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# 2519 Siyum Partners in Torah
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Q. We are celebrating an important Siyum Hashas for our group of lerners in a few days. We have invited a large crowd to a catered seuda that is also a fundraising event essential for our shul.
Sadly l'a our Maggid Shiur became severely ill a ....
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Posted 1/31/2020 9:35 AM |
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# 2518 Pull Down a Chair?
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Q. Does a son inherit the seat acquired by his father, or assigned to him as a tribute to his eminence, after the death of his father? (See question 2517 above).
A. Poskim explain that the Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 240: 2), seems to infer t ....
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Posted 1/30/2020 12:55 PM |
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# 2517 On The edge of Your Seat
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Q. Is it permitted for a son to seat himself on the place assigned to or acquired by his father in shul, when the father is not attending?
A. Talmud (Kidushun 31b) and Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 240: 2) rule that a son should not seat on his ....
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Posted 1/30/2020 12:52 PM |
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# 2516 A Mohel "Mit a Farmachten Moil"
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Q. Could an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) be the mohel at a bris, if no one else is available?
A. Chassam Soffer (C.M. 39) maintains that if the body of the deceased has already been transferred to the Chevra Ka ....
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Posted 1/30/2020 12:39 PM |
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# 2515 Figure that Speech
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Q. Can an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) partake at the seuda (meal) of the bris of his grandchild? If yes can he be asked to speak publicly. (See question 2514 above).
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that alth ....
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Posted 1/30/2020 12:37 PM |
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# 2514 A Sad State of Fair
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Q. Can an onen (one who lost a close relative, before burial) be a sandak at the bris of a grandchild?
A. Chidushim Uviurim (11) maintains that if the body of the deceased has already been transferred to the Chevra Kaddisha, it is perm ....
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Posted 1/30/2020 12:34 PM |
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# 2513 A Shaila In Hot Water?
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Q. Is it permitted during Shabbos to open or increase the water dripping into a humidifier connected to the heating furnace. The warm air rushes by a metal net or mesh, that spreads the droplets of water into the air exiting the furnace and it evap ....
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Posted 1/24/2020 3:33 PM |
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# 2512 Add And Adapt Adam?
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Q. We are B'H a baal teshuva family, and Hashem just graced us with a baby boy. We want to know if we can give the name of a dear deceased grandfather named Adam to our newborn. Adam was always of great help to us and we want to honor his memory. Is ....
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Posted 1/23/2020 11:54 PM |
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# 2511 It's All In Your Mind
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Q. We recently learned in the daf that the intention for doing a mitzva deuraisa (Biblical) is essential in the compliance of the mitzva. Since during the day we do many mitzvos such as learning Torah or helping others, should one at the beginning o ....
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Posted 1/23/2020 11:34 PM |
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# 2510 Immersed in this Immersion Question
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I received a gift of prepared desserts, meant to be eaten straight from the individual glass jars that they came in.. I was told by the store personnel that the jars were already toiveled. I was advised to retoivl without a bracha.
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Posted 1/23/2020 11:21 PM |
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# 2509 More Intents and Purposes
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Q. Referring back to the previous question (2496), davening before neitz standing versus sitting in the car after neitz. If there would be no difference in kavana, what would be the better option?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opi ....
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Posted 1/23/2020 10:53 PM |
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# 2508 Know This Like The Back Of Your Hands
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Q. Often people pour down water during Netilat Yodaim on the top of their hands over their wrist, to properly cover with water the complete hand. However, as the hands are bend downward into the sink, the result is that often the water reaches the ar ....
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Posted 1/23/2020 10:43 PM |
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# 2507 Right On The Right Time
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Q. I see often that people when they wash hands say the bracha of "Al Netilat Yadayim" at the time they are drying their hands. Is that correct? Is it correct or commendable for one to hold the towel or paper towel in his hands at that time?
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Posted 1/23/2020 10:41 PM |
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# 2506 Don't Hold Your Breath
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Q. Can one use on Shabbos the new CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) automatic apnea respirator machines that produce a soft, steady jet of air with enough pressure to keep the airway open?
A. On question 1744, we wrote: "Hora ....
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Posted 1/20/2020 4:27 PM |
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# 2505 Testing One's Own Medicine
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Q. New Jersey lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill to eliminate most religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren. This shot is being forced now in NJ schools. What does HoRav S. Miller say about it? and would he side with frum refuseni ....
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Posted 1/20/2020 12:14 AM |
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# 2504 Perls At Your Own Peril
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Q. I'm a frum teenager and have always wanted to join Shomrim or the volunteer firefighters in our community, since they urgently require more participants. Yet my parents are very much against it and argue that al pi (following) Halacha one shou ....
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Posted 1/16/2020 11:58 PM |
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# 2503 Calculating a Calculated Risk
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Q. I was invited to give a shiur for young people who are interested in becoming Baalei Teshuva and I seem to be promisingly successful. A good part why is that the area we are able to meet for the convenience of the group, is in a section of town th ....
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Posted 1/16/2020 11:56 PM |
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# 2502 Shall we Call On a Prayer Shawl?
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Q. As a Chaplain I visit and tend to the needs incarcerated individuals. I brought a taalis to a Jewish inmate, and then his Gentile roommate also wanted one. As this may be an issue of chilul Hashem, and creating enmity, can I also provide one for ....
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Posted 1/15/2020 12:13 PM |
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# 2501 Three Strikes And In
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Q. There are 3 consecutive days of fasting in the month of Tevet. Besides Asara Betevet, on the eight the Greek translation to the Torah was done, and on the ninth it is the yohrzait of Ezra. Since after the translation was accomplished it says that ....
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Posted 1/15/2020 12:12 AM |
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# 2500 Wash Off Hands?
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Q. Hello Rav, If someone speaks after saying "Al Netilat Yadayim" and saying Hamotzee, do they actually need to repeat the washing (without a bracha). It seems that many have this custom, but this just seems to add to the interruption. I'm wonder ....
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Posted 1/14/2020 4:17 PM |
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