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27 09, 2020

Use of Asthma Inhaler on Yom Kippur

September 27th, 2020|Orach Chayim, Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur|

QUESTION

Riverdale, NY

As a halakhic matter, do you have any thoughts on using an aerosol asthma inhaler on Yom Kippur? Not life threatening requirement. Also, for what it’s worth, taste is disgusting.

ANSWER

It should be totally fine. It’s just medication. And it tastes bad. Not אכילה or שתיה.

Just for clarity – “It’s just medication” does not mean one can chew good tasting vitamins or the like. This is just directly putting the medicine into the lungs and can in no way be

27 09, 2020

Kol Nidrei on Zoom

September 27th, 2020|Orach Chayim, Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, Tefillah|

QUESTION

Chicago, IL

Can we recite Kol Nidrei on Zoom without a beit din in one place?

ANSWER

Not ideally. But if you need to it really doesn’t do anything halakhic. If you do it, I would say the nusach that is future oriented – עד יום כיפורים הבא. Then it’s clearly not a heter nedarim, just a מסירת מודעה – making an announcement.

May a Woman Lead Selichot?

26 07, 2016

May a Woman Lead Selichot?

July 26th, 2016|Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, Tefillah, Women|

Question:

לגרסה העברית לחצו כאן /Read this teshuva in Hebrew This teshuva is part of a series. To read Rabbi Ysoscher Katz’s response to this teshuva in Hebrew, click here. To read Rabbi Katz’s response in English, click here. To read Rabbi Linzer’s response to Rabbi Katz, click here. To read Rabbi Katz’s response to Rabbi Linzer’s response, click here.

May a woman lead selichot if she does so with a minyan of men present, and from her side of the mechitza?

Answer:

For the purposes of this teshuva, I will bracket the larger discussion of partnership minyanim. I will also bracket any discussion of kol isha, as there is

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