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#4577 Chanuka Gelt Means a Velt
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Q. I was visiting a dear modern friend and witnessed something really strange. He lit the first day a great beautiful Menorah, but around it he placed all kinds of gifts for his kids. Is that permitted?
The practice of giving gifts d ....
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Posted 12/11/2023 8:17 PM |
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# 4576 Women On Time
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Q. See question 4571 above regarding women's compliance on the Chanuka mitzva. A group of single women, that partake once a week to a Hashkafa shiur around the time of lighting the Menorah candles, can they still maintain on that day the important ....
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Posted 12/10/2023 11:07 AM |
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# 4575 A Happy Koshern Yom Tov
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Q. Does one have to use Kosher olive oil for Chanukah candles?
A. In principle it is not needed. Yet, Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a, mentioned that since it is most common in our days, the adding of products, chemicals and even other oils ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:14 PM |
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# 4574 – Rich or Beautiful?
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Q. Dear Morenu Horav. If someone has an option to use a very beautiful and large silver plated menorah or just a small oldish and kind of ugly but real silver very expensive menorah. Which is the preferable one?
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:08 PM |
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# 4573 Meet Your Match
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Q. Can one light with a match the olive oil candles of a Chanuka Menorah, that also has the middle shamash light in an oil container and thus cannot physically be moved and used for lighting the rest of the candles, just use matches for them?
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:06 PM |
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# 4572 A Ray of Hope
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Q. Querido Rabino; A friend of us has been detained in a Central American country, and although all efforts were and are done, he will likely be there at least during Chanuka. The authorities are nowadays very antisemitic and he most likely will no ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:04 PM |
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# 4571 Enlightening Women
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Q. Do single women have to light the Menorah?
A. On question 1542 we wrote:
“Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 675: 3) rules that women are obliged on the mitzva of ner Chanuka, since they were also included in the miracle of its del ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:02 PM |
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# 4570 No Minority Rights?
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– Q. Rov Shlit’a. If someone is missing a bit of olive oil to fill a cup on the Menorah, can one use a small quantity of common oil that following an Halachic mechanism of ‘Bitul Berav’ will become nullified in the majority, and be considered as be ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 12:00 PM |
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# 4569 Travelling Light
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Q. As a travelling salesman I will be, Hashem willing travelling widely during Chanuka and likely will be at an airport during the time of lighting the menorah. Can I light at the airport in a permitted place for smoking?
A. On ques ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 11:58 AM |
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# 4568 Feel at Home?
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Q. How come we have brochos for all the four senses as seeing, hearing, smelling, and tasting, yet there is no brocho for the fifth one or feeling?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that feelings are actually there, and const ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 11:54 AM |
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# 4567 Not a Man of the Cloth?
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Q. See question above. As the Rov mentioned, one complies with an additional or many great mitzvos wearing another taalis kattan. If that is the case, why do we not find Rabbonim and even Gedolim wearing more or many Taaleisim Ketanim? Should not al ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 11:52 AM |
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# 4566 Warm and Nice
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– Q. As the cold days of winter are approaching, I often fill that I should use an extra t-shirt to keep me warm. If instead I use another Talit Kattan, will I comply with a double mitzva if I’m already wearing one? Do I have to say another bracha wh ....
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Posted 12/8/2023 11:49 AM |
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# 4565 Enlightening New Lights
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Q. Dear Rov. Can one, when no other option is available, such as when a patient is in hospital or one is traveling by plane use halogen lights for Chanuka?
A. On Shailah 673 we received the following question:
“I’m do ....
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Posted 12/3/2023 11:04 AM |
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# 4564 It’s About Time
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Q. How long is the time that the lights of the Menorah have to remain lighted?
A. Nitey Gavriel (31: 2) maintains that the time needed is measured in “Shaot Zemanios” namely that it varies according to the latitude of the place on ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:13 PM |
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# 4563 A Helpful Wife?
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Q. Is it proper and even desirable that the wife should be the one to fix and prepare the family menorah for lighting, as she usually does with the Shabbat candles?
A. Poskim disagree: A, see Nitei Gavriel quoting Moed Lechol Chai ( ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:11 PM |
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# 4562 Enlightening the Lighting
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Q. Can a patient that can’t light a fire on his Menorah by hospital rules, and has not anyone else to light for him outside the hospital use an electric battery menorah?
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that he may lik ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:09 PM |
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# 4561 Protect the Serve
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Q. Can one use an electric light for the ‘Shamash’ (central light in the Menorah)?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is preferred to use an oil or candle light for the middle light that is also used for lighting the ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:07 PM |
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# 4560 On Bond Respond
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Q. Lechvod Harav Shlita. A couple of weeks I submitted a question on whether it is permissible to buy State of Israel bonds. My cousin in Sweden had asked me to buy a bond for a Bar Mitzvah boy because he can't do so in Sweden but I do not need i ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 12:02 PM |
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# 4559 The Good Old Oil?
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Q. Should one use the leftover olive oil from last year Chanuka that looks and tastes O.K. or should one better buy new fresh oil? How about sealed oil cups with a wick already in them? How about if one does not have enough oil and will have to buy ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:58 AM |
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# 4558 Chag Chanuka?
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Q. See question above. Since I’m making a Siyum for my mother’s Shloshim honor, should it be better done during Chanuka as it will be a full seudah banquet serving meat and wine?
A. On question 1976 regarding if there is a Rabbinic m ....
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Posted 12/1/2023 11:55 AM |
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