Tuesday, August 31, 2010
URGENT! TEHILLIM 4 TONIGHT
There will be a Tehillim gathering for women at KINS at 7:30 tonight for Emuna Shir Esther bas Rivka, daughter of Daniel and Rivka Weiss, who is in critical condition
Hot food hazard for shabbos: carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide
By Malka Eisenberg
Issue of August 27, 2010/ 17 Elul 5770
The peaceful stillness of Aviva Rizel’s Shabbos morning was shattered by the insistent beeps of her carbon monoxide detector. It instructed her to move to fresh air.
“I moved robotically,” she recalled. She calmly gathered her three children, one a still sleeping 16-month old, and her mother-in-law, and went to a neighbor. Her husband, Meir, had already left for shul. “I did it automatically and didn’t feel fear until the fire department was there and allowed me back in the house,” she said.
When firefighters entered her Bayswater home, they spotted a single high flame burning on the stove top beneath a metal sheet, a ‘blech’, in a room with closed windows.
Lighting fires and cooking on the Sabbath are proscribed, but warming food on an existing flame is not, under specific conditions.Therefore, Sabbath-observant Jews commonly leave a fire burning under a ‘blech’ over Friday night and Saturday.
In the Rizel home last week, firefighters measured carbon monoxide levels as 60 parts-per-million. Any reading over nine parts-per-million is considered a health hazard over eight hours.
When Rizel returned to the house she saw that every window and door had been opened.
They “immediately saw that the burner was on,” Rizel said. When a firefighter asked how long the flame had been on and she replied, “since last night at sundown,” they “looked at me, horrified.”
“I do it every week,” she admitted, adding, “You’re gonna kill me but I’ve been doing this my whole life; everybody does this.”
“I’m not gonna kill you,” retorted the firefighter. “This is going to kill you. Listen, you have to speak to your rabbi and straighten this out because it’s really not safe.”
Rizel, a marriage and family therapist who writes a weekly column, Ask Aviva, in The Jewish Star, explained that Sabbath observant Jews would never turn off a flame on Shabbos but that an alternative would be an electric hotplate with a timer. That would be better, the firefighter said. “Make sure to get the word out,” he warned. “People shouldn’t be doing it this way. Tell your entire community.”
“We’re lucky it happened during the day,” Rizel said in an interview. “If it had happened at night no one would’ve woken up.”
Her husband discussed the scare with their rabbi who instructed her to recite Birchas HaGomel, a thanks to G-d for sparing the family from a life-threatening situation.
That, Rizel said, scared her even more.
“Thank G-d, thank G-d, we have a carbon monoxide detector,” she said. “We put it in when we got the house and never thought we’d need it.”
Another local family had a serious incident in February involving a ‘blech’. The Hirschel’s house caught fire in the middle of the night because of the metal sheet covering a gas burner, their son Daniel recounted. The kitchen and several bedrooms were damaged, he said, and the family is still rebuilding.
Carbon monoxide poisoning killed 30 New Yorkers and sent over 400 to hospitals between 2000-2005. Carbon monoxide (CO), a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas can be produced by any fuel-burning apparatus, as the product of incomplete combustion. Fumes can build up in enclosed areas that lack adequate ventilation. Some sources of CO include gas stoves and ranges, car and truck exhaust, burning charcoal, fireplace chimneys, gas heaters, and hot water heaters. Symptoms of CO poisoning include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, confusion and reddened skin.
To help prevent CO poisoning, install carbon monoxide detectors in your home near bedrooms and test them monthly (there’s a button on them for this) and change the battery every six months. Never heat your home with a gas stove, don’t barbecue in your house, check your chimneys, keep exhaust pipes clear (especially in snowy weather in your car), and don’t run your car in the garage.
An electric heat cabinet that can be opened and food placed inside for Shabbat or an electric warmer-hot plate that may be set with a timer are alternatives to a gas heated blech, said Lenny Cherson, second assistant chief of the Hewlett-Woodmere Fire Department. “If they’re insistent on leaving a blech it should be on the lowest possible flame, the simmer setting,” he warned.
Lit candles can also pose a serious hazard, Cherson said.
Yahrtzeit candles should be protected underneath, perhaps on ceramic tile, and should be in an open area, with nothing above, such as cabinets, to prevent a heat build-up that can lead to a fire. Additionally, Cherson said, many poskim allow adjustment of gas flames. Readers should discuss that matter with a competent Halachic authority.
A lower flame allows for a lesser buildup of heat, Cherson said, and advised lighting a front burner, also to prevent heat buildup against the back of the stove. For ventilation, leave a window open, he advised.
“It’s tremendously important to have carbon monoxide detectors in the home,” stressed FDNY spokesman Steve Ritea. “With a detector you can get out safely. Never leave an open flame unattended; it’s always a hazard. Be careful, be safe.”
