Torah Rocket Conversion — Part 2 Shabbat

Torah Rocket Conversion

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PART 2 OF 18 • 88 OFFICIAL QUESTIONS

Shabbat

Train through the exact Part 2 sequence. Your supplied answers are lightly cleaned only; practical rulings remain course notes and should be confirmed with your rabbi when applied in real life.

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Official questions

1. When is Erev Shabbat?
Your study note: Friday is Erev Shabbat, from alot hashachar (halachic dawn) until shkiah (sunset). Light Shabbat candles up to 18 minutes before sundown.
2. How do you prepare for Shabbat?
Your study note: Cook soup/cholent, clean the house, haircut, bath, special tablecloth, shave, bathe, mikvah, polish shoes, and prepare the suit/clothes.
3. Write the blessing for lighting the Shabbat candles in Hebrew.
Your study note: “…lehadlik ner shel Shabbat.”
4. a) What is the minimum number of candles that have to be lit for Shabbat?
b) Give reasons for this number.
Your study note: Minimum 2, plus one for each child in the family custom. The 2 correspond to “guard/observe” and “remember” Shabbat.
5. Translate the word Shabbat into English.
Your study note: “To stop.”
6. Describe the procedure for lighting the Shabbat candles.
Your study note: For a woman: light, cover the eyes and make the blessing; she accepts Shabbat with the candle lighting. See the lights after the prayer. The note distinguishes a man’s procedure because he normally accepts Shabbat in shul.
7. How can we find out the candle-lighting time?
Your study note: Calendar, shul bulletins, apps.
8. a) Why do women light the Shabbat candles?
b) Where should the candles be placed?
Your study note: The note connects the mitzvah with women bringing light and peace into the home. Place the candles where you eat so the light is enjoyed with the meal and Kiddush; look at the light when saying the prayers.
9. How can we brush our teeth on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note says no toothpaste or water and discusses concerns of squeezing liquid from toothbrush hairs, smoothing, bleeding, and turning paste into liquid.
10. What is the procedure for candle lighting when a Yom Tov occurs on Shabbat?
Your study note: Same general procedure with the combined Shabbat/Yom Tov wording: “lehadlik ner shel Shabbat v’shel Yom Tov,” plus Shehecheyanu. The note says women say Shehecheyanu after lighting and men usually after Kiddush.
11. What happens if a woman has forgotten to light Shabbat candles on time?
Your study note: Add one extra candle permanently starting the next Shabbat.
12. Who should light the candles if no woman is present?
Your study note: The man of the house (father or husband) should light the candles.
13. Why is it forbidden to touch or move the candles?
Your study note: They are muktzeh. The note also discusses the burning flame and the base/candlesticks.
14. Describe how we make Kiddush. Can we eat before Kiddush?
Your study note: Kiddush proclaims the holiness of Shabbat. Have wine in the cup, bread and salt on the table; lift the cup in the right hand, say the Kiddush and wine blessing, answer Amen, drink at least a cheekful and distribute wine. No eating or drinking water before Kiddush. The note says water may be drunk before Havdalah.
15. a) How many times do we make Kiddush on Shabbat?
b) What must one do after Kiddush in order to fulfill it? List 2 things.
Your study note: Twice: evening and daytime/lunch. Drink a cheekful of wine/juice and eat bread/challah.
16. What is the appropriate number of meals we should eat on Shabbat?
Your study note: Three: night, day, and Seudah Shlishit after Mincha and before Maariv.
17. a) What is Lechem Mishneh?
b) What do they remind us of?
Your study note: Two loaves held for the blessing. They remind us of the double portion of manna on Erev Shabbat.
18. What do you do if no wine for Kiddush is available, or for health reasons you should not drink wine?
Your study note: The note says to make Kiddush on bread: wash first, hold the bread instead of wine, and use Hamotzi.
19. a) What is Shalosh Seudot / Seudah Shlishit?
b) What is the necessary ingredient for this meal?
Your study note: The third meal, after Mincha and before Maariv. At least bread.
20. Why do we celebrate Shabbat?
Your study note: It is a commandment and reminds us that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.
21. How do we honour Shabbat?
Your study note: Special meal, special clothes, clean the house, special table setting.
