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Author Topic: All Halocha Shailos and Tiffeh Questions  (Read 951515 times)

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4380 on: March 24, 2020, 05:17:12 PM »
Given the widely accepted custom to not eat matzah from Rosh Chodesh nissan until the seder is it possible for someone who has only one challah in his house to use a matzah as the second loaf for lechem mishna? (i.e. he makes motzi on the challah and matza, but only eats the challah).

* Yes - said matzah would not be used on Pesach *
If the matzah is chometz then its not matzah

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4381 on: March 24, 2020, 05:34:19 PM »
If the matzah is chometz then its not matzah
But if it is matzo but was used together with chometz then it is still matzo.
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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4382 on: March 29, 2020, 11:14:10 AM »
if you have a Yesh VaYesh in the Mechaber, the KafHachayim holds like the Sheni. How did Rav Ovadia pasken?

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4383 on: March 29, 2020, 12:58:01 PM »
Her smell is also out...
if it’s still applicable. (Hopefully not) מי שאינו מריח אינו מברך על הבשמים אלא א"כ מתכוין להוציא בני ביתו הקטנים שהגיעו לחינוך או להוציא מי שאינו יודע:

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4384 on: March 29, 2020, 01:18:54 PM »
if it’s still applicable. (Hopefully not) מי שאינו מריח אינו מברך על הבשמים אלא א"כ מתכוין להוציא בני ביתו הקטנים שהגיעו לחינוך או להוציא מי שאינו יודע:
Bh it’s back online. Thanks anyway

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4385 on: March 29, 2020, 03:24:13 PM »
@aygart can keilim be toiveled in lake carasaljo? If not is there any better places around?

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4386 on: March 29, 2020, 03:27:59 PM »
But if it is matzo but was used together with chometz then it is still matzo.
Not if it has taam chometz in it.

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4387 on: March 29, 2020, 03:38:01 PM »
@aygart can keilim be toiveled in lake carasaljo? If not is there any better places around?

That is what I am currently advising people based upon guidance I recieved.
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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4388 on: March 29, 2020, 04:46:22 PM »
That is what I am currently advising people based upon guidance I recieved.
are you a posek?

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4389 on: March 29, 2020, 05:11:50 PM »
Not if it has taam chometz in it.
Who is going to eat a matzo which was sitting with challa on pesach even if both were cold and no transfer of taam?
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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4390 on: March 29, 2020, 05:53:38 PM »
That is what I am currently advising people based upon guidance I recieved.

I once looked into it years ago, and from what I can remember it was pretty clear that there is rov mei mayan (and therefore kosher for tevila according to the vast majority of poskim despite the river being dammed to form Lake Carasaljo) virtually the entire year with the possible exception of the days following an unusual heavy rainfall in the summer.

Here is a study of the river and the aquifers that feed it, which I based some of my conclusions on:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1997/4066/report.pdf

A couple of parts that are noteworthy are page 8 regarding the differences in groundwater when it is the rainy season (note that the total annual streamflow is not a guarantee that on any given day there is a majority of mei mayan), page 40-41 where it discusses times where there is heavy rain but little increase in ground water discharge, and page 42-43 where it discusses that there can be a lag time of many days between rainfall and when it reaches the ground water, depending on the season
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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4392 on: March 29, 2020, 06:08:13 PM »
https://425737ce-f973-4dfc-9489-f94594893f71.filesusr.com/ugd/628775_27264a5995c941e586cedcbdd2982b90.pdf

These are the instructions from https://www.pesachbox.com/

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The Kailim Mikva is closed. Tevilas Kailim for dishes or appliances requiring tevilla may be done at Lake Carasaljo in an inlet that is not in the main flow of water (one such spot is area near Lakewood Avenue and 5th Street, as the Rosh Yeshiva Reb Aharon Zt”l allowed Tevilas Kailim along that area.) Extreme care should be taken to find a separate spot with full social distancing and to not be near anyone else.
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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4393 on: March 29, 2020, 06:15:20 PM »
Why is canola oil kitniyot? Was the canola plant in Europe?

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4394 on: March 30, 2020, 10:23:23 AM »
Is there anyway to kasher a nespresso machine for pesach that may have had some flavored pods brewed in it?

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4395 on: March 30, 2020, 11:09:23 AM »
Why is canola oil kitniyot? Was the canola plant in Europe?
Some say it was used in Europe GIYF


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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4397 on: March 30, 2020, 02:41:54 PM »
Some say it was used in Europe GIYF
the Maharsham discusses Rapeseed oil being kitniyos

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4398 on: March 30, 2020, 03:17:32 PM »
Why is canola oil kitniyot? Was the canola plant in Europe?
Not that this answers your question but there a machlokes between American Poskim and Eretz Yisrael poskim regarding which oils are kitniyos. In America they are more mekel regarding certain oils.

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Re: All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions
« Reply #4399 on: March 31, 2020, 12:20:25 AM »
Not that this answers your question but there a machlokes between American Poskim and Eretz Yisrael poskim regarding which oils are kitniyos. In America they are more mekel regarding certain oils.
That's right, cottonseed oil is used in a lot of snacks here, since the CRC follow the psak of Tzelima Ruv Z"L that it's not kitniyos. In Israel they follow the psak of the Minchas Yitzchok that it is kitniyos.