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== Is it an obligation? Who is obligated?==
== Is it an obligation? Who is obligated?==
# In order to feel pain over the churban slightly before Chatzot every night one should say Tikkun Chatzot. <Ref>S”A 1:3, Mishna Brurah 1:9 </ref> However, the minhag is not to say TIkkun Chatzot and some achronim justify the minhag, nonetheless it’s praiseworthy to say it from tiemt to time. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 1:10 </ref>
# Yavetz in Mor UKesiah (Siman 1) writes that the obligation only applies to Torah scholars and in Israel. The Chida in Machzik Bracha 1:3 argues that it applies to all people in all places.  
# Yavetz in Mor UKesiah (Siman 1) writes that the obligation only applies to Torah scholars and in Israel. The Chida in Machzik Bracha 1:3 argues that it applies to all people in all places.