22. What is a Shomer Shabbat?
Your study note: Someone who keeps Shabbat and does not do the 39 melachot.
23. List the 39 actions and activities that are prohibited on Shabbat.
Your study note: Four groups. Making bread — 11: sow, plow, reap, gather, thresh, winnow, sort/select, grind, sift, knead, bake. Making clothes — 13: shear, whiten/bleach, comb, dye, spin, warp/mount loom, thread, weave, separate threads, tie permanent knot, untie permanent knot, sew, tear in order to sew. Making parchment — 7: trap, slaughter, flay, tan, smooth, rule/score, cut. Building/miscellaneous — 8: write, erase, build, demolish, extinguish fire, kindle fire, final hammer blow/completion, carry between public and private domains. Main categories = melachot; subcategories = toldot.
24. a) When does Shabbat begin?
b) How do we know when Shabbat ends?
Your study note: Friday sunset, with candle lighting 18 minutes before sundown. End: three medium stars or the local waiting time noted in your course.
25. What does Oneg Shabbat mean and how can we contribute to it?
Your study note: Enjoying Shabbat: three meals with bread, hot and special food, sleep and family relationships; enjoyment shows honour to Shabbat.
26. Why are we not permitted to ride a car on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note connects driving with making/extinguishing fire through fuel combustion, carrying between domains, and marit ayin.
27. a) Why are we not permitted to switch on electric lights on Shabbat?
b) How should we conduct ourselves regarding motion-sensor lights?
Your study note: Switching lights: making fire/completing a circuit and creating a new light. Motion sensors: avoid them if possible; if unavoidable, the note discusses pesik reisha and avoiding benefit.
28. a) What is a Shabbat elevator?
b) What caution should one exercise if riding in one?
Your study note: It stops automatically at every floor. Do not press a button or ask someone to press your floor; avoid touching doors or triggering sensors. The note says stairs are best when practical.
29. Why shouldn’t we listen to the radio or watch TV on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note says it is not in the spirit/honour of Shabbat and discusses benefit from pre-programmed broadcasts and marit ayin.
30. Explain the use of a Shabbat clock (timer).
Your study note: Program the timer before Shabbat, for example lights or appliances. The note distinguishes stopping something scheduled from starting something earlier.
31. Why are we not allowed to make a telephone call on Shabbat or even pick up the receiver?
Your study note: The note connects it to completing an electrical circuit/building and to weekday activity.
32. a) How do we manage to serve hot food on Shabbat?
b) Why is it important to have hot food?
Your study note: Crockpot or blech; do not adjust the heat. A blech is a metal cover over burners. The note connects hot Shabbat food with the accepted interpretation that an existing fire may remain, though it may not be initiated on Shabbat.
33. List 3 conditions for selecting/separating from a mixture of food on Shabbat.
Your study note: 1) Good from bad, 2) for immediate use, 3) by hand rather than a utensil designed for separation.
34. List 5 conditions to return a pot to the stove on Shabbat.
Your study note: 1) Fully cooked, 2) still hot, 3) heat source covered, 4) intention to return it, 5) keep holding it rather than setting it down normally.
35. List 5 prohibitions regarding trees/plants on Shabbat.
Your study note: Do not pick/prune; do not water/fertilize; do not climb, hang from or lean on a tree; do not tie/use the tree for an animal; do not promote growth or provide extra benefit such as light. The note connects this with sowing/reaping.
36. How does one make tea on Shabbat? How do you add lemon?
Your study note: Prepare tea essence before Shabbat, or use transferred hot water/kli sheini as described in the note. Do not squeeze lemon directly into the tea; the note describes adding prepared lemon juice/water in an intermediate cup.
37. How can one change a baby’s diaper on Shabbat? Give 3 differences.
Your study note: Cleaning: avoid squeezing/laundering; pat with wipes. Ointment: avoid creams/pastes and smoothing; liquid lotion/powder is treated differently. Fastening: use Velcro rather than permanent fastening; dispose without a permanent knot.
38. Is it permissible to mash potatoes on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note permits mashing the potatoes themselves without adding liquid, and recommends a shinui (different method), such as using a knife rather than the normal tool.
39. Can one trap or kill a bee on Shabbat?
Your study note: Depends on danger. Try to shoo it away, open a window, or trap/release without benefit. If there is real allergy/life danger, the note allows dealing with the danger. Practical emergency details require rabbinic/medical guidance.
