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| ==Activities Appropriate for a Shul== | | ==Activities Appropriate for a Shul== |
| # One should not be involved in light-headedness, frivolity, idle chatter, eating, or drinking in a Shul.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
| | See [[Respecting_the_Sanctity_of_the_Shul]] |
| # One should not lounge around or adorn oneself in the Shul. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
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| # One should not enter the Shul to protect oneself from the sun or rain. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
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| # A Talmud Chacham may eat or drink in a Shul if it is necessary. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref> Some say that a Talmid Chacham may eat or drink in a Bet Midrash. <Ref>Rama 151:1</ref>
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| # One should not perform calculations, unless it is for a mitzvah in a Shul. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
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| # Eulogies should not take place in a Shul unless it is a eulogy for one of the great people of the town and everyone is coming to the eulogy. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
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| # If one needs to get someone who is in a Shul, one should walk inside, learn a little bit and then call that person. If one does not 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>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref>
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| # One may not sleep in a Shul, however it is permitted to sleep temporarily in a Bet HaMidrash. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:3</ref>
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| # One may not use a Shul for 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>Shulchan Aruch 151:5</ref>
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| ==Dismantling a Bet Knesset== | | ==Dismantling a Bet Knesset== |
