2024 1:44 PM |
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#5002 The Correct Best Answer
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Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. In the ancient shul I attend sometimes on Shavuoth (my parents daven there) they recite the verses of Akdamoth after the Cohen recites the first bracha on the Torah. When I protested, that it is incorrect as is written in Mish ....
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Posted 6/11/2024 1:42 PM |
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#5001 Entitled to the Right Title
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- Q. Why is the Sefer of Tanach called “Trei Asar”, in Aramaic, instead of the Hebrew “Shnaim Asar?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a explained, that the sages that compiled that part of Tanach came from Babel and thus were used to speak a ....
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Posted 6/11/2024 1:15 PM |
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# 5000 – Join The Greatest of Weddings!
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- Q. Kevod Rabenu Shlit’a. Why don't we make hakofos on Shavuos as we do in Simchas Torah? After all that is the day of the giving of the Torah and greatest joy as the wedding itself?
A. We once wrote an answer to a similar Shail ....
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Posted 6/10/2024 5:46 PM |
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#4999 A True Day of Distinction!
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Q. Why, what and when is this year the Yom Hameyuchas?
A. Yom Hameyuchas is the Second Day of Sivan, the day before the beginning of the Shloshet Yemei Hagbalah, the Three Days of Restraint that Moshe commanded the Jewish People to o ....
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Posted 6/7/2024 12:49 PM |
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#4998 Any Way AI?
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Q. Our shul complex (in the U.S.) is very large. We have three main praying areas besides also three large saloons for S’machot and Kiddushin.
Usually during the weekdays to be able to serve energy we use an AI thermostat system tha ....
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Posted 6/7/2024 12:32 PM |
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#4997 Kabbalath HaTorah?
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- Q. K'vod Rabboseinu, I have never been introduced by my Torah mentors into the study of Kabbalah. Therefore, despite my curiosity, I have restrained myself from what might be a foolish endeavor.
However, once a year, on the night of Shavu ....
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Posted 6/7/2024 12:28 PM |
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