NYC CARBON MONOXIDE HAZARDS
By Malka Eisenberg
Issue of August 27, 2010/ 17 Elul 5770
The peaceful stillness of Aviva Rizel’s Shabbos morning was shattered by the insistent beeps of her carbon monoxide detector. It instructed her to move to fresh air.
“I moved robotically,” she recalled. She calmly gathered her three children, one a still sleeping 16-month old, and her mother-in-law, and went to a neighbor. Her husband, Meir, had already left for shul. “I did it automatically and didn’t feel fear until the fire department was there and allowed me back in the house,” she said.
When firefighters entered her Bayswater home, they spotted a single high flame burning on the stove top beneath a metal sheet, a ‘blech’, in a room with closed windows.
Lighting fires and cooking on the Sabbath are proscribed, but warming food on an existing flame is not, under specific conditions.Therefore, Sabbath-observant Jews commonly leave a fire burning under a ‘blech’ over Friday night and Saturday.
In the Rizel home last week, firefighters measured carbon monoxide levels as 60 parts-per-million. Any reading over nine parts-per-million is considered a health hazard over eight hours.
When Rizel returned to the house she saw that every window and door had been opened.
They “immediately saw that the burner was on,” Rizel said. When a firefighter asked how long the flame had been on and she replied, “since last night at sundown,” they “looked at me, horrified.”
“I do it every week,” she admitted, adding, “You’re gonna kill me but I’ve been doing this my whole life; everybody does this.”
“I’m not gonna kill you,” retorted the firefighter. “This is going to kill you. Listen, you have to speak to your rabbi and straighten this out because it’s really not safe.”
Rizel, a marriage and family therapist who writes a weekly column, Ask Aviva, in The Jewish Star, explained that Sabbath observant Jews would never turn off a flame on Shabbos but that an alternative would be an electric hotplate with a timer. That would be better, the firefighter said. “Make sure to get the word out,” he warned. “People shouldn’t be doing it this way. Tell your entire community.”
“We’re lucky it happened during the day,” Rizel said in an interview. “If it had happened at night no one would’ve woken up.”
Her husband discussed the scare with their rabbi who instructed her to recite Birchas HaGomel, a thanks to G-d for sparing the family from a life-threatening situation.
That, Rizel said, scared her even more.
“Thank G-d, thank G-d, we have a carbon monoxide detector,” she said. “We put it in when we got the house and never thought we’d need it.”
Another local family had a serious incident in February involving a ‘blech’. The Hirschel’s house caught fire in the middle of the night because of the metal sheet covering a gas burner, their son Daniel recounted. The kitchen and several bedrooms were damaged, he said, and the family is still rebuilding.
Carbon monoxide poisoning killed 30 New Yorkers and sent over 400 to hospitals between 2000-2005. Carbon monoxide (CO), a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas can be produced by any fuel-burning apparatus, as the product of incomplete combustion. Fumes can build up in enclosed areas that lack adequate ventilation. Some sources of CO include gas stoves and ranges, car and truck exhaust, burning charcoal, fireplace chimneys, gas heaters, and hot water heaters. Symptoms of CO poisoning include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, confusion and reddened skin.
To help prevent CO poisoning, install carbon monoxide detectors in your home near bedrooms and test them monthly (there’s a button on them for this) and change the battery every six months. Never heat your home with a gas stove, don’t barbecue in your house, check your chimneys, keep exhaust pipes clear (especially in snowy weather in your car), and don’t run your car in the garage.
An electric heat cabinet that can be opened and food placed inside for Shabbat or an electric warmer-hot plate that may be set with a timer are alternatives to a gas heated blech, said Lenny Cherson, second assistant chief of the Hewlett-Woodmere Fire Department. “If they’re insistent on leaving a blech it should be on the lowest possible flame, the simmer setting,” he warned.
Lit candles can also pose a serious hazard, Cherson said.
Yahrtzeit candles should be protected underneath, perhaps on ceramic tile, and should be in an open area, with nothing above, such as cabinets, to prevent a heat build-up that can lead to a fire. Additionally, Cherson said, many poskim allow adjustment of gas flames. Readers should discuss that matter with a competent Halachic authority.
A lower flame allows for a lesser buildup of heat, Cherson said, and advised lighting a front burner, also to prevent heat buildup against the back of the stove. For ventilation, leave a window open, he advised.
“It’s tremendously important to have carbon monoxide detectors in the home,” stressed FDNY spokesman Steve Ritea. “With a detector you can get out safely. Never leave an open flame unattended; it’s always a hazard. Be careful, be safe.”
