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#If a relative is in the hospital and the family members would call the hospital that would indicate to the doctors and nurses that the family cares and the patient will receive better treatment, it is permissible to do so on Shabbat or Yom Tov.<ref>[https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/951791/rabbi-hershel-schachter/piskei-corona-29-calling-the-hospital-on-shabbos-or-yom-tov-to-advocate-for-relatives/ Rav Schachter (Piskei Corona #29)]. [https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1848379/important-message-from-flatbush-hatzolah-about-family-members-in-hospitals.html Flatbush Hatzolah] announced the same thing but they said that the calling and hanging up should be done with a shinuy.</ref> | #If a relative is in the hospital and the family members would call the hospital that would indicate to the doctors and nurses that the family cares and the patient will receive better treatment, it is permissible to do so on Shabbat or Yom Tov.<ref>[https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/951791/rabbi-hershel-schachter/piskei-corona-29-calling-the-hospital-on-shabbos-or-yom-tov-to-advocate-for-relatives/ Rav Schachter (Piskei Corona #29)]. [https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1848379/important-message-from-flatbush-hatzolah-about-family-members-in-hospitals.html Flatbush Hatzolah] announced the same thing but they said that the calling and hanging up should be done with a shinuy.</ref> | ||
==Purim== | |||
# It is a mitzvah to hear [[Parshat Zachor]] read from a sefer torah in a minyan each year on the Shabbat before Purim. If you can't come to shul in person because of quarentining, it is possible to read it oneself from a sefer torah without brachot. If that isn't possible to arrange, it is possible to have intention to fulfill the mitzvah when listening to Zachor in Shul when the week's parsha is Parshat Ki Tetsey.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
# When donating zecher lmachasit hashekel it isn't necessary to pick up the half dollar coin and pay a half dollar in its place, it is sufficient to donate a half dollar and that's it.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
# When Purim falls out on Friday, the seuda should be done in the morning but some say it can be done in the afternoon after davening mincha.<ref> See [[Seudat_Purim]] page.</ref> | |||
# The mitzvah is to have meat, wine, and bread for the seuda even when it is done on Friday.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
# Because of the concern of spreading covid, it is preferable to give more [[matanot levyonim]] and less [[mishloach manot]].<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
#If a person can't go to the shul in person because of quarentining, he should listen to the megillah over zoom. If he has a kosher megillah at home, he should read along word by word. He should read along so that he can hear himself.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
# For the megillah at night, in extenuating circumstances when it isn't feasible to have the megillah read at night in enough places for everyone to hear, it is possible to reead it from Plag Hamincha beforehand. Otherwise they should wait until Tzet Hakochavim or at least Ben Hashemashot.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
# For the megillah during the day, in extenuating circumstances when it isn't feasible to have the megillah read at minyanim all day it is possible to start from Olot before Netz. Otherwise they should wait until Netz.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
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