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Why is Hallel different in Sukkot and Pesach (chol ha-moed)?
The Talmud asks this question. The Yerushalmi (Sukkah 5:1) answers simply that Hallel is read all week on Sukkot due to the ongoing Mitzva of the Lulav (which is taken and waved during Hallel). The ...
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Where are we commanded to read the hallel?
The mainstream approach (as stated forcefully by Rambam his Sefer HaMitzvot as well as in his Mishneh Torah) is that Hallel is a rabbinic commandment. As such there is no mention of it in the Torah (...
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What is the source for not saying Hallel because it is a "hidden miracle"?
Abudarham (here, left column) quotes such reasoning in the name of R. Asher of Lunel, but the nuance of his reasoning is not so much that the miracle is “hidden”, rather it’s when the miracle is ...
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Why Hallel on Rosh Chodesh?
Hallel on Rosh Chodesh says that this is actually a minhag that has been acceptedby Bnai Yisrael to show that the date has kedusha even though it is not required because we are allowed to do melacha. ...
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Waving the lulav during all first four verses of Psalm 118
It happens to be that I personally have never observed the custom you are describing. Nevertheless, I was able to find a source.
The Beit Yosef (OC 651) cites that this practice was defended by Tosfot ...
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Can / should one praying alone recite Hallel after Arvit on the first night of Pesach?
R. H. Schachter rules, in a responsum found here, that this Hallel is only to be recited in a synagogue setting, as a way of publicizing the miracle of the Exodus.
As such, even if ten men pray ...
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Why is Hallel different in Sukkot and Pesach (chol ha-moed)?
Mishnah Berurah (Orahh Hayim, Siman 644, Se'if Qatan 4) states (my translation):
וכן כל שמונת ימי החג
ולא הוי דחול המועד פסח דמדלגין משום דבסוכות כל יום חשוב כיום טוב בפני עצמו, כיון שחלוק קרבנותיו ...
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Saying Hallel in Shul on Pesach Night
The source is Shulchan Oruch Orach Chayim 487 (4)
בליל ראשון של פסח גומרים את ההלל בצבור בנעימה בברכה תחלה וסוף ובן בליל
שני של שני ימים טובים של גליות On the first night of Pesach, we
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Hallel on a non rosh chodesh day
You're probably thinking of the story of Rav's visit to Bavel, recorded on Taanit 28b, but you got the Rosh Chodesh part of it confused.
While most people nowadays are used to thinking of Rosh ...
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Why don't we say Hallel on Rosh Hashanah?
In the words of Rambam (Hilkhot Megillah 3:6), we do not recite Hallel on Rosh HaShana (or on Yom Kippur) since they are times of repentance, fear, and terror; not times for excessive joy.
אבל ראש ...
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Why do we specifically skip Lo Lanu and Ahavti?
Elyah Rabbah 422:12 quotes from Binyamin Ze'ev 361 who suggests that we skip these pieces specifically because the paragraphs of Lo Lanu and Hashem Zecharanu contain the same themes for the most part, ...
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Why whole Hallel on Chanukah?
Aruch Hashulchan 683:
Chanukah is similar to Succas. Each day‘s sacrifices varied on Succas; each day’s candles are different one to the next. In that respect Hallel is also completed on Chanukah ...
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Fourth cup after starting Nirtzah
I've seen some haggados that do this, including the famous Maxwell House haggadah.
I don't have a source, but the way I understand it is that they're making some of the piyutim a part of the ...
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Why don't we raise the fourth kos during Hallel?
There are differing customs regarding raising the cup during Hallel. The Beis Yosef (end of 422) seems to take it as a given that the cup is raised. The sefer Seder Haaruch suggests that the reason ...
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How does the blessing that concludes Hallel start?
In the Sefer Abudarham, the nusach is " יהללוך ה' אלקיך כל מעשיך" following the verse in Tehilim 145, 10:
יוֹד֣וּךָ יְ֭הֹוָה כׇּל־מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וַ֝חֲסִידֶ֗יךָ יְבָרְכֽוּכָה׃
Bartenura mishnayot ...
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Why is hallel at the seder different from hallel during the year?
