Questions tagged [shabbat]
The seventh day of the week and a day of rest. Also use this tag for questions that apply equally to Yom Tov and Shabbat.
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Loss of smell - Borei Menei B’Samim [closed]
One of the symptoms of COVID-19 is the loss of smell. Is one still Yotzei their father bracha of Borei Menei B’Samim even if they cannot smell the B’samim?
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The Torah warns us twelve times about observing the Shabbos
Rabbi Abraham Danzig writes:
והזהירה התורה על שמירת השבת י"ב פעמים, The Torah warns us twelve times
about observing the Shabbos.
(Chayei Adam, Shabbat and Festivals 1:1)
Does anyone happen to ...
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What parts of the Shabbat shacharit and musaf are omitted when davening without a minyan? [duplicate]
As I write this, many Jews around the world have just concluded their second consecutive Shabbat since the COVID-19 outbreak led to the temporary closures of synagogues. Now that so many of us are ...
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Shabbat in Quarantine
Israel is currently (March 20th, 2020) under lockdown, shuls are closed, and most people will not pray in a minyan or hear the Torah read. I've seen recent psakim about shutting down shuls, but are ...
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Skip Tachanun on the Sunday of Purim Meshulash?
In a situation when Shushan Purim falls out on Shabbat, walled cities (which can't celebrate Purim on Shabbat) read the Megillah and give Matanot Le’Evyonim on Friday, while on Sunday they have their ...
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Attendance for Minyan on School Shabbaton
A Jewish day school takes attendance for tefillah on a shabbaton by putting every students’ name on a note card, and then when that person comes to tefillah, their name is taken out of the pile and ...
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Shabbos Candles
What do the sources say about this situation: A male on his own wants to go to shul on Friday night. There are two parts to the question.
1) What is the earliest time at which he can light his ...
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Does anyone know of a place on the web I can find Kabbalat Shabbat sung from the people in a synagogue (preferably Ashkenazi)? [closed]
Here is a perfect example of authentic singing, this is what I'm looking for but for Kabbalat Shabbat.
The problem for me is when people solo Tehillim they make their own version and that is not what ...
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Getting money through a app on shabbos [duplicate]
I am building a app, and it offers in app purchases. I don’t have control over when people buy, bc it will be on the apple App Store.
Is it aloud to keep the money of people buying the in app ...
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Swallowing, carrying, and regurgitating objects in the stomach without an Eruv
In a sickening scenario, but out of pure Halachic speculation, can one swallow toy cars (or anything not Muktzeh), walk to a neighbor's house without an Eruv on Shabbos, and then regurgitate the toy ...
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How do references to eternity in Torah square with the finite life of the sun?
How is one to read אות היא לעולם, נר תמיד and שומר ישראל לעד knowing that the sun will not endure?
Torah is written in human language. Is "for ever" confined to human measures, and in fact then, ...
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Microphones on Shabbat
What is the Halacha re LISTENING to someone speaking in a microphone on Shabbat.
For example if I walk into a room and someone is lecturing/speaking on a microphone an I permitted to listen
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Carrying inside a body without an Eruv
At what point are bodily fluids not considered part of a person and therefore become subject to the restrictions of carrying on Shabbos?
For example, if a doctor requires a urine sample on Shabbos, ...
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What stone prevents miscarriage?
The Shulchan Aruch OC (303:24) writes:
יוצאה באבן תקומה [פי' הערוך אבן ידועה שכשהיא על אשה לא תפיל] - women
are allowed to walk outside on shabbos with an even tekuma used to
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May one tell a Gentile to drive his car immediately before Shabbat?
During a recent Shulchan Aruch lesson, I learned that one may not tell a Gentile tailor immediately before Shabbat to fix a suit that he will need immediately after Shabbat, as this is clear that he ...
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Permitted to detach grape juice bottle from plastic thing on Shabbos
Kedem grape juice sometimes comes in a pack of 2 large bottles that are connected by a plastic thing. Would it be permitted on Shabbos to detach one bottle from the plastic thing? Here is a picture....
