Questions tagged [kiddush]
Sanctification of Shabbat or Holidays said over a cup of wine at the inception in the night. During the day Kidusha Rabba is recited which one only needs a Brocho on a cup of wine.
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Kiddush BeRov 'Am
Does BeRov 'Am Hadrath Melech (the King's glory is in the multitudes, ie., the more people praise HaShem together, the more glorious it is for Him) apply to making Kiddush? I've heard it said so ...
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Early Shabbos during 9 days
Is it permitted to bring in Shabbos early during the 9 days and make Kiddush? I know that the prevailing custom for Havdallah is to do it over something other than wine, but obviously this cannot be ...
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Holding ones cup while someone is reciting Kiddush for you
I have seen many people holding their cup of wine while the host (or a chosen person) recites Kiddush for them. What is the explanation for holding ones cup?
Sources if possible.
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Why ask guest to make kiddush?
In my limited experiences in Baltimore and Lakewood, it seems hosts often ask guests if they would like to "make their own kiddush" with a separate cup of wine. Is there a reason why guests wouldn't ...
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The Chofetz Chaim's kiddush cup
I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the Chofetz Chaim used a kiddush cup that was a smaller shiur than he recommends to use in his Mishna Berurah.
Can anyone verify this and/or explain the ...
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Blessing Over Kiddush Covering Future Drinks
This past Shabbat, my Rabbi's father-in-law was over and they disagreed over whether or not to say a blessing.
After Shacharit, my Rabbi said kiddush over wine, ate mezonot, and then (as always) ...
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Making Kiddush with Grape Juice or White Wine
Lechatchila (a priori, by standard Halacha), can you make kiddush with grape juice or white wine? Can you fufill the mitzvah of drinking your 4 cups on Pesach with white wine or grape juice, bedieved ...
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Is white wine permitted between 6 and 7 o'clock?
This answer references the possibility that there is a distinction between red and white wine for those that are careful not to make kiddush between 6 and 7 o'clock. Are there any sources that mention ...
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Kiddush for a latecomer
If someone already made Kiddush on Friday night and now someone came late to the meal and asked him to make Kiddush again, but the latecomer refuses to drink from the wine, is it permitted for the one ...
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Three faceted blessing after public kiddush on Friday night
Fortunately I had the honour on multiple occasions to do public kiddush on Friday nights in different synagogues. A few of them were keen on asking me to recite the three faceted blessing after it, ...
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Why does one need to give the kiddush wine to a minor when saying Kiddush in shul?
O.C. 269:1 (Sefaria translation in English):
It is the custom to recite Kiddush in the synagogue, however, the one
who recites does not taste the wine of Kiddush but gives it to a minor
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Challah on table while reciting Shabbat kiddush
We are always careful to have the Challah in the Shabbat table when we are going to recite kiddush Friday night (covered of course). Where is this requirement noted?
And is it also required on ...
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Why do we link Shabbat with the Exodus from Egypt?
My four-year-old son asked me this right after Kiddush on Friday night (more or less verbatim):
Why do you say "Mitzrayim" in Kiddush every week? "Mitzrayim" is a Pesach word!
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Eating after Kiddush Friday Night without Motzi?
In many synagogues, it is common to have an informal food gathering after services on Shabbat morning. This is very rarely, if ever, done Friday night. On Shabbat morning the way it's done is usually ...
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Origin of the minhag to hold the kiddush cup in one's palm
There is a minhag which many have while reciting kiddush which is to hold the kiddush cup in the palm of the hand, with the fingers pointing upward without touching the cup. I have heard two ...
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If one isn't going to fast on Yom Kippur, should one make Kiddush? [duplicate]
Let's say there's a household where the husband and wife are both sick such that they need to eat and drink on Yom Kippur.
If the entire household knows they won't be fasting, for very valid reasons, ...
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Why does my bottle of Kosher grape juice say that it's 'for sacramental purposes only'?
