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Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro has a good discussion of the so-called ‘Satmar shitta’ on frumteens.
However, it is not really the Satmar shitta; it is the shitta of all real gedolei yisroel, from the Chofetz Chaim to Reb Elchonon to Rav Schach to the Rebbe Rashab…. that Zionism is against the Torah.
Krias Shema is d’oraysa; therefore, you should say it before the MA’s zman (safek d’oraisa, l’chumra). So ruled Rav Schach, Rav A. Kotler, the Steipler, and Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach. Rav Schach missed the zman of the MA twice in his life, once when he was 9 years old, and the second time when he was much older, and wept hysterically!
As far as S”E is concerned, the aforementioned Rav Auerbach zatzal was particular to daven S”E before the zman of the M”A, and it is praiseworthy to do so.
In both cases, if you rely on the Gra/ Baal HaTanya, you are not a sinner.
Some people daven better with their eyes closed; others when reading from a siddur. Each person should do what he feels is best for him, though it’s definitely good to daven from a siddur. It’s good to point your finger at each word as you say it (not for halachic reasons, but for better concentration and in order to avoid losing your place).
To daven with one’s eyes open and looking around is a grave transgression.
There are opinions that smoking [at least on a regular basis] is an issur d’oraysa. We are dealing with a safek issur d’oraysa, people.
Certainly to start smoking is forbidden. If one is already addicted, maybe he doesn’t have to quit cold-turkey, but on the other hand there are ways to quit…
dov- Perhaps. Tzurich Iyun.
im alone with him most of the day..and another point he isnt here right now so im alone with a different male patient..
There are no patients who come to the office for most of the day? Is the “male patient” frum? Is the doctor frum? Two frum men are allowed to be alone with a woman [during the day]. Is the door locked or unlocked? Is it a real medical office? When the doctor is not there, does he have a key to get in and he could come back at any time? What kind of a doctor is this?
What if it’s a class about antiSemitism?
A yirei shomayim will not transgress issur yichud. Must be there are patients coming it from time to time.
Not allowed because it is the 3 Weeks.
Joseph – No, because according to the halacha, it is forbidden l’chatchila to daven when one feels any urge (no matter how slight) to relieve himself. Rather, one must relieve him or her self and then proceed to daven with a clean body.
You really should not be reading magazines on Tisha B’av because it is considered being mesiach daas from the aveilus and the taanis.
You can go on ratemyprofessors. It won’t tell you if he is anti-Semitic, but it will tell you how other students feel about that professor. Also, you can google the professor’s name and find out some information about him or her.
For example, most people (of both genders including B’nei Torah) think that if you have a Haetz and a Haadamah, you make the bracha on the Haetz first, and this is incorrect according to the Mishna Berurah and most comtemporary Poskim.
It is better to make Haetz first. This is the opinion of the Behag, although it says in Shulchan Aruch OC 211 that you can pick which one to eat first, but the minhag is not like the Shulchan Aruch.
Olives make you forget your learning, as per the Gemara in Horayos 13.
Does he give you a hard time if you take off for yom tov (for example, Sukkos/ Shemini Atzeres/ Simchas Torah)?
Which college?
It is just you and the doctor?
Surely there are patients who come to see the doctor during the day?
Sometimes it is good to daven fast because there is no time for foreign thoughts when you are davening fast. In fact, I saw in a halacha sefer that the custom of Gerrer Chassidim is b’dafka to daven fast.
The Kav Hayashar mentions that his father and his rebbeim did not daven S”E at length.
At the same time, to be able to daven at length is certainly a good thing, as discussed in Chabad Chassidus.
Leon Trotsky was also Jewish. So was David ben Gurion.
Question asked to the great gaon and tzaddik Rav Avigdor Miller zatzal:
What should we say about Jewish politicians who want office or are in office?
No publicity.
Now that Bella Abzug [a very liberal politician]
Rav Miller zatzal said that Jews should stay out of politics.
There are a few other issues:
Shabbos would be a major issue (Joe Lieberman wrote a sefer about Shabbos and the issues that he has had as a senator and a Vice Presidential candidate).
shaking hands with women – at rallies and the like (Each handshake with a woman would be a separate safek issur d’oraysa for which one is possibly required to let himself be burned alive rather than to transgress).
