Halachot of Sleep: Difference between revisions

# One should sleep on one’s side and not faced up or down. <Ref> SA OC 63:1 and Even Haezer 23:3 says that it is prohibited to sleep on one's back, but leaves out the prohibition to sleep on one's stomach but Mishna Brurah 239:6 says that it is a severe prohibition to sleep on your back or stomach and one should sleep on his side. Shalmat Chaim 226 says that children should be taught this at the age of nine. </ref>

# One may place one's bed in any direction that one wants, however if possible it's preferable to put the head of the bed the east and the foot in the west. <ref> Or Letzion (vol 2 chap 1:1 </ref>

# One shouldn’t sleep with one’s head or feet directly towards the door in a position that it looks like one was about to be taken out of the room. <ref> Halachically Speaking (vol 3, article 1, pg 2) quoting Rav Yisrael Belsky </ref>