I recently noticed that the bottle of Kedem Kosher grape juice that I purchased has a notice on the label which reads 'FOR SACRAMENTAL PURPOSES ONLY'.
I assume this means that it's being sold to be ...
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Water to prevent dehydration before kiddush on Shabbos morning?
The halocho is that after davenning on Shabbos morning, it is forbidden to drink water until one has made kiddush. See dinonline.
Consider the following situation: one has davenned on a warm Shabbos ...
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Can someone, who has not yet taken on Shabbos, recite the Friday night kiddush (before sunset) for someone else who has already taken on Shabbos?
Can someone, who has not yet taken on Shabbos, recite the Friday night kiddush (before sunset) for someone else who has already taken on Shabbos, [without the former intending to take on Shabbos with ...
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Shabbat Candles or Wine [closed]
It is said in the shulchan Aruch that one should buy Shabbat Candles instead of Wine if one didn't have enough money for both of them. However, When we see into the talmud it says in Shabbat 23b that ...
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How high of a priority should one place on making kiddish before chatzot on Shabbos?
For example, if the minyan finishes after chatzot yom, is it permitted or proper do daven b'yachidus in order to make kiddush before chatzot, or is it better to daven with the minyan, and hear/make ...
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Singing part of kidush with the leader
Some people, although listening to another's kidush (Friday night), sing part of it along with him: specifically (in my experience), the lines starting "ki vanu vacharta" when recited with this tune. ...
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Women Making Kiddush
Let's say a husband and wife are alone on Friday night or on Shabbos day. Can the wife make kiddush for herself and her husband?
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Where did the idea of a shul kiddush come from
In many communities I have been in around the world after mussaf on shabbat there is often a 'kiddush'. This consists of the Rav of the shul (or some other designee) who makes kiddush and food is ...
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Must a kiddush cup be both clean and dry?
The kiddush cup needs washing inside and out (O Ch 183:1).
The hands need to be washed before eating bread. One may not eat bread with wet hands – it is like eating impure bread according to the ...
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Israeli attending second seder Motzaei Shabbat - How should he behave during Kiddush?
If an Israeli attends your 2nd Seder this year, when it's Motzaei Shabbat, how should he behave at your Seder table for the 1st cup of wine?
You will do a combo Kiddush / havdalah. He does no Kiddush ...
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Making Kiddush for a group of women
If one makes kiddush for a group of women should they say סברי גברותי before the bracha instead of סברי מרנן?
I ask because saying listen up misters when making kiddush for only women feels weird. it ...
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Bringing in Yom Tov Sheni early
The Ben Ish Hai Parshat Bamidbar Din 2 holds it is permissible (and even recommended in Bagdhad), to bring in the second day of Shavuot early -- to daven and to make kiddush while it is still daytime ...
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Do German Ashkenazim sit or stand during kiddush?
Do German Ashkenazim sit or stand for kiddush and is the custom the same in the evening and day and for Shabbas and yontif?
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Bircas Hamazon exempts al hagefen
When one makes kiddush friday night then has a meal afterwards, they don't make an al hagefen on the wine/grape juice that they drank by kiddush. This is because (from what I always heard/understood) ...
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Why do Yekkes follow Beis Shammai?
Brachos 8:2 records a dispute between Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel whether one should wash before or after Kiddush. The Yekke minhag is to wash before Kiddush. Why do they follow Beis Shammai?
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Why only four cups of wine during the seder instead of giving each obligation its own separate cup of wine?
Chazal instituted that we drink four cups of wine on Pesach night.
The first cup of wine is that of Kadeish. In other words, the first cup of wine we would be drinking anyway to fulfill the normal ...
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Throwing away leftover kiddush wine
In keeping with the general rule that mitzvah objects, including comestibles, be discarded respectfully (as well as possibly baal tashchis), how should one get rid of leftover kiddush wine? It's not ...
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Are disposable cups allowed for Kiddush or Havdalah?
If one doesn't have a non-disposable cup or becher available, can s/he use a disposable cup? Are there any specific types (plastic, styrofoam, paper...) of disposable cups allowed, or is any cup okay ...
