This Halacha is an Excerpt from our Sefer Buy here or on Amazon.com What blessing is to be recited over a Tortilla wrap [i.e. Taco]? Corn/maize flour tortilla: If the Tortilla is made of corn/maize flour, and does not contain any of the five grain flours[1], then its blessing is Shehakol and requires […]
Wine mixed with water
The blessing of wine mixed with water: General rule:[1] If one mixed water into wine then all the following conditions must be met for the wine to retain its blessing of Hagafen: 1) The mixture contains at least 17% of wine.[2] 2) The strength of the wine justifies the amount […]
Educating people to recite blessings:
Educating people to recite blessings: A. Teaching children blessings:[1] It is permitted to teach children the proper blessings even not during their appropriate time [i.e., not during eating and drinking].[2] [The teacher may even recite Hashem’s name in the blessing in order to educate the children.[3] However it is […]
Reading Hashem’s name in a verse or Talmud
Reading Hashem’s name in a verse in the Mishneh, Talmud, or other learning text: Some Poskim[1] rule that when reading the Talmud [or other Torah Sefer] one may read Hashem’s name in the verses that are found in the text. [This applies even if the verses are not complete.[2]] Furthermore, […]
Putting on Tallis and Tefillin during Davening
What is one to do if his Tallis Gadol/Katan arrived in middle of Davening? Pesukei Dezimra:[1] One who did not have a Tallis [Gadol/Katan] [or forgot to put on a Tallis[2]] until he reached Yishtabach, is not to recite a blessing over the Tallis [Gadol/Katan] between Pesukei Dezimra [i.e. […]
Repeating words in Davening
1. May one repeat words in Davening? Certain words and sentences of reference to Hashem are forbidden to be repeated in close proximity if it can be viewed that the repetition is for the sake of a second deity. Although in the Talmud and Shulchan Aruch only specific phrases of […]
Reciting Shema before sunrise
Saying Shema prior to sunrise:[1] When Davening in a Vaasikin/Neitz Minyan:[2] The initial time for Davening Shemoneh Esrei is by sunrise. It is a Mitzvah Min Hamuvchar to read the Shema slightly prior to sunrise, intending to complete the Shema and its last blessing of Goal Yisrael with sunrise. Immediately […]
Davening with feces in another room
May one pray or learn in a room if he can see feces from his open door/window?[1] Cannot smell feces: If a person is in one room reading the Shema and the feces are in another room, then even if the door is opened between the two rooms and […]
Davening near a bathroom
Praying and learning Torah near a bathroom:[1] It is Biblically forbidden to learn Torah or pray within the sight or within a four cubit radius [i.e. two meters] of the walls of a bathroom, just as it is prohibited to learn or pray within the sight or within four cubits […]
Davening within sight of a mobile bathroom
Previous Halacha:: [1] If the bathroom in the park is its own structure, such as a mobile bathroom, or a building that is designated only as a bathroom, then one may not learn or pray within its four cubits [i.e. two meters]. Likewise one may not learn or pray if the […]