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Drinking from a water fountain without an Eruv on Shabbos
Assuming a water fountain is unplugged, non-electric, or somehow operational without any Melachos involved (or one is swallowing rain drops), would one have any problem consuming food or liquid from ...
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Wearing a candy-bracelet tied using red string outside an Eruv on Shabbos
What are the Halachic ramifications of wearing a Western Wall red string (which people consider clothing) which has candies tied to it (like a candy-bracelet) on Shabbos outside an Eruv? Is it ...
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Bar Mitzvah on Yom Tov
In most situations a boy becomes a Bar Mitzvah and there are certain practices to mark that occasion which take place on the upcoming Shabbos. Those may include some or all of the following: getting ...
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Need help identifying Zemirot from audio (very simple to anyone with good hebrew)
I'm currently on teshuva path and right now I'm trying to learn some zemirot for shabbat table.
Would anyone please help me identify the first one on this youtube video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Lock pick on shabbos
Is it permissible to use a lock pick on shabbos?
Obviously an electronic one would be prohibited.
what are the possible prohibitions?
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Cutting the Chalah diagonal slices
Is there a special reason why people cut the Chalah on Shabbos in diagonal slices
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Working from morning until afternoon on Friday before Shabbath starts [closed]
Disclaimer: To my own surprise the Q&A field didn't wield any sufficient results (or I used bad/inappropriate keywords). If you link me to a page where this question got already answered and dealt ...
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Making the blessing on wine for two people on shabbat morning, but only one needs kiddush
In general, I cannot say borei pri hagafen on behalf of another, if I'm not also drinking wine and making the blessing for myself as well. (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 213:2)
One exception to this ...
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Accepting donations from Non-Shomer Shabbos?
May a Torah institution accept funds from a Jew who makes money from working on Shabbos? (I heard that a particular Rebbe collecting money would put money earned with holy endeavors was put into his ...
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Why doesn’t mes mitzvah push aside shabbos?
If mes mitzvah is doche avoda and avoda is doche shabbos. Shouldn’t mes mitzvah be doche shabbos? Simple logic
If A is greater than B and B is greater than C
Logic dictates that A is greater than C....
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Why is using an umbrella forbidden on Shabbat? [duplicate]
Several rabbi's have told me that one is prohibited from using an umbrella on Shabbat because one is "constructing a shelter".
Assuming they've used the correct reasoning, I'm not following it. I ...
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Can you handle a battery-powered handheld clock on Shabbos?
This battery-powered handheld clock that has alarm clock and stopwatch features, would such a clock be muktzeh on Shabbos, even if one turned off the alarm clock feature before Shabbos?
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Making up Shabbat morning torah reading [duplicate]
If a place did NOT gather 10 people on Shabbat morning service, do they have to make up the Sedra reading? And if yes, when?
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Inviting non-Jews to a Shabbos meal - practical considerations
What are practical guidelines or tips to have in mind when hosting a non-Jew on Shabbos?
Examples would be
explain to them they shouldn't touch the lights, e.g., in the bathroom
making sure they don'...
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Is it permissible to get a toddler to push an electrical button on Shabbos? [duplicate]
Am I allowed to manipulate a 2 or 3 year old to turn on or off a light on Shabbos? Or to turn on or off the air conditioner or heater? If allowed, how direct can I be in manipulating the toddler to ...
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Order of Chanukah lights and havdalah
When I was leading the conclusion of the Shabbat service yesterday, I asked someone to light the Chanukkah candles, who asked me if we rather did havdalah first. I know that in a synagogue setting we ...
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An example of doing something for no reason [duplicate]
I see that on Shabbos it is forbidden to move a utensil (with the exception of books and food (brought in the next sif)) for no reason.
But what does that mean (no reason)?
Examples (sources)
If a ...
