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Volume 36: Number 135

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From: Akiva Miller
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:33:18 -0500
Subject:
Re: [Avodah] Chanukah Party and Lighting the Menorah


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Someone quoted the OU's Halacha Yomis:
> As noted in a previous Halacha Yomis, nowadays, the menorah
> is lit primarily for one's family, and not to publicize the
> miracle to the public.

R' Zev Sero asked:
> What about people who live alone?  To whom are they publicising
> it, if not to the passersby?

I don't think the OU meant to suggest that one isn't yotzay if his
family doesn't see the neros. When danger caused us to move the
menorah indoors, *everyone* lit indoors. No exceptions were made for
those who live alone. It seems clear to me that one is yotzay even if
he is the only one to see them lit.

Come to think of it, one is yotzay Pirsumei Nisa if no one hears him
read the Megilla, or if no one sees him drinking Arba Kosos. Why
should Ner Chanuka be different?

It is true that the Mishne Berura 672:11 says that if everyone at home
is already asleep, then he must either wake someone or light without
the bracha. But the Igros Moshe OC 4:105:7 says that one *can* say the
brachos in such a case, and he points out that this is also the
opinion of the Chemed Moshe, cited by the author of the MB in Shaar
Hatziyun 672:17, and that the Shaar Hatziyun concludes, "if one wants
to act like that, we don't stop him."

Akiva Miller



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Message: 2
From: Rich, Joel
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:41:41 +0000
Subject:
[Avodah] culture


My response to a Cross Currents post on the new popular chareidi music and literature:
As far as the general low culture issue, can we at least agree that even
the "frum" low culture does in fact represent some acculturation from the
general society around us? Some would argue that conscious awareness of
this acculturation allows us to better manage it.

My question to the chevrah-Has history shown that nonawareness is the better strategy?

KT
Joel Rich

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Message: 3
From: Rich, Joel
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:44:00 +0000
Subject:
[Avodah] Mechila


Quoted from a rabbinic source:
"A woman called. Some of her ribs were broken. She wanted to know if she
was supposed to be mochel / forgive her husband. I told her definitely not.
She persisted - isn't it a special mitzvah, close to Yom Kippur, a segulah
that Hashem should forgive us for all our wrongdoing? It told her that it
would be no mitzvah at all."

I'm guessing there's more to the story and that the rabbinic advisor felt
that her not being mochel would have an impact on her husband's actions. If
not I would have guessed she would have been told to leave him? FWIW IIRC
the only exception to the forgiveness rule is motzi shem ra (spreading
negatively about the individual).

Your thoughts?

KT
Joel Rich

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