NYC CARBON MONOXIDE HAZARDS
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Please Daven - Surgery Tomorrow
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Subject: [chicago-aneinu] Please Daven - Surgery Tomorrow
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Please daven for Dovid Hillel ben Yocheved who will be having surgery and a biopsy tomorrow, Wednesday. May he have a refuah shelam b'soch sha'ar cholei Yisroel
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Please daven for Sara Chana bas Brindal, who is having emergency surgery today.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Fw: Tehillim Needed
Please daven for Emuna Shir Esther bas Rivka, daughter of Daniel and Rivka Weiss, who will be having major surgery on Tuesday morning.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Tefillos Needed
Please daven for Deena Rochel bas Yehudis, a young woman who is in need of tefillos.
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Please Daven
Please daven for MOSHE MENACHEM BEN GITTEL BASHA who will be having surgery tomorrow, Monday.
Fw: 30th Chabad Telethon - Tonight at 8:00 PM
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
URGENT! TEHILLIM 4
Please daven for Naftali ben Bessele, Debbie Mayer's father, who is in the emergency room. May he have a refuah shlema b'soch sha'ar cholei Yisroel.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 49(THE LAST DAF) THE DEADLY RENTAL
Q:Ruvean rented his car to Shimon but Shimon didnt need it so he gave use of the car to Levi Levi dies in a car accident can Ruvean collect from Shimon
A:Shach Terumas Hadeshen Shimon needs to pay Ruvean but the Rea argues and says Shimon is patur
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
TODAY IS RAV KOOK YORTZEIT
Passing of Rabbi A. I. Kook (1935)
Elul 3 is the yahrtzeit of the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi (in modern times) of the Religious Zionist Jewish community in the Holy Land, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who assumed his position upon the formation of the British Mandate in 1920. A leading philosopher and mystic, Rabbi Kook authored many books and letters, and is a founding father of the "Religious Zionist" movement.
RAV KOOK ON TESHUVA GOOD FOR ELUL
JMR AND JI Chabad Telethon Marks 30 Years;Larry King 3 Hour Special
With the annual Chabad telethon less then a month away, a round of ads promoting the 6 hour event began playing on tv and radio stations across the country. This years telethon will take place on Sunday, August 29th from 8:00pm to 2:00am EDT(7.OOPM TO 1:00AM CHICAGO TIME).CLICK HERE 7:00PM AUGUST 29
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 46 TAILOR-MADE
Q:A woman inherits an out of date mink coat from her mother so she asks a tailor to make scarfs from the coat for her kids so the children coats would be upgraded and so the tailor produced the scarf but paint spilled on it and it was ruined does the tailor owe the owner money or do we say the item is owned by the tailor till the costumer pays for it and then she gets it
A:We paskin the owner owns it as soon as it was made so the tailor owes her money but she has to pay the tailor for the work but usually they offset eachother
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 45 THE CAR ACCIDENT SHEVUA
Q:Ruvean and shimon get into a car accident so they go to bais din to decide a fair amount of money but Shimon claims my car is damaged Ruvean says how do I know it was damaged after I hit you
A:Shimon makes a shevua on the damage
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 44 THE CROWN JEWELS BLACKOUT
Q:A royal family gave their crown jewels to a bank in NY for a mashkon on a loan and then their was a blackout which took out the alarm and then thieves stole the crown jewels from the bank whose lose is it the bank or the royal family
A:The items were taken away by onas the Rambam says the bank patur the loss is on the royal family but the Ravad says if the mashkon was taken after the loan the mashkon is considered payment for the loan so the loss is on the bank.The S"A paskins like the Rambam.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
URGENT! TEHILLIM 4
Please daven for Zehava Yael bat Sara Emanu, who will be having surgery tomorrow, Wednesday. May she have a refuah shlema b'soch sh'aar cholei Yisroel.
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 43 WHAT WAS IN THE BOX
Q:Ruvean gave Shimon boxes of valuables to watch hes a shomer sacer(hes ciev for ginava and avada) a few weeks later the boxes are stolen Ruvean comes back and asks Shimon where my stuff Shimon says it got stolen Ruvean gives Shimon a large claim of expensive stuff that was in the box Shimon says I owe you something but not as much as you say how much does Shimon pay Ruvean
A:The Ravad says this is not a simple case of mode bimksas b/c Shimon does not know what in the boxes but the Rambam says he is ciev.Chazal say the owner of the box backs up his claim with a shevua the Ketzos says the shomer kablas shemira was boxes with stuff that was not super expensive even with a shevua the shomer would pay regular price that was in the olden days when bais din used shevua nowadays bais din does not use shevua the owner of the box claims very expensive items in the box and he is not rich his claim is no good but if he is rich his claim is good a regular claim is good for the average guy
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 42 THE SHTAR VS THE VIDEO
Q:Ruvean has a shtar that says Shimon owes him money but Shimon has a video which shows shimon already paid the money who wins
A:The Mechaber says Shimon wins but the Rema says Ruvean has a shtar but we have a video do not rip up the shtar and do not collect we have a safek.If Ruvean grabed money from Shimon he could keep it and according to the Rema if a week later Revean and Shimon get into a car accident Revean is exempt from paying due to the previous safek
ROSH CHODESH ELUL IS HERE ITS TIME FOR MUSSER
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LAST YEAR FELDHEIM ELUL IS HERE
Monday, August 9, 2010
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Name Correction - Car Accident
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Subject: [chicago-aneinu] Name Correction - Car Accident
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The correct name for the boy injured in the car accident last week is Dovid Leib Ben Ariella Naveh. Please continue to daven for him.
