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==Kissing Tefilin and [[Tzitzit]] during Shema== | ==Kissing Tefilin and [[Tzitzit]] during Shema== | ||
# There is a practice to gather all four Tzitziyot when one gets to the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz” <ref> Halacha Brurah (24:6 and 60:5) writes that one should take the four corners of the [[tzitzit]] when one reaches the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz”. </ref> | # There is a practice to gather all four Tzitziyot when one gets to the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz”<ref> Halacha Brurah (24:6 and 60:5) writes that one should take the four corners of the [[tzitzit]] when one reaches the words “MeArbah Kanfot HaAretz”. </ref> or "Maher Vaheve Alenu"<ref> Kaf HaChaim 24:8 quotes Shaar HaKavanot who writes that at the words "Maher Vaheve Alenu" one should arrange his [[tzitzit]] so that two corners are in front and two in the back. Afterwards, one should take all four corners in one's left hand. Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemot Halacha 5 agrees. </ref> and hold them in your left hand. When one gets to third paragraph of Shema one transfers the strings into one’s right hand <ref> Pri Megadim Eshel Avraham 24:1, Mishna Brura 24:4 </ref>, while holding onto the knots with one’s left hand until “VeNemanim VeNechmadim Laad” when one kisses the [[tzitzit]] and lets go of the tzitziyot. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:4. Tzitz Eliezer 13:3 writes that one who doesn't gather the [[tzitzit]] and kiss them during kriat shema is breaking away from the congregation. </ref> This is true for a blind man as well. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:7 </ref> | ||
or "Maher Vaheve Alenu" <ref> Kaf HaChaim 24:8 quotes Shaar HaKavanot who writes that at the words "Maher Vaheve Alenu" one should arrange his [[tzitzit]] so that two corners are in front and two in the back. Afterwards, one should take all four corners in one's left hand. Ben Ish Chai Parashat Shemot Halacha 5 agrees. </ref> and hold them in your left hand. When one gets to third paragraph of Shema one transfers the strings into one’s right hand <ref> Pri Megadim Eshel Avraham 24:1, Mishna Brura 24:4 </ref>, while holding onto the knots with one’s left hand until “VeNemanim VeNechmadim Laad” when one kisses the [[tzitzit]] and lets go of the tzitziyot. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:4. Tzitz Eliezer 13:3 writes that one who doesn't gather the [[tzitzit]] and kiss them during kriat shema is breaking away from the congregation. </ref> This is true for a blind man as well. <ref> Mishna Brura 24:7 </ref> | |||
# Some say that one should gather only the two in front of him, while others say all four <ref> S"A 61:25 writes that when one says "ureetem oto" he should grab the front two tzitziyot. see also Beit Yosef on Tur 24 and S"A 25:5. Yalkut Yosef 24:6 in the footnotes writes that this was the practice of his father, Chacham Ovadia Yosef zt"l. | # Some say that one should gather only the two in front of him, while others say all four <ref> S"A 61:25 writes that when one says "ureetem oto" he should grab the front two tzitziyot. see also Beit Yosef on Tur 24 and S"A 25:5. Yalkut Yosef 24:6 in the footnotes writes that this was the practice of his father, Chacham Ovadia Yosef zt"l. | ||
* However, Sh"t Torah Lishma 39, Kaf Hachaim 24:8, and Radvaz 3:571 say that one should collect all four </ref> | * However, Sh"t Torah Lishma 39, Kaf Hachaim 24:8, and Radvaz 3:571 say that one should collect all four </ref> | ||