40. Are we allowed to carry a child or wheel a baby carriage on Shabbat?
Your study note: Without an eruv, the note says not to carry or wheel normally and discusses limited emergency methods. It also notes not to assemble/disassemble the carriage roof.
41. How can one use a safety pin on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note says through the material once is okay; repeated passes can resemble sewing.
42. a) What does Muktzeh mean?
b) Give a few examples.
Your study note: Something not allowed to be moved on Shabbat. Examples: branch, pen, lighter, phone.
43. a) What is the most lenient category of Muktzeh?
b) Give 2 examples.
c) Under what conditions can we use this type?
Your study note: Muktzeh machmat melachto — a utensil used for prohibited work. Examples: hammer, pen, fan. The note allows moving it when its place is needed or for a permitted use, such as using a hammer to crack nuts.
44. a) When are you allowed to wash dishes on Shabbat?
b) How must you wash them?
Your study note: When the dishes will be needed later on Shabbat. The note says cold water, no normal soap except diluted solution prepared before Shabbat, and no normal sponge.
45. How could we prepare cereal for a baby on Shabbat?
Your study note: Use a shinui: milk first, then cereal; stir in a criss-cross motion rather than normally.
46. Why are we not allowed to touch or carry money on Shabbat?
Your study note: Because one might come to use it to buy something; money is muktzeh. The note also compares other non-utensil/muktzeh items.
47. Why are we forbidden to take a shower or bath on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note allows topical cleaning but not a hot bath/shower, and raises squeezing/drying concerns with hair and towels.
48. What is the Parashat Hashavua and where can it be found?
Your study note: The weekly Torah portion; found in the Chumash.
49. a) What is the Haftarah and where can it be found?
b) What is the historical reason for including the Haftarah reading?
Your study note: A reading from the Prophets, printed after the Parsha in the Chumash. The note says it developed when Torah reading was banned, so a related Prophets passage was read.
50. a) What is Havdalah?
b) Describe how Havdalah is made.
Your study note: Ceremony marking the change from Shabbat to weekday. Wine, spices, multi-wick candle/light reflected on the fingers, and the blessing distinguishing holy from ordinary.
51. What is Motzei Shabbat?
Your study note: Saturday night — “going out of Shabbat.”
52. What is Melaveh Malkah?
Your study note: The fourth meal after Shabbat/Havdalah, “escorting the Queen.”
53. What are Zemirot and where do we find them?
Your study note: Shabbat songs, found in a special book/benching-singing booklet.
54. In which case are Shabbat laws suspended?
Your study note: When life is in danger, for example serious illness or war.
55. Name 3 actions that constitute “cooking” on Shabbat besides actual cooking.
Your study note: Tea bag in hot water; stirring a pot where something may still cook; reheating liquid.
56. What special condition concerning food must be met to eat hot food on Shabbat night?
Your study note: It must be fully cooked before Shabbat; the note says it can remain heated on a blech/covered heat source without adjusting the flame.
57. How do we greet each other on Shabbat?
Your study note: Gut Shabbos / Shabbat Shalom.
58. How do we greet each other on Motzei Shabbat?
Your study note: Shavua Tov (“good week”) or Gute Voch.
59. What is the evening service on Shabbat called in Hebrew?
Your study note: Kabbalat Shabbat; the note describes it as extra service after Mincha.
60. Which additional section is included in Birkat Hamazon on Shabbat?
Your study note: Retzei.
61. What extra prayer service is added Shabbat morning?
Your study note: Mussaf, after Shacharit.
62. On which Shabbat do we daven Birkat Hachodesh?
Your study note: The Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh.
63. What is an Eruv and how do we know if it is kosher?
Your study note: A halachic partition/boundary allowing carrying on Shabbat. Check the community eruv hotline or shul notices. The note includes Toronto boundary examples.
64. What are the consequences if there is no Eruv?
Your study note: Do not carry.
65. What should one do if one accidentally finds oneself carrying on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note discusses putting/dropping the item down without completing a normal carrying action, using unusual methods, and not stopping until reaching an appropriate place.
66. When may one put out a fire on Shabbat and how should it be done?
Your study note: In immediate life danger. The note also discusses indirect methods for a small fire. Emergency safety takes priority.
