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8. Zekhor Ado-nai

9. Midé Shana Qina

10. Qol Berama Nishma

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Maghen Abot – e”H Rbi Mordekhai Lebhar s”t

Laws of Tish’a Beab

14. Prayers on Tish’a Be’Ab

f) The Reading of the Tora

Hagbaha (the lifting of the Sefer Tora, and showing it to everyone) is not done, rather we place it directly on the table and start the berakhot of the Tora. (1)

Some are accustomed, however, to do “Hagbaha” like normal. (2)

The Tora is not read on the Teba, but rather on a table or on the back of one of the congregants. (3)

At this moment we say: “Nafela ‘Ateret Roshenu” – “The Crown of Our Heads has Fallen” and we read the perasha of the day “Ki Tolid Banim” (from Perashat Vaethanan).

(1) See Ribi Yosef Benaim (Noheg beHokhma, p.145), Mayim Hayim p.225, and Shemesh Umaghen (Heleq 3, Siman 75). This is a rebuke for us because it says in the pasuq (Yirmiyahu 9:11) “Why has the land perished? (9:12) And Hashem said: Because they have forsaken My law.”

(2) In the city of Meknes they are accustom to do Hagbaha and say that if someone reads the Sefer Tora without doing Hagbaha he transgresses the pasuq “arur asher lo yaqim” – “Cursed is he who does not confirm (Yaqim literally means “raises”) the words of this law by doing them.”

(3) See Masekhet Soferim (18:7), Abudarham (p.256), Bet Yosef (O”H Siman 559), Qobes Minhagim (Heleq 2), and Osrot haMaghreb (Tish’a beAb). This is in order to further illustrate the humiliated state of the Tora; and with this we ask Hashem to have mercy on us “if not for our sake then do it for the sake of Your Tora” since now it is in such a lowly state.

Netibot Hama’arab – e”H Rbi Eliyahou Bitton s”t

37) We do not do any work on Tish’a beAb and there is a saying in Arabic: “Flous Ekha Umi Kamokha ma fihoum siman berakha” – “Money [earned] on Tish’a beAb (Ekha) and on Purim (Mi Kamokha) do not have any blessing.” See QS”A p.255 by Ribi Toledano zs”l, Qobes Minhagim (Tish’a beAb), and Kaf haHayim Siman 554:37.

It is worthwhile to note the halakhic opinion of the Yalqut Yosef (Mo’adim, Halakha 14, p. 581-2). He brings down the Bet Yosef who says that “in a place where it is the custom to work on Tish’a beAb, we work. In a place where the minhag is not to work we do not work. But the minhag of Jews in general is NOT to do any work throughout Tish’a beAb.” The Yalqut Yosef then adds that if one is poor and does not have what to eat that night it is permissible for him to do work discretely, provided he does not get sustenance from sedaqa. There are those who permit working after Hasot. Work that will result in a financial loss if not done otherwise is permissible. Anyone who does work in a non-permissible manner on Tish’a beAb will not see berakha from it.” Please consult your Ribi for a proper ruling on this matter as every person’s situation is different.

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