"A boy in America spent nearly a year learning his Barmitzvah Parashah (Torah reading) and then came to Israel for the Shabbat of his Barmitzvah. However, to his shock he learned that that the Parashah that he had so studiously learned over the course of a year had been read on the previous Sha...

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1. Verfasser:	Simons, Chaim 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[Tolworth, Surrey] Grosvenor House Publishing Limited [2022]
Schlagworte:	Jüdisches Recht Halacha Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"A boy in America spent nearly a year learning his Barmitzvah Parashah (Torah reading) and then came to Israel for the Shabbat of his Barmitzvah. However, to his shock he learned that that the Parashah that he had so studiously learned over the course of a year had been read on the previous Shabbat! What happened? There are indeed a few occasions in some years when the Parashah read in Israel is not the same as that read in the Diaspora. One of the many papers in this book discusses this question. The following apparent anomalous questions are also discussed. The Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) gives a long list of days on which one (theoretically) fasts during the Jewish Year. For each of these days, a reason is given. However, in one case, the ninth day of the month of Tevet, the Shulchan Aruch declines to give a reason. Why and what is the reason for the secrecy? In the not-too-distant past there was the triennial cycle in Israel for reading the entire Torah. When this changed to the annual cycle as was the customary in the Diaspora, this caused a problem as to what to read from the Torah on Simchat Torah in Israel. What was the reason for this, and how was it solved? May one (although it is not recommended!) use black shoe polish to blacken the straps of a pair of Tefillin? [...]."
Beschreibung:	VI, 364 Seiten
ISBN:	9781803813103