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# 3377 Inviting Ghosts to the Feast?
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I heard recently (Izkor Shemini Atzeres) from our Rabbi that we invite during Izkor the Neshamot (souls) of our parents and grandparents and other dear ones to come join us and share the Yom Tov with us. I honestly think it is a very weird and biza ....
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Posted 10/3/2021 3:19 PM |
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# 3376 It All Adds Up
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Q. During Simchat Torah due to the lack of space, we had to serve Kiddush inside the large Suka that we have in our shul. Is there a problem of "Baal Tosiff" or adding to the mitzvot that Hashem gave us, since we do not sit anymore in the Sukka on ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:43 PM |
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# 3375 Murky Waters?
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Q. I sleep in a Sukka with two other people but we have only one bowl for Negel Vasser. (Water to be used for washing hands when one wakes up. After washing the water is considered to possess a spirit of impurity). May I wash over the bowl and the ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:23 PM |
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# 3374 A Balancing Act
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Q. It became popular in some places to use during Hoshanos on Sukos, when doing Hakofes, a little siddur that one attaches with a type of clip to the basket-holder attached to the Lulav and the Haddassin and Arovos. That is a good way to be able ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3373 The Sooner the Better?
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Q. Is it correct that one should dismantle his Suka immediately after the end of the Yom Tov?
A. Nitei Gavriel (Sukos 103: 5, p. 476) indeed quotes from the Talmid of the Arizal, the Seder Hayom, that one should dismantle the Suka ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 10:05 PM |
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# 3372 Grinding into Grinding
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Q. Can one use a hand held disposable pepper grinder during Yom Tov?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that he should do so with a shinui or a change from the normal way of turning the parts of the grinder.
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Posted 9/30/2021 9:59 PM |
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# 3371 Abandon Ship?
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Q. Is it correct for someone of the essential ten composing the minyan, to leave the shul because of the closeness to the Plag Hamincha and daven somewhere else?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that he should not leave th ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 9:53 PM |
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# 3370 Showing Feelings for Others
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Q. We have a maid that comes to help doing house work. She carries a necklace with a crucifix, can she enter like that to clean the Suka?
A. I had personally experienced a far more testing episode while I was the Chief Ashkenazi Ra ....
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Posted 9/30/2021 9:47 PM |
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# 3369 We Can Accept This
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Q. Should one avoid accepting Shemini Atzeres early because then he loses out on the mitzvah of Sukka? Could one just be mekabel the issur melacha?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that even if one accepts Yom Tov early, h ....
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Posted 9/26/2021 6:09 PM |
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# 3368 An Honest Mistake
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Q. By mistake in our shul on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukot we took out two Sifrei Torah as is usually done on Chol Hamoed Pesach, instead of only one, as is done on Sukot. However, we only read as is indicated, the first one.
When we re ....
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Posted 9/24/2021 6:32 PM |
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# 3367 The Real Beauty of a Mitzva
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Q. If someone is offered to buy at a good price a very beautiful silver box for his Esrog should he go for it? He did spend already a large sum on the Esrog itself.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is better to d ....
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Posted 9/23/2021 6:31 PM |
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# 3366 Honoring the Decorations?
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Q. If someone builds the Suka weeks before Yom Tov, should he also place the decoration early?
A. Although it is usually recommended to start all mitzvos as early as possible (Zerizim Makdimin), Kovetz Halachos maintains that it is ....
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Posted 9/23/2021 6:22 PM |
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# 3365 Right on the Time
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Q. It says that one should begin putting up the Suka on the night at the end of Yom Kippur and then finish it on Friday. Can one do fixing of the Suka Erev Shabbat after Chatzos (midday)?
A. Mishna Berura (626: 2) quoting P'ri Me ....
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Posted 9/23/2021 6:07 PM |
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# 3364 Bright and Early
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Q. One who accepts Shabbos an hour early (for the Segula of Tosefes Shabbos, which brings bracha), should the same be done for Yom Tov? Are there any exceptions? Is accepting Shabbos an hour early a Neder?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's ....
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Posted 9/22/2021 10:17 PM |
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# 3363 Let's Have a Good Look
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Q. I have seen some people who seem very Frum check their Esrogim with a magnifying glass. Is that really necessary or even recommended?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion that on the onset it is not necessary at all. However, if ....
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Posted 9/22/2021 9:54 PM |
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# 3362 Election Day
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Q. Tomorrow is Election Day. In past elections you wrote that Horav Miller Shlit’a said it is a mitzvah to vote. If one is pressed in time with building his Suka, does that take precedence over voting?
On question 561 regarding if there ....
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Posted 9/20/2021 11:45 AM |
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# 3361 The Best Pray Deal
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Q. Would davening Vasikin (praying at sunrise) in a minyan of 13 people on Yom Kippur override being from the Asara Rishonim (First Ten) in a Yeshiva minyan where 500 people will come after me?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion ....
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Posted 9/17/2021 12:29 PM |
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# 3360 Lots of Promise?
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Q. Can you say Kol Nidrei if you were already mekabel (accepted) Yom Kippur. (As when saying Tefilas Zakah before)?
A. Remah (O.H. 619: 1) writes that Kol Nidrei should be said while it is still day, since at least according to some ....
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Posted 9/15/2021 1:32 PM |
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# 3359 To Eat or Not to Eat
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Q. Is it better to accept and begin Yom Kippur earlier (since Tosefes Yom Kippur, or the acceptance and adding to the day is a Biblical mitzva), or is it preferable to eat as long as possible. (Since eating Erev Yom Kippur is also a Biblical mitz ....
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Posted 9/14/2021 3:02 PM |
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# 3358 Close and Personal
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Q. Can one ask someone else to do Kappores for him as a shaliach (agent) on a chicken?
A. Ashrei Hoish (O.H. 3; 7: 11) quoting Horav Eliashuv zt'l mentions that although one can name a shaliach to bring a Korban for him and thus o ....
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Posted 9/13/2021 11:13 PM |
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