Questions tagged [geshem-tal-ruach]
prayers for rain and dew in the second and ninth blessing of the Amida
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The reward of rain
The Torah and other Sources quote God many times as saying:
If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its ...
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Why does chutz laaretz pray for rain when Iraq needs it?
Tain tal is supposed to be a prayer for rain for local areas. However, most of Europe and the U.S. needs it when Israel does. Babylonia needed it for late November because that's when the Tigris and ...
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Why Sephardim say לברכה after משיב הרוח
After the chazzan says משיב הרוח in the chazara, most Sephardim reply לברכה, as if to say Gd should only bring rain for blessing and not to cause any harm. But if we know based off the first Mishnah ...
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What is the status of a Tefilah in which one prayed for rain when he shouldn’t have?
if one prayed for rain in Minchah of Erev Shabbos, and only remembered once Shabbos came in, when we don’t say that Berachah - is it the same as one who forgot to say “Ya’aleh Ve’yavo”, and only ...
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Why do we not say משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם after אַתָּה גִבּוֹר לְעוֹלָם אֲדֹנָי מְחַיֵּה מֵתִים אַתָּה רַב לְהוֹשִׁיעַ recited in the cemetery?
I asked the question When visiting the cemetery do we say משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם in the blessing of אֲשֶׁר יָצַר אֶתְכֶם בַּדִּין?
and later answered it:
we do not say משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם after ...
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When visiting the cemetery do we say משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם in the blessing of אֲשֶׁר יָצַר אֶתְכֶם בַּדִּין?
When visiting the cemetery after a break of 30 days, it is customary to say Nusach Ashkenaz
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר יָצַר אֶתְכֶם
בַּדִּין וְזָן וְכִלְכֵּל אֶתְכֶם ...
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Time to say Vsein Tal Umatar [duplicate]
Orach Chaim 117:1 says that we begin Tal Umatar in Eretz Yisrael on 7 Cheshvan.
See also Aruch Hashulchan 117:2 where he mentions the reason for first beginning on 7 Cheshvan is to give the Olei ...
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Why do we stop saying Morid Hageshem?
From Pesach until Succos, we stop saying mashiv haruach umorid hageshem in shemoneh esrei.
However, we would normally say it in the second blessing of the amidah, which is where we are only praising ...
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How to announce "not to say mashiv haruach" since such an announcement is improper?
The Mishnah Berurah (114:3) says:
ולהכריז להדיא שיפסקו מלומר מוריד הגשם ג"כ אין נכון מפני שנראה כממאנים בגשמים ... ע"כ פסק הרמ"א בס"ג שנוהגין שלא להפסיק מלהזכיר גשם עד תפלת המנחה ...
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Shmini Atzeres; praying without minyan; when to daven Musaf; alternative strategy?
Kitzur Shulchan Oruch 19 directs
During the winter we add mashiv haruach (Causer of the wind to blow)
umorid hageshem (and the rain to fall) to the second berachah of
Shemoneh Esrei. We begin (this ...
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Why don’t we say “vetein tal lev’racha”?
According to those who say “morid hatal” in the second b’racha of Shemoneh Esrei between Pesach and Sukkos, why don’t they also say vetein tal lev’racha in the ninth b’racha (instead of vetein b’racha)...
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Mistake first night of Pesach vs Dec 4 on Friday night
The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch writes in Siman 19 Halacha 9, that if one began his Shemoneh Esrei on the first night of Pesach and he accidentally began saying a weekday amidah and he came to the Bracha of ...
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If dew is automatic why do we have Tefillas Tal?
I heard in a dvar Torah that Tal, dew, is automatic (or much more so than rain). This is connected to the view that Pesach represents אתערותא דלעילא that is that HaShem helps us even though we are not ...
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Why is a kittel worn by Shat"z for Tal and Geshem?
Besides looking for a source of the minhag of shat"z to wear a kittel for Tal and Geshem (I couldn't find it, and I have limited internet access where I am, now) what is the reason for it?
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A few questions on the meaning of טל
What do the words "מוריד הטל" mean? Dew does not "fall" or "come down".
Also what do the words "ותן טל...לברכה" mean? What is an example of טל not לברכה?
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