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Rabbi Yosef in Halachot for Rosh Hashana: Praying outside, shortening in prayers | Israel today

2020-09-03T17:45:17.079Z


| synagogueIn preparation for the Tishrei holidays, the Chief Rabbi instructs to shorten the prayers and hold them in the morning, outside the synagogues. • In addition, he clarified: Sick at risk - food on Yom Kippur A worshiper blows the shofar at the Western Wall // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon These days many questions arise on our table regarding prayers and the matzah of blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah


In preparation for the Tishrei holidays, the Chief Rabbi instructs to shorten the prayers and hold them in the morning, outside the synagogues. • In addition, he clarified: Sick at risk - food on Yom Kippur

  • A worshiper blows the shofar at the Western Wall // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

These days many questions arise on our table regarding prayers and the matzah of blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah during this difficult period of the corona virus, to observe them as smart matzahs, and according to the observance and restrictions of the Ministry of Health.

First of all, I would like to make it clear that we must obey the instructions of the Ministry of Health, wear a mask, keep a distance of a few meters from each other, open all the windows in the synagogue, so that God forbid they do not infect each other. R., and anyone who does not wear a mask and does not keep his distance and so on, and because of this has infected others, especially if he has infected someone who has background illnesses and caused his death which was very serious.

Our doctrine is the doctrine of life, and commands us "and you are very much saved for your souls," and the Torah further said, "and live in them," and the sages demanded in Gm. Yoma here: and do not die in them.

Therefore mental supervision rejects the entire Torah, a patient who is in danger of eating on Yom Kippur, desecrating Shabbat on a patient who is in even doubt of danger.

And as Maimonides wrote (Chapter 2 of the Laws of Shabbat Halacha 3) in this language: "And it is forbidden to delay the desecration of the Sabbath for a patient who is in danger, it is said 'who will make them man and live in them and not die in them'.

And the Tosafot have already written (BK 26) that "a person should be more careful not to harm others than not to harm", and certainly in the general prohibition against harming his friend, also the duty to prevent a situation that could infect his friend with the disease HV.

Slichot

- Those who are in isolation, can go out by duty over the phone and other means of communication.

Allowing vows

- Those who are in solitary confinement, can go out by duty through the telephone and the media, in such a way that they will tell the public the wording of the permit, and those who allow it will aim to exclude all listeners and participants in any way.

Synagogues

- The worshiping public must be distributed in a way that meets the requirements of the Ministry of Health.

- It is preferable to arrange minyanim in an open and defined area, and take care of shading and good air, and that the sun does not burn on the heads of the worshipers, and make sure as much as possible that there is a comfortable, clean and tidy place to pray there.

- In order to accommodate the maximum number of worshipers, it is advisable to arrange two minyanim, the first in the hot hawk and the second after it.

And in the number of hawk they will be shortened as much as possible.

prayers  

- Where necessary, such as when there is a great heat and the mass stay should be shortened, the Gabayim will shorten the sale of the mitzvos and those who bless.

- The melodies and piyyutim should be shortened and not extended and before the recitation of the Shatz they will only say the piyyut 'Athano Lahalot', and will not help the Shatz at the end of each section as usual.

- The rabbis will shorten in the sermon that precedes the blasts, but will hasten the people in short words to provoke them to repentance and aim to go out 18 and the instructions of Halacha and such as not to answer , But will say immediately and be pleasant and start sticking.

Blowing the shofar

- The rabbis of the cities and moshavim will try to encourage those who know how to poke according to all the laws of the blasts, who will try to win the many to poke in as many quorums as they can, take out the many by duty, and a good blessing will come upon them.

- The public must be warned to stay away from the blower so that they are not splashed from the saliva coming out of the wide mouth of the shofar.

And only where there is no other choice and the place is very crowded, can you order the Shatz to stick in the shofar with the mask cover on the edge of the shofar, provided that the mask is tightened well with a rubber band that does not enter the shofar into the shofar slightly, That no change is made by the mask in the sound of the shofar.

- Time to blow the shofar from the hot hawk until it sets.

And the worshiper in the units can hear the sound of the shofar even before the prayer.

- An individual for whom the stabber came to stab, should stand at the time of the blasts.

The one who puts out the others by duty, will bless for them a blessing to hear the sound of a shofar and a blessing that we have lived.

- An individual who hears the sound of a shofar, if the piercer intends to take out all the listeners and the listener intends to leave, goes out of duty, even in a way that the piercer is far from home, because there is no distance lesson to hear the sound of a shofar.

- A patient or who is in isolation or in a high-risk group, who cannot reach the synagogue, will pray all the prayers in his house, and will try to get a pointer that he can poke near his house and hear the blasts through the window or in any way that does not endanger him.

Even when the door of the house is closed, Yadach comes out when the sound of the shofar is heard.

Mussaf prayer

- The one who prays in units cannot pray before three hours.

- The one who prays alone must not stop hearing the sound of the shofar, especially since he must not blow himself.

women

- Those who come to the synagogues every year for the prayers of the holy days, do not have to come to the synagogue and do not need to be warned about it.

- Because the women do not have to blow up, if there is no place in the synagogue, it is possible to schedule special blows for the women in the afternoon. And the one who stabs the women will not bless them with blessings, but otherwise another person is found in a place that has not heard blasts.

Throw it away

- Where there is a shuffle, they say they will throw in the first UT that fell on Shabbat. And the isolators can say in units in their house near a bowl of water or an open tap.

In prayer to the Creator of the world who will send complete healing to all the sick, and stop the plague and destroyer above us and above all Israel, and above all the inhabitants of the world, and hear good news of salvation and comfort, and be written and signed in the Book of Life and Peace.

Source: israelhayom

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