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# 4168 Roll Out the Welcomed Mat
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Q. See question above. Can one use the LoMi Cooktop Mat, that is a piece of white cloth material made of silica clot and silicon dioxide. It is heat resistant from 1050°F to 2000°F. They advertise that “All our products are Kosher certified. Also o ....
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Posted 3/24/2023 12:09 AM |
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# 4167 Kashering it – Not Cracking it
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Q. Dearest Rov amv”s. We are traveling out of town for Pesach and renting a house that has a glass top stove. How do we Kasher it and use it on Pesach?
A.On question 515 we wrote “Kosher certifying agencies agree that prior to kos ....
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Posted 3/22/2023 10:24 PM |
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# 4166 A Freilechen St. Patrick's day?
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Q. I attend a daily minyan, that as others do, offers an after Shacharit Kiddush with a drink and mezonot. The attendants before drinking a small cup of liquor, as tradition goes wish each other 'Lechaim', Mal Tov, or if it is aYohrzait, ' ....
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Posted 3/20/2023 10:54 AM |
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# 4165 A Brisk Bedika Beginning
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Q. The Rabbi in our Shul (he learned in Brisk) has a tradition that the night before Pesach, after Maariv and before everyone goes home and does the search, repeats the Halachot Bedikat Chametz and that takes about fifteen minutes. Is that correct ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:26 PM |
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# 4164 Have a Clean Touch
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Q. If a blind person owns a dog that he constantly touches, does he have to wash his hands every time before he makes a Bracha?
A. From Talmud (Nazir 48a and Rambam – H. Tumas Ochlim 15: 9) is obvious that one who is prohibited to beco ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:21 PM |
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# 4163 Searching for a Search Answer
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Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. We will be Be’H spending Pesach with our children in Israel. We will be travelling about two weeks before Yom Tov. We are also planning to sell our house on an early sell, the day before Erev Pesach, so we won’t have to cl ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:20 PM |
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# 4162 Clean Intentions
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Q. If always when cleaning the house from chametz before Pesach one already complies with the mitzva of ‘Tashbisu’ since this is a Biblical mitzva, in order to comply one has to have Kavana or intention to comply with the Mitzva. Is this correct? I ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 11:17 PM |
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# 4160 Call it a Day
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Q. Dear Rov, you quoted in question 4144 that ‘Shulchan Aruch and Poskim (O.H. 429: 1) mention that one should start learning Hilchos Pesach on Purim itself.’ I wonder if there is an obligation to learn from then on the Halachot of Pesach every da ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 10:59 PM |
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# 4159 Don't Dump the Pump
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Q. Can one use a ‘Foul Water Pump Controller’ during Shabbos? What is Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion?
A. As described by the company; “The flushing of a toilet or using water in places where the foul water is collected in a Sum ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 10:57 PM |
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# 4158 Secluded from Seclusion
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Q. I attended a Chupa from a Chatan of Sephardi background and after the Chupa there was Yichud (the seclusion of the groom and bride in a private room) as accustomed by Ashkenazim. Is it correct for Sephardim to do so?
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Posted 3/16/2023 10:54 PM |
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# 4157 Women Never Forget?
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Q. See question above. Do the same issues apply to women?
A. Kaf Hachaim (O.H. 157: 28), Chavas Da’as (Y.D. 72), Siach Hasodeh quoting HoRav Ch. Kanievsky Zt’L and others maintain that the issues mentioned by Talmud Horios (13b) that ....
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Posted 3/16/2023 10:51 PM |
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# 4156 Don’t Forget Shaila
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Q. I was traveling overnight by train and stayed in a private cabin. It was rather small and I kept my clothing in a corner of the bed. Is there a problem with sleeping in a bed were your clothing also is?
A. On question 3975 regarding laying ....
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Posted 3/14/2023 4:14 PM |
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# 4155 Shovel Ready
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Q. Dear Rav. On question 4150 dealing with the large snowfall on a recent Shabbat, that practically had many locked down and unable in some cases even to open the home door to go to shul. you wrote that “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is ....
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Posted 3/13/2023 4:54 PM |
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# 4154 Out of a Hat
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Q. If one’s hat got totally covered with heavy snow, while taking a long walk on Shabbos. Can one continue walking where there is no Eruv or one does not carry?
A. Yalkut Yosef (302: 9) permits. Horav Shlomo Miller’’s Shlit’a opinion i ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:45 PM |
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# 4153 Not Worth your Salt?
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Q. Is it better to prepare for Shabbos use as was now greatly needed, wood shavings or straw, instead of spreading salt?
A. Poskim write that it is better if it will eventually be removed and not become part of the ground surface. Hora ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:44 PM |
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# 4152 Wildcard Blizard
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Q. What can one do when there is no Eruv and to exit the house to go to shul some of the snow will end on the street?
A. On question 3576 regarding if one can one remove some snow on Shabbat from the front of his house to be able to go ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:42 PM |
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# 4151 Snow Alert
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Q. See question above. Could one that heard the forecast of the incoming snow storm ask his non- Jewish usual snow remover, that does not usually come during Shabbat, to come and remove the snow?
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:41 PM |
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# 4150 No to Snow?
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Q. During the large snowfall last Shabbat, the practically had us and many others locked down and unable in some cases even to open the home door to go to shul, was it permitted to use a shovel and remove the snow as needed?
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:38 PM |
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# 4149 Special Delivery
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Q. Someone went to deliver Shalach Monois on Purim and realized that his friends were not at home. He called them on their cell and they told him that they are out of town. He realized that he could not just leave the beautiful basket outside as it ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:36 PM |
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# 4148 Over the Top?
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Q. See question above. Can one place a Magazine – Kuntress of Torah articles over a Gemara?
A. See Talmud Megila 27a and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 282: 19. Orchos Rabenu (3: 162) quotes Chazon Ish that one may place Rishonim and Acharonim o ....
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Posted 3/9/2023 10:34 PM |
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