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🎶 Customs of Shabbos Shirah

🧍‍♂️ A. Standing for Shirah

The custom is to stand during the Torah reading of Shirat HaYam.

📜 B. Zecher / Zeicher Amalek

Both pronunciations are read:
• 📌 Beshalach & Purim: First Zecher, then Zeicher
• 📌 Chabad custom: Repeat only the word, not the entire verse

🌾 C. Eating Buckwheat / Kashe

A cherished minhag to eat buckwheat (kasha) on Shabbos Shirah.

🐦 D. Feeding Animals

General halacha:
• ✔️ Allowed only for animals dependent on you for food
• ❌ Not permitted for birds, bees, pigeons, or wild animals
• ❌ One may not place food before them on Shabbos

Regarding giving wheat to birds on Shabbos Shirah:
• 🕊️ Though a well‑known old custom, Chabad does not do so on Shabbos
• 🍽️ To honor the custom, food may be placed before Shabbos
• ❤️ Teach children the importance of compassion toward animals

Pshat on The Parsha

Parshas Beshalach-Summary of Parsha

1) Bnei Yisrael journey after leaving Egypt: 2) Pharaoh chases after Bnei Yisrael: 3) Bnei Yisrael realize they are under attack by the Egyptian army:
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Parshas Beshalach-Parsha Bee

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Parshas Vaeira-Parsha Insights

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Chassidus on The Parsha

Parshas Beshalach-Mamar Torah Or

The purpose of the Mun
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Parshas Beshalach-Selected Teachings from Torah Or

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The Rebbe on The Parsha

Parshas Beshalach-Likkutei Sichos

Shalosh Seudos-An investigation into the mystical meal that customarily has little food
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A Story on The Parsha

Parshas Vaeira-Chassidic story & lesson

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Halacha on The Parsha

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About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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