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Sleep On Rosh Hashanah

By Eliyahu Kitov

It is customary not to sleep during the day on Rosh Hashanah. Rather, one should engage in Torah study or recite Tehillim. One who is idle, however, is considered as if he slept. The Talmud Yerushalami notes:

If one sleeps at the beginning of the year, i.e., on Rosh Hashanah, his good fortune also sleeps.

One who is very tired to the extent where he will find it difficult to recite Minchah with the proper intention is permitted to take a brief nap in the afternoon.

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Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov, OBM, was one of Israel's most acclaimed religious authors, whose books on the Jewish way of life and the Chassidic movement have become renowned. Text translated from the Hebrew by Nachman Bulman and Dovid Landseman.

Excerpted from: The Book of Our Heritage. Published and copyright by Feldheim Publications

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