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Candle for Havdalah during Kiddush of Chag Saturday night
During the special Kiddush/Havdallah recited on a Saturday night Chag, acronym Yakneha"z, we make a bracha on the havdalah candle. Normally the Havdalah candle has to be a "torch" consisting of two or ...
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Leaving wine bottle uncovered during kiddush
I have seen people who are careful to cover the wine bottle from which they poured into the kidish cup during the recitation of kiddush. As far as I know there isn't any issue with pagum because no ...
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Kiddush written on the sukkah
I've seen canvas sukkot that have kiddush printed on the walls. Can you use the text to say kiddush?
Generally we can't benefit from the sukkah walls. For decorations, you can make a stipulation ...
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Why the different wording between Shabbat Kiddush and zemirot?
In Leil Shabbat Kiddush we see the phrase:
תחילה למקראי קודש
Loose translation (mine): "The start of the holy callings (i.e. holy days)"
But in the Shabbat lunchtime somg Yom Ze Mechubad, we see ...
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Why are different terms used for "remembrance" of creation?
At the end of the Magen Avot prayer, commonly recited in shul Friday night, the last few words end in the phrase,
לעם מדושני עונג זכר למעשה בראשית
However, in the nighttime Kiddush, the phrase is:...
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Kiddush - סברי מרנן ורבנן ורבותי
I have noticed various customs surrounding the words before Hagefen for all kiddushim. My sefard siddur says סברי מרנן ורבנן ורבותי but I have also seen סברי מרנן and many other variants across other ...
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What is the origin of the Yeke custom of washing hands before kiddush and is it done only by the person saying kiddush or everyone?
I have heard mention of a Yeke custom of washing hands before kiddush but no explanation of why or whether it is done only by the person leading kiddush or everyone.
Further to the question about ...
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Is there any reason to drink wine at kiddush if it is not from the cup used for the blessing?
In view of the answers given to questions here and here, is there any reason to drink wine at kiddush if you are not drinking from the cup of blessing? (For instance, could the fact that you said "...
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Do some abridge the Shabbat evening Kiddush?
I came across this video from the IDF. The man leading the group leaves off the last verse of Shalom Aleichem.
He also omits sections of the last blessing of Kiddush, specifically
כי הוא יום תחלה
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Why do some synagogues offer kidush and others not?
Some (orthodox) synagogues in the United States offer kidush after Shabas-morning services every week; others do not.
Is this division roughly along 'type' of synagogue? For example, do most Young ...
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Hearing kiddush from someone who mumbles [closed]
If one is invited to someones house on shabbat and they are being yotzeh kiddush with someone they know mumbles the words ,but they can't make their own kiddush for whatever reason (only enough wine ...
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Being yotzei kiddush when the host doesn't pass [duplicate]
If I am a guest at a big Shabbos dinner at which the host makes kiddush out loud at the head of the table, but does not pass wine from his cup or bottle, what should I do in order to be yotzei the ...
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Does adding a bit of red wine to white wine change the resulting drinks' status vis-a-vis kiddush?
There are various opinions regarding the acceptance of white wine for kiddush. My question is, if say one has a full bottle of white, if they pour a cup that is majority white (80%+), but are able to ...
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Why does Chabad not do Kiddush before Davening?
The custom in Chabad is to eat Mezonos before Davening (to enable one to daven later and meditate on Hashem).
The only reason we don't do kiddush before davening is because "the time didn't come yet" ...
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Difference between men and women regarding drinking water before the day kidush
In Chukas Hanoshim of the Ben Ish Hai chapter 43 (below) he writes that women cannot drink anything on Shabbos morning until kidush, but men can drink water before shachris.
What might be his ...
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When is the latest that one can have coffee before reciting the kiddush on Shabbat morning?
One is not allowed to partake of any food or drink before reciting or hearing the kiddush of the day. However, because coffee helps with concentration during prayers, there's a leniency to allow one ...
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