Answer to Q1 from here:
A. Some contend that, despite inferences to the contrary, Hallel on
Seder night is not a mitzvah but only expresses our rejoicing (Shu’t
Ri MiGash #44).
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Why Hallel on Rosh Chodesh?
The answer above is very good and provide a very valuable introduction for the Sugiah in Gemoro. (Tosfoth Berachoth 14A is the main source "al Hadaf".)
But I dare allow myself an additional response ...
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Why do we remove tefillin (tefilin) for Hallel?
Very nice and complete answer here from Rabbi Ari N. Enkin
In a nutshell
The first reason is related to the Mussaf liturgy. According to nusach sefard and sefardi, the Mussaf Kedusha opens with the ...
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Is a yachid the congregation or the chazzan?
My Rov sent out a explanation for the davening on Hoshana Rabba as well as Simchas Torah which included what to do in the various sections of davening when not in a minyan.
One who is davening alone ...
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Aruch HaShulchan on not saying certain phrases in hallel when davening alone
דבר פשוט הוא שכשאומר הלל ביחיד לא יאמר בהודו אחר יאמר נא ישראל ויאמרו נא בית אהרן ויאמרו נא יראי ד' הודו לד' כי טוב דזה אינו אלא בציבור או לפחות כשהם שלושה דאחד אומר יאמר נא והשנים משיבים ולא כשהוא ...
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Hallel in syngagogue on Pesach night before dark
In the Sefer הסדר בערוך, פרק כ"ח סעיף ט and in the associated footnotes two opinions are brought.
Haggodas Moadim Uzmanim- that hallel in shul is part of the mitzvos whose חיוב is at night and ...
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Recitation of Hallel Accompanied by an Aramaic Targum? (in Megilla 21b)
I noticed the following comments by the Rogatchover which begin to answer my question.
In צפנת פענח - מהדורא תניינא, דווינסק, תר"ץ when discussing the Rambam in הל' עבודה זרה ג:ג, he writes:
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Not Standing During Hallel of the Seder
Joel K gave a good answer, but to answer it more straightforwardly:
The question seems premised on an incorrect translation. The questioner translated
לְפִי שֶׁכָּל מַעֲשֵׂי לַיְלָה זֶה הוּא דֶּרֶךְ ...
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Why does Hallel at the Seder not get a Bracha, according to the second opinion cited by the Tur?
According to my Oz V’hadar extended Mesivta Haggadah, page 725, Tosfos (Berachos 14a DH “yamim”), among other Rishonim, write that the meal is considered an interruption of the Mitzvah. In this vein, ...
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Where are we commanded to read the hallel?
Pesahim 117a
והלל זה מי אמרו נביאים שביניהן תקנו להן לישראל שיהו אומרין אותו על כל פרק ופרק ועל כל צרה וצרה שלא תבא עליהן ולכשנגאלין אומרים אותו על גאולתן
The prophets enacted for Israel to say ...
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No Bracha before Hallel said in shul on the first two nights of Pesach - Chazon Ish minhag
Just saw this Ran (Pesachim 26, dapei Harif). He discusses the opinions regarding the bracha on Hallel at the Seder itself.
1) Make a bracha, either at the meal or in shul, whatever comes first. ...
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Reciting Hallel on Yom Yerushalayim
Originally the Chief Rabbinate of Israel ruled that one should say Hallel without a bracha on Yom Haatzmaut ("The Chief Rabbinate ruled to recite Hallel without a blessing." http://hirhurim.blogspot....
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Reciting Hallel on Yom Yerushalayim
While this is far from a "mainstream" concept, as far as I know, a number of yeshivot and Orthodox shuls in my mainly Orthodox neighborhood follow exactly this custom. (Do you live in NYC area, BTW?)
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Should Hallel be recited on Yom Yerushalayim
I have seen a number of Orthodox places / yeshivot (a few in my neighborhood) that are more inclined to say Hallel on Yom Yerushalayim and not on Yom Ha'atzma'ut. Part of it is a "political" statement....
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Meaning of the verses ana hashem hoshia/hatzlicha na?
It depends which of the commentaries you follow, please see your local Mikra'os Gedolos (here or here):
Radak in his introduction to this Mizmor writes that it is a point of dispute as to who said/...
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