Preface v
Introduction 1
Key to
Symbols and Transliteration 2
Ta'anis: Chapter One
Section A
Suggestion for Study 3
Summary
Outline: Mishna 2a, 5a,10a 3
Summary
Outline: 2a 4
Overview:
Halakhic Justification in Praying for Rain 5
Overview:
Praying for Rain Within the Scheme of Modern Physics 6
Summary
Outline: 2b&3a 7
Analysis:
2a-3a: Import of Halakha I'Moshe miSinai 8
Summary
Outline: 4a&b 9
Chart and
Analysis: Tannaitic Positions Regarding the
Commencement of Hazkarah 9
Summary
Outline: Jerusalem Talmud 1:1, 1:2: Announcing
Morid
haGeshem 11
Summary
Outline: 3a&b, Jerusalem Talmud 12
Analysis:
3a&b 13
Customs regarding mentioning dew, wind and clouds
Customs regarding saying morid hatal in the summertime
Regarding the saying of mashiv haru'ach in the summertime
Regarding one who recited tal and geshem in the summer
Regarding one who recited morid hageshem in thesummertime
Summary
Outline: 3b: One who Forgets to Say Morid haGeshem
Analysis: 3b 16
Sequence Analysis:
3b-4a: Comparison of Rain to Torah 17
Aggadita: 4a 20
Young talmid chakham
Qualities of a talmid chakham
Summary Outline: 4a&b 22
Summary Outline:
Halakha with Regard to Sh'elah and Hazkarah 25
Chart and Analysis:
Dates for Beginning of Sh'elah in our Time
Summary Outline: 14b (Ninveh)
28
Overview: Relationship
Between Hazkarah and Sh'elah 30
Overview: Significance
of Tal 31
Section B
Aggadita 5a&b: Sequence
of R. Yitzchak's Statements
Summary Outline: 6a&b:
Yoreh and Malkosh 38
Summary Outline: The
Three Rainfalls 38
Summary Outline: 6b:
Blessing for Rain 40
Summary Outline: 7a-8a:
Exaltedness of Rain 41
Sequence Analysis: 7a־8b
42
Overview: Reasons for
Rain 46
Sequence Analysis:
7b-8a: Reason Rain is Withheld and Remedies 47
Sequence Analysis: 8a-b:
Barekh Alenu 48
Sequence Analysis: 8b־9b
49a
Section C
Summary Outline: 10a&b:
Y'chidim 50
Analysis: 10a&b 51
Aggadita: 10b־11a:
Communal Responsibility 54
Summary Outline: 11a,
22b: Status of Fasting 56
Summary Outline:
11b-12b: General Laws of Fasting 57
Summary Outline: 12b:
Exchanging a Fast Day 59
Analysis: 59
Ta'anis sha'os
During which t'fillos is anenu recited?
Parameters for anenu during a
ta'anis sha'os
Kabbalas Ta'anis
Summary Outline: 12a 65
Until When May One Eat?
Analysis:
Do
"Conditions" help?
Fasts
which begin at night
When
does the day begin
One
who accepts a ta'anis yachid
To
avoid the dilemma
Lan
b'ta'aniso
Circumstances under which a Fast may be exchanged
Rationale for exchanging a Fast
Section D
Summary Outline: 12b:
Second Series of Fasts 70
Summary Outline: 13a&b:
Washing of Fast Days 70
Advanced Analysis 72
Summary Outline:
Anenu 76
Analysis: 77
Where
does sh'liach tzibbur say anenu on public Fasts?
Where
does sh'liach tzibbur say anenu on private Fasts?
Where
does one say anenu when he fasts on Shabbos?
Summary Outlines:
14a-15a 78
Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
Last
Series of Fasts
Maximum Number of Fasts for Catastrophies Other than
Rain
Closing Stores
After
the Thirteen Fasts are Completed
Analysis 80
Thirteen Fast limit
Sequence of non-rain Fasts
Closing stores
Falling prostrate 83
Summary Outline: 14b:
Restrictions on Building 82
Ta'anis: Chapter Two
Introduction
Summary Outline: 15a-16a
83
Summary Outline:
Procedure for a Ta'anis Tzibbur 85
Overview: Two Approaches
to Prayer: Chuni haMa'agal 86
Summary Outline: 16a:
Earnestness of T'shuvah of Ninveh 88
Overview: The Need for
Fasting 90
Summary Outline: 15a,
16: Halakhic Qualifications of a
Sh'liach
Tzibbur
Aggadita: Cod's Choice
for Sh'liach Tzibbur 93
Overview: Not Allowing
Routine to Become Rut 94
Summary Outline: 15a,
16b: Additional Six Brakhos 96
Analysis: The Basis of
the Rambam-Rashi Dispute 98
Analysis: Relationship
Between Shofar and Brakha 99
Correspondence Of Seven
Brakhos to Mystical Spheres 100
Analysis:
Twenty Four Blessings 101
Background Information: M'gilas Ta'anis 102
Summary Outline: 15b,
17-18b,12a: 104
Status of Chanukah
and Purim 107
Analysis: 111
Prohibition against Fasting on Rosh Chodesh
When
do Congregational Vows Supercede Rosh Chodesh?
