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#5041 Last Nail in The Coffin?
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Q. See question above. Does the Chevra Kadisha have to cut decorated nails of women before their burial.
A. There are different Minhagim and traditions for Chevrot Kashishos, as usual Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a opinion ....
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Posted 7/16/2024 11:30 AM |
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#5040 Better Burn or Bury?
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- Q. The ones that do burn or bury their nails, how much burning is needed and how deep do they have to be buried?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a opinion is that just covering them with earth is enough. Changing color would also suff ....
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Posted 7/16/2024 11:09 AM |
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#5039 - On the Nail!
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Q. Is it correct to just flush the cut nails on the sink or toilet, or do they have to be buried or burned in the back yard?
A. Talmud (Nidah 17a) mentions that in regard to removing one’s nails, our Sages taught: Three cases were s ....
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Posted 7/16/2024 11:02 AM |
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#5038 Really and Truly Artificial
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Q. Dear Rov, you recently mentioned about using vertlach and gematrios created by an AI program. I travel a lot and often learn in a hotel late at night. Could I use an AI program that I very much like enjoy learning with, as it so advanced and p ....
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Posted 7/15/2024 11:11 PM |
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#5037 - Blessings for the Blessings
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Q. Rabbenu Shlit’a. I’m invited to a sheva brochos of a very great friend who I’m trying to be Mekarev more to Torah learning. It is on Thursday after Shiva Assar Betamuz. Should I go?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlt’a opinion is that ....
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Posted 7/15/2024 9:57 PM |
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#5036 - Calling in Question
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- Q. If someone has yohrtzait on Shiva Asar Betamuz, but because of illness he does not know if he will be fasting a full day, can he be called to the Torah on this year in the morning as he always is? He has always fasted before, yet he is a bit a ....
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Posted 7/11/2024 11:15 PM |
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#5035 Surprise For Thursday 5th of Tamuz
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- Q. What is the source in the Gemora and Rishonim that in order for someone to be a Novi, (prophet) he must first receive Nevuah in Eretz Yisroel?
A. See Rashi (Yechezkel 1: 3) and Radak (ibid) that the nevuah of Yechezkel began only ....
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Posted 7/11/2024 3:47 PM |
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#5034 Trust Those Words?
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Q. Can one use the “Vertlach” (small attractive words of Torah interpretations) that were created by an ingenious new artificial intelligence program?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is better to avoid such a source ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:54 AM |
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#5033 We Didn’t Catch that Name!
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- Q. Why is the Parsha this week called Korach? How can we use the name of a Rasha (evil person) for a Parsha title?
A. The Talmud (Baba Basra 74a and Sanhedrin 110a) mentions that the sons of Korach and according to some Korach himse ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:50 AM |
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#5032 Looking for Trouble!
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- Q. Is it permitted to go on Shabbos to sit in a treife restaurant in honor of grandmother's birthday if no treife will be consumed and no melacha done by the chareidi grandson?
A. As important and as a great mitzva the honoring of ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:45 AM |
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#5031 - Crack in the Bottle?
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- Q. (re question 5020, regarding filtering some small particles of glass left when a bottle of wine broke before kiddush on Shabbos, and the prohibition of Borer)
Q. 1- it was answered that other methods can be done by two people. w ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:40 AM |
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# 5030 Moonlighting for Kiddush Levana?
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- Q. My son’s bar mitzva is on the second Shabbos of the month, Should he wait until then to say Kiddush Levana or if it can be done should he say it after the first Shabbos?
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:37 AM |
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#5029 Bathroom Literature - Really?
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- Q. Mi Rabino Querido, I usually read books of food recipes while I’m in the bathroom. Can it be done on Shabbat?
A. Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchoso (29: 46) rules that one should not read cooking instructions during Shabbos as one would ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:34 AM |
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#5028 Your Earliest Convenience
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- Q. See questions above. Do I have to give all of the tzedakah at once or can I invest some of it and spread out the payments?
A. Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a maintains that if the poor are there, one should give immediately.
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:31 AM |
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#5027 Lessons on Tuition
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- Q. See question above. Would paying tuition for my kids be considered tzedaka? What about their weddings?
A. Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a quoted Aruch Hashulchan that since the father is obliged to teach his child, and after al ....
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:27 AM |
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#5026 Charity Begins at Home
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- Q. How does one calculate tzeddaka (Maaser) on the sale of a house? I'm assuming that some expenses could be deducted such as mortgage and taxes and maintenance but not consumables such as gas and electricity.
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Posted 7/5/2024 11:23 AM |
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#5025 - Giving a Giving Education -
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Q. Dear Rov, As you well know, I’m one of the younger mispalelim that attends your shul from time to time. If I earn some money during the summer by helping in boys camp I attend. Since I’m supported by my parents, do I have to give maaser to tzed ....
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Posted 6/30/2024 6:22 PM |
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#5024 Lighting the Candle
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- Q. See question above. I have a single blind grandmother that lives in Mexico and has a maid that takes care of her, can she ask her maid to hold her hand and she would then light the candle and recite the bracha?
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Posted 6/28/2024 2:00 PM |
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#5023 The Faith of the Blind
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- Q. My elderly grandmother due to old age and disease lost her eyesight and can’t see at all, can my grandfather light the Shabbos candles and she should recite the blessings? It provides to her a tremendous great beautiful feeling and inspiration ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:57 PM |
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#5022 The Light of Seeing
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- Q. See question above. Dear Rov and colleague. We joined together yesterday at the Kabolas Ponim and welcoming of the Gedolei Yisroel in their historic visit to Toronto to establish the Keren Olam Hatorah.
I watched you approach the ....
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Posted 6/28/2024 1:55 PM |
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