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Do we know how Rabbi Moshe Feinstein felt about Malbim's commentary on Nach?
The following expands upon the comment I made earlier now that I've searched a bit through Igros Moshe.
Here is the original wording of the teshuva:
אבל פשוט שהוא רק כשלמדו כפי פירוש אמת שהוא כאחד ...
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Rabbi Moshe Feinstein member of Sanhedrin
This law is codified by Rambam in Hilchot Sanhedrin 2:6:
כשם שבית דין מנוקין בצדק כך צריכין להיות מנוקין מכל מומי הגוף וצריך להשתדל ולבדוק ולחפש שיהיו כולן בעלי שיבה בעלי קומה בעלי מראה נבוני לחש ...
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Rav Moshe Feinstein's opinion on the State of Israel
Interesting question and it is true that artscroll's biography of R Moshe Feinstein doesn't address the question explicitly.
Here are a few relevant statements showing R Moshe's position. From the ...
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Rav Moshe Feinstein's opinion on the State of Israel
Need to provide sources, but on one foot, I think the best way to describe his position was: "a convenient distance." Zionism wasn't Rav Moshe's raison d'etre; neither was anti-Zionism. When you're ...
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Is there a topic index for Igrot Moshe?
There is a very popular sefer called Yad Moshe which is an index for Igros Moshe. See here.
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Is there an online compendium of Rav Moshe teshuvos in English that exists?
As noted in the comments by several Mi Yodeyans1, the lack of a compendium/ collection of Rav Moshe's teshuvos translated to English is no coincidence: it's what Rav Moshe himself wanted.
Rav Moshe ...
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Igros Moshe citation: prohibiting giving a lighter to a smoker
It seems that R' Moshe Feinstein allowed one to provide fire/matches to a smoker, and did not think of this as lifnei iver.
Igrot Moshe, Yoreh De'ah part 2, 49 (last sentence):
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Rav Moshe and Giving Your Time for Charity
Following @Yirmeyahu's lead I found my copy of the Eye of the Needle with the full copy of the article you are looking for. I scanned it below. See end of page 3 and page 4. It is not a straight ...
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Rav Moshe Feinstein and tzitzis tucked in
Rav Ahron Felder zt"l was a talmid muvhak and spent many years serving Rav Moshe Feinstein. Among the seforim he authored is the two-volume Rishumei Aaron, which contains rulings and halachic ...
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Is there an online compendium of Rav Moshe teshuvos in English that exists?
R. Feinstein's son in law R. Moshe Dovid Tendler published a translation/commentary of some of R. Feinstein's responsa relating to medical issues. The book is called Responsa of Rav Moshe Feinstein: ...
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Sefer on Igros Moshe
The work in question is the Ma'aneh L'igrot מענה לאגרות of R. Yom Tov Schwartz.
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Rav Moshe Feinstein and tzitzis tucked in
My father, Rav Yitzchok Frankel, Rav of Aguda of 5 Towns, and Talmud muvhak of Rav Moshe, asked rav Moshe personally about this topic in late 1963, early 1964. Rav Moshe told him to wear his tzitzis ...
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Rav Moshe's Psak on Fertility Treatments
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff has a lecture on YUTorah about Artificial Insemination that discusses it.
Rabbi Feinstein ruled that the Torah prohibition of adultery, and the resulting categorization ...
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Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's opinion on the age of the universe
In R. Moshe Feinstein's Iggeroth Moshe (vol. 6, Yoreh De'ah, section 73) he wrote:
וספרי למודי חול שיש שם עניני כפירה בבריאת העולם ודאי הם ספרי המינות
שאסור ללמד בהם וצריך להשגיח שמורי למודי חול לא ...
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Is it correct to say that, according to Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, lesbian relations beetween Gentiles women are not forbidden?
The relevant text appears in this 1996 edition of Diberot Moshe on Shabbat vol. 2 in chapter 53, section 35 and does indeed seem to say what R. Rapoport claims that it does:
דאשה נושאת אשה דזה ודאי ...
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Source in Darash Moshe on own understanding
Are you looking for the quote itself or what Rav Moshe himself was basing the quote on?
It is the (Hebrew) Dorosh Moshe 15:3 or the third Davar Torah on Parshas Korach.
As far where Rav Moshe is ...
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Writing Responsa in English
Reb Moshe writes in Igros Moshe(YD 3:91) that he emphatically refused to give permission to translate his Teshuvos (either in full or a summery) into English, because
It may not be translated ...
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Rav Moshe Feinstein and chodosh in the Diaspora
In an interview published in Mishpacha magazine in 2011, R. Michel Shurkin reports the following:
...I ask whether Reb Moshe was supportive of the trend towards being
machmir even if there was a ...
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Is there a topic index for Igrot Moshe?
Yad Moshe, the classic index to Igrot Moshe, authored by Daniel Eidensohn now exists in English. It is printed on demand so shouldn't get out of stock.
Here is a sample picture
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Rav Moshe Feinstein's opinion on the State of Israel
BezH I wrote an extensive article regarding R. Moshe Feinstein's relationship with the State of Israel (including many previously unknown sources), and how it changed over the years to be more ...
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Rav Moshe and Giving Your Time for Charity
The Teshuvah is in Igros Moshe, Even Hoezer, Chelek 7 See http://www.hebrewbooks.org/921, Siman 26 on page 55.
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What is מדין שני בתי דינים בעיר אחת? Regarding different minhagim in New york
Rabbi Feinstein is addressing questions of local customs. Theoretically 400 years ago, you'd have all the Jews in Baghdad following the customs of Baghdad, and all the Jews of Krakow following the ...
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Rav Moshe Feinstein and showers in the nine days
R. Feinstein briefly discussed showering during the Nine Days in a responsum:
Igrot Moshe E.H. 4:84:4
ולגבי שאלת בני הישיבה אם ביום חום מותר לרחוץ אחר ר"ח אב עד עת"ב מאחר שמכונים להסיר ...
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Why specifically did Rav Moshe Feinstein serve as rabbi in Ohio for a while, per his visa?
According to the Artscroll biography of him by Rabbi Shimon Finkelman, it would be fair to say that Ohio marked purely a "convenient stepping stone" into America.
On pp. 72-73 Rabbi ...
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What does halacha say about the timing and conditions of the Jewish divorce ceremony?
Complicated subject. Rabbi Yonah Reiss of the Beth Din of America has lectures on this matter. He noted that a hundred+ years ago in Eastern Europe, the couple would settle everything, square it all ...
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Source in Darash Moshe on own understanding
Interestingly Rabbi Shalom Rosner recounts that Rav Soloveitchik made a similar -if not the same- point on parshas Korach.
Rav Soleveitchik referred to this phenomenon as the “common sense”
rebellion ...
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According to R' Moshe regarding the location of the Bimah in a shul, what is defined as the "center" of the congregation?
I'm inferring that when he says "the majority of them stand toward the front", it may be that they do this because the amud is at the front of the shul and this where the chazzan davens from. (Rav ...
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Igros Moshe citation: prohibiting giving a lighter to a smoker
Perhaps he was loosely referring to R. Feinstein's responsum in Igros Moshe Choshen Mishpat 2:76 where he writes:
ולא יניח אדם לבניו הקטנים שיתרגלו בזה אף אם הוא עצמו נתרגל
A person should not ...
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Does an unknown Ikkur require a blessing?
FIRST QUESTION
In the book The Halochos of Brochos, p234 Rabbi Bodner explains that if a person does not know what brocha to make a certain food, he should research the halachic authorities or ask a ...
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