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Tevila :How to bring to mikva water urn [duplicate]
How do you tovel a shabbes coffee urn without damaging it
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Mincha torah reading before a chag
What Torah reading should be read the Shabbat afternoon before a holiday, like the Shabbat afternoon before Sukkot, or the Shabbat afternoon before Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur?
Thanks..
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Ingesting premixed medicine for recreational purposes on Shabbos
Can one ingest usually-medicinal substances for recreational purposes on Shabbos? As a concrete example, consider a pill of Tylenol with codeine (or codeine itself). A person would like to enhance ...
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Minimum food on the Sabbath
What is the minimum food a person needs to eat on the Sabbath?
(I have an interest in water fasting, which means not consuming anything but water for days or weeks. The power of the fast depends on ...
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Where can I walk with an eiruv techumin?
How does an eiruv techumin work (assuming I live in a city):
1) I put my eiruv within 2000 amos of my house and I can walk throughout the city, and in 2000 amos in any direction from my eiruv
2) I ...
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What are the time parameters of “pikuach nefesh” on Shabbos?
This article says:
Any procedure which is necessary to perform for the patient, but it is clear that it does not at all need to be performed on Shabbat, should be delayed until after Shabbat.
How ...
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Why are certain melachot permitted on Shabbat for food purposes and others not?
I'm relaying this question from my son...
Tearing is a melacha. But, as far as I understand, one may tear open a food bag (like a bag of chips) on Shabbat. Yet, one may not cut between the letters ...
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Shabbos morning amidah - wrong biblical text - what to do?
Do the works of halacha say what to do if in the Shabbos morning amidah after:
יִשמַח משֶׁה בְּמַתְּנַת חֶלְקוֹ. כִּי עֶבֶד נֶאֱמָן קָרָאתָ
לּוֹ.כְּלִיל תִּפְאֶרֶת בְּראשׁוֹ נָתַתָּ. בְּעָמְדוֹ ...
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Challa knife - Non serrated
Recently I met someone who told me there are those that specifically only use a non serrated Challa knife at the Shabbos meal. I was wondering if there is a source that discusses this and what is the ...
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Can a gentile work for a Jew on Shabbat?
There is a rabbinic decree that a Jew may not ask a gentile, right before Shabbat, to do work for him because he might do it on Shabbat [Gittin 8b]. But in the Mishna [Shabbat 1:8] Hillel allows it, "...
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Is there a minimum amount of time for Shabbat candles to stay lit?
Most wax Shabbat candles that I have seen tend to stay lit approximately 4 hours. Some, I've seen stay lit closer to 6 hours.
Is there a reason as to why these candles last for that time? Can one use ...
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Oil in Shabbos Candles Caught Fire - What to Do?
My wife recently switched from using wax candles to oil in glass cups when lighting for Shabbat. The cups were about half water, half oil. She put some floating wicks in and lit them the way she ...
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Beracha and Kedusha referring to the generation of the desert
Rashi in his commentary on Bereishis 2:3 explains that the beracha of shabbos is in the future when the mannah fell during the week and an extra portion fell on Friday and kedusha is also in the ...
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Does one say “hoshana” after every verse in the “Nation Protected” hoshana said on Shabbos?
The word "hoshana" is said before and after every verse in the weekday hoshanas. Is this also the case in the "Nation Protected" hoshana that is said on Shabbos, found on page 736 in the Artscroll ...
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Why do we still stand at Vayevarech Dovid on a Shabbos and/or Yom Tov?
Many have the custom to stand at Vayevarech Dovid. The reason behind this minhag is because many give tzedakah at this point, and it is proper to stand while doing a mitzvah. With this being said, why ...
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Streaming services on Shabbat and holy days [duplicate]
More and more non-traditional congregations stream their Shabbat and Yom Tov services, for the benefit of hospital patients and shut-ins.
If done automatically, or managed by Gentiles, or started ...
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Returning tabletop that fell off on Shabbat
At the shul we have simple tables with metal frames (a rectangle with 4 legs) and wooden tops, screwed to them with 4 screws per table. Eventually, all 4 screws of one table loosened up and the ...
