Showing posts with label midnight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midnight. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 October 2013

pesachim 120

falling asleep and dozing during the seder...

letting the moment for the matzah slip from the hands

(the mishna rules that if one falls asleep during the seder it isn't considered an interruption to the meal and can continue eating the Pesach, as long as others around the table stay awake. and dozing is ok... and that it needs to be eaten by midnight, after which the Pesach is considered as something that makes the hands impure)

Sunday, 5 August 2012

brachot 4


the rabbis make hazardous fences and say that the shema can be said up til midnight.
but without a clock who knows when midnight is?

a pious king is woken at midnight by the wind-played instrument and sings alphabetical praises,

and the angels take flight.













(english translation of this page of talmud can be read here)