A frum president would be required to oppose things that are against the Torah, like homosexuality.
What would have been the reaction of the saintly Chazon Ish? What was the reaction of the saintly Satmar Rebbe? What about Rav Schach?
Chacham Ovadia said, in reference to fires in Israel, that “fires only happen in a place where Shabbos is desecrated.” Google it.
Shabbos 119:
Rav Yehudah brei d’Rav Shmuel): Fires are common only in a place where Shabbos is desecrated – “V’Im Lo Sishme’u Elai Lekadesh Es Yom ha’Shabbos…v’Hitzati Esh…v’Lo Sichveh”.
(b) Question: What does it mean “V’Lo Sichveh”?
(c) Answer (Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak): It will be at a time when people are not around to extinguish it.
I am waiting for your apology Sam2
He who davens for his fellow will be answered first.
If a person has a choleh in his house, he should go to a chacham and request that the chacham should daven for the choleh.
Reason: When a chacham hears that a Jew is sick, the chacham is pained and is not able to learn so well. So Hashem will heal the choleh so that the chacham should not be pained.
The Gra was against it.
However, the custom of Chassidim is to permit, and indeed to encourage, immersion in a mikvah prior to the morning prayers on Shabbos and yom tov (for example, the custom is to immerse right before alos on the morning of Shavuous, after having immersed oneself in learning the whole night).
If your pet, without your prompting, uses its claws to cut toilet paper on Shabat, you can use the cut toilet paper. (I actually asked this shilah and that was the response I got!)
I am not sure about this. If the toilet paper was muktzah bein hashemashos, it remains muktzah the whole day. Really, a Jew can also tear the muktzah toilet paper with a shinui, in a case of dire need, but if something else (separated tissues, napkins) is available for cleaning, or a goy is available to tear the paper, then…
blubluh – NO. He can wash by the Kiddush, make hamotzi, and have in mind that he will continue his seuda at home [where he has a siddur]. In that case he is not obligated to make a bracha achrona in his original location. The same would apply by mezonos, according to many poskim.
OP: You “always carry” a small bentcher, even on Shabbos – when it is forbidden by Torah law to carry?
If one drank a reviis [3.3 ounces] of wine or grape juice and does not know how to say al hegefen by heart, he should recite borei nefashos instead. The same applies to all foods, even bread. See Igros Moshe of HaGaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein Orach Chaim 1:74 and Kaf HaChaim 102:79.
The Mishnah Berura brings (202:42, see also 202:55 and 208:62) that if you say Borei Nefashos when you are required to make an Al HaMichya you are not yotzei even B’Dieved. You must says Boruch Shem… and then make an Al HaMichya. Even in a case where there is a Safek to say Al HaMichya or not, or if you ate something that requires Al HaMichya but did not eat the Shiur, you do not make Borei Nefashos, since these are two separate brachos that have no relationship to one another.
There are however a number of opinions that Borei Nefashos is a catch-all bracha like Shehakol. Therefore writes the Piskei Tsahuvos (208:1), although we do not pasken like these opinions even in a case of a safek, if a person does not know the Bracha Mei’ein Shalosh by heart and will lose out from making any bracha achrona, it this case he may make a Borei Nefashos and be somaich on these opinions.
Still says the Piskei Tshuvos, if he later is able to make a Bracha MaiEin Shalosh from a Siddur before digestion has ended, he should say Boruch Shem.. and then say the Bracha MeiEin Shalosh.
Unfortunately I have seen with my own eyes [woe to the eyes that see this!] religious Jews with yarmulkes and even a beard transgressing a halacha that, according to the Chazon Ish and the Steipler and possibly also others, one should die for it and not transgress. And that is the halacha of not shaking hands with the opposite gender.
Rebbe Akiva said: “Every day I say [in Shema] love G-d with your all soul and when will I be zoche to fulfill this [myself]? So we see that Rebbe Akiva also yearned to die al kiddush Hashem.
The Chofetz Chaim davened that he should be zoche to die al Kiddush Hashem. He was never zoche to this, but in the merit of his prayers his primary talmid Reb Elchonon Wasserman, may G-d avenge his blood, was.