67. a) Can one take vitamins on Shabbat?
b) Pain killers?
Your study note: Vitamins for maintenance are noted as okay; medicine is generally restricted in the note unless serious. Painkillers are noted as allowed when pain is severe enough to require bed. Confirm practical medical cases with your rabbi/doctor.
68. Can one exercise or jog on Shabbat?
Your study note: Light exercise without sweating is noted as allowed; jogging is better avoided because it can produce sweat.
69. a) May a woman wear make-up on Shabbat that she put on before Shabbat?
b) May she put make-up on during Shabbat?
Your study note: Make-up applied before Shabbat may be worn. The source connects applying colour on Shabbat with dyeing. SOURCE GAP/CHECK: the supplied written note did not provide a separate full answer to part (b).
70. Is a clothes brush permissible on Shabbat?
Your study note: Not allowed; the note connects it to separating.
71. Under what 2 conditions can one make a knot on Shabbat?
Your study note: Temporary and not professional.
72. Is wiping mud off one’s shoe permissible on Shabbat?
Your study note: Wet mud may be removed; dry mud is not, because the note connects that with grinding.
73. Name 3 things that may not be done to hair on Shabbat.
Your study note: The note lists: no cutting/shearing, no combing, no dyeing, no braiding/construction, no washing/squeezing.
74. Is it permissible to use a carpet broom on Shabbat?
Your study note: Carpet broom with roller — no, connected in the note to selecting/removing bad from good. A regular broom — yes.
75. How can one add water to a cholent or chamin on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note says bring the cholent to the boiling water, keep the pot in hand, and have another person add the boiling water.
76. Give 3 examples of a “final hammer blow” and what does it mean?
Your study note: Completing/finalizing a repair. Examples: finishing a chair repair, putting lenses back into glasses, putting a window back into its frame.
77. What concern should one have in eating grapefruit on Shabbat?
Your study note: Do not squeeze. Do not normally select/remove seeds; eat or spit out the seed rather than separating it first.
78. How does one take fat off a roast on Shabbat?
Your study note: Slice into the middle and take good from bad, or remove some good/meat together with the unwanted fat; the note compares taking a fly with some soup.
79. When can one enlist the help of a non-Jew on Shabbat and how?
Your study note: The note says the non-Jew should also benefit; it discusses rabbinic prohibitions needed for a mitzvah, for example carrying a child for a bris.
80. Name a few things to consider in an emergency visit to the hospital on Shabbat.
Your study note: Prepare taxi money beforehand when possible, take only what is necessary, and use a non-Jewish driver for doors/parking when practical. In an actual emergency, call/drive as necessary for life and safety.
81. What 2 conditions allow someone to undo a double knot on Shabbat?
Your study note: Example: child’s shoes when the child is in pain; the double knot was temporary and intended to be undone.
82. On Shabbat, how does one prepare cantaloupes and watermelon for consumption?
Your study note: For melon/cantaloupe, remove seeds together with some of the good fruit. The note says with watermelon to leave the seeds rather than remove them first.
83. List 3 forbidden general activities on Shabbat due to laundering.
Your study note: Do not remove a stain with water/rubbing, do not brush dust off clothes, and do not squeeze water from clothes.
84. When can we open tissues on Shabbat and how is this done?
Your study note: The note says detached tissues may be used/opened.
85. Can we plunge a sink or repair a toilet on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note permits plunging/removing a blockage because it treats that as clearing a blockage rather than making a repair.
86. Respond Yes or No as to whether the following are permissible on Shabbat: steel wool, Vaseline, deodorant, comb, hairbrush, twist ties.
Your study note: Steel wool — Yes. Vaseline — No. Deodorant — aerosol Yes; stick No because of smoothing. Comb — No. Hairbrush — No; a soft brush that does not tear hair is noted as Yes. Twist ties — Yes, such as closing a bag.
87. Why are wet cloths muktzeh?
Your study note: Because one might squeeze them. The note says clothes that were wet at the start of Shabbat remain muktzeh for Shabbat.
88. Can one take clothes out of the dryer on Shabbat?
Your study note: The note says no when they were wet at the beginning of Shabbat / the dryer action would activate electricity or noise; if already dry before Shabbat the note distinguishes the case.