Comment by Dov on Praying on a reflective floor
Why do you think it would be any different?
View ArticleComment by Dov on Half Hallel without a bracha on Yom Ha'atzma'ut and/or Yom...
torahmitzion.org/learn/hallel-bracha-not
View ArticleComment by Dov on The Klausenburger Rebbe's speech and Zionism
It was a newspaper of the Sanzer chassidus
View ArticleComment by Dov on Handing something to a woman (opposite gender)
What do you think might be the issue? They are not touching each other?
View ArticleComment by Dov on Sarah and Hagar
No problem @Angie - if you feel my response answers you sufficiently, feel free to click the checkmark :-)
View ArticleComment by Dov on Sarah and Hagar
I rollbacked to the previous iteration of the question as the newly edited version lacks clarity or focus which is why it was closed.
View ArticleComment by Dov on Scanning as a method of learning?
consider summarising what they say, as at the moment this is less of an answer and more of a comment.
View ArticleComment by Dov on Does a Rabbi have an obligation towards his students
Well the famous idea is that a teacher's students are considered like his children. But I think you want more than that...
View ArticleComment by Dov on Sefer Vayikra, the most difficult sefer of the Torah
Whilst Tosafos compares it to a lion to as a nod to the level of complexity in it, there are other reasons brought why it is likened to a lion....
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for What clothing did Esther send Mordechai
The Rema in Mechir Yayin writes on the pasuk that it was to lift his spirits:שאסתרחשבהלשלוחלובגדיםנאיםלהסירהשקמעליושלאיענהנפשוביותרמדיThat Esther thought to send him nice clothes to remove/replace the...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for PTIJ: may Jews time travel and sin in the past before Yom...
This is addressed by Rav Nachman in his Sichos HaRan 85:3רַקשֶׁיִּזָּהֵרלִהְיוֹתשָׁמוּרמִןהָעֲבֵרָהח"ו, אֲבָלכְּשֶׁהוּארַקשָׁמוּרמִןהָעֲבֵרָהח"ו, אֲזַיכָּלאָדָםמְתַקֵּןבְּכָלמָקוֹםשֶׁהוּאנוֹסֵעַלְשָׁם....
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for Are women obligated in Birkat Hachama
Take a look at the Yein HaTov, OC 44 by Rav Yitzchak Nissim who rules like your latter assertion:ובתשובתחתםסופר (אורחחייםנ"ו) מביאשהנשיםאיןמברכותברכתהחמהיעוייןשם, דאע"פדתמהשםדאמאילאנהגונשיםלברךברכהזו,...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for Do walk-in closets need a mezuzah
Star-K provides an in-depth answer to your question here along with footnotes.Some takeaways as follows:Size is a factorA large walk-in closet is halachically considered to be a room if it is four amos...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for What is the connection between Hashem's battle with the...
With regards to the first part, namely the sea serpent and the levyoson, both are used as they are descriptions of Pharoah who saw himself as a deity.Radak tells us on pasuk...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for War for economic reasons
Rabbi David Bleich addresses this in his Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol III:It may well be the case that preemptive war undertaken in order to prevent future attack is justified as a milḥemet...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for Make us happy like the days when You afflicted us?
One approach has already been mentioned by @Shmuel, however, another mehalach is employed by the Alshich who says that every one of the days in which we were afflicted should be considered as a...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for If someone repeats a secret can I tell the person whose...
This is the classic case of rechilus - i.e. tailbearing/gossiping.The Gemoro in Arachin 15b famously notes about such a scenario:במערבאאמרילשוןתליתאיקטילתליתאיהורגלמספרוולמקבלוולאומרוIn the West, Eretz...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for What has priority, Kavod or Oneg Shabbat
Halachapedia addresses a similar scenario here:If wearing a nice tie or jacket on Shabbat in the summer makes a person very hot and uncomfortable some say that it is preferable to wear fancy...
View ArticleAnswer by Dov for The Mishkan as a small world
The Tzror HaMor, Shemos 25:23 deals with this concept at length. In short, he points to the fact that the world is made up of three parts which is echoed in the three parts of the...
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