Kitzur Yomi: Morning Ritual

Introduces the fundamental rule of keeping Hashem before you always, and how to rise in the morning with strength and awareness of Whom you serve. Covers when to rise, midnight Tikun Chatzos, and which texts may not be recited in unclean places.

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Main Concepts

- Being in Front of one’s creator at all times (1-2)

- Waking Up Strong (3-4)

- Night Prayers (5-7)

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Covers the morning washing of the hands from a vessel, since a person is regarded as newly created each morning. Includes the order of dressing, how to pour the water, and what may not be touched before washing.

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Main Concepts

- Reasons Washing Hands in the Morning

- Gray Areas

- Practical Matters of Washing

- Other Times Washing is Needed

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Covers modesty in dressing and undressing, avoiding gentile styles, and not wearing extravagant or tattered clothing. Also gives the order of putting on garments, with deference to the right side.

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Main Concepts

- Modesty (1)

- Secular styles (2-3)

- How to put on clothes (4-5)

- Appropriate bearing (6-8)

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Covers conduct in the lavatory: maintaining cleanliness and modesty, not thinking Torah thoughts there, and washing the hands afterward. Includes the blessing of Asher Yatzar.

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Main Concepts

- Going to the bathroom when needed (1)

- Appropriate behavior in the bathroom (2-5)

- Bracha of Asher Yatzar (6)

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Covers the laws of keeping holy words and thoughts away from excrement, urine and foul odor, and the required distance from them. Includes the cases of an infant, doubtful cases and covering waste.

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Main Concepts

Part 1

- What is considered unclean? (1-7)

- Areas affected (8-11)

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Covers the laws of keeping holy words and thoughts away from excrement, urine and foul odor, and the required distance from them. Includes the cases of an infant, doubtful cases and covering waste.

Morning Ritual. Siman 5 (Part 2): Cleanliness in holy http://paMcoersn.ing Ritual. Siman 6: Brachos and Amen.

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Main Concepts

Part 2

- Places considered unclean (12-14)

- Laws of nakedness (15-17)

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Covers the rules for reciting a blessing: knowing which blessing to say, a clear mouth, and never using Hashem's Name in vain. Includes how to proceed in cases of doubt.

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Main Concepts

- Proper Intent during brachos (1-2)

- Avoiding saying Hashem’s name in vain (3-6)

- One hundred daily brachos (7)

- Responses to brachos (8-11)

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Covers the morning blessings: when each may be recited, who may say them, and what to do if you did not say them before prayer. Includes whether to answer Amein after La'asok B'divrei Torah.

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Main Concepts

- Details of individual brachos (1-4)

- Being awake the whole night (5)

- Forgetting brachos before tefila (6-8)

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Covers what is forbidden after daybreak until prayer: starting work, eating, drinking, visiting a friend or starting Torah study. Notes which drinks and activities are permitted.

Learning Halacha in a year with Rabbi Trump through the prism of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.

Main Concepts

- Personal needs before praying (1)

- Eating before praying (2-4)

- Greeting others before praying (5)

- Torah learning before praying (6)

- How this relates to women

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