Sunday, September 30, 2012

KOL HASHONEH HALACHOT BECHOL YOM MUVTACH LO SHEH'HOO BEN HA'OLAM HABA


For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L. Lehavdeel For the Refua Shlema of Yaakov Hai ben Margalit shlit’a.
Translated from Rav Ovadia’s Halacha Emails (Halachayomit.co.il):

1. It is a Mitzvat Ashe (positive) from the Torah to eat Kazayit Pat (27 grmas of bread) in 5 minutes in the Sukkah on the first night of Sukkot (tonight). If one eats the bread in 7 minutes they have fulfilled the obligation as well but on a bediavad level (minimum fulfillment). Hachamim (our Sages) teach from the Pasuk regarding Sukkot that one must make his/her Sukkah like their home and if they are suffering/unsatisfied with the Sukkah conditions they do not have to eat in the Sukkah, even if it falls on the first night where its an obligation from the Torah to eat in the Sukkah! Therefore, if its raining, the light turned off in the Sukkah, there are harsh winds, there are mosquitoes and bugs or anything of the like (ask your Rabbi) then one is exempt from sitting in the Sukkah. However, if one wants to be stringent and sit even in the rain in their Sukkah, they can sit but they are forbidden to say the Beracha (blessing) of sitting in the Sukkah (found in Mahzorim).

2. During all the days of Sukkot (except of Shabbat) we shake the Lulav (tied with Hadasim and Aravot) in our right hand and Etrog in our left in 7 directions and say the Beracha beforehand: Asher Kideshanu BeMitzvotav VeTzivanu Al Netilat Lulav. On the first day (tomorrow morning) we say the Beracha of Shehecheyanu as well. After Hallel the kehila (congregation) takes out a Sefer Torah and the Hazzan holds it in the center of Shul symbolizing an angel and the entire kehila dances around him to remember the days in the Bet HaMikdash, when Am Yisrael used to dance around the mizbeah (alter in the Bet HaMikdash) during Sukkot.

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