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# An individual may say the Selichot that don’t include the thirteen attributes <ref> Mishna Brurah 581:4, Chazon Ovadyah (Yamim Noraim, pg 11). </ref> One can however, read the Yud Gimmel middot (13 attributes) with the cantillation as if he is simply reading the torah. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:47, Yalkut Yosef Tefilla 2: page 131, Chazon Ovadia yamim Noraim 27, http://halachayomit.co.il/EnglishDefault.asp?HalachaID=2135. Iggerot Moshe YD 3:21 allows them to be recited without a minyan as long you use any melody other than the one used for prayer, and doesn't require that it be the same cantilations as the torah. </ref> Without a minyan, one also cannot recite the paragraphs that are in aramaic. <ref> Mateh Efraim 581:21, Yabia Omer 10:footnotes to Rav Pealim OC 3:41 </ref> | # An individual may say the Selichot that don’t include the thirteen attributes <ref> Mishna Brurah 581:4, Chazon Ovadyah (Yamim Noraim, pg 11). </ref> One can however, read the Yud Gimmel middot (13 attributes) with the cantillation as if he is simply reading the torah. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:47, Yalkut Yosef Tefilla 2: page 131, Chazon Ovadia yamim Noraim 27, http://halachayomit.co.il/EnglishDefault.asp?HalachaID=2135. Iggerot Moshe YD 3:21 allows them to be recited without a minyan as long you use any melody other than the one used for prayer, and doesn't require that it be the same cantilations as the torah. </ref> Without a minyan, one also cannot recite the paragraphs that are in aramaic. <ref> Mateh Efraim 581:21, Yabia Omer 10:footnotes to Rav Pealim OC 3:41 </ref> | ||
# If there’s not a minyan when the tzibbur said Ashrei, they should wait to have a minyan to say Kaddish and when they get a minyan they first say 3 pesukim before reciting Kaddish. <ref>Mishna Brurah 581:4 quoting the Eliyah Rabba </ref> | # If there’s not a minyan when the tzibbur said Ashrei, they should wait to have a minyan to say Kaddish and when they get a minyan they first say 3 pesukim before reciting Kaddish. <ref>Mishna Brurah 581:4 quoting the Eliyah Rabba </ref> | ||
# If there was a minyan in the beginning and then some people left, they can continue and even say Kaddish after Selichot. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 581:4 </ref> | # If there was a minyan in the beginning and then some people left, they can continue and even say Kaddish after Selichot. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 581:4. Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 23 says not to say the kaddish titkabal at the conclusion of selichot if you no longer have ten people. </ref> | ||
# If one hears the Yud Gimmel Middot or Kaddish in a live via radio or video he can answer. If it is recorded, he cannot answer. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 21 </ref> | # If one hears the Yud Gimmel Middot or Kaddish in a live via radio or video he can answer. If it is recorded, he cannot answer. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 21 </ref> | ||
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# Any Jew is fit for being a Shliach Tzibbur as long as the congregation accepts him. <Ref> Rama 581:1 </ref> | # Any Jew is fit for being a Shliach Tzibbur as long as the congregation accepts him. <Ref> Rama 581:1 </ref> | ||
# Preferably, the congregation should carefully choose a proper Shliach Tzibbur who is married, thirty years old, and the more he is learned and practices good deeds the better. <Ref> Rama 581:1 </ref> However, someone who is learned and Yireh Shamayim is preferred over someone who lacks these qualities but fits the requirements of being married and thirty years old. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 581:13 </ref> | # Preferably, the congregation should carefully choose a proper Shliach Tzibbur who is married, thirty years old, and the more he is learned and practices good deeds the better. <Ref> Rama 581:1 </ref> However, someone who is learned and Yireh Shamayim is preferred over someone who lacks these qualities but fits the requirements of being married and thirty years old. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 581:13 </ref> | ||
# The minhag has become to permit paying the shaliach tzibbur and the baal tokea for the yamim noraim since it is for a mitzva. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 19, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 39 </ref> | |||
==Wearing Talit for Selichot== | ==Wearing Talit for Selichot== | ||
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# In general, one should not do Hatarat Nedarim at night if the Hatarat Nedarim isn't needed for Shabbat. For a congregation there is room to be lenient regarding performing Hatarat Nedarim on Shabbat or on Yom Kippur itself.<ref>Chazon Ovadyah (p. 263)</ref> | # In general, one should not do Hatarat Nedarim at night if the Hatarat Nedarim isn't needed for Shabbat. For a congregation there is room to be lenient regarding performing Hatarat Nedarim on Shabbat or on Yom Kippur itself.<ref>Chazon Ovadyah (p. 263)</ref> | ||
==Other practices== | ==Other practices== | ||
# Some pious individuals have the minhag of checking their Tefillin and Mezuzot during Elul.<ref>Mateh Efraim 581:10 writes that as part of being introspective during Elul, some pious individuals check their Tefillin and Mezuzot during Elul. He concludes that it is a good minhag. This is quoted by the Kitzur S”A 128:3 | # Some pious individuals have the minhag of checking their Tefillin and Mezuzot during Elul.<ref>Mateh Efraim 581:10 writes that as part of being introspective during Elul, some pious individuals check their Tefillin and Mezuzot during Elul. He concludes that it is a good minhag. This is quoted by the Kitzur S”A 128:3, Chazon Ovadyah (p. 26), and Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 18. Also see Yechave Daat 1:49. It is noteworthy that S”A 39:10 rules that Tefillin that were established as being kosher do not have to be checked if they are used frequently. Additionally, S”A Y.D. 291:1 rules that Mezuzot should be checked twice every seven years.</ref> | ||
# There is no problem with making a wedding during Elul. However, it is preferable that a ben yeshiva should try to schedule it before elul so as not to disrupt the torah learning during elul when yeshivas usually re-open. But if he couldn't, there is no reason to push it off to after the yamim noraim <ref> Yechave Daat 1:48 </ref> | |||
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