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Blessing the Children: How To Bless: How To Place Hands
You may use one or two hands when giving a blessing, such as when blessing children on Shabbat or Jewish festivals. You may hold your hands over the person's head or actually put your hands on their head--either is OK.
Sukka: Dimensions: Minimum/Maximum
- A sukka must have at least three walls, but one of those walls may be as little as 1 tefach wide.
- A round sukka must extend to at least 270 degrees.
- Sukka height: More than 10 tefachim (40” or 1 m) high and less than 20 amot (33'4” or 10 m) tall.
- Minimum sukka width: 7 tefachim x 7 tefachim (28” x 28” or 71.1 cm x 71.1 cm).
- Maximum wall-to-ground gap for sukka: walls must be within 3 tefachim, or 10 ½” (27 cm) of the ground.
- Maximum permissible angle (slope) of a roof on a sukka is less than 45 degrees from horizontal.
- Schach: Must cover the sukka so that there is more shade than sun when the sun is directly overhead and must have at least enough space between the schach elements for rain to penetrate.
SheHecheyanu: New Fruits: Import/Export
Situation
A fruit is available year-round in one place.
That fruit is taken to a place where it is not available.
What To Do
You may say she'hecheyanu on the fruit in that second place.
A fruit is available year-round in one place.
That fruit is taken to a place where it is not available.
What To Do
You may say she'hecheyanu on the fruit in that second place.
SheHakol: Which Foods: Unrecognizable Foods
You must be able to recognize, from at least one piece, that an ingredient is from the ground or from a tree in order to say borei pri ha'adama or borei pri ha'eitz. If not, say she'hakol.
So say she'hakol on:
So say she'hakol on:
- All foods that did not grow in the ground or on a tree, but also
- Foods that you cannot personally identify as having grown in the ground or on a tree—either because it has been finely ground or processed or because you personally do not know what it is.
Example Even if you know that a kugel is made with potatoes, unless you can see recognizable pieces of potato, do not say borei pri ha'adama, but rather she'hakol.
Examples (Foods that Get SheHakol)
Examples (Foods that Get SheHakol)
- Apple Sauce.
- Beer, Cognac, Grape Brandy, and other alcoholic beverages other than wine and grape juice and their derivatives.
- Cheese and other Dairy Products (unless they contain grain).
- Eggs (plain).
- Fish.
- Fruits or vegetables whose identity is not recognizable.
- Honey.
- Ice Cream.
- Juice.
- Meat.
- Mushrooms.
- Poultry.
- Seaweed.
- Soda.
- Soup (clear).
- Sprouts.
- Water.
Tefilin: Chol HaMoed: In Eretz Yisrael
If you move to Eretz Yisrael (where no one wearstefilin on chol ha'moed) to live there permanently, do not continue to wear tefilin on chol ha'moed (if that was your custom).
If you are only visiting Eretz Yisrael but not living there permanently, follow your custom.
SituationYour custom is to wear tefilin on chol ha'moed, You are in Israel during chol ha'moed.
What to DoYou still put on tefilin, but only in private, not in public.
If you are only visiting Eretz Yisrael but not living there permanently, follow your custom.
SituationYour custom is to wear tefilin on chol ha'moed, You are in Israel during chol ha'moed.
What to DoYou still put on tefilin, but only in private, not in public.
If Bugs NOT Common on That Plant Grown in That Area
If less than one bug is usually found in 10 servings, you may simply wash the vegetables and then use them. If you happen to find a bug, you must remove it and you do not need to check the others.
Note If you find three bugs, you must check all of the food.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Hot Spills and Opposite Gender Utensil: Unused
Situation
- Hot food of one gender spills (falls into or onto) an empty utensil of the opposite gender.
- The utensil was unused at 120° F (49° C) or more for at least 24 hours.
- The utensil is usually non-kosher.
- The food is kosher.
Passover: Selling Chametz: Different Countries for You and Your Chametz
If you live in one country and go to another country for Passover, you must sell your chametz so that the chametz in each country is sold and re-acquired at the correct time based on where you are located but also on where your chametz is. Consult a rabbi.
Borei Pri Ha'Eitz: Five Special Fruits: Order and Preference
To eat more than one type of the Five Special Fruits:
- If you have a particular preference, you may eat the fruits in whichever order you prefer.
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If you have no particular preference, eat them in this order:
- Olive
- Date
- Grape
- Fig
- Pomegranate.
Note Order of Five Special Fruits
The order for eating the Five Special Fruits comes from Deuteronomy/Devarim 8:8 and follows the fruit's proximity to the two times the word “eretz” is used:
“Eretz chita u's'ora v'gefen u't'eina v'rimon, eretz zayit shemen u'dvash.”
A land of wheat and barley and grapevine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey.
The order for eating the Five Special Fruits comes from Deuteronomy/Devarim 8:8 and follows the fruit's proximity to the two times the word “eretz” is used:
“Eretz chita u's'ora v'gefen u't'eina v'rimon, eretz zayit shemen u'dvash.”
A land of wheat and barley and grapevine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey.
Pre-Yom Kippur: Yahrzeit Candle
On Yom Kippur, it is a universal custom to light one candle if one or both parents are deceased. Every married couple also lights one candle for themselves and their children (if any).
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Dishwashers: Accidental Mix-up
Situation After washing a load of utensils of one gender in your dishwasher, you find an item of the opposite gender in your dishwasher.
Status
Status
- The single item is non-kosher.
- The remaining items will most likely be kosher (as long as the single item is less than 1/60th of the total volume of items and water in the dishwasher).
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Liquid, UNCOVERED
Situation Two uncovered pans of food—one dairy, one meat—are baked at the same time in an oven. The contents of both pans are liquid (liquid before AND after cooking; even if not spicy).
Status They are both non-kosher, even if one pan is covered (but consult a rabbi for possible leniencies).
Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
Status They are both non-kosher, even if one pan is covered (but consult a rabbi for possible leniencies).
Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
- One is covered and contains liquid (even if not spicy);
- One is not covered and contains solid food.
Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
- One is covered and contains solid food.
- One is not covered and contains liquid (even if not spicy).
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Children
Children of any age, even babies, should wait one hour between eating dairy and meat-containing foods, unless there are health reasons not to wait.
From gil chinuch, children should wait 6 hours (or however long it is your custom to wait) between eating meat and dairy.
From gil chinuch, children should wait 6 hours (or however long it is your custom to wait) between eating meat and dairy.
Fore-Blessing (Bracha Rishona): Liquid from Food
When you have said a fore-blessing on one type of food, such as borei pri ha'adama on vegetables, you do not need to say she'hakol on the liquid that remains after having eaten the solid vegetables.
Reason The fore-blessing covers all components, even if they are not the same classification.
Note If you ate the vegetables, said the after-blessing, and then later came back and drank the liquid, you would need to say she'hakol.
Note If you ate the vegetables, said the after-blessing, and then later came back and drank the liquid, you would need to say she'hakol.
Yichud Room
The couple goes to the yichud room. The witnesses must make sure that no one else is inside and that there is only one entrance/exit. The couple is locked in for five minutes. They must eat some food while inside.