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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:39:56 — 22.9MB) דף י,א אמר רב אדא בר אהבה מתפלל אדם תפלתו בבית המרחץ. מיתיבי הנכנס לבית המרחץ מקום שב”א עומדין לבושין, יש שם מקרא ותפלה ואין צריך לומר שאילת שלום ומניח תפילין ואין צריך לומר שאינו חולץ; מקום שבני אדם עומדים ערומים ולבושין, יש שם שאילת שלום [...]
Read More beis hamerchatz, candle light, chaver, ki yutan, lice, machlokes rebbi yehuda rebbe meir, nachri, oman, Reshus, talmid chacham, tefillin, yasom vealmanah, zav
I poured very hot milchig soup into an empty eino ben yomo meat bowl. Then after washing it out I got it mixed up with another bowl that looks just like it. So now we have 2 bowls sitting secluded and I don’t know which is which. Rebbe said we might be saved by a [...]
Read More bowl, dairy, eino ben yomo, hot, milchig, safeik, shach, Shulchan AruchPodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:37 — 20.9MB) דף ג,ב בעי אביי ידו של אדם מהו שתעשה ככרמלי’ מי קנסוה רבנן לאהדורי לגביה או לא ת”ש היתה ידו מלאה פירות והוציאה לחוץ תני חדא אסור להחזירה ותני אידך מותר להחזירה מאי לאו בהא קמיפלגי דמר סבר ככרמלי’ דמיא ומ”ס לאו ככרמלית דמיא לא [...]
Read More ani, arba amos, arba tefachim, baal habayis, hotzaah, karmelis, kluta, Rabbanan, Rebbe Akiva, reshus harabim, reshus hayachid, yadQuestion Often I am holding in Uva L’tzion and the minyan will be about 20 seconds ahead of me and saying kaddish already. I get a bit anxious when I fall behind a minyan especially because now I say kaddish. Therefore I am trying to clarify the halacha about when, if at all, during kaddish [...]
Read More Amidah, kaddish, Kedushah, Minyan, Orach Chayim, Shulchan Aruch, Uva L'TzionQuestion Should I be wearing a gartel (prayer belt – ed) or some other such garment during tefillah? I am going through hilchos tefillah and the Aruch HaShulchan brings down opinions that even if you never wear one it is good to wear one during tefillah because of “hikon…(Prepare yourself to greet your God, Israel – [...]
Read More Aruch HaShulchan, Chassidus, Chumrah, Clothing, Gartel, minhag, preparation, tefillahQuestion If I am still reading tachanun and they begin kaddish into Torah reading, should I just keep saying tachanun through the Torah reading? Answer Yes
Read More Tachanun, torah readingQuestion My mom doesn’t keep kosher and asked me to cook her something treif. She gets very mad when I refuse. Is there any leniency to cook it for her? Does it matter if it’s milk and meat or not? Is there any resource online in English that explains the ins and outs of lifnei [...]
Read More basar b'chalav, kosher, leniency, meat and milk, parents, strife, treifQuestion: Is there any issue of ta’aroves chametz with flavoured nargila (hookah) tobacco? Should these items be sold or disposed of before Pesach? Answer: There is an old dispute between the Maharam Shik and the Divrei Chaim with regards to snuff tobacco. The Maharam Shik holds that ingredients added to the tobacco to enhance the smell [...]
Read More achshevei, bittul, chametz, Divrei Chaim, Health, hookah, Maharam Shik, nargila, passover, pesach, sale, taaroves, Tobacco, Tobacco smokingQuestion: A person who absolutely can not eat bread because they are allergic to gluten, what do they do for Shabbos meals? Is there any reason to wash? I know the Shulchan Aruch holds that if one really suffers from eating he doesn’t need to have a seuda. Is our case comparable to that case [...]
Read More bread, celiac, celiac disease, challah, gluten, kezayis, kiddush, matzo, oat, oats, seuda, shabbos meals, Shulchan Aruch, spelt, wheat, wheat allergy, yom tovQuestion: Is one required to stand during the recitation of Kaddish? Answer: The Shulchan Aruch makes no mention of standing during Kaddish. The Rema writes that one should stand at the time of answering to Kaddish. The Mishnah Brurah writes that there is no full fledged obligation to stand for Kaddish though one certainly may [...]
Read More ashkenazi, custom, kaddish, magen avraham, minhagei maharil, Mishnah Brurah, Sephardi, Shulchan Aruch, sitting, standing, synagogue