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438 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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No minyan at shul
If a person goes to shul and there is no minyan (somewhere where there usually is one):
Does that person still have the same obligation to find another minyan?
Or, are there any opinions that hold ...
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Does it still count as a Bracha if one stuttered and repeated words?
What if someone has a stutter and they tend to repeat words when doing a Bracha. As long as they said all of the words, does it still count as a Bracha?
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Pray barefoot or not?
At the burning bush, God told Moses:
Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. [Ex. 3:5].
Later, the kohanim served barefoot in the Temple.
But the Talmud ...
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Tefillah when marrying almana
I've heard there exists a formal Tefilah to be said when marrying an almana where one asks mechila from the first husband who was niftar. Would someone know where this tefilah can be found as well as ...
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What is the "kedusha of the individual"?
In a 13th century manuscript of a machzor according to Minhag Ashkenaz (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Hébreu 644), on the pages for the kedusha on Shabbat for shacharit and mussaf, there is an ...
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Bowing when davening outside
If one is davening outside, and one says aleinu* and wishes to bow, should one change how he bows?
I have seen (h/t Harel13) it written that, when one says Birchat Hachama, one should bow to the ...
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Why is there a difference in placement of the prayer "Avinu Malkeinu"?
Nusach Ashkenaz places the prayer Avinu Malkeinu immediately after the repetition of the Amidah while Nusach Sefard places it in the middle of Tachanun (between the first paragraph Vayomer David and ...
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Source of Baruch SheAmar melody
In my old shul, we used to sing a version of baruch she'amar that, to my understanding, was a fairly standard, traditional version. however, I've tried to find it recently and can't. I've transcribed ...
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Korbanos and Ketores: Only Biblical passages for the former
When we recite psukim in the morning that pertain to the korbanos and then, afterwards, to the burning of ketores, why do we limit ourselves to passages from the Torah when it comes to the former, but ...
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"Eis" instead of "es" in the crop b'racha in the Amida
The ninth b'racha of the amida begins with the words
בָּרֵךְ עָלֵינוּ ה' אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ
אֶת הַשָּׁנָה הַזֹּאת
וְאֶת כָּל מִינֵי תְּבוּאָתָהּ לְטוֹבָה
where both את are vocalized with segol (three ...
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Ashkenazi hoshanot schedule when first day Sukkot is Monday
When the first day of sukkot is a Monday, the following is the standard Ashkenazi hoshanot schedule for the first six days (found in all siddurim/machzorim that I've seen and e.g. in Levush here):
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The sins mentioned in על חטא - why those?
This question about the "אשמנו" list is still left unanswered.
My question is about the apparent inconsistency of the "על חטא שחטאנו" list - so many different categories of sins are listed in the ABC ...
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Text of final blessing following haftarah of Yom Kippur
In my (nusach ashkenaz) machzor for Yom Kippur, the final blessing after the haftarah of shacharit concludes:
ודברך אמת וקיים לעד. ברוך אתה ה' מלך מוחל וסולח לעוונותינו וכו'
And Your word ...
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Why is the wording of the beraita consistently switched between shacharit and musaf?
There's a certain beraita (ת״ר פיטום הקטורת...) quoted in the gemara on כריתות ו. which is recited both as part of the morning order of korbanot as well as after musaf. There are a few ...
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Praying for someone who has given up
Is it worthwhile to pray for someone who is no longer trying to get a livelihood or be cured of an illness?
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