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# 3564 Groundhog Hogwash
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Q. We have in our neighborhood a Groundhog Day celebration done for kids, that looks like lots of fun. Can our children attend?
A. Groundhog Day, in the United States and Canada, day (February 2) on which the emergence of the groundh ....
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:27 PM |
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# 3563 The Disease to Please?
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Q. I'm a Frum father living in a building where most of the neighbors are Jewish some Frum and some not so much. All neighbors joined a WhatsApp link and it has so far worked nicely to unite the neighbors and solve common building issues.
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:25 PM |
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# 3562 Under Protest
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Q. I'm an active Rabbi of a Toronto congregation and I keep on wondering why the leading Rabbanim or Torah organizations have not expressed publicly the Torah view on the Trucker's protest so prevalent in Canada and what position should Torah follo ....
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:23 PM |
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# 3561 Seasons Greetings
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Q. Rov. Another question for a Happy Purim Katan. Is it true that the spirit of the great Purim also rests on the small one? Should one great another on Purim Kattan with the blessing of a "Frailechn Purim"?
A, Nitei Gavriel (Purim 16: ....
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:20 PM |
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# 3560 A Real Feast
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Q. If a group of friends makes a Seudas Purim Koton is it considered a Seudas Mitzva that one invited should attend?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the participants say Divrei Torah and sing songs of prize to Hashem ....
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:18 PM |
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# 3559 Trim Purim?
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Q. Happy Purim Rov. If someone does not usually wash and eat bread during weekdays, should he do so on Purim Katan? Should one also eat meat and drink wine?
A. Rema (O.H. 697: 1) writes that our minhag is to augment (Leharbos) on the m ....
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Posted 2/17/2022 10:16 PM |
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# 3558 Early Fasting?
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Q. I have Yohrzait on Purim Katan for my mother A'H. The minhag of our family is to fast on a Yohrzait for parents, but on this occasion I was told I should not fast. Would it be correct then to fast the on Taanit Esther, the day before, since it i ....
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Posted 2/14/2022 4:28 PM |
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# 3557 Face the Change
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Q. On question 3545 the Rov dealt in an outstanding way with the new wave of most unusual and shailes we can't even imagine and now are actually possible or soon to be so. I was present at the seminar in which the dangers of the internet were expose ....
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Posted 2/13/2022 4:44 PM |
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# 3556 Special Delivery
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Q. Is it permitted or even recommended for a husband to be present when his child is born to provide support and encouragement to his wife during a difficult labor?
A. Minchas Yitzchok (8: 30) recommends that the husband should not be ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:54 PM |
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# 3555 An Early Kiddush
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Q. Nice to talk with you, can you please let me know what is the earliest you can do Kiddush Levana. Thx.
A. On question 3279 regarding Kiddush Levana with a minyan after Tisha BAv ends, but before 72 (minutes after sunset, which is t ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:51 PM |
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# 3554 Only Men Must Not Forget?
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Q. Is it true that women don't have to be concerned with doing things that can cause forgetfulness (Kosho Leshikcho), such as eating olives, observing the face of the dead, reading a matzeiva or eating leftovers from animal food, since they are not ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:48 PM |
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# 3553 Becoming Possessed?
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Q. Kvod Horav I recently heard something that I found very disturbing. I was told that the 'Neshama Yeseira' or added soul that one acquires during Shabbat, can actually be the soul of another once living being such as a Tzadik or a forefather tha ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:44 PM |
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# 3552 The Price of Life?
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Q. Can a religious Doctor who usually does not work on Shabbat but had to tend to a patient in a life threatening situation charge his normal fees to the patient?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 306: 5) debates on hiring during Shabbos Chazan ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:41 PM |
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# 3551 The Range of a Stove
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Q. I'm moving into a house with only an electric connection and I will buy a new stove. What kind of a blech can I use for a stove with coils or a glass top? Is it permissible to use the stove top to warm up food Shabbos night if the stove top a ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:39 PM |
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# 3550 The Party of Life
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Q. What is the traditional proper way for a Chevra Kadisha to comply with Zain Adar?
A. There are different Minhagim and traditions particular to different communities and groups. Most have the custom of fasting and saying a special prayer o ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:36 PM |
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# 3549 Merit for the Great in Spirit
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Q. Why was the seventh of Adar or Yohrzait of Moshe Rabbenu chosen as the day for fasting and the following a party or Seuda of the Chevra Kaddisha?
A. It is a tradition for many such societies to dedicate the seventh of Adar as a d ....
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Posted 2/11/2022 12:34 PM |
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# 3548 A Gain on the Zain Adar Calendar
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Q. I'm part of a group of young Bnai Torah families, that have moved to a new settlement in ... and we have grown in about three years to a sizable frum community. Although there was already an old Jewish community in town with a cemetery and a C ....
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Posted 2/7/2022 10:55 PM |
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# 3547 A Joyful Mitzva Omitted! Why?
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Q. (See above question 3547). Why is the mitzvah of Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimach not mentioned in Shulchan Aruch, while its counterpart, namely that when the month of Av begins we have to diminish happiness is actually included?
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Posted 2/6/2022 4:34 PM |
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# 3546 When Do the Happy Times Begin?
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Q. How come that the Mishenichnas Adar Marbim Besimcha mitzva, meaning that when Adar begins we have to increase our happiness is so undefined?
Firstly which Adar does it apply to, when as in this year there are two? When Rosh Chodesh is two ....
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Posted 2/4/2022 1:14 PM |
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# 3545 The Gigantic New Incoming Waves
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Q. Dear Rabbi, I think it is likely that this is the first time this question is being asked. We live in a changing world. Totally deaf people can now hear using Cochlear implants. Born blind or people missing eyes, can now see at least partially ....
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Posted 2/4/2022 12:20 PM |
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