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| age | 29 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | May 13 at 21:30 | |
| stats | profile views | 25 |
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May 12 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 12 |
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Mandatory evacuation on Shabbat: what can and can't you do? The article under discussion can be found here:rabbanan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/… |
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May 10 |
awarded | Revival |
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May 8 |
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Is there a halachik problem with wearing shorts while davening? Applying this "would you meet the head of state in these clothes" standard is difficult as a practical matter. If I were meeting the President, I would wear a suit. Must I wear a suit every single day of my life? I have been to synagogues which will not allow people wearing shorts to lead the davening, but don't throw them out of shul. |
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May 8 |
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Asking a Gentile for Air Condition on Shabbos Ask your local expert in the functioning of air conditioners, but I'd think the on-off-on-off would be bad for them. This is above and beyond R' Moshe Feinstein's objection to using a timer for the AC (or anything but the lights). |
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May 8 |
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Can a gentile break shabbos only on a Rabbinic level? R' Herschel Shachter said in a lecture (which is probably on YU Torah somewhere, but I can't recall which lecture it was) that a non-Jew is not permitted to rest on Shabbat even as Jews rest on Chol Hamoed. So seemingly the non-Jew must do something purposeless, as turning on a light he needs or carrying a key he needs are permitted on Chol Hamoed. |
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May 8 |
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Do you get credit for unintentional mitzvot? If unintentional chillul Hashem is punishable (as said in Pirkei Avot, Rambam Hil. Teshuva, etc) then unintentional kiddush Hashem may well be rewardable. |
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Apr 22 |
comment |
Online tool for minyan management? Often getting those who said they would come to come is a very great challenge. |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Can you daven with minyan when you have the flu? |
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Apr 15 |
awarded | Revival |
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Apr 12 |
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Is there any source for not sharing a baby's name before the bris? If this should be answer, I or someone can make it one: Rav Aharon Lichtenstein included the name in the brit announcement. So instead of saying for example, "Next Tuesday there will be a bris at 8AM" he put up signs saying "Next Tue there will be a bris for my son Shmuel at 8AM" |
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Mar 22 |
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Does God love non-Jews? This chet-nun root (grace, charm) is found in words relating to free stuff (chinam), as well as to pray not based on merit but as a free gift (va'etchanan). |
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Mar 12 |
answered | Asking a Rav a fake question |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Revival |
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Mar 4 |
comment |
Order of names in a meshabarach after an aliyah This bothers me, but what bothers me much more is: "the oleh, Yaakov ben Yitchak and his son Reuven ben Yaakov, and his son Shimon ben Yaakov..." If I just said "his son", I don't need to then say Ploni ben Ploni. |
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Mar 4 |
answered | Naming a child after two relatives |
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Feb 13 |
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What's an “achashvei”? Given all of the drinking he does, he probably did indeed feel an ouch in his head quite often |
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Feb 5 |
answered | Is age a disqualification for Shechita? |
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Feb 5 |
answered | What puns are there in Tanach? |
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Jan 22 |
comment |
What forbids eating in a Jewish-owned restaurant open on shabbat? Go and see what people do in terms of treating those who break Shabbat. Some are willing to apply tinok sh'nishba to all or almost all modern sabbath violators. |
