This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Tachanun and eulogies:[1] Tachanun: Tachanun is omitted from the first day of Sivan until after Shavuos.[2] One is to omit Tachanun until the 12th of Sivan, including the 12th of Sivan, [and so is the Chabad custom].[3] [Tachanun is resumed […]
Valuing time on Shavuos
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com The value of time the days preceding Shavuos:[1] The Rebbe notes of the Rebbe Rayatz that the period of time during the days preceding Shavuos were utterly precious to him and were hence used wisely. ____________________________________________________________ [1] Otzer Minhagei Chabad […]
Shabbos Mevarchim Sivan
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Shabbos Mivarchim Sivan: Av Harachamim:[1] Av Harachamim is recited on Shabbos Mivarchim Sivan.[2] Vayehi Noam:[3] When Yom Tov falls on a weekday, including if it falls on Erev Shabbos, the entire[4] prayer of Vayehi Noam is customarily omitted on the […]
Baking Challas for Shavuos
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Baking Challahs:[1] It is customary for every household to bake Challahs for Yom Tov which is used for Lechem Mishneh, and not to buy them at the bakery as is done during the week. This matter of baking one’s own […]
Eating a meal on Erev Yom Tov
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Eating a meal on Erev Yom Tov:[1] * These laws follow the same laws as Erev Shabbos. For the full details of this subject-See our Sefer “The Laws & Customs of Erev Shabbos” Chapter 5 A large feast:[2] It is […]
Blood Tests on Erev Shavuos
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Blood test:[1] It is forbidden to let blood on Erev Shavuos.[2] [Thus, one is not to have a blood test, or other form of blood work, done on Erev Shavuos, unless it involves a case of danger.[3]] ______________________________________________________________ [1] Admur […]
Birchas Hashachar if one didn’t sleep
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Supplement on reciting Brachos on Shavuos morning if one did not sleep at night Taken from “Awaking like a Jew” chapter 4 Halacha 16; Chapter 8 Halacha 4 1. The definition of not having slept:[1] One who did not […]
Crossing the International Dateline during Sefira
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com What is the law if one crossed the international dateline during Sefira and went back or forward a weekday? What number Sefira is he to count, and when does he celebrate Shavuos?[1] A. Background-Is Shavuos celebrating the day that the […]
Plants on Shabbos and Yom Tov
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Supplement on Plants on Shabbos and Yom Tov taken from “The Laws of Shabbos” Volume 3 1. Are flowers and plants Muktzah on Shabbos/Yom Tov?[1] If one bought or designated the plants before Yom Tov for purpose of decoration, then […]
Is Shavuos celebrating the day the Torah was given
This Halacha is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy me here or on Amazon.com Is Shavuos celebrating the day that the Torah was given?[1] Based on the previous Halacha, the holiday of Shavuos is not dependent at all as to when the giving of the Torah occurred, and it’s just that now, due to […]
