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Sleeping and listening to something that's a Mitzvah
Is there anything that someone can listen to that is as if he is doing mitzvot or good things or even teshuva while he is trying to sleep or asleep?
I’ve heard subconsciously you still realize ...
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How much volume and singing should the chazzan use during holiday Birkat Kohanim?
In the various Ashkenazic services outside Israel that I have attended, where Birkat Kohanim is only performed on holidays, and with holiday-level pomp and circumstance, I have seen various types of ...
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Can you recommend a rabbi or community leader willing to speak about the harm of loud simcha music? [closed]
I recently published an article in the Five Towns Jewish Times that addresses the damage that loud simcha music does to hearing.
I have approached a few rabbis in my neighborhood and asked them to ...
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Making very loud drumming noise during davening
Many leaders and congregants in my shul bang with their hands on the shulchan and on their siddurs and stomp their feet in what is supposed to be the rhythm of the prayer's melody. The noise is ...
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Rabbinical suppport for reducing noise at weddings
There is a verse in Devarim (Deut) - Don't recall exact location that says "Watch your lives very carefully". From here we learn that we must do what we can to preserve our health.
So, I'm wondering ...
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Ululating in Jewish culture
In ancient times, Jews living in Israel ululated if I am not mistaken. Is this practiced by Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews today? Which other Jewish communities ululate? Ethiopians, Mizrahis, etc?
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