Unit 4
What bracha do you say on washing your hands?
על נטילת ידים
What does בדיעבד mean?
What does every community have to have?
A shul
Why can't you hold a knife during davening?
it could fall and distract you
How many steps do you take back for the amida?
3 steps
If you can't wash your hands, what do you do?
Why don't we wear our best clothes everyday?
to save them for special occasions
Why should should someone leave shul slowly?
So that he does not appear happy to leave shul
When can you hold tefilin during davening?
If you're worried it might be stolen
How many total steps to you take over the course of the entire amida?
12 steps
What are you supposed to wash with?
A vessel
What are men obligated to cover during davening?
Their heads
If there is a minyan at someone's house with 11 people and one at shul with 10 people, where should you go?
Better to go to shul
Why shouldn't you leave a backpack on?
Because it is respectful
What should a person with a cold do before amida?
Blow your nose
According to Sefardim, when are you not supposed to wash your hands
If you stay up all night
What is the minimum that one can wear?
Whatever suffices to cover one's ערוה/tee shirt and shorts
Whose custom was it to have a set place for prayer? (one of the avot)
Avraham
What should you do if you need to yawn in the middle of davening?
Do it in the most respectful way. Cover your mouth.
If a person has to lie down when they daven the amida, how should they position themselves?
Put their feet together
How far does water need to be for you to not have to wash with it?
1 mil or approx. 0.5 miles
Which of the following is more important : wearing nice clothes or davening with a minyan?
Davening with a minyan. If you don't have time to change your clothes, you should go to shul anyone and not miss the minyan.
Why do we have assigned seats during Tefilah?
It is a mitzvah and to show our connection w/ hashem is permanent
Convert 4 "kabin" to contemporary measurements.
5.5 kilograms or 12 pounds.
Generally, one should not eat within 30 minutes of when you can daven maariv. Under what circumstances is it permissible to eat even though the time for maariv has already arrived?
1) if you have a set time you always daven maariv
2) if you appoint a "shomer" to remind you to daven later