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Standing for MiSheBerachs and certain other communal Tefilloth I have long wished that instead of saying "please rise for the mi sh'beirach for <Israel, Tzahal, gov't>", the gabbai would instead say, "Please remain silent for the mi sh'beirach..." |
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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 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 |
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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 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 4 |
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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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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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Jan 22 |
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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. |
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Jan 6 |
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What forbids eating in a Jewish-owned restaurant open on shabbat? I don't think this source is generally relied on nowadays. Say a group of 9 is gathered Shabbat morning. Another fellow drives up to join the minyan. If we really believed that a modern public Shabbat violator was akin to a non-Jew, we still would have no minyan. |
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Jan 4 |
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How can God be just in light of Deuteronomy 23:3? @YDK, how do you fit into this conception of mamzerut the fact that a convert can marry a mamzer or marry "regular" jews? |
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Jan 4 |
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Why doesn't a ben niddah acquire the status of a mamzer? @Ariel, while that is true, it is in a different scenario than the point I was making. Daniel claimed that mamzerut applies when there is no way the woman could become permitted to the man. A married woman could become permitted once she stops being married, as could a childless brother's wife or a wife's sister. Yet all of these create mamzerut if violated. Also, even though it is true that the adulteress and adulterer may not be together after she is single, such would not involve karet and thus not involve mamzerut. |
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Dec 24 |
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Kohen as Chazzan During Birchas Kohanim I'd note that this would apply to shacharit in Sephardic (and Israeli) minyanim too, and there it applies every single day. |
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Dec 24 |
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Kohen following a Mes into a tunnel In theory the same would apply to the lower level of a multi-level bridge (such as the George Washington Bridge, near Yeshiva University). While at YU, there were two kohanim with whom I regularly commuted. One asked that we avoid the lower level in case there was a hearse and the other did not care. |
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Dec 20 |
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Making a Siyum on major sections of learning but not a codified unit @SethJ, I'd say no. Personally I'd consider Nosei Keilim (commentaries) as part of one possible definition of b'iyun. As such, I'd say one can make a siyum on a section of SA without studying the Shach. There is presumably extra reward for more study, but not in the form of a siyum. |
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Nov 15 |
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Making a Siyum on major sections of learning but not a codified unit They list only these 4 options. |
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Nov 12 |
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sperm donation and p'ru ur'vu (Related but not exactly on point) A friend who was going to be treated for leukemia before he married was concerned that his fertility would be compromised. He was told to have some seed frozen (essentially deposited at a sperm bank for later withdrawl) before undergoing treatment, such that he could impregnate his wife later should he become unable to have children. He was already engaged at the time. |
