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Do the Jews still send a scapegoat once a year to the wilderness?
Sefer HaChinukh 185:
The commandment of the service of Yom Kippur: That the high priest do all the procedure of Yom Kippur, with the order of the sacrifices, the confessions, the sending away of the ...
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Wine on Erev Yom Kippur
The Mishna Brura (OC 608:16) mentions not to drink fine wine.
OU Kosher writes
Wine and other intoxicating beverages should not be served.
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Using baby powder on Yom Kippur
Rav Moshe Feinstien Zt'l opinion is quoted in רשומי אהרן ח"ב או"ח סי' תרי"ד אות א that it is permitted in a case of need as baby powder is not considered anointing.
As usual consult a ...
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Why specifically the size of a date on Yom Kippur?
The mishna b'rura this seif points this out:
(א) ככותבת הגסה - אע"ג דבכל איסורי התורה משערינן בכזית, כל זה הכי דכתיבי אכילה משא"כ ביו"כ דלא כתיב אכילה אלא מנע הכתוב את האכילה בלשון ...
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Using baby powder on Yom Kippur
I can't find any proper sources, but I found a number of online rulings that it's permitted:
https://helpfulhalacha.blogspot.com/2008/10/laws-of-yom-kippur.html
It’s forbidden to use deodorants on ...
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Kibbudim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
There are existing cards ready to be printed, in Hebrew, updated every year. They follow nusach sfard and the Rinat Israel siddur. I hope they are easy to adapt to your needs
the version for Rosh ...
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How does one understand and make meaning of the Biein Melitz Yosher paragraph in the yom kippur shemone esreh?
The second cheilek (volume) of Talelai Oros on Rosh Hashanah (starting on page רלה) provides several explanations.
1) Torah acts as a protection against the Satan
בְּאֵין מֵלִיץ יֽשֶׁר מוּל מַגִּיד ...
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How does one understand and make meaning of the Biein Melitz Yosher paragraph in the yom kippur shemone esreh?
I found:
1] From Chabad Moshe Bogomilsky
"באין מליץ יושר מול מגיד פשע תגיד ליעקב דבר חוק ומשפט"
“When there is no defender to intercede in our behalf against the accuser who reports our ...
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Why is there a Minhag not to eat sesame in Erev Yom Kippur?
It goes back to R. Yehudah ha-Hasid's Sefer Hasidim (רס"ה). The original context is where he says that if you want someone to regurgitate like an animal that raises its cud, you should have the ...
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Why is there a Minhag not to eat sesame in Erev Yom Kippur?
The reason behind this is that sesame seeds are one of the foods that can cause a person to regurgitate and causes one to feel full (of eating the meal). The Alter Rebbe in his Shulchan Aruch HaRav (...
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Was there a double portion of Mon on Erev Yom Kippur
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Why is a 3 day Yom Tov permissible, but Shabbos and Yom Kippur cannot be on adjacent days?
Yom Tov sheni is rabbinic and thus burial is permitted in certain ways. Shabbos and Yom Kippur are biblical and thus burial would be impossible for too long.
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Yom Tov Birkat Hacohanhim -- where find the text about dreams?
Here's a link to it in the Ashkenaz Rosh HaShanah Machzor on Sefaria.
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Yom Tov Birkat Hacohanhim -- where find the text about dreams?
Its found in the Gemera Brachot 55b:
""רבונו של עולם, אני שלך וחלומותי שלך. חלום חלמתי ואיני יודע מה הוא, בין שחלמתי אני לעצמי, ובין שחלמו לי חבירי, ובין שחלמתי על אחרים, אם טובים הם חזקם ...
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The Satan and his limitations on Yom Kippur?
It says in Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer 46:
"Sammael said before the Holy One, blessed be He: Sovereign of all the universe ! Thou hast given me power over all the nations of the world, but over Israel ...
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Does the Shekhinah remove Israel’s sin on the Day Of Atonement?
The day of Yom Kippur contributes to the removal of sin see:
Mishna Yoma on 85b
Similarly, Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya taught that point from the verse:
“From all your sins you shall be cleansed before ...
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What is Binyan HaMalchut?
Hi David welcome to Mi Yodeya, looking forward to seeing your contributions, starting with this great question.
Dov and Shmuel have given the right answer, I just want to add a plain language ...
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What is Binyan HaMalchut?
Asides from what Dov writes, see:
האריז"ל גילה שבכל שנה כאשר מסתיימת השנה מסתלקת החיות האלוקית מהעולמות, והיא חוזרת ונכללת במקורה, וכדי להמשיך אותה מחדש, צריך לעורר בקב"ה מחדש את הרצון ...
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What is Binyan HaMalchut?
The Sefer HaLikkutim on malchus begins here.
However, in the edition linked, it makes mention of Binyan HaMalchus on this page here - (4 lines down)
It writes there:
בכל ר"ה צ"ל התחדשות בחי'...
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