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 ==Activities Appropriate for a Shul==
 # One shouldn't be involved in light-headedness, frivolity, idle chatter, eating, or drinking in a Shul.<Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# One shouldn't lounge around or adorn oneself in the Shul. <Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# One shouldn't enter the Shul to protect oneself from the sun or rain. <Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# A Talmud Chacham may eat or drink in a Shul if it is necessary. <Ref>S"A 151:1</ref> Some say that a Talmid Chacham may eat or drink in a Beit Midrash. <Ref>Rama 151:1</ref>
+# One should perform calculations unless it is for a mitzvah in a Shul. <Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# A eulogy shouldn't take place in a Shul unless it is a eulogy for one of the greats of the town and everyone is coming to the eulogy. <Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# If one needs to get someone in a Shul, one should walk inside, learn a little bit and then call that person. If one doesn't know how to learn one may wait inside the Shul a little bit (the time it takes to walk 8 [[Tefachim]]) and then call that person since just sitting in a Shul is a mitzvah.<Ref>S"A 151:1</ref>
+# One may not sleep in a Shul, however, it is permitted to sleep temporarily in a Beit HaMidrash. <Ref>S"A 151:3</ref>
+# One may not make a Shul into a shortcut. However, if the Shul was built in place of a path, it is permitted to continue using that path even after the Shul was built.<Ref>S"A 151:5</ref>
 ==Dismantling a Bet Knesset==