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Asking a Small Child to Turn On the Lights?

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including wiping the becher before use, asking a small child to turn on the lights, leaving a dryer running when Shabbos starts, and the bracha for an ice cream sandwich.

By Anash.org staff

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas. Rabbi Raskin discusses the following issues in this week’s episode:

  1. At the beginning of the Farbrengen, the Rebbe זי”ע would wipe the silver cup with a paper napkin inside and out. Is there a known reason for this?[1]
  2. When measuring the permitted distance of 2,000 amah, what if I run out of tether within a Reshus haYochid, may I freely walk in the entire enclosure?[2]
  3. It’s Friday night and we have many guests. The electric lights went out. May we ask a child who hasn’t reached the age Chinuch to switch the lights back on? [3]
  4. May I leave the dryer running as Shabbos comes in?[4]
  5. When saying “Boruch Shem …“, should one’s eyes be covered?[5]
  6. When saying Boruch sheOmar, do we hold the Tzitzis in the right or the left hand?[6]
  7. I poured hot water from my kettle into a pot of hot chicken soup. May I use my kettle to make myself a milky cup of coffee?[7]
  8. I’m the mashgiach in a Yeshiva. A boy arrived for the new Zman, needing a haircut. Can I insist he has a haircut despite it being Sefiras HaOmer?[8]
  9. What brocho is to be said for Sandwich Ice Cream?[9]
  10. In other communities, when saying וקרא זה אל זה ואמר, the Chazan sways to the right and the left. But in Chabad, that isn’t followed. Please enlighten:[10]
  11. Feedback on the Rebbe Rashab’s differentiating in the pronunciation of the word הבאה in the passage הא לחמא עניא in the Hagodo:[11]

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[1] ראה פסקי תשובות סימן קפג אות ב; תיקוני זהר תיקון כח (עב ע”ב); שו”ע הזהר ח”ח ע’ לד ואילך.
[2] שוע”ר סי’ תה ס”ו; נתיבות שבת פמ”ג סכ”ו.
[3] ראה ארחות שבת ח”ב פכ”ד ס”ח; פסקי תשובות סי’ שמג אות ד. התירו רק להעמידו ליד המתק, לא לצוות כלום – שאז ה”ה כספיית איסור בידיים, דאסור.
[4] ראה פסקי תשובות סי’ רנב אות ה.
[5] ראה קצות השלחן ח”א הוספות לסי’ יט סי”ז.
[6] בספר המנהגים – חב”ד ע’ 9 כתוב לאחוז בשמאל. אבל כ”ק אדמו”ר זי”ע אחז בימין (הליכות מנחם ע’ קנז, וש”נ).
[7] ראה רמ”א סי’ קה סוס”ג; פסקים ותשובות שם אות כא; ספר ‘הכשרות’ (פוקס) פ”א סס”ט.
[8] ראה נטעי גבריאל – פסח ח”ג פמ”ט ס”ה.
[9] שערי הברכה פכ”ג ערך ‘קאסטה’.  
[10] ראה סדורנו ח”א ע’ רפג הע’ 564.
[11] רשימת היומן ע’ כא.

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