All Halocha Shailos and Tiffeh Questions

[yungermanchik]

I believe there's no chiyuv to make if one doesn't have.
An orange itself is likely הנותן ריח טוב לפירות and if you eat it's problematic.
Orange peels that are set aside for besomim is בורא מיני בשמים according to some poskim

The correct bracha on cinnamon or hadasim is בורא עצי בשמים. Nevertheless, in havdalah, the minhag is to say בורא מיני בשמים.
Is there any reason why הנותן ריח טוב לפירות should be different?

[Alexsei]

The correct bracha on cinnamon or hadasim is בורא עצי בשמים. Nevertheless, in havdalah, the minhag is to say בורא מיני בשמים.
Is there any reason why הנותן ריח טוב לפירות should be different?

Because it's not a type of besomim (my guess). The reason we make Minei is because most people aren't בקי in the correct bracha for every type of besomim (עשבי/עצי). Vs. the bracha on fruit peels according to many is indeed מיני (Or עצי).

Hence there are those who believe there's a הידור in getting Musk or Amber for motzei shabbos because the correct bracha on those is מיני

[avromie7]

What's the earliest time one can count Sefira?

ideally tzais, but you can count from shkiah

[Sam Finkelstein]

Can someone explain to me the sevarah to assur wearing a dress watch on Shabbos? Why is it different from a tie?

(Besides for Rav Moshe's directive to his Talmidim to not wear watches for concern that people will err and mistakenly carry pocket watches on Shabbos; I don't think this reason is really followed by anyone besides for his Talmidim and their children.)

[elazarb]

Can someone explain to me the sevarah to assur wearing a dress watch on Shabbos? Why is it different from a tie?

(Besides for Rav Moshe's directive to his Talmidim to not wear watches for concern that people will err and mistakenly carry pocket watches on Shabbos; I don't think this reason is really followed by anyone besides for his Talmidim and their children.)

would you wear the dress watch if it didn't work?
If not, you're really wearing it as a timepiece not as a "tachshit" or beged

[DaasTora]

Correct, though that may not apply for a recording, YLORMV.

Can you quote any reputable Ashkenazi posek that is matir kol isha on a recording?
I only heard of Reb Ovadya (Sefardi).

[imayid2]

Define reputable

https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/the-parameters-of-kol-isha-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter

Twentieth Century Halachic authorities have also debated whether the Kol Isha prohibition applies to recordings and radio broadcasts.  Rav Eliezer Waldenberg (Teshuvot Tzitz Eliezer 5:2) rules leniently based on two considerations.  The first is that the Gemara (Sanhedrin 45a) states, “The Yetzer Hara is not interested in what the eyes do not see.”  The second is that technically he does not hear the woman’s voice because radio broadcasts and recordings are mere electronic reproductions of the woman’s voice.  Rav Waldenberg writes that if we cannot fulfill Mitzvot such as Tekiat Shofar and Kriat Megila when hearing them on the radio, then the prohibition of Kol Isha does not apply over the radio.  Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (cited by his grandson Rav Yehudah Henkin, Teshuvot Bnei Banim 2:211 and 3:127) agrees with this position.  Rav Y.E. Henkin was unsure whether the prohibition applies to hearing a woman’s voice broadcasted on television (ibid.).  This might be because only one of the two lenient considerations that apply to the radio question is relevant to the television issue.  Rav Waldenberg cautions, though, that listening to a woman’s voice on the radio is prohibited “if his intention is to enjoy her singing.”

(The quoting of the ציץ אליעזר, who was being melamed zchus on people trying to daven and learn when there is recorded music playing constantly nearby, seems to be missing a bit of context).

[aygart]

Define reputable

https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/the-parameters-of-kol-isha-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter
(The quoting of the ציץ אליעזר, who was being melamed zchus on people trying to daven and learn when there is recorded music playing constantly nearby, seems to be missing a bit of context).

If we apply some of the reasoning here that would mean that a recording of acapella is considered being heard from a kli shir.

[DaasTora]

If we apply some of the reasoning here that would mean that a recording of acapella is considered being heard from a kli shir.

שבט הלוי ח״ח סי׳ קכ״ז אות ב׳ rules that acapella heard on a player is considered music since the player becomes the כלי שיר

[madhocker]

See  ח"א עובדות והנהגות לבית בריסק page 255. However, the context here is also when one is not מכוון to be נהנה...

[aygart]

שבט הלוי ח״ח סי׳ קכ״ז אות ב׳ rules that acapella heard on a player is considered music since the player becomes the כלי שיר

I understand. My point is that the 2 are connected.

[DaasTora]

I understand. My point is that the 2 are connected.

I understood your point too. Just wanted to point out a psak on that.
Regarding the connection of the two, it won’t necessarily make kol isha muttar. If there’s הרהור (and there probably is). In addition one of the known heterim is that you don’t see or envision the female singing and nowadays that won’t apply.
In a similar point, what’s the din with trans singing touching or inappropriate sightings? Both ways…

[imayid2]

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/138593/kol-isha-and-transgender-people