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#691 Shift the Chanuka Gelt to Chanuka Gift?
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Q. Thank you so much for your fast response …On Q. 688, (Chanuka Gelt means a Velt). Why is it not prohibited to give Chanukkah gelt or presents, since after all it is a Chok Hoamim tradition during their holiday?
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Posted 12/26/2014 1:32 PM |
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#690 Want to Face the Music?
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Q. Is there an actual prohibition about deriving any kind of enjoyment from Christmas lights?… What about benefiting from other Christmas things - like, is one allowed to enjoy the holiday music they play over loudspeakers in grocery stores?
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Posted 12/26/2014 1:30 PM |
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#689 Lights that Radiate Darkness
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Q. Is there an actual prohibition about deriving any kind of enjoyment from Christmas lights? Can one use them for illumination? Can one comment on their beauty?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 139: 1) rules that it is prohibited to derive ....
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Posted 12/26/2014 1:29 PM |
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#688 Chanukah Gelt Means a Velt
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Q. Someone who always gives Chanukkah gelt to his children and grand children, but this year is away on vacation, does he have to be matir neder? Can he give when he returns after Chanukkah?
A. When exactly did the tradition of dist ....
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Posted 12/24/2014 4:48 PM |
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#687 How many songs does one have to sing?
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Q. Shulchan Aruch mentions that if you sing during the meals of Chanukkah shirot and praise tunes, the meal becomes a seudat mitzvah. How many songs do you have to sing? If you don't sing but say a dvar Torah, or learn from a sefer when eating alon ....
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Posted 12/24/2014 4:43 PM |
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#686 Is a Prolific Shamash Permited?
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Q. If many menorahs are placed on one table, as when someone has a large family, does each menorah require its own shamash?
A. Mishna Berura (673: 18) quotes Mogen Avrohom ruling that since each one places his lights in a distinct p ....
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Posted 12/24/2014 2:32 PM |
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#685 Can You Smell the Miracle?
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Q. Could you add a few drops of aromatic oils to the Chanuka lights? (Would this be a hidur mitzvah or a greater persumei ness?)
A. Some contemporary Poskim have expressed their opinions in regards to using aromatic oils for Chanuka ....
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Posted 12/24/2014 2:31 PM |
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#684 Chanuka Showtime?
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Q. Dear Rabbi, I teach sciences in a frum school. I was teaching about the way you can create a variety of colors in flames by adding different chemicals to the fuel. One of my students was wondering if you are permitted to add them to the oil or ....
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Posted 12/24/2014 2:29 PM |
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#683 Deserted Candles
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Q. Let us say, a guy is alone in a desert, without the necessary implements to make and light candles on Chanukah, and obviously will not see the lit Chanukah candles of another, does he make a Birkas Shehecheyanu on the Yom Tov of Chanukah itself? ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:48 PM |
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#682 Enlighten the Uncovered
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Q. Can you use oil for Chanuka lighting that was left uncovered overnight?
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is permitted for a number of reasons. Firstly Poskim disagree whether in our days we should discard certain ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:46 PM |
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#681 Fire the Shot Glass?
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Q. Can you use for placing the menorah oil, small shot glasses that will be later used for liquor, which were not immersed in a Mikva yet?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that this is permitted since you are allowed to u ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:44 PM |
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#680 How to Treat the Swap Meet
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Q. Is there any prohibition in swapping seasonal gifts that co-workers (mostly Gentiles) give to each other at a years end party?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that if the gifts being exchanged are not prohibited in be ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:44 PM |
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#679 A Fine End Line
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Q. If you forget after December the 4th (to recite Tal Umotor) and the sidur instructs that you should say it at shma kolenu, where do you say it and what are the words you have to mention?
A. He should say Vesen Tal Umatar at the e ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:43 PM |
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#678 Brocho on Rain, Come Back Another Day
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Q. What happens when an Israeli visits chutz la'aretz does he stop saying tal umotor while here?
A. Poskim differ in their opinions. Most maintain that once he had already begun reciting Tal Umatar while still in Eretz Yisroel (he l ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:41 PM |
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#677 Motor Travel Trends
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Q. When I traveled recently to Eretz Yisroel I said Tal umotor librocho in Shemoneesre like everyone else… Was I to continue the same when I came back, since it was still before December 4?
A. Poskim disagree as to what to do if one ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:40 PM |
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#676 Travel Rain Check
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Q. When I traveled recently to Eretz Yisroel, I said Tal umotor librocho in Shemoneesre like everyone else. Was that correct?
A. Poskim disagree in regards to the mention of Tal Umatar for someone residing outside of Eretz Yisroel ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:39 PM |
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#675 Making Sense of Sensors
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Q. Does one have to be careful when walking down a street on Shabbos to not activate motion sensor lights? I would have to remember to cross the street to avoid one.
A. Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchoso (23: 53) quoting Yesodei Yishurun ( ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:37 PM |
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#674 Weighty Light Shaile
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Q. I'm doing my medical internship and I stay in the hospital overnight some days a week… Since I'm not married and I room alone, and I have an Internet security hook up with my residence, so I can turn on and off lights with a phone call. Can I ma ....
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:36 PM |
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#673 In the Light That We Know
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Q. I'm doing my medical internship and I stay in the hospital overnight some days a week. Can I use a sodium battery powered lamp (sometimes used for medical examinations) for Chanuka lights? How about a Halogen light?
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Posted 12/19/2014 1:07 PM |
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#672 The Three Days Phase
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Q. Is it true that you are not allowed to visit a sick person during the first three days of his illness? Why?
A. Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 335:1) rules that close family members and friends visit the sick immediately, while others wait ....
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Posted 12/9/2014 11:07 PM |
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