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==Proper Practices of the Congregation during Kaddish== | ==Proper Practices of the Congregation during Kaddish== | ||
# One should face Eretz Yisrael during the recitation of Kaddish. <ref> | # One should face Eretz Yisrael during the recitation of Kaddish. <ref> Machzor Vitri Siman 278 </ref> | ||
# The congregants should listen carefully and answer appropriately with kavana. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 15:5</ref> | # The congregants should listen carefully and answer appropriately with kavana. <ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 56:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 15:5</ref> | ||
## It is a grievous sin to talk during Kaddish.<ref>Mishna Brurah 56:1</ref> | |||
## It is forbidden to learn even in one's mind during Kaddish. Instead a person should concentrate on the Kaddish.<Ref>Pri Chadash 68:1, Mishna Brurah 68:3, Mishna Brurah 56:1</ref> | |||
## It is forbidden to daven during the middle of Kaddish until the end of the Chatzi Kaddish.<ref>Rav Nevinsal in Byitzchak Yikareh 56:1 writes that it is permitted to daven quietly after they completed the part of Kaddish that is Chatzi Kaddish because the rest is only a minhag. (Halichot Chaim 1:80 p. 35 quotes Rav Chaim Kanievsky as saying that it is permitted to continue to daven pesukei dzimrah or the like and only answer amen and amen yehey shemey rabba.)</ref> | |||
## It is improper to fold one's tallit in the middle of Kaddish.<ref>Mishna Brurah 25:56</ref> | |||
# Anyone who answers "[[Amen]], Yehey Sheme Rabba..." with all of his strength and kavana, will have any heavenly bad decree against him nullified.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 15:5</ref> | # Anyone who answers "[[Amen]], Yehey Sheme Rabba..." with all of his strength and kavana, will have any heavenly bad decree against him nullified.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 15:5</ref> | ||
# Just like one does not walk in front of someone who is praying, so too one should not walk in front of someone who is reciting Kaddish. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 12, laws of kaddish, seif 2; Ben Ish Chai (Vayechi, 10) </ref> | # Just like one does not walk in front of someone who is praying, so too one should not walk in front of someone who is reciting Kaddish. <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 12, laws of kaddish, seif 2; Ben Ish Chai (Vayechi, 10) </ref> | ||
