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==Appropriate Mind-frame for Shul== | |||
# One should not be involved in light-headedness, frivolity, idle chatter, eating, or drinking in a Shul.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref> | |||
# One should not lounge around or adorn oneself in the Shul. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref> | |||
==Speaking in Shul or Bet Midrash== | ==Speaking in Shul or Bet Midrash== | ||
# It’s utterly forbidden to act frivolously in a Shul or Bet Midrash in any way such as laughter, vane speech, or humor. <Ref> S”A 151:1 </ref> | # It’s utterly forbidden to act frivolously in a Shul or Bet Midrash in any way such as laughter, vane speech, or humor. <Ref> S”A 151:1 </ref> | ||
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==Sleeping in Shul or Bet Midrash== | ==Sleeping in Shul or Bet Midrash== | ||
# One may not sleep (even a temporary sleep) in a shul, but in a bais medrash it is permitted to take a temporary sleep. A talmid chacham may sleep in a shul or a beit midrash. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 151:15-6 </ref> | # One may not sleep (even a temporary sleep) in a shul, but in a bais medrash it is permitted to take a temporary sleep. A talmid chacham may sleep in a shul or a beit midrash. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 151:15-6 </ref> | ||
# One may not sleep in a Shul, however it is permitted to sleep temporarily in a Bet HaMidrash. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:3</ref> | |||
==Eating in Shul== | ==Eating in Shul== | ||
# Although it is generally forbidden to eat in a shul, seuda shlishit may be eaten in a shul especially when words of Torah are spoken at the meal. <ref> Yechave Daat 3:10. Shulchan Aruch 151:4 permits eating a seudat mitzvah in a shul. Even the Mishna Brurah 151:20 agrees but cites the Magen Avraham who forbids a large meal with wine in a shul even for a mitzvah. </ref> | # Although it is generally forbidden to eat in a shul, seuda shlishit may be eaten in a shul especially when words of Torah are spoken at the meal. <ref> Yechave Daat 3:10. Shulchan Aruch 151:4 permits eating a seudat mitzvah in a shul. Even the Mishna Brurah 151:20 agrees but cites the Magen Avraham who forbids a large meal with wine in a shul even for a mitzvah. </ref> | ||
# 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> | |||
==Entering Shul for Your Benefit== | |||
# 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> | |||
# One should not enter the Shul to protect oneself from the sun or rain. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref> | |||
==Doing Mundane Activities in Shul== | |||
# One should not perform calculations, unless it is for a mitzvah in a Shul. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 151:1</ref> | |||
==Eulogies in a Shul== | |||
# 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> | |||
==Using it as a Shortcut== | |||
# 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> | |||
==Owning a Seat in Shul== | ==Owning a Seat in Shul== | ||
# If a person sat in a particular seat in shul for three years straight even if he wasn't in on occasion or he changed his seat for avielut he can establish a right to that seat.<ref>Rashba (responsa 1:943), Rama CM 140:8. See also Meiri b"b 29a.</ref> | # If a person sat in a particular seat in shul for three years straight even if he wasn't in on occasion or he changed his seat for avielut he can establish a right to that seat.<ref>Rashba (responsa 1:943), Rama CM 140:8. See also Meiri b"b 29a.</ref> | ||
