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# 3417 Come to the Rescue
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Q. Since you are not allowed to touch a Gosses (a patient close to a certain death), lest you speed his death, should one refrain the health practitioners such as nurses from moving or giving treatment that may shorten the life of the Gosses?
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Posted 11/5/2021 1:18 PM |
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# 3416 An Answer to the Nature's Call
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Q. Hello Rav, I'm wondering if someone would say the Asher Yatzar Bracha in the morning along with the other morning berachot, even if one did not need to use the washroom yet. One example might be if a person woke up in the middle of the night, ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 5:32 PM |
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# 3415 Take Another Seat
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Q. An individual during the time of Avelus and as part of it, has to undergo Shinui Makom or the change of one's everyday established place in shul to a different unusual one. Can an Avel when he needs his original place, because after a fall ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 5:20 PM |
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# 3414 Is It Time to Call it a Day?
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Q. Can one apply in case of need the principle of Miktzas Hayom Kekulo, or part of the day counts as the whole day, to end shiva to the night of the seventh day, before davening in the morning as it is usually done? It will make a difference to ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 5:08 PM |
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# 3413 Saving a Life
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Q. Can one restrain the body of a terminally ill unconscious patient from getting I.V. fluids, when the doctors maintain that the temporary live will be extended if this is done?
A. On question 356 regarding an elderly terminally il ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 5:00 PM |
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# 3412 Saving a Life
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Q. Can one abstain the body of a terminally ill unconscious patient from getting I.V. fluids, when the doctors maintain that the temporary live will be extended if this is done?
A. On question 356 regarding an elderly terminally ill ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 12:52 PM |
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# 3411 Signs of Life?
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Q. What are the 'Simanei Gosses" or signs of imminent death in our days? Blood Pressure? Heart beating?
A. The Remoh (E. H. 121, 7 and H. M 211,) identifies the symptoms of Gesisah as the bringing up of secretions of the throat, ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 11:18 AM |
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# 3410 Facts of Life
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Q. Can you embrace or kiss a dying patient if the doctors maintain that it will not affect the patient, and on the contrary it may extend temporarily his life?
A. On question 251 regarding the following case "My mother was terminally ....
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Posted 11/4/2021 11:03 AM |
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# 3409 Get Some Teeth Into This?
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Q. Is there a Inyan (sense or significance) to bury teeth? If dentures that contained some real teeth were removed at intubation in the hospital and then the patient died, do they have to be replaced in the mouth of the Niftar before burial?
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Posted 11/4/2021 10:50 AM |
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#3408 Last Trip
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Q.When the body itself is buried, do the severed and saved body members, require to be buried with the body? How are they to be transferred to Eretz Yisroel?
A. See question 3407 above that when possible they should be buried togeth ....
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Posted 11/3/2021 4:01 PM |
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# 3407 Body Parts
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Q. 2) See question 3406 above. Do other body parts as internal organs? Appendix, Eyes, Kidneys, do they have to be buried? If yes where and how?
A. Poskim disagree if there is a mitzva of burial on every part of the body even before ....
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Posted 11/1/2021 5:38 PM |
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# 3406 Out on a Limb
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Q.
A number of Shailes were aroused by the painful death of my older
brother R' Yisroel Yehuda Bartfeld zt'l, and are as follows: 1) What is
done with the severed legs or hands, cut from patients while alive
to save their lives; do they have to ....
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Posted 10/29/2021 3:49 PM |
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# 3405 Another Fish Story
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Q. Is there a prohibition to eat parts cut from a fish while it was still alive. I have seen that done in various fish stores. Is that not Eiver Min Hachai? (eating a piece of a live animal).
A. Tosafos (Shabbos 90b) rules that ....
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Posted 10/27/2021 5:54 PM |
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# 3404 Better Never Than Late?
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Q. If the Chupa will be at night after Maariv, should the Chassan say Vidui also after Maariv?
A. Chakal Yitzchok (79) and Nitei Gavriel (8: 11) and others maintain it should not be said.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3403 Grooming for Confession?
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Q. A Chassan (groom) that is getting married on Rosh Chodesh and therefore he is not fasting, does he say Viduy (confession) when he davens Mincha?
A. Poskim disagree. Kerem Shlomo (E.H. 65 14), Pischei Tesuva (E.H. 61: 9), Siddur I ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 10:00 PM |
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# 3402 Assume the Position?
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Q. (See question above) Can I just apply for a customer service representative position to answer customer calls and book service appointments in a conservative shul? This job will also have other general office tasks including limited IT and custom ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 9:47 PM |
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# 3401 Don't Ask me, I Just Work Here
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Q. Can I apply for a Part-Time Synagogue Operations Administrator in a Conservative shul that requires to work closely with the Spiritual Leader and Creative Director, collaborate and contribute to the overall goals of the Shul team by providing in ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 9:39 PM |
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# 3400 Greetings or Salutations?
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Q. Someone is in quarantine together with his family. When making Birchas HaL'vono from his uncovered porch, can he satisfy the thrice-declaration of saying Shalom Aleichem by saying it to his wife and two daughters and receiving their reply? Or sh ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 5:55 PM |
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# 3399 The Code of Silence
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Q. Hello Rav, During the repetition of the Amidah, its forbidden to talk. I'm wondering what would the Halacha be if during the Chazara repetition I leave the shul to use the washroom, could I say Asher Yatzar outside the shul while the repetition ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 5:44 PM |
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# 3398 Just Wait and See
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Q. Hello Rav, I am wondering what is permitted to do between the time I'm done my personal Amidah and the time that the Shaliach Tzibbur starts the Chazara repetition. Am I permitted to say tehillim (quietly to myself) or learn Torah (quietly to m ....
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Posted 10/19/2021 5:34 PM |
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