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Expand Article # 3409 Get Some Teeth Into This?
Q. Is there a Inyan (sense or significance) to bury teeth? If dentures that contained some real teeth were removed at intubation in the hospital and then the patient died, do they have to be replaced in the mouth of the Niftar before burial?


Posted 11/4/2021 10:50 AM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article #3408 Last Trip
Q.When the body itself is buried, do the severed and saved body members, require to be buried with the body? How are they to be transferred to Eretz Yisroel?

A. See question 3407 above that when possible they should be buried togeth ....


Posted 11/3/2021 4:01 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3407 Body Parts
Q. 2) See question 3406 above. Do other body parts as internal organs? Appendix, Eyes,  Kidneys, do they have to be buried? If yes where and how?

A. Poskim disagree if there is a mitzva of burial on every part of the body even before ....


Posted 11/1/2021 5:38 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3406 Out on a Limb
Q. A number of Shailes were aroused by the painful death of my older brother R' Yisroel Yehuda Bartfeld zt'l, and are as follows: 1) What is done with the severed legs or hands, cut from patients while alive to save their lives; do they have to ....


Posted 10/29/2021 3:49 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3405 Another Fish Story
Q. Is there a prohibition to eat parts cut from a fish while it was still alive. I have seen that done in various fish stores. Is that not Eiver Min Hachai? (eating a piece of a live animal).

A. Tosafos (Shabbos 90b) rules that ....


Posted 10/27/2021 5:54 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3404 Better Never Than Late?
Q. If the Chupa will be at night after Maariv, should the Chassan say Vidui also after Maariv?

A. Chakal Yitzchok (79) and Nitei Gavriel (8: 11) and others maintain it should not be said.

Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a ....


Posted 10/19/2021 10:05 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3403 Grooming for Confession?
Q. A Chassan (groom) that is getting married on Rosh Chodesh and therefore he is not fasting, does he say Viduy (confession) when he davens Mincha?

A. Poskim disagree. Kerem Shlomo (E.H. 65 14), Pischei Tesuva (E.H. 61: 9), Siddur I ....


Posted 10/19/2021 10:00 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3402 Assume the Position?
Q. (See question above) Can I just apply for a customer service representative position to answer customer calls and book service appointments in a conservative shul? This job will also have other general office tasks including limited IT and custom ....


Posted 10/19/2021 9:47 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3401 Don't Ask me, I Just Work Here
Q. Can I apply for a Part-Time Synagogue Operations Administrator in a Conservative shul that requires to work closely with the Spiritual Leader and Creative Director, collaborate and contribute to the overall goals of the Shul team by providing in ....


Posted 10/19/2021 9:39 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3400 Greetings or Salutations?
Q. Someone is in quarantine together with his family. When making Birchas HaL'vono from his uncovered porch, can he satisfy the thrice-declaration of saying Shalom Aleichem by saying it to his wife and two daughters and receiving their reply? Or sh ....


Posted 10/19/2021 5:55 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3399 The Code of Silence
Q. Hello Rav, During the repetition of the Amidah, its forbidden to talk. I'm wondering what would the Halacha be if during the Chazara repetition I leave the shul to use the washroom, could I say Asher Yatzar outside the shul while the repetition ....


Posted 10/19/2021 5:44 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3398 Just Wait and See
Q. Hello Rav, I am wondering what is permitted to do between the time I'm done my personal Amidah and the time that the Shaliach Tzibbur starts the Chazara repetition. Am I permitted to say tehillim (quietly to myself) or learn Torah (quietly to m ....


Posted 10/19/2021 5:34 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3397 What's in a Name?
    Q. Sometimes the minhag is to name someone using their mothers name, and sometimes using the fathers name. Why is this? what is the rule when? Mothers name only when davening for Refuah?
what about dovening for parnassa? Halzloch ....


Posted 10/18/2021 3:16 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3396 Lost in the Wash?
Q. Hello Rav, I wanted to get some clarify on what is permitted in a room that has a shower only (no toilet) that is used regularly for bathing. I understand that Rav Ovadia allows one to listen to a Torah class while showering in such a room, but ....


Posted 10/14/2021 11:06 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3395 Privy to the Privy
Q. Hello Rav, In our basement with a washroom has in it a toilet and shower stall. The shower stall is never used. I'm wondering if its permissible to use it for storage of drinks. (wine, beer, soda, water bottles). Everything is closed in their co ....


Posted 10/14/2021 10:56 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3394 Feast of Reason
Q. (See questions 3390 - 93 above) Is the tradition of Thanksgiving different in Canada than in the U.S. besides the date. Is the origin of the Canadian Thanksgiving religious, since it may have been instituted by the church and therefore should not ....


Posted 10/14/2021 10:49 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3393 Crash the Party
Q. See questions 3390, 91, 92 above. 3) Often my parents invite a neighbor family to join our Thanksgiving party. They are Frum people born in Latin America and they said that in their tradition they celebrate Columbus Day. Is there a problem inv ....


Posted 10/14/2021 10:34 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3392 Set the Agenda
Q. Since you mentioned that Igros Moshe warns that one should not make Thanksgiving an established holiday that we must keep, can the Calendar from a religious school show that day as Remembrance,Victoria and Labour days are showed?

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Posted 10/14/2021 10:19 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3391 Go Cold Turkey?
Q. See question 3390 above. 2) Is it permitted to eat a roasted turkey on Thanksgiving?

A. Poskim disagree. Rivevos Efraim, and Rabbi Yehuda Hertzl Henkin. (Bnei Banim 3,:37), explain that Thanksgiving is “only a day of thanks and no ....


Posted 10/14/2021 10:13 PM | Tell a Friend | Ask The Rabbi | Comments (0)


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Expand Article # 3390 Thanks But No Thanks?
Q. I'm a Baal Teshuva that belongs to a family still in the process of Kiruv and becoming close to Hashem. We are a closely united family and we try to maintain seriously that Shalom Bait.

We usually, as far as I can remember, celebrat ....


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