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Questions about Jewish customs and traditions.
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What is the source of the expression מנהג ישראל תורה?
Tosefos to Munachos 20b s.v. ונפסל says:
כל תענית שלא שקעה עליו חמה לא שמיה תענית ומנהג אבותינו תורה היא שהכל נוהגין עד צאת הכוכבים
Although the period of Tosefos extends past the Ramban, it sta …
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Does chabad eat gebrochts?
Chabad does not eat Matza or Matza meal that has come in contact with water during the first seven days of passover. They do eat it on the 8th day of Passover outside of Eretz Yisroel.
A source in En …
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When is a Person Obligated to Lead the Davening?
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 204:4 records a custom to lead the prayers during the time when a mourner is saying Kaddish. This is the "obligation" you are hearing about.
In terms of which ones trump others, …
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Source for Tehillim of your age?
This is a custom transmitted from the Maggid of Mezritch to the Alter Rebbe of Lubavitch in the name of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
This is recorded in a letter of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, printed in …
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Lubavitch Kinnos
This article describing a publication of the prayers and laws for the entire Tisha B'Av according to the Chabad practice says:
הקינות נערכו על פי הנהוג בקהילות חב"ד, על פי נוסח האשכנזים
The Kino …
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Chasan cigarettes - source & reason
Natai Gavriel (Shidduchim V'Tanaim 23:17) says this is not a good custom - and recommends giving out delicacies instead - but in the footnote notes that מנהגי לעלוב does bring this custom as a way of …
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Cookies for kiddush
The heter for eating cookies before davening is not based on the idea that it is not a seuda, rather that it is needed to concentrate during davening, despite the fact that it would otherwise be forbi …
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Besides eating matzah, what do we do on Pesach Sheini today?
Nitai Gavriel (Pesach Vol 3 Chapter 57) brings several Pesach Sheni customs. Among them:
To increase in Simcha (source: the Chida)
To read the parsha of Pesach Sheni and learn its Halachos (source: …
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Wrapping tefillin to create letters
The Tashbatz writes in 3:118 that the custom of wrapping the Shin Dalet Yud on the Arm Tefillin is not of Talmudic or Gaonic origin and was not the custom of his teachers, nor the German, French, Prov …
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Why 72-minutes for Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Northern European Jews?
See the באר היטב in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 186, s.q. 8:
עד שיתעכל. ושיעור עיכול בשאכילה מועטת הוא כדי הילוך ד' מילין והוא שעה וחומש וכת' המ"א נ"ל דהאי עיכול תחלת עיכול הוא דסוף עיכול הוי' עכ"פ ו' …
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Staying up all night and suffering on Yom Tov
In Tephichas BeDevash 24 by Rav Chiya Pontromili (a Sefardi Rav from the 19th century quoted here) writes:
ואף שנהגו ישראל להיות ערים בליל שבועות אפילו שחל בשבת, מכל מקום שונה ליל שבועות מליל שבת, מש …
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No longer prostrating after tefillah - sources?
Shulchan Aruch HaRav records that ועכשיו שלא נהגו ליפול על פניהם ממש אלא בהטיית הראש וכיסוי הפנים בלבד. This was written in the mid/late 1700's (when he was around 26 years old). So that doesn't hit y …
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How do you prepare a ram's head for Rosh Hashana night
One of the Simanim brought to eat on Rosh Hashana is a Ram's head. It isn't very popular, I assume due to availability, but one year they had them (well, a lamb's head) in the local store, but I was u …
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Selichot origins
Rabbi Dr. Immanual Shochat's introduction to his translation of Slichos (page xii) places the first text of Slichos to Rav Amram Gaon. Wikipedia contends that the slichos part is of later vintage, but …
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Why isn't it considered idol worship to give respect to the torah?
As the Rambam codifies in Hilchos Avoda Zara 3:5, only four activities are "objectively" idolatry when done in honor of something other than G-d, and forbidden to do to any idol. 1) Prostration, 2) An …
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