When
does an Individual's vows Supercede a M'gilas Ta'anis Day
Torah
Reading when Fasting Occurs on Rosh Chodesh
Background Information:
Additional Fast Days Mentioned in
the Shulchan Arukh
112
Ta'anis: Chapter Three
Introduction 115
Suggestions for Study
115
Summary Outline: Reasons
for which to Fast/Blow 115
Chatzotzeros/Shofar
Catastrophies Which are Limited to the People Affected
Catastrophies Which are of Concern to Surrounding Cities
Catastrophies Which Can Spread Throughout the Whole
Country
Chart: Relationship
between Mishnah and the Prayers of King
Solomon 120
Analysis: 121
Introduction: Chatzotzeros
Masri'in
Masri'in miyad
Masri'in b'kol makom
Summary Outline: 14a:
Masri'in 125
Analysis: 127
Masri'in b'Shabbos
Masri'im b'Shabbos: I'ezrah v'lo l'tze'aka
Praying on Shabbos for those endangered
Why
do we no longer blow Shofar or Chatzotzeros on Fast
Days?
Summary Outline: 19:
Batzores and Kafna 130
Summary Outline: 19a,
25, 10b 131
Overview: 132
Relationship Between the Stature of the Leader and that of
the
Congregation with regard to Prayers for Rain Aggadita: 133
Nakdimon b. Guryon
For
Whom the Walls Stand
Things Are Not Always the Way They Seem
R.
Ada b. Ahava's Longevity
R.
Huna and Communal Responsibility
Leaving Yeshiva: Ufa and R. Yochanan
Nachum Ish Gam Zu: What is Good?
Not
Praying for an Abundance of Blessing: Israel and
Diaspora
Aba
Umna, The Heavenly Academy and Engendering
Peace
Blessed Rains
Chuni:
Companionship and Effectiveness
Chanan ha'Nechbah: The Righteous Must be Implored
Sequence Analysis: 23b־24a
R.
Mani
R.
Yosi of Yokeres
R.
Eliezer b. Birsah
Summary Outline and Sequence Outline: 24b־25a
R.
Eliezer and R. Akiva
Ta'anis: Chapter
Four
Introduction 147
Summary Outline:
Kohanim 147
Birkas kohanim/n'siyas
kapayim
Status of a kohen
who drinks wine
Kohanim: Haircuts
Analysis: Birkas Kohanim—
150
On mincha of Fast
Days
On mincha of
Yom Kippur
On mincha of a
half-day Fast
Summary Outline:
Mishmaros and Ma'amados 151
Definition of
mishmaros
Definition of and reason
for ma'amados
What did the ma'amad
do?
Torah Reading
Situation in which
ma'amados are abrogated
Analysis 153
Op the origin of
mishmaros
The composition of the
ma'amados
What did the
yisraelim of the ma'amad do?
Jerusalem ma'amad
Non-Jerusalem
ma'amados
The number of prayers
recited by the ma'amad
Torah Reading
Regarding the suspension
of ma'amados
What
was suspended when there "was no ma'amad?"
On a
day of korban eitzim who did not have a ma'amad?
Neilah—
On
the Four Fast Days
On
Rain Days
Outside Israel
On
Sundays and Fridays
Overview: Ma'amados
157
Summary Outline: 26a,
28: Korban Eitzim 159
Analysis: Korban
Eitzim 160
Summary Outline: Rosh
Hashanah 18b: The Four Fasts 161
Overview: The Four Fasts
162
Summary Outline: 28b־29a
165
Summary Outline: Laws of
the Days Preceding 9 Av 167
Analysis: 169
Washing clothes during the week of 9 Av
Clothes washed before week of 9 Av
Washing in Babylonia/Diaspora
Definition of gihutz
Babylonia or the Diaspora
Clothes washed but not worn
Hair
cutting during the week of 9 Av
Washing one's body during the week of 9 Av
Making new clothes
Washing if 9 Av falls on Thursday
Summary Outline: Last
Meal Before 9 Av: 30a 171
Summary Outline:
Prohibitions of 9 Av 172
Analysis: Last Meal 173
Shnei
tavshilin
Seudah hamafsekes
Eating meat
Salted meat
Customs
Washing after seudah hamafsekes
Not
wearing shoes
Conjugal relations if 9 Av falls on Shabbos
Last
meal when 9 Av falls on Shabbos
Summary Outline: 30a:
Washing on 9 Av 177
Analysis: 177
Washing on Afternoon of 9 Av
Bride
and Groom
Torah
Study on and before 9 Av
What may be Studied
Ma'avir Sidrah
T'hilim
Torah
Study on Eve of 9 Av
Manner of Study
Studying with Children
9 Av
which Falls on Sunday 181
T'fillah
Havdalah
Milah
Sick
Person
Seder
Hayom
Summary Outline:
Nachem 183
Analysis:
Where
in sh'moneh esreh is nachem recited?
Forgot to Say Nachem in I'Y'rushalayim irkha
One
who Fasts on 10 Av
Summary Outline: 29b־30a
184
Siyum 186
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