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Who is the Ba'al Nefesh of the Mishnah Berurah?
R. Herschel Schachter quotes an informative anecdote (in this essay):
Rabbi Yehuda Amital (shlit”a) relates that when he was a teenager learning in yeshiva, when the students learned Mishna Berura ...
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Who is the Ba'al Nefesh of the Mishnah Berurah?
R. Avrohom G. Yachnes addresses this in his commentary to Orchos Tzadikim.
A Treasure for Life Vol. I p. 62
On the other hand: Years ago, while in kollel, I had the unusual
privilege of engaging ...
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Who is the Ba'al Nefesh of the Mishnah Berurah?
First thing... The Mishnah Berurah (including the Be'ur Halakhah) has a number of idioms for soft stringency, ie for presenting a stringency as a desired objective but not as baseline law. Some ...
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How is one allowed to eat both cholov stam and pas palter?
The Igros Moshe (YD 2:33) writes that the common custom is to consume pas palter even where pas yisrael is easily available.
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Is cantillation with Kriyat Shema required?
The Mishnah Berura 61:38 says clearly that one shouldn’t say with the cantillations if it will take away from his concentration
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Opinion Of The Maharam MiRottenburg Regarding wearing tzitzis on shabbos
The Tur in Orach Chaim 301 says this in his name.
כשמצוייצת כהלכתה לא הוי משוי הלכך מותר לצאת בטלית שלנו לרשות הרבים דחשיבא מצוייצת כהלכתה אע"פ שאין בה תכלת ד
קיימא לן אין תכלת מעכבת הלבן תדע לך ...
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Should we prevent a chumra in the laws of Shabbos that exceeds the normal understanding?
R. Eliezer of Metz in Yereim 274 writes explicitly that one should not put any food in a keli sheni nor in a keli shelishi (if they are at the temperature of yad soledet bo) as we do not know which ...
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Who holds that Cholov Yisroel is not a chumra?
I feel the need to post this because of the widespread misconception on this topic, as evidenced by Daniel's comments above, and the number of agreements to them.
It is a major Machlokes Haposkim as ...
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Keeping your own community's dinim vs. yuhara
This is not a complete answer, but...
There is an interesting responsum of R. Sherira Gaon. The question posed to him was what one should do in a place where people don't wear tefillin. Specifically, ...
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Can Sefardim eat meat in the homes of Ashkenazim?
Rav Ovadiah Yosef (Yabiah Omer 5; YD 3) relies on the heter of R' Shmuel Abohav (D'var Shmuel ch.320). He says that if you do not actually know if the piece of meat you are eating is "chalak" or not, (...
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How is one allowed to eat both cholov stam and pas palter?
The piece you're quoting says with regards to aseres yemei teshuva.
The Shulchan Aruch writes that those are lenient concerning pas paltar year-round should be strict during the Ten Days of ...
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Extended fasting on 10 Av
The Ramban (Torat ha-Adam) cites this as follows:
ר' יהושע בן לוי הוה ציים תשיעי ועשירי, ר' לוי הוה ציים תשיעי ועשירי, פי' מנהג חסידות היה להם, וכל המוסיף להתאבל על ירושלים זכות היא לו
This implies ...
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Covering containers of water
Terumoth 8:4 implies that the drink would only have to be unobserved for a short time to be forbidden:
כַּמָּה יִשְׁהוּ וְיִהְיוּ אֲסוּרִין? כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּצֵא הָרַחַשׁ מִמָּקוֹם קָרוֹב וְיִשְׁתֶּה:
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Reward for keeping Minhagim and Chumros
The Gemara (Pesachim 50b) discusses this issue:
בני ביישן נהוג דלא הוו אזלין מצור לצידון במעלי שבתא אתו בנייהו קמיה
דרבי יוחנן אמרו לו אבהתין אפשר להו אנן לא אפשר לן אמר להו כבר קיבלו
אבותיכם ...
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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky on Iphones
The reason behind this ruling is that the user of a mobile phone (abbr. iPhone - generic term for all mobile phones in certain cirlces) is a Rasha - a wicked person.
Why?
Because these Rabbis have ...
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If one wishes to take on chumrot, or segulot, or mystical practices, to what extent is one allowed to negatively impact others to do so?
This is an important question. Thank you for that. In my de'ah, chumrot are valid only from the sources I have elected as being in resonance with my ideals, to wit, my neshama. For me, these happened ...
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Tentatively taking on a minhag or chumra
Before doing it, verbalize that you are doing it bli neder
See Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah 214.1
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Cleaning clothes before Passover?
According to Shulchan Aruch Harav, you should check your pockets, especially if you sometimes put chametz in them:
Every person should be careful to check and shake out his gloves and
clothes-pockets,...
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Having chumrahs that one's Rabbi doesn’t have
I can give you one mareh makom. The gemara in Pesachim 51a relates that Rabbah bar Bar Chanah ate a certain type of fat which the Babylonians prohibited but which the Bnei E"Y permitted. (Being ...
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Reward for keeping Minhagim and Chumros
If someone made a vow, (even though the Gemara generally suggests that we avoid vows) then they get the reward for the mitzvah of keeping a vow.
However, if it is just a chumrah or custom, then it ...
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The Halachic issues for the preparation of Green Loose Leaf tea
you can not drink it with the bug (having the bug come into your mouth),
so you need to filter the liquid until you know that the bug is not there (for example by taking out the teabag) and then you ...
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Being more stringent than your Rebbe
When I was in the conversion process all new comers to shul will think I was the shul's Rabbi as I habe a natural beard but his was trimmed. Of course the impression wouldn't last as my lack of ...
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When lighting Chanukah candles on both entrances to courtyard, can I use only one candle?
R. Yerucham Olshin in Yarei'ach LeMoadim Chanukah ch. 18 suggests that this question hinges on whether one recites a blessing upon kindling the second light (opinion of Rashba) or not (opinion of Ran)...
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Wine made/handled by non-religious Jews
According to R' Moshe Feinstein this is just a chumrah which does not apply to most non-Shomer Shabbat Jews today.
As summarized by dinonline:
Some authorities rule that one can be lenient concerning ...
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