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# 1738 A Brocho in a Nutshell
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Q. If I made a mezonos brocho on a cracker with peanut butter and I have left some of the peanut butter on the knife I used and want to eat it the leftover by itself, do I have to make a shehakol?
What brocho do you make on chunky peanut butt ....
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Posted 6/4/2018 10:55 PM |
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# 1737 Prisoner with Conscience?
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Q. Is there a mitzva of Pidyon Shevuim to try to free a Jewish convicted murderer who has been imprisoned for 28 years? He now puts on tefilin and is a hopeful complete baal teshuva. Should money be collected for helping him seek his release?
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Posted 6/3/2018 10:46 PM |
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# 1736 In the Swim of Things
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Q. I'm thinking about working as a baby swim instructor but have to go on an 8-day retreat to complete the training. I will be only listening to instructions and be in the swimming pool. Can I do this over Shabbos if I don't have to write? Can I do ....
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Posted 6/1/2018 6:39 PM |
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# 1735 Waiter! Where Is My Worm?
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Q. (See above question 1734) Does this apply to other foods and liquids besides fruits and vegetables, like tequila?
A. Shulchan Aruch (84) rules that what was mentioned in the last question in regards to fruits applies equally to worms ....
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Posted 6/1/2018 11:36 AM |
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# 1734 Worm One's Way In
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Q. Is it true that if I find a worm inside a fruit that did not crawl out from the inside of the fruit, it is kosher and one may eat it? Does that mean it can be just picked up, with or without a piece of fruit and be eaten? What bracha does one ma ....
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Posted 6/1/2018 11:34 AM |
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# 1733 Call In Your Chips?
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Q. B"H - Shalom Dear Rabbi,
In Sweden, many people have started to use microchip implants to replace car keys, credit cards and ID Cards.
1. Based on Daat Torah, Is that permissible?
2.In case it becomes the law of the land, ....
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Posted 6/1/2018 1:49 AM |
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# 1732 Checking the Check
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Q. Can a defendant under house arrest wear his ankle monitor (it constantly checks and transmits to police his whereabouts), when permitted to go to shul on Shabbos (no eruv)?
A. On question 1488 in regards to if a father of a newborn ....
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Posted 6/1/2018 1:47 AM |
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# 1731 Time to Call it a Night
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Hello Rav,
Q. I've learned in the past that if I go to sleep and night and then wake up in the middle of the night and want to learn Torah (even just reading silently), then I would need to make a new Birkat HaTorah. A new point I just read an ....
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Posted 5/30/2018 2:00 AM |
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# 1730 Teshuva on a Loss
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Q. I was on the train and found a wallet that, based on the ID inside it, belongs to a non-Jew. After considering what I should do and consulting with a few rabbis, some of them recommended that I return it by giving it to a police officer. (I didn ....
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Posted 5/27/2018 8:39 PM |
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# 1729 Lessons to be Learned
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Q. I would like to know Horav Miller’s daas Torah in regards to someone who has limited time for learning.
Since learning Torah with effort and exertion is most important, what takes priority? Learning beiyun (and effort), learning Halacha o ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:45 PM |
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# 1728 A Good Old Hand
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Q. A group visits an elderly ill patient in a retirement home. He sits on a wheelchair, while they put tefilin on him, and have him read shema. Is it enough to clean his hands with a wet paper towel? Does cleaning his hands three times each, with th ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:30 PM |
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# 1727 Clean Question
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Q. Re- question 1723 regarding washing hands after entering a bathroom. A most common case of bathrooms in offices and other public places, are small one room bathrooms with a toilet and sink only, that are not used for anything else but as a beth h ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 3:15 PM |
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# 1726 A Potluck Shaila?
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Q. Do Teflon coated metal pots and pans require tevila?
A. Many Poskim maintain that they require tevila without a brocho. (StarK Kashrus Kurrents v.37: 3, OU Tevilat Keilim- A Primer, Guide To Tevilas Keilim by Rabbi B. Forst r ....
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Posted 5/25/2018 8:50 AM |
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# 1725 The Ways of the Throwaways
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Q. Do disposable aluminum pans require tevila?
A. Poskim disagree if utensils used only once require tevila. Although utensils made from aluminum some opine that the tevila is Biblical (Horav Vosner zt”l, quoted in Tevilas Keilim 11: ....
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Posted 5/24/2018 1:17 AM |
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# 1724 In Deep Waters
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Q. Do new scissors used for cutting poultry need tevila in a mikva?
A. Shach (Y.D. 120: 11) rules that a utensil used for food preparation that will require additional changes to make it edible, should be immersed without a brocho. Si ....
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Posted 5/23/2018 12:50 PM |
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# 1723 Lost in the Wash?
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Q. Is someone puts his hand inside a bathroom just to turn off the light, does he require washing netilas yodaim?
A. Poskim disagree if entering hands into a beis hakisei requires netilas yodaim. Maharsham (Daas Torah O.H. 4: 18) ....
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Posted 5/22/2018 9:27 AM |
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# 1722 Living Memory
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Q. Since remembering Kabbolas Hatorah is a mitzva every day and not doing so is a negative prohibition (Ramban), Why don’t we actually read that parsha every day as we do with Yetzias Mitzraim?
A. Rambam and Ramban (mitzvah 2) indeed ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:58 PM |
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# 1721 It’s All in the Name
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My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me;
2) Why does the Gemore refer to Shavuos as Atzeres, isn’t that the name in the Torah for the last day of Sukos?
A. The Pesikta (Pinchas) mentions that our sages used as nam ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:53 PM |
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# 1720 Quiz Kid
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My son (8 yrs.) came back from school today and asked me;
Q. 1) if we eat milchigs on Shavuos because they didn’t have the opportunity to prepare kosher meat on that same day, why wasn’t the milk or cheese prohibited as cholov akum, since wh ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 4:52 PM |
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#1719 Meal Plan
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Q. We usually eat a milchig meal during the first day (lunch) of Shavuot and meat in the night meals. This year since it is after Shabbat and we already ate meat, is it possible to change and eat milchig on Motze Shabbat and meat in the day (Sunday) ....
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Posted 5/18/2018 12:40 PM |
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