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# 1986 Tell the Intel of Nittel
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Q. Someone that has the minhag not to learn Torah on nittel nacht, is he allowed to learn the halochos of nittel nacht written in seforim like Nitei Gavriel?
A. There is indeed in Nitei Gavriel and other seforim ample material regard ....
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Posted 12/24/2018 3:06 PM |
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# 1985 Kadd-ishah?
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Q. You mentioned (on question 1979) that women should not recite kaddish in the women's section behind the mechitza. What happens if a woman does recite and you hear her. Do you have to answer Yehei Shmei Rabba? How about answering amen when a woma ....
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Posted 12/23/2018 1:48 PM |
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# 1984 The Party Line
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Q. Can I join an office New Year party if I seat together with other frum co-workers and we are served kosher food and kosher wine? Usually a sizable bonus is given to the ones who attend.
A. On question 694 in regards to attending at le ....
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Posted 12/21/2018 3:00 PM |
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# 1983 Let There Be Light
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Q. The Talmud teaches (Pesachim 2a) that a person should go out on his way bechi tov when it is day. Should then someone avoid going to the hashkama minyan especially on Shabbath early morning when he has to walk and it is still night, and it is ....
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Posted 12/20/2018 11:01 PM |
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# 1982 Take it With a Pinch of Salt
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Q. I seem to remember that I learned in the gemora that you are supposed to eat a bit of salt after having finished eating any meal. Since salt seems to be unhealthy these days, does the above still apply?
A. Indeed the Talmud (Broch ....
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Posted 12/20/2018 10:33 PM |
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# 1981 Brocho Pursuit of Fruit
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Q. Re question (1980) above on one that ate mezonos and also fruits and a drink and then made "al hamichya" but not "bore nefashot," that the Rov ruled he can still take another drink without reciting a "shehakol" bracha. Would the same apply to som ....
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Posted 12/17/2018 1:38 PM |
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# 1980 Don't Make me Say it Again
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Q. I ate mezonos and also fruits and a drink. If I made "al hamichya" but not "bore nefashot," can I still take another drink without reciting a "shehakol" bracha?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that even after reciting al ....
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Posted 12/16/2018 10:19 PM |
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# 1979 Can't Say For Sure
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Q. Does your minyan have a women's section and accommodate women who say kaddish?
I work at ... (nearby) and have yahrzeit Thursday evening and would like to say kaddish at the shul if acceptable.
(similar q.) Can I say the kaddish qui ....
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Posted 12/16/2018 9:53 PM |
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# 1978 The Undiscovered Mitzva
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Q. ( See above question 1977). How can someone comply with a mitzva if one is totally unaware of the mitzva being done?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that one can comply. This being similar to someone missing a mezuza ....
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Posted 12/16/2018 11:37 AM |
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# 1977 Lighting for the Unenlightened
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Q. Re- prior question 1967, on an elderly single and bed-bound convalescent patient at a retirement nursing home or hospital, that Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if there is a minyan and they light a kosher menorah in that site, they ....
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Posted 12/16/2018 11:31 AM |
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# 1976 Always a Freilechen Chanuka
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Q. Regarding if Hanuka is a Yom Tov or not. Is there a Rabbinic mitzva of simcha and joy in Hanuka, after all we do greet each other with a Freilechen Hanuka?
I know that there is no obligation to eat a seuda on Hanuka as we do in Purim, or eat ....
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Posted 12/16/2018 11:00 AM |
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# 1975 To Wait or not to Wait?
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Q. I recently began working in a kosher restaurant serving food to customers. What do I do on a fasting day like 10 of Teveth coming up. Is it permitted to serve food to Jewish customers that look healthy?
A. Yalkut Yosef (Moadim p. 530 ....
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Posted 12/14/2018 3:11 PM |
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# 1974 Fast and Feast?
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Q. Can you have a wedding on the night of the Tenth of Teveth, since the fasting starts only in the morning?
A. Remah (O.H. 550: 3) writes that if a chupa is celebrated on Erev Shabbos, the minhag is to daven mincha and read Vayichal ....
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Posted 12/14/2018 2:55 PM |
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# 1973 Fast Talk
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Q. If someone undergoes periodical medical treatment and when it occurs on a regular taanis he was given a heter not to fast, exempting Yom Kippur and Tisha Beav, when he was told to postpone the treatment to another day. I was told that Assarah Bete ....
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Posted 12/14/2018 2:21 PM |
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# 1972 Vacating Vacations?
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Q. Since Horav Shlomo's Miller position is to avoid traveling during Chanuka, should there be an effort to have the schools change the days of vacation to before or after Chanuka?
A. Although the Rov indeed maintains that people should ....
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Posted 12/13/2018 12:40 AM |
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# 1971 Is Gut-Yom-Tov Still Gut?
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Q. On question 1222 you wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that Chanuka is called a Chag and a Yom Tov as we find in Shulchan Aruch (Y. D. 217: 47) regarding a neder done exempting those days, that Chanuka and Purim are also consider ....
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Posted 12/12/2018 10:49 AM |
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# 1970 Know Where You Stand
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Q. Re- question above. Often the glass cups use for Chanuka lights, are rounded on the bottom and can't stand by themselves. Is that a problem?
A. Chesed L'Avraham (quoted in Shaarei Teshuva (673: 13) rules that one may not light Ch ....
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Posted 12/10/2018 10:17 PM |
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# 1969 The Silver Lining of a Menorah
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Q. Is it better to light a silver menorah using its own silver cups by placing the oil and wick in them, as was done in the menorah of the Beth Hamikdash. or can one use separate glass cups which is cleaner and more convenient?
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Posted 12/10/2018 10:15 PM |
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# 1968 Did We Strike Oil?
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Q. Is it permitted to light a menorah with olive oil or vegetable oil without a hechsher, when traveling and no other oil is available? Is it better to light then with candles?
A. Some Poskim maintain that one should use for Chanuka li ....
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Posted 12/10/2018 9:57 PM |
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# 1967 Let The Light Shine for Everyone
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Q. Re- question 1966 above, on an elderly single and bed-bound convalescent patient at a retirement nursing home or hospital, who has no possibility of lighting or being present at the lighting of a Menorah.
Since in most Jewish retirement nur ....
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Posted 12/10/2018 9:08 PM |
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