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# 4429 Forbidden Fruits?
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Q. If we have a fruit tree in our backyard here in chutz ha-eretz, should we separate the first fruit any ways? Can we use the fruit of the tree for eating if the tree is less than 4 years old?
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:28 PM |
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# 4428 Bless the Bagel
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Q. Good morning Rabbi, what would the bracha be on a bagel that was made with fruit juice instead of water? Would it be considered mezonot? How about juice/almond milk in a 1 to 1 ratio?
A. Poskim mentiom that the amounts are not n ....
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Posted 9/8/2023 12:25 PM |
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# 4427 Have the Book Follow You
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Q. This year Rosh Hashana will fall on Shabbos. I would like to daven Vasikin. (at day brake). However in order to do so I will need to carry my machzor in an Eruv enclosed area, and I personally try to avoid using the Eruv. It is not possible to ....
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Posted 9/6/2023 5:08 PM |
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# 4426 Let’s Be Thankful for what Hashem Gave us
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Q. Dear friend and colleague. A member of our shul donated more than twenty five years ago a beautiful shofar that we have constantly used. Two weeks ago, he offered a very nice similar shofar to replace the first one. Since they are very simi ....
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Posted 9/5/2023 2:18 PM |
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# 4425 Good Great Yom Tov and the Best of Years!
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Q. Since Rosh Hashana is a day of judgment and fear, why do people great each other with a ‘Good Yom Tov’ in that day?
A. On question 1437 we were asked: “Dear Rov, Is there a mitzva of simcha on Rosh Hashana, as in every other Y ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:57 PM |
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# 4424 A Single Voice?
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Q. See question 4391 regarding blowing shofar during Elul when there is no minyan.
Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a commented that since some Poskim maintain that the shofar applies during Elul even without a minyan present (see Siach Yitxc ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:49 PM |
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# 4423 A Low Blow?
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Q. I heard that if the only present in a minyan in a shul during Elul that knows how to blow the shofar is in the middle of davening the Amida, he may interrupt and blow the shofar for all. Could that be correct?
A. Indeed Kovetz Hal ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:47 PM |
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# 4422 The Cheder Seder of the Neder
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Q. Since the Halacha dictates that youngsters, boys from twelve years on, and girls from eleven, if they make a neder or vow it takes effect, should they be also included in the above process of Hataras Nedarim?
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:45 PM |
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# 4421 An Indulgent Agent
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Q. Dear Rov. Can a husband be a ‘Shaliach’ or agent for his wife on Erev Rosh Hashana to receive for her Hataras Nedarim or absolution of vows?
Does he actually has to ask her to name him the agent? Does he have to tell her name to the Bei ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:43 PM |
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# 4420 Pay a Visit?
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Q. There is a busload of bachurim from yeshiva X going to see the Gadol Hador at an event that will be attended by hundreds of Bnei Torah. None of them is paying because the
yeshiva is providing the bus. May a bachur from yeshiva Y get o ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:41 PM |
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# 4419 Cracking the Dawn
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Q. If one recites Selichos in a shul where he can already wear Tefilin before, should he do so?
A. It is not unusual for mispalelim to wear a ta’alis for selichos recital and recite a brocho if the correct time has arrived. Some do t ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:35 PM |
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# 4418 Know Where You Stand
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Q. Is it necessary to stand during the saying of Selichos or is it enough to do so only when reciting the 13 Middos?
Can one laying on a stretcher in a hospital minyan recite the 13 middos?
A. Poskim write that it is preferable ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:33 PM |
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# 4417 The Selichos Rights
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Q. One who recited Selichot during the Yamim Noraim, does he also daven Shacharit? Or does an Avel have preference? How about Mincha?
A. On a similar question (2830) we were asked; “The minhag in our shul is that during selichos days ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:31 PM |
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# 4416 The Record of the Accord
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Q. See question above. Does that prenuptial agreement qualify as the traditional ‘T’naim’ that are written at the time of the Vort? Should they be included in the traditional ‘T’naim’ before the chupa or mentioned therein?
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:26 PM |
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# 4415 All In Agreement?
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Q. Is it permitted to engage in a prenuptial agreement before a wedding that is drawn by a non-frum lawyer?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that such a lawyer could be used when needed, however a clause must be added to ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:24 PM |
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# 4414 The Winds of Caution
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Q. Someone has a close friend that was his neighbour and went to school together with from early youth. He knows that his friend as a child had a cancerous tumour that although it was removed, yet he knows that it could return.
The friend b ....
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Posted 9/1/2023 12:23 PM |
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# 4413 Don’t Forget to Remember?
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Q. In a shul where the sell the Aliyot for the Torah, should one invest on getting the last Aliyah or Maftir of Parshas Ki-Tetzeh to be able to read the Parsha of Amalek from the Sefer Torah itself as done during Parshas Zachor and thus comply wit ....
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Posted 8/31/2023 4:09 PM |
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# 4412 Code the Crack
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Q. A shofar that has a very small crack in its upper edge, that does not go over the inside, as it only shows when one inspects it carefully, is it kosher for blowing on Rosh Hashono?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit'a opinion is that y ....
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Posted 8/25/2023 1:46 PM |
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# 4411 Blow Your Own Horn
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Q. See question above: The same individual who protested my blowing shofar in shul, told that besides it was already late and one should not blow the shofar at night. Is that correct? Can one training to blow the shofar for Rosh Hashana do so at ....
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Posted 8/25/2023 1:44 PM |
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# 4410 Blowing the Blow?
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Q. I was training in our large Beth Haknesseth to blow the shofar. Then someone apparently a Rabbi, who noticed the voices (open windows) came in from the street and told me that it is incorrect to learn how to blow the shofar in a shul. And I shoul ....
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Posted 8/25/2023 1:42 PM |
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