Daily Tanya Wednesday 5th Menachem Av Igeres Hakodesh 1 Part 3: Accountability for Prayer Diligence

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Who Should Lead Prayer on Weekdays

  • During weekdays, those who have free time, such as teachers or individuals supported by their families, should serve as prayer leaders.
  • Businesspeople, who typically lack the time, are generally exempt from this responsibility during the week.
  • The one who leads prayer should be chosen by lot or community consensus.

Who Should Lead Prayer on Sabbaths and Festivals

  • On Shabbat and festivals, when businesspeople also have free time, everyone is encouraged to extend their prayers with heartfelt intention.
  • On these days, it is especially important for all community members to participate, both in prayer and potentially leading services.
  • Leadership should again be determined by lot or consensus.

Accountability for Prayer Diligence

  • Secret observers may be sent to monitor who is able and willing to extend and deepen their prayers, as a form of community encouragement and accountability.
  • Those who are able but neglectful may face communal distancing from certain honors or privileges.

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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