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# 1708 Bracha on the Right Tree
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Since the days of Nissan are over can you still say the bracha for blooming trees with Hashem’s name after Lag Baomer?
Is it better to wait until Shabbath to recite it?
Is it better to recite it with a minyan?
Should one say it and ....
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Posted 5/9/2018 12:52 PM |
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# 1707 It Is a Two Way Street
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Q. An individual used to be religious, went off the derech, ending up marrying a non-Jew. This individual is definitely not a mumar l'hachis. Now he is not well. Is it proper to daven for his health, since his continuous existence is b'issur? In add ....
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Posted 5/7/2018 4:04 PM |
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# 1706 Kashes on the Keshes
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Q. Kvod Harav, couple of questions on Lag Baomer minhagim.
2) What is the reason for the Lag Baomer’s minhag of children playing with bows and arrows, and why don’t we see that anymore today?
A. Some of the reasons given fo ....
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Posted 5/4/2018 6:36 PM |
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# 1705 Suspicious Kaddish
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Q. Can someone who has living parents recite Kaddish Derabbanan? Can one recite kaddish for a grandparent when the father is unable to recite, and the mother is alive?
A. Poskim (Even Shoham 20, Kol Bo Al Avelus 2: p. 145, et al.), w ....
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Posted 5/4/2018 2:43 PM |
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# 1704 The Shorashim of Shloshim
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Q. How important is it to keep the shloishim day by making a siyum or a seuda with Torah learning?
A. One of the sources for observing the day of shloishim is the Zohar (Vayakhel p. 129) that establishes the day as the end of a period ....
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Posted 5/4/2018 2:08 PM |
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# 1703 Right On Time
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Q. This year that Lag Baomer is Thursday, if one finishes the sefira restrictions on that day, should he better wait until Erev Shabbos to cut his hair likvod Shabbos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is unnecessary to w ....
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Posted 5/4/2018 2:02 PM |
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# 1702 Riskless Bless
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Q. Someone was teaching in shul after the shkia before maariv about Lag Baomer on the eve of that day. He mentioned many times the name Lag Baomer without any intention to be or not to be yotze. Can he still count after maariv with a brocho?
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Posted 5/4/2018 1:58 PM |
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# 1701 Milking Lag Baomer Dry?
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Q. Kvod Harav, a couple of questions on Lag Baomer minhagim.
1) Is it true that there is a minhag to make a milchig (milk) seuda on Lag Baomer?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Pesachim 3: 59: 22) quoting Ezor Eliahu, indeed quotes a min ....
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Posted 5/3/2018 4:39 PM |
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# 1700 Shedding Light on Lighting
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Q. Can someone who still has living parents light a yortzait candle for a deceased friend? Is permission from the parents required?
A. One who has a father and mother should not recite kaddish yatom ((Pischei Teshuva Y.D. 376: 4) and ....
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Posted 5/2/2018 1:34 PM |
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# 1699 Answer to Teshuva
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Q. What is the appropriate stage at which a baal teshuva should acquire and wear a hat? (This is obviously a personal decision, but perhaps the rav could offer some general guidance). Also, is it appropriate for a baal teshuva to adopt chumros and ....
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Posted 5/1/2018 4:58 PM |
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# 1698 Been There, Davened That
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Q. If I am the tenth at a mincha minyan, but I've already davened mincha, what do I do at this one? I assume I don't say Shemoneh Esrei again, but I do say Amein to all brachos. Do I say Modim d'Rabbanan? Do I say Tachanun? Do I say Aleinu? Is the ....
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Posted 4/30/2018 1:21 PM |
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# 1697 Just Hang Up
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Q. What should one do when he picks up the phone on a Friday afternoon and, to his horror, discovers that the caller is a non-religious Jewish family member who is now in a part of the world where Shabbos has already begun (or might have already be ....
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Posted 4/27/2018 5:00 PM |
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# 1696 A Wonder on A Wonder
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Q. My daughter works in the Yonge & Finch area and since it was a nice day she was sitting on a bench in a small park when the van that killed and harmed so many people run some feet in front of her. A person was struck and the body landed next ....
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Posted 4/27/2018 3:44 PM |
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# 1695 A Fortunate Soldier
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Q. I’m joining the army as a chaplain. What should I do with lighting candles before Shabbos inside an army camp? The lighted candles can not be left unattended.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is best if you can li ....
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Posted 4/27/2018 3:41 PM |
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# 1694 Boot Camp
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Q. I’m joining the army as a chaplain. Can I carry inside the building or inside the fenced army camp during Shabbos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that even if they are other Jewish soldiers stationed in the camp it is pe ....
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Posted 4/27/2018 11:45 AM |
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# 1693 Special Forces
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Q. I’m joining the army as a chaplain. Can I have the cook warm my special double wrapped kosher food on Shabbos? He knows it is for me.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that you may ask him before Shabbos to put it in the ov ....
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Posted 4/26/2018 11:29 PM |
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# 1692 Bad Hair Day
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Q. Hello Rabbi I am waiting for a response about my shailoh of lo yilbosh for a man dyeing his hair nowadays.
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 182: 2) rules that a man who colors even one white hair black, transgresses the Biblical prohib ....
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Posted 4/26/2018 3:19 PM |
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# 1691 Double Check
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Q. If someone was visiting in Eretz Yisroel when they were reading a different parsha that Shabbos (Tazria – Metzora) and in Chutz Laaretz (Shemini). And then returns and will listen a second time the next Shabbos this same two parshios, does he al ....
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Posted 4/26/2018 12:05 AM |
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# 1690 Walking on Eggs
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Q. I have a non-Jewish neighbor who is very friendly and does us many favors. He offers every year to my children Easter chocolate eggs. They don’t eat them because they don’t have kosher certification. We usually also buy for his children the sa ....
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Posted 4/25/2018 12:18 AM |
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# 1689 Not That Social
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Q. What is Horav Miller opinion in signing into Facebook, Linkedin or Whatsapp? Are there issues of lashon horah and rechilus involved?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’s opinion is that Bnei Torah should abstain from using any of t ....
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Posted 4/24/2018 12:50 PM |
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