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# 3164 Important Message!
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Q. How should we all react to the recent closing of schools and yeshivos?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a very emphatically declared that we should all protest in every way we can, by signing letters to our representatives, Rabbis, an ....
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Posted 5/7/2021 10:03 AM |
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# 3163 Boo to the Zoo?
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Q. Can a pregnant woman visit a zoo?
A. Horav Y.D. Harpeness quotes in Chinuch Yisroel (8: 2; p.525) the Kav Hayoshor's assertion that although one is permitted to see unusual non kosher animals for the purpose of reciting a special ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 10:53 PM |
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# 3162 Put an Animal Up
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Q. Re- question 3134 above on making sheheyanu on new and very expensive shoes during sefira. I thought that one does not say sheheyanu on products made of animal skins, since it involves their suffering?
A. Rema (O.H. 223: 6) writes t ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 10:38 PM |
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# 3161 Unread Bread
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Horav Tsvi Heber Shlit'a mentioned regarding question 3156, in
which we wrote that Molino flour manufactured in Italy but
distributed by Kemach Haaretz in Israel, that has a Hechsher from the
Badatz of Machazikei Haddas (Belz) in Ye ....
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Posted 5/6/2021 5:02 PM |
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# 3160 Don't Touch
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Q. Re- question 3157 above on women not touching a Sefer Torah during their period. Can they touch it with a Siddur, as I have seen done in some synagogues?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is improper to use a Sefe ....
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Posted 5/5/2021 4:14 PM |
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# 3159 Put Them to Good Use II
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Q. On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they can still be used it is not correct to send the ....
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Posted 5/5/2021 3:57 PM |
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# 3158 A Reality Check
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Q. My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at low fee? We have ten mezuzos.
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Posted 5/5/2021 3:52 PM |
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# 3157 Don't Look
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Q. Is it true that a woman during her period, should not look at the letters of an open Sefer Torah?
A. Remah (O.H. 88: 1) and Mishna Berura (ibid) indeed rule that at that time they should not look at the letters of an open Sefer. How ....
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Posted 5/5/2021 3:41 PM |
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# 3156 The Life of Flour
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Q. Re- prior question. It is actually a flour mix in which 51% is wheat starch, the rest is made up of corn flour, corn starch, dietary fibres,
This mix is then used like regular flour, adding yeast, salt, etc.. The result looks like a regula ....
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Posted 5/4/2021 4:38 PM |
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# 3155 Earn Your Bread
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Q. Wheat flour which is soaked in order to extract the gluten and as such what is left is wheat starch, is bread that is made from the wheat starch Hamotzi like any other bread?
A. Thanks for sending this shailah, but we need more in ....
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Posted 5/4/2021 4:35 PM |
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# 3154 Leaving Much to be Desired?
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Q. Can a woman listening to Kerias Hatorah in shul, when needed by the necessities of her children or similar exit in the middle of the reading, especially in the Shabbosim with a double parsha, when the aliyos are long.
A. Shulchan A ....
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Posted 5/2/2021 6:00 PM |
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# 3153 Good to Hear This
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Q. Do women have to hear the reading of the Torah on Shabbos?
A. Mishna Berura (282: 12) quotes Magen Avrohom ruling that although women are not included in the mitzva of learning Torah, yet they are obliged to listen to the reading. Ho ....
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Posted 5/2/2021 5:51 PM |
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# 3152 Let the Party Begin
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Q. We prepared a Zoom Lag Baomer party with a siyum followed by music and seating around a virtual fire. Since we invited children to join, we want to make it early Thursday evening. How early can we start with the music?
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Posted 4/29/2021 11:08 PM |
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# 3151 Women of Torah Letters?
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Q. Is it true that Mishna Berura writes that women can receive an Aliya on Shabbat?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 282: 3) indeed rules that women can be included on the count of the seven Aliyos on Shabbos. However, he immediately adds that o ....
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Posted 4/29/2021 10:57 PM |
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# 3150 Read On
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Q. One who pronounces Hebrew and davens with Ashkenazi pronunciation and is given an aliya at a Sephardic shul, where the Baal Koreh (Torah reader) pronounces the reading of the Torah following that tradition, should he when standing by the Torah, f ....
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Posted 4/29/2021 10:11 PM |
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# 3149 Buried Treasures
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Q. On question 3142 regarding placing on the geniza sefarim that are still usable but they are not used in our shul, and the place is needed, you wrote that "Chelkas Yaakov (1: 40) rules that if they can still be used it is not correct to send them ....
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Posted 4/29/2021 10:02 PM |
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# 3148 A Reality Check
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Q. My husband who is severely ill and myself are undergoing hard times and we want to check our mezuzos. The last time we had them checked was seven years ago. Does the Rov anyone who may check them at low fee? We have ten mezuzos.
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Posted 4/29/2021 9:53 PM |
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# 3147 Unwritten Rules do Rule
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Q. A person who learns in a Kollel where they have certain rules which he wasn't aware of, such as that you have to say the late rabbi's name before learning and no breaks allowed and if one arrives ten minutes late they take off $2.50. Does he nee ....
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Posted 4/27/2021 2:36 PM |
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# 3146 A Word on a Word
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Q. A friend offered to buy my house. We had a verbal agreement but the complete details were not put into the offer to purchase and I felt pressured to agree to a lower price than the market price and a closing date which is artificial since I don' ....
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Posted 4/27/2021 2:27 PM |
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# 3145 First Matza on the Second Pesach
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Q. When is the correct time for eating matza this year, Monday day (Pesach Sheni) or Monday night?
Thank you
A. On question 160 we wrote: "There are different traditions in regards to eating matza on Pesach Sheini, or the “second P ....
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Posted 4/26/2021 5:55 PM |
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