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# 3913 Got So, So Many Mitzvos! How?
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Q. Dear Rov. If someone does Teshuva out of love, we know that the sins turn into mitzvos. Since this is a most important point in being successful in the Days of Judgment, I would like to know. Is that love achieved by learning Torah as we say ....
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Posted 10/3/2022 5:46 PM |
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# 3912 Aliya or Yerida?
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Q. In a large shul, a wealthy member bought an expensive Rosh Hashana Aliya. When he was about to be called to the Torah, he told the Gabai that he wants the Aliya to be given to his father instead. The problem was that the father does not keep Sha ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 11:00 PM |
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# 3911 Crime Doesn't Pay
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Q. If someone sees that the fellow davening next to him has a Machzor that was obviously stolen from a shul and tell him that he may not comply with the davening as it is a Mitzva Haba'a Beavera, (a mitzva done by doing a sin)?
A. On q ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:58 PM |
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# 3910 The Right Site of the Bed
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Q. Thank so much Kevod Horav for answering the difficult questions involved in the blowing of the Shofar in a large retirement home. Is it permitted for a sick old man to be brought into the shul of the institution in his bed, and place it on a sid ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:56 PM |
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# 3909 Time to Learn?
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Q. Another question Rov. My family minhag has been to learn Mishanayos Rosh Hashana during the four meals of those Holy Days. However, when we have guest men and women who don't follow the learning, my wife claims that this learning should be avoid ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:53 PM |
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# 3908 Watch What you Eat
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Q. Dear Rov. I know that during the Ten Yamim Noraim Days one should be more stringent in the foods one eats, including avoiding 'Pas Akum' or bread not baked in a Jewish Bakery. Does that include pretzels, Cheerios and wheat cereals?
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:51 PM |
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# 3907 Don't Lose Sleep Over This
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Q. Can one sleep when putting his head on a Shtender during Rosh Hashana afternoon, when it says one should not sleep?
A. Although the Arizal is lenient and permits sleeping in that afternoon, other Poskim are stringent such as the Mat ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:50 PM |
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# 3906 Allow the Blow?
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Q. Can a Baal Tokea blow the Shofar for training on Erev Rosh Hashana?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 581: 3) rules that one should not blow Shofar on Erev Rosh Hashana.
Whether, one may blow for teaching or training, seems to d ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:48 PM |
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# 3905 Make the Bread to Brake
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Q. Is it correct that on the night of Rosh Hashana you are supposed to make the bracha and cut the upper Chalah? Why?
A. Indeed Mate Ephraim rules that the upper Chalah should be cut first on Rosh Hashana(583:1).
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:46 PM |
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# 3904 Collecting Thoughts on Collection Times
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Q. Does a woman have to make her own Pruzbul at the end of the Shemita year?
A. See questions 614, 871, 872, 873, and 879 on the meaning and Halachos of Pruzbul.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that in general circumstan ....
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Posted 9/29/2022 10:37 PM |
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# 3903 Choosing the Rosh Hashana Best
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- Q. Dear Rabbi; I have an option of davening in a shul where they have an excellent Baal Tokea, (Blower of the Shofar) that follows all the dikdukim, halachos and kavanot (Halacha details and intentions) of the mitzva of Shofar.
I ....
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Posted 9/25/2022 4:05 PM |
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# 3902 A Real Sound Problem
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Q. As we spoke by phone, I blow the Shofar for a large group of members of a retirement home that tries to serve the religious needs of a mixed group where only about 20% are orthodox. In the floors where the patients are bed bound and they don't at ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:32 PM |
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# 3901 Late Disposal of Sins?
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Q. Due to the length of the davening during Rosh Hashana, the time needed for a seuda with family and guest and the long walk to the water source, is it possible to recite Tashlich immediately after Musaf or even better at night after the seuda?< ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:28 PM |
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# 3900 Go With the Crowd?
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Q. When someone is blowing Shofar for a patient at a retirement home, is it preferable to gather a minyan for this mitzva?
A. Although in general it is better to perform a mitzva 'Berov Am' or with a significant group of participants, ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:22 PM |
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# 3899 Let's Get a Real Sharp Mind!
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Q. Dear Rabbi. Can people who much enjoy eating jalapeno (chili) peppers, can they add them to the list of fruits and vegetables one eats on Rosh Hashana and says a Yehi Ratzon on them? I this case it may be appropriate to bless us with having a ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:20 PM |
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# 3898 Hazoom Es Hakol?
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Q. Can a patient in the hospital during Selichot, zoom a minyan and repeat with them the Thirteen Midot usually said only with a Minyan present?
A. Usually, any Zoom contact does not contribute to mitzvos that require a minyan. On que ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:18 PM |
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# 3897 Strange Sounds
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Q. I have recently heard a Baal Tokea before blowing the Shofar during Elul, blow air into the Shofar without making a sound, (I have seen something similar some years ago). Is that necessary or even recommended?
A. Poskim don't mentio ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:15 PM |
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# 3896 Not Over One's Head
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Q. Since one is to blow the Shofar when the wide opening is facing up, if in a particular case it faces sideways, does the Baal Tokea have to incline his head to comply with the above.
A. Indeed Poskim mention that the wide opening ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:13 PM |
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# 3895 Doing Too Much?
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Q. Kvod Harav, I heard that there may be an issue when davening Maariv before the Z'man (night) since one has to repeat the Shema after it becomes proper night, one may transgress the prohibition of Baal Tosif or adding to the mitzvos?
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:10 PM |
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# 3894 Let's Give Him a Hand
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Q. Can someone who has an artificial hand blow Shofar on Rosh Hashana holding on to the Shofar with that hand.
A. On question 2928 regarding the use of a prosthetic electronic arm hand on Shabbos we wrote:
“Horav Shlomo Miller's ....
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Posted 9/22/2022 10:08 PM |
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