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#2058 A Value Judgment
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Q. (Re- question 2057 above). On a second but connected question. Can Shimon have a claim that Reuven made his property go down in value. Let's say Shimon had an offer on his house for $500k but after Reuven got permission to build that buyer backed ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 2:45 PM |
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# 2057 Have Your Day D-in Court?
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Q. Is one allowed to appeal a decision by the planning board or does he have to go to Beis Din first?
You have two parties. Reuven and Shimon. Reuven applied to be able to build a building next door to Shimons house. While this building is not ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 2:38 PM |
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# 2056 A Word on Honor
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Q. Hello Rav,
I started learning at the Toronto Kollel in the mornings. As I'm learning, several young rabbis also walk by and come into the room to learn. I'm wondering if I should be standing up fully, sit up a little bit, or not at all as th ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 1:05 AM |
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# 2055 An Answer to an Answer
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Q. Re- question 2000 (on answering Yehei Shmei correctly during kaddish). The Gemara says whomever answers Y'hei Sh'mei etc. with all his Koach, they tear up etc. The Gemara uses the words "Kol Ho'ohneh". Does this mean that this Eitzah does not wor ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 12:56 AM |
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# 2054 Traditions of Marriage
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Q. When a couple marries, they must separate from each other as if she were a menstruate after their first experienced marital relations. Is this true only if she was a virgin or regardless of her physical status?
How about in the case of ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 12:47 AM |
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# 2053 An Accident not Waiting to Happen
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Q. Re - question 10 that; Harav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a is of the opinion that if someone is indeed in a car that spins out on the highway and miraculously does not get hit by another car, he does not recite this Brocho, however if he did hit the guar ....
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Posted 2/18/2019 12:42 AM |
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# 2052 Fresh Start or Full Stop?
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Q. If the complete and full (shleimos) challos used for lechem mishneh on Shabbos, are stale and hard, can I just eat a bit from one of them to comply with the hamotzi, and then eat the rest of the needed kezais from fresh but incomplete bread?
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Posted 2/17/2019 4:09 PM |
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# 2051 The Chosen One
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Q. Re- above question. I once heard in a shiur, that since the Gemorah teaches when a sickness is sent to a person, an oath is made with that sickness so it will not leave the person, only at an appointed time and by an appointed doctor. Therefore H ....
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Posted 2/13/2019 12:40 AM |
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# 2050 Doctors Orders?
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Q. Does Halacha permit a doctor called by one of his patients in the middle of the night for an emergency, to respond to the patient that he should call Hatzalah or 911?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that he may, if it wil ....
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Posted 2/13/2019 12:38 AM |
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# 2049 The Book on Scraps
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Q. If one has pas palter (baked by a Gentile) that will spoil if left until motzoi Yom Kippur (even if frozen), and one does not eat it during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva, can one give it to one that does eat pas pelter in those days?
Likewise, ....
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Posted 2/11/2019 2:00 PM |
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# 2048 Looks Could Kill
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Q. Does the issur of looking at the face of a rasha (evil person) include looking at the picture, or only at the person?
A. Talmud (Megila 28a) teaches that Rav Yochanan said it is prohibited to look into the face of an evil person.
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Posted 2/11/2019 1:44 PM |
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# 2047 Counting On Your Chickens
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Q. I travel on business often to China, where I visit some companies in different far off cities, that don't have any kind of Jewish communities. I noticed that the life chickens in the market place look different than the ones we are accustomed to ....
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Posted 2/11/2019 1:35 PM |
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# 2046 Wine And Din
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Q. What is Horav Miller's opinion in regards to pasteurized wine. Is it permitted as yain mebushal (cooked wine)?
A. Poskim disagree as to what constitutes yain mevushal. Some maintain that cooked wine was only permitted, because in fo ....
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Posted 2/11/2019 1:19 PM |
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# 2045 An Early Mazal Tov?
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Q. If one hast to undergo an important medical procedure, it is generally recommended to do it during the month of Adar, since those are days of good mazal. Does that include the first day of Rosh Chodesh Adar Rishon? Should one have it postponed un ....
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Posted 2/8/2019 3:39 PM |
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# 2044 Helping the Troubled Waters
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Q. In places like Las Vegas and some counties in California where literally the treated water goes from the toilet to the tap, can you wash netilat yadaim with such water. Even if not contaminated, why should it not be disqualified as water that was ....
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Posted 2/8/2019 1:37 PM |
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# 2043 The Works of Water Works
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Q. In some countries the city water is not connected directly to the taps, but is stored first in a water tank usually at the roof of the house. To avoid spilling the water once the tank is full, the water pushes up a floater that turn off the va ....
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Posted 2/8/2019 1:36 PM |
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# 2042 You Call That Work?
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Q. (See question 2041 above on water that was used to perform work). Why is water that "worked" by turning a water motor, different from any common water whose volume was measured by a water meter. After all the water "worked" by making the meter ....
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Posted 2/8/2019 1:32 PM |
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# 2041 Kosher Water Power
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Q. I own a water powered motor that I use to open and close the suka roof on Shabbath and Yom Tov. The water used is not wasted, it ends in a pool that we use as a mikva for men, (it is connected to a rainwater bor). Since the water performed work, ....
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Posted 2/7/2019 3:15 PM |
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# 2040 Learning the Walk Before the Run?
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Q. Is one allowed to study other religions for the sole purpose of being able to be mekarev and bring back the ones that fell and converted to them?
A. Rambam (Avoda Zara 2: 2) mentions that "many books were written by idolaters t ....
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Posted 2/5/2019 3:55 PM |
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# 2039 With Gusto or Disgusting?
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Q. (see question above) If the majority of people consider the food repugnant, but to this individual it is not, can he eat it or would he transgress on the prohibition of bal teshaktzu?
A. P'ri Chodosh (Y.D. 84: 3) based on the Mis ....
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Posted 2/5/2019 3:39 PM |
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