I see that ender knows how to use wikipedia as well as I do.
Read Nefesh Shimshon on Shabbos/ Rabbi Dovid Meisels’ Shabbos Secrets.
Bikkur cholim should not scheduled specifically and exclusively for Shabbos, according to halacha.
Re “taking a walk”: See Zichru Torath Moshe, Chapter 10, about those people whose evil inclination entices to take ‘walks’ supposedly in honor of Shabbos.
Rav Miller zatzal also has some nice Torah about the greatness of Shabbos.
About the salami – what you did was an act of piety (to save it for Shabbos). From the letter of the law, you could have eaten it during the week. So probably a step in the right direction.
A bigger question might be if you found chametz over Pesach. Let’s say you sold all chametz in your home to a non-Jew. Then, you find something that you missed while cleaning – let’s say a cookie was found inside a cabinet. How can you burn it? It doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the non-Jew that you sold it to!
The goy is not makpid (doesn’t mind) if I burn one of his cookies. If a person doesn’t mind if you eat his food (and you know this for certain), the halacha says you are allowed to eat it. The same would apply here.
But some say you cannot burn the cookie, but rather take a stick and push it into the goy’s section.
If s/he cannot hear the chazzan saying the verses of Kedusha (the chazzan is not loud enough), then just continue davening.
S/he should listen to Kadosh… and Baruch… Possibly also Yimloch…. Other parts of kedusha s/he doesn’t have to listen to. One may continue davening in between these verses.
No, his sins are too many to count.
It’s two negative commandments (chametz should not be seen/ should not be found), plus one positive commandment (to eliminate chametz).
The point is that every moment that the chametz exists, he transgresses three sins from the Torah. Again, and again, and again. Therefore, to buy chametz at the zoo on Pesach is much worse than eating a slice of pork. And to speak lashon hara for one minute is much worse than eating a slice of pork. And much worse than drinking cholov stam, or not wearing a white shirt.
How are we allowed to cook on Chol Hamoed for Aharon shel Pesach (or for Simchas Torah), which (from the Torah) are definitely considered yom chol?
“If the chazzan is saying kedusha i think you have to stop whatever you are doing and say it too- even if you are in middle of shemona esrei (i think i once learnt that)”
Not true. One may NOT interrupt S”E to answer Kedusha, unless he or she is holding in the last paragraph (Elokai Netzor).
However, if a person recites the silent Amidah and, as he completes the Beracha of “Mechayei Ha’meitim,” he hears a congregation in a different Minyan (or even his own minyan) reciting kedusha, he should recite kedusha together with them.
“noti said you should stop SE during Kaddish, not that you should answer
just like Kedushah you must stop saying SE but you dont say anything, ive been told you should rise up on your toes at the appropriate times though”
There is no such halacha (about rising on one’s toes).
“A shliach tzibbur who says “ga’al yisrael” in an undertone. It shoud be recited out loud.”
It’s complicated.
nittel nacht is a minhag that trumps the biblical obligation to learn Torah.
In Lubavitch the minhag is to recite all the morning benedictions, with exception of Asher Yatzar, even if one did not sleep at night, although it says in Shulchan Aruch not like this.
halacha says you have to sleep in the sukkah, but the minhag is….
halacha says you should ideally wash for shalosh seudos, but the minhag in lubavitch is…. (with exception of yesterday, where the minhag was to wash for the Moshiach seuda).
Thank you.
Please translate, if you can, especially what is a ???? ???.
As someone who doesn’t eat non-gebrokst, I believe that I have a right to call my minhag silly.
If it’s silly, then why do you follow it?
For the record, the Vilna Gaon laughed about the minhag of not eating gebrots, and there are those who opposed this minhag due to not having simchas yom tov.
mw13 – No source, but it’s a davar pashut. Starting from zman issur achilas chametz, one may not eat any food that it is forbidden to eat on Pesach. Kitniyos is forbidden to be eaten on Pesach (for Ashkenazim). Regarding peeling produce – those who follow this chumra (of peeling all produce) are likewise to avoid eating unpeeled produce starting from zman issur achila, although some are lenient due to chametz being botel erev Pesach until shkia.