Questions tagged [sleep]
For questions pertaining about sleep, like what happens when you sleep, when are you allowed to sleep, and waking up after sleep.
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Minhag to not sleep in socks to show that we aren't shedim?
My wife told me that she heard a shiur that claimed that there was a minhag to not sleep with socks on so that others can see that we don't have chicken feet and aren't a sheid/demon because of this ...
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Listening to shiurim in bed
Can one fall asleep listening to shiurim about stories, not gemara or Chumash, but really just stories?
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Talking after Hamapil blessing [duplicate]
It is customary to say the hamapil blessing before going to sleep at night. Some people are strict in saying this nightly, some are more lax. I don't know if this has any halachic source.
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Can 3 women do dream rectification
According to the Shulchan Aruch OC 220:1 when one has a dream which makes them anxious, they can have 3 people rectify it.
My question is, can this be done by 3 women?
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More sleep vs more learning
I'm looking for the source of an achron, I believe, who says that a Torah Scholar should get a good night's rest; while possibly foregoing some amount of learning at night so that the learning of the ...
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Haman and God sleeping
Is there a source for Haman claiming that God is "sleeping" during the time he wanted to commit the genocide?
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What happened during Matan Torah and when?
The Rebbe suggested that HaShem was pleased when He came to give them the Torah and saw everyone still sleeping in the early morning. Other sources indicated G-d's wrath: how dare Israelites make G-d ...
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Can I drink water in middle of the night without washing my hands?
If we are unable to say Hashem’s name with impure hands (in this case caused by sleeping) and I wake up in the middle of the night extremely thirsty, would I need to get out of bed and wash netilas ...
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Special Shabbos pajamas
I heard in a shuir that the Kaf H'chaim writes that one should have special shabbos pajamas. Does anyone know where it says it
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Source for not sleeping above a sefer Torah
Where can I find the source not to sleep above a sefer Torah, online, in hebrew? I was told it comes from R' Yehudah Hachasid.
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Why did God create sleep?
Is there any profound explanation why God created sleep for humans? Are there animals that don't sleep and rest by shutting down one hemisphere of the brain at a time, because that mechanism wouldn't ...
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Davening in "night clothes"
The lockdowns and subsequent increase in work-from-home families has created a new set of circumstances worth thinking about.
It is against halacha to daven in a "sleeping robe" שלאף ראק. ...
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Rambam’s view on sleep applying nowadays?
The Rambam states that when falling asleep, one should start off sleeping on his left side, and then switch to the right eventually, and then just rotate between those two positions for the entire ...
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60 breaths while sleeping
After sleeping, when one sleeps 60 breaths or more, they have to do netilat yadayim. Is 60 breaths a span of time, or a calculated amount of breaths one takes while sleeping?
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Is it forbidden to sleep in a bed where a husband and wife usually sleep?
The Nitei Gavriel 51:6 writes that it is a midas chasidus (pious trait) not to even look at a married couple’s bed. So maybe actually sleeping in their bed would be an outright issur (prohibition).
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