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Mincha and Ma'ariv
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Ma’ariv Times
When is the earliest time a person is allowed to Daven Ma'ariv?
When does Mincha Start?
The source for davining Mincha is in this weeks Parasha. When is the optimal time to daven mincha?
Is It Time For Maariv?
When is the correct time to daven maariv? Why is there no repetition of shmoneh esrei for maariv? Must women daven maariv?
Woman's Pray
Ideally, a woman should pray both Shacharit and Mincha every day in accordance with the majority opinion.
Lessons on Mincha and Ma'ariv
Maariv Around the Time of Chatzot
When I have the chance to daven Maariv only close to chatzot (astronomical midnight), dilemmas arise. Sometimes I have time to either recite Kri’at Shema or Shemoneh Esrei before chatzot, but not both; which has precedence? Other times, I can daven all of Maariv before chatzot at home, but if I go to our local “minyan factory,” the minyan misses chatzot; which is better?
Lessons
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
