Kitzur Yomi: Morning Tefila

Covers the chazzan's repetition of the Amidah: waiting before beginning, not starting the next blessing until the congregation answers, and joining your feet at Kedusha. Also covers Modim and Sim Shalom.

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Main Concepts

The Baal Tefila’s Responsibility (1-2, 9)

- The Baal Tefila’s Responsibility (1-2, 9)

- Community’s Responsibility (2,11)

- Kedusha (4,12)

- Birkas Kohanim (6)

- Modim (5)

- Mistakes (8,10)

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Covers making up a missed prayer: it applies to an unintentional or forced omission, only at the very next prayer, and with the same prayer that is due then. Also covers days with an added Musaf.

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

Main Concepts

When a Tashlumim is allowed (1-2)

What is the Tashlumim prayer (2,6-10)

When it is said (3-5)

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Covers Tachanun and Nefilas Apayim: how to lean, sitting or standing, and where it may be said. Also lists times and places where Tachanun is omitted, such as at a circumcision.

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

Main Concepts

- What is Tachanun (1)

- Position (2-4)

- When Tachanun is not said (5-8)

- Mondays and Thursdays (9-10)

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Covers the Torah reading: carrying the Torah scroll to the lectern, the oleh's conduct, standing, and not holding the scroll with bare hands. Includes the blessings and the congregation's responses.

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Main Concepts

Part 1

- Taking the Torah out (1,29)

- Getting an Aliya (2-8)

- Who gets called when (9-12)

Covers the Torah reading: carrying the Torah scroll to the lectern, the oleh's conduct, standing, and not holding the scroll with bare hands. Includes the blessings and the congregation's responses.

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

Part 2

- Limitations who can get called (13-17,24)

- The parameters of an Aliya (19-22)

- Mistakes (18,23)

- Returning the Torah (24-30)

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Covers defects in a Torah scroll that make it unfit for reading, such as errors in words, joined letters and letters that lost their shape. Also covers doubts about a letter and showing it to a child.

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

Main Concepts

- What mistakes are a problem (1-6,11-12)

- What to do if a mistake is found (7-10)

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Covers the closing prayers after the Amidah: Ashrei, Uva Letziyon with its Kedushah, and Aleinu. Notes not leaving before the Kedushah and the verse said when leaving the synagogue.

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

Main Concepts

- The prayers at the end of tefila (1-5)

Covers the mourner's role in the synagogue: saying Kaddish, being called to maftir and acting as chazzan. Explains who has priority between shivah, sheloshim, yorzeit and the year of mourning.

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Main Concepts

Part 1

- The value of saying kaddish (1,22)

- Who Says Kadish (15,19-20)

- When to say kadish? (17,19)

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Covers the mourner's role in the synagogue: saying Kaddish, being called to maftir and acting as chazzan. Explains who has priority between shivah, sheloshim, yorzeit and the year of mourning.

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

Main Concepts

Part 2

- Precedence (2-13)

- Application to Leading Tefila (14-18,22)

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