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# 1807 Fast After Fast Heal
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Q. Someone that can’t fast even on the night of Tisha Beav, should he say havdala immediately, or wait until he has to take his medicine with some food?
Thank you so much.
A. Shaarei Teshuva (556: 1) quoting Knesses Hagedola ma ....
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Posted 8/3/2018 2:48 PM |
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# 1806 A Mixed Blessing
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Q. During shaleshudes (whenTisha Beav falls on Shabbos), in our shul we stop eating five minutes before the shkia, but we continue with zemiros and divrei Torah. Do we better bench immediately using a kos, or do we wait until later before maariv an ....
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Posted 8/3/2018 2:45 PM |
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# 1805 Serving Mitzvos or Feeding Klippos?
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Q. Kvod Harav. When someone finds himself in a compromising situation where he is likely to transgress an issur and he can’t get away, such as traveling in a packed subway or car being surrounded by people talking lashon horaa, or as you quote ....
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Posted 8/1/2018 1:41 PM |
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# 1804 Stop At Nothing
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Q. I'm learning the MB (Mishna Berura) 104:5, sif katan 17 where it discusses; where in the Amidah to re-start if you made a hefsek (stop or interruption) of a certain length. It seems that there are 3 lengths of hefsek discussed. 1) If the hefse ....
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Posted 7/30/2018 1:08 PM |
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# 1803 Tzitzis with Strings Attached
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Q. I understand that I may not buy, during the Nine Days, a new, complete pair of tzitzis, i.e. with the strings already attached.
However, may I buy the four-cornered garment and the strings separately, such that I will tie the strings on aft ....
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Posted 7/30/2018 1:07 PM |
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# 1802 Have a Great Yom Tov II
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Q. Since Tu Beav is such a great Yom Tov, does one have to eat meat and drink wine on that day?
A. Indeed, Minhagei Maharil (H. Taanis 11) writes that on a certain occasion Mahari Segal decreed that one should not eat meat during all Mo ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 5:33 PM |
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# 1801 Bundle The Joy
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Q. The Mishna Berura (551,1), says that "Mishenichnas Av Memaatin Besimcha" (When the month of Av begins we should reduce joy), applies until Rosh Chodesh Elul. Does that mean that one should continue with feelings of sadness and sorrow for the chur ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 5:23 PM |
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# 1800 Open This Window
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Q. Can someone that works creating and assembling stained glass windows and selling the commercially do so during the 3 weeks? What happens if the customers are non-observant Jews?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 10:22 AM |
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# 1799 Unveiling a Shaila
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Q. In case of need, as the son traveling from far, is in town only on that day, can you arrange a matzeiva unveiling on Tu Beav? (15 of Av).
A. Our Sages teach that there were no greater Yomim Tovim in our nation as the Fifteenth o ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 10:15 AM |
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# 1798 Take a Shine to this Shaile
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Q. Can you polish silver items during the 9 days? is it permitted even for weekdays use? Can you ask a domestic helper to do it?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Bein Hametzorim 1: 28: 17) permits polishing silver items during the Nine Days, since ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 10:00 AM |
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# 1797 Strange To say
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Q. Is there a source for the strange minhag that some have to say shnaim mikro and once targum on Parshas Vaeschanan, while wearing taalis and tefilin?
A. Indeed, there are those who quote that the Chasam Sofer would keep that minhag, ....
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Posted 7/27/2018 9:46 AM |
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# 1796 More Answers To Answering
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Q. (Re question above) Do all Poskim agree that one listening to the sheliach tzibur and the tzibur answering Amen, Kedusha, Kaddish, Barchu, etc, has to stop learning and is required to answer?
A. From Shulchan Aruch (O.H.55: 20) it wo ....
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Posted 7/25/2018 12:38 AM |
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# 1795 An Answer To Answering
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Q. Hello Rav, I recently read a halacha in the "Torah Tavlin" weekly publication discussing the obligation (or lack of) to answer Amen, Kedusha, Kaddish, Barchu, etc, etc when you are learning Torah and hear a minyan saying them. There was a major d ....
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Posted 7/25/2018 12:35 AM |
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# 1794 A Taalis Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
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Q. A taalis brocho question: At... a makeshift shul... , including a chazzan's amud on wheels that has an opening door... I kept my (new) Shabbos Taallis inside of the amud zipped shut in a standard Taallis bag with my name sewn on it. I came one S ....
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Posted 7/25/2018 12:10 AM |
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# 1793 Ban The Flames?
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Q. Thank you so much for your prompt answer (on the screen use during the 3 weeks and on Shabbat). You wrote that the Horav Miller "permits leaving on during Shabbos the picture displayed on the screen, if it does not change and stays the same durin ....
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Posted 7/23/2018 12:17 PM |
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# 1792 Moving into a New Home Sweet Home-Page
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Q. Can one create a new web site during the 3 weeks? It is not a business need, which I assume would be permitted, but a family one. We use it to keep our large and extended family, now living in different countries in contact and virtually to ....
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Posted 7/22/2018 6:12 PM |
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# 1791 Screen This Screen
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Q. Kvod Horav. We have in our family room a very large screen that serves as a virtual picture frame. It changes according to the times we program it, into different scenes, images and pictures of nature that we greatly enjoy. We also display fami ....
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Posted 7/20/2018 7:29 PM |
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# 1790 If You Can Feed Them Join Them
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Q. Can women, family or friends, invited to a yohrtzait siyum (see question above), take also part in the siyum and eat meat during the 9 days, even if they are not helping to set up?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Bein Hametzorim 1: 41: 2, Piskei T ....
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Posted 7/20/2018 12:42 PM |
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# 1789 See-You at the Siyum
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Q. If someone was invited to a yohrtzait siyum during the Nine Days but arrived after the siyum, can he still partake, eat meat and drink wine?
Does he have to eat bread or at least mezonot?
A. On question 196 in regards to peop ....
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Posted 7/20/2018 12:32 PM |
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# 1788 Air Tight Shaila
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Q. Can you spray insulation in a house being built during the 9 days? The company is hard to engage and it can delay significantly the construction.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that adding insulation, even when sprayed t ....
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Posted 7/20/2018 12:25 PM |
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