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The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 41 LOANS ON VIDEO CAMERA
Q:Ruvean shows bais din a video tape of shimon paying his loan back to Reuvean is shimon exempt from paying what about a video tape outside of bais din showing Shimon borrowing money from Ruvean
A:(This is assuming video tapes are good in bais din)Shimon is exempt from paying in bais din and he is also exempt outside of bais din when video tape shows him borrowing money b/c he can say I paid you back
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Daf Yomi - In-depth practical case-study analyses derived directly from each day’s Daf. SHEVOUS DAF 38 FRENCH SIDDUR IN THE FRENCH AIRPORT
Q:You are in France and you need to say krias shema and make a beracha on an apple but you only have a french siddur you do not understand french are your krias shema and haetz good or not what about english and not known languages siddurs
A:Lashon Hakodesh is always good even if you do not understand it b/c it has meaning other languages you do not understand no idea is being expressed.The poskim your krias shema is not good but your beracha on the apple the Rambam says is a good beracha why b/c by the apple you know HASHEM created it but by krias shema you are supposed to be experiencing kablas ol malchus shamim and you are not geting it.An english siddur in any airport is good but in New york airport a not known language is not good(its not good anywhere)
Friday, August 6, 2010
URGENT! TEHILLIM 4
Please daven for a boy who was in a car accident and is in critical condition, Dovid Leib ben Ariel Navvah.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Please Daven
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From an Aneinu member:
Please ask The Community to daven for my Uncle, Meyer ben Motele, among all the other patients of Israel. He has just been diagnosed with cancer and next Monday will be having surgery. We would greatly appreciate this. May we hear besores tovos.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
MISHNA BRURAH DIRSHU VOLUME 3 IS NOW AT KESHER STAM
Many shailos and Teshuvos have arisen since the publication of the Mishna Brurah over a century ago.This new magnum opus from Dirshu features the Chofetz Chaim's original classic text, plus sources, Teshuvos, explanations, commentary and modern Psakim to help one's understanding and application of Mishna Brurah to solve the Shailos of daily life. No Jewish home or Bais Medrash can afford to be without this extraordinary volume. (from Hamodia)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
URGENT! TEHILLIM 4
From an Aneinu member:
Please send out an e-mail asking people to daven for my sister-in-law's mother
who is having surgery today(AUGUST 2 2010) - Rivka bas Rachel Leah.
Thanks.
Please send out an e-mail asking people to daven for my sister-in-law's mother
who is having surgery today(AUGUST 2 2010) - Rivka bas Rachel Leah.
Thanks.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Fw: [chicago-aneinu] Please Daven for Woman Hit By Lightning
Please daven for Leah Nesha bas Baila Malka.
A *frum *woman was by lightning in Sullivan County this afternoon at
Morningside Lake in the Brickman Road area in Fallsburg, NY. The 22-year-old
woman from Lakewood, NJ, became stranded on a row boat with three other
people.
20-year-old Devin Corbit, a Morningside Park worker, went out in his row
boat at about 3 p.m. to assist the stranded people and a lightning strike
knocked the two into the water. They were rescued by lifeguards and rushed
to Harris Hospital (Catskill Regional Medical Center). Both are said to be
in extremely critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest.
Catskill Regional Medical Center then transferred the pair to Westchester
Medical Center for more treatment.
Morningside Lake in the Brickman Road area in Fallsburg, NY. The 22-year-old
woman from Lakewood, NJ, became stranded on a row boat with three other
people.
20-year-old Devin Corbit, a Morningside Park worker, went out in his row
boat at about 3 p.m. to assist the stranded people and a lightning strike
knocked the two into the water. They were rescued by lifeguards and rushed
to Harris Hospital (Catskill Regional Medical Center). Both are said to be
in extremely critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest.
Catskill Regional Medical Center then transferred the pair to Westchester
Medical Center for more treatment.