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# 2026 The Smell Test
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Q. If many people are present when Havdala is said and it would take a long time, probably more than the time it takes to recite the complete Havdala, for everyone to smell the besamim, what should be done so it will not be a hefsek?
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Posted 1/23/2019 2:06 PM |
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# 2025 Keep Their Name
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Q. (See question 2014 above). Would it be recommended that if the name given to an institution, was given "Leilui Nishmas" of one of his relatives, the donor should agree that at least those names, without any surnames, so anonymity is kept, should ....
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Posted 1/20/2019 12:59 PM |
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# 2024 Clear His Name
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Q. Someone donated a large sum to an institution and was therefore granted that his name should be given to it. Years later, the donor decided that he does not want the institution to carry his name anymore and it should be removed. Is he entitled ....
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Posted 1/20/2019 12:54 PM |
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# 2023 Play Your Cards Right
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Q. (See question 2022 above). Can someone staying in a hotel during Shabbat give the plastic card key for opening the room-door to a friend that uses that card key on Shabbat? The holder of the key uses tape on the lock of his own door, to avoid usi ....
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Posted 1/20/2019 12:36 PM |
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# 2022 Milk of Human Kindness?
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Q. Is it permitted for someone that is careful to eat only products that contain Chalav Yisrael, to serve to his guest that eat non Chalav-Yisrael pastries and chocolates as long as they have proper Kasher supervision? Or since for him it is prohibi ....
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Posted 1/20/2019 12:34 PM |
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# 2021 Thanks, But No Thanks
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Q. In past years, when rainfall has been middling, Rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel (and perhaps other countries) have called for extra tefillos to appeal to Hashem to send rain – so with this year’s surfeit of gishmei brachah, said Israeli Agriculture Min ....
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Posted 1/20/2019 11:57 AM |
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# 2020 Pump the Shailah
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Q. My one use hand soap pumps which turn the soap in to a foam, on Shabbos?
A. On question 997 regarding the use of liquid soap and soap that changes from liquid to foam on Shabbos, we wrote: "Remoh (O.H. 326: 10) prohibits using ....
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Posted 1/18/2019 2:47 PM |
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# 2019 A Non-Baruch Bracha?
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Q. Can I fullfill my obligation to say a bracha, if I omit the word baruch? Or if I replace baruch with the word mishubach?
(Because the words which baruch (or a word for root brch) is paralleled with in bircas krias shema and nishmas, Also t ....
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Posted 1/18/2019 9:40 AM |
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# 2018 The Impact of the No-Pact
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Q. The Baal HaTurim writes (Sh'mos 1:1) that the Yidden were redeemed from Egypt because they kept Shabbos and Milah there.
How is it possible that they kept Milah? It says in Sh'mos Rabbah (1:8) that they stopped keeping Milah after Yosef die ....
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Posted 1/18/2019 9:34 AM |
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# 2017 A Pareve Shailah
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Q. Hello Rav,
I like to use leftover Shabbas Challah to eat with dairy on Sunday mornings. In order to do this, I remove the extra challah from the table before the meat course (leaving just a small one on the table to comply with the idea to ....
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Posted 1/16/2019 12:27 PM |
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# 2016 Of Dogs and Donkeys
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Q. Why were the dogs in parshas Bo rewarded with only scraps of treif animals, while the donkeys were honored with the holiness of kedushas bechora?
A. Horav Yosef Chaim Sonnefeld is quoted saying that at the time of Yetzias Mitzraim, ....
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Posted 1/16/2019 12:15 PM |
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# 2015 Competent Competing
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Q. An insurance salesman had the following question. His business requires offering insurance packages to customers. Often times the customers have previous insurance policies in place, and he is merely trying to convince them to replace their preex ....
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Posted 1/15/2019 1:01 AM |
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# 2014 Catch Me Later
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Q. When listening to Havdalah over grape juice, I make a silent stipulation that I am being yotzi with him, unless I decide later on to make my own. Later on, I may decide to repeat Havdalah on wine, especially if the person I heard did not properly ....
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Posted 1/15/2019 12:53 AM |
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# 2013 Good to Hear Your Voice
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Q. A person who will be eating Friday night by a family where the person making Kiddush does not properly articulate the words, mumbles, or otherwise makes Kiddush incorrectly - and does not offer his guests the option of making their own Kiddush - ....
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Posted 1/15/2019 12:45 AM |
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# 2012 Sign In?
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Q. An elevator that opens directly into someones apartment, and there is a regular wooden door that closes with a lock the entrance from the elevator to the apartment. Does that door that is similar to others, require a mezuza, at least for maaras ....
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Posted 1/15/2019 12:31 AM |
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# 2011 Elevating the Elevator
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Q. Does an elevator that measures more than six by six feet and services a condo building were all or most of the owners are Jewish require a mezuza?
A. Maseches Mezuza (2: 4) quotes a disagreement between Beis Shamai and Beis Hilel if ....
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Posted 1/15/2019 12:29 AM |
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# 2010 Refuah Shleima
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Q. I have diabetes Type 2. I need to check my sugar levels a number of times a day to ascertain how much insulin to inject. To inject insulin without checking the sugar level is dangerous because injecting too much insulin can result in potentially f ....
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Posted 1/11/2019 3:36 PM |
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# 2009 Am I Right?
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Q. I am halachically a lefty, but since there are some sfeikos regarding my status, I put also (tefilin) on my left hand after davening. I always take my shel yad, turn it the other way and put it on. Recently, someone offered me an old pair of or ....
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Posted 1/11/2019 2:23 AM |
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# 2008 In Heaven's Name!
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Q. Re- question 1993 on Yale's emblem. Columbia University has a coat of arms, it appears on all cards that staff of the university carry clipped to their clothing and also appears on the floor of the library and other places. It has the four-let ....
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Posted 1/8/2019 10:30 PM |
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# 2007 Promises, Promises
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Q. If a neder works by forbidding an item onto oneself; why does the world say "Bli neder" to avoid some kind of commitment? wouldn't it be more appropriate to say bli shavoua?
A. The basic difference between a neder and a shevua is ....
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Posted 1/7/2019 11:36 PM |
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