{"id":8334,"date":"2016-02-13T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:53:10","slug":"03-13-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-13-07\/","title":{"rendered":"07. Invoking and Requesting for Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the winter season, we mention rain twice in the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">. At the beginning, we invoke rain to praise God, Who causes rain to fall; afterwards, we ask God to bless us with dew and rain. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the second <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> of the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Me\u0125ayei Ha-meitim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, we praise the One \u201cWho makes the wind blow and the rain fall\u201d (\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Mashiv ha-ru\u2019a\u0125 u-morid ha-gashem<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201d). The Sages instituted this praise in this particular <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> because rain gives life to the world. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the ninth <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">berakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Birkat Ha-shanim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, we request rain. According to Sephardic custom, the entire wording of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Birkat Ha-shanim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> changes from winter to summer. According to Ashkenazic custom, the wording of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Birkat Ha-shanim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> in the summer and in the winter is identical, with the exception of the words \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ve-ten tal u-matar livrakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201d (\u201cgive dew and rain as a blessing\u201d) in the winter and \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">ve-ten berakha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201d (\u201cgive blessing\u201d) in the summer. (Yemenite Jews have an altogether different text, though the halakhic rule is the same.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Although both the invocation and request of rain are recited in the winter, there is a difference between them. We invoke rain throughout the rainy season, whereas we request it only when we actually wish for it to begin falling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We begin invoking rain on Shemini Atzeret. Technically, it could be invoked from the beginning of Sukkot, which coincides with the beginning of the rainy season. However, rain on Sukkot is considered an inauspicious omen since it prevents us from fulfilling the mitzva of sitting in the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">sukka<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">. Therefore, we do not invoke rain then. The Sages therefore chose <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Musaf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> of Shemini Atzeret, when the entire community is in the synagogue, as the moment that it is announced to everyone that we begin invoking rain. <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Ma\u2019ariv<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> was not chosen because not everyone comes to the synagogue for <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Ma\u2019ariv<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Sha\u0125arit <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">was not chosen because the announcement may not be made right before the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Amida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">, as we may not interrupt between redemption and prayer (<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Beit Yosef <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">and<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">SA<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">114:1-2).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The time to begin <\/span><b>requesting <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">was postponed for fifteen days to allow those who made the pilgrimage from the area of the Euphrates River to the Temple in Jerusalem for Sukkot to return home without being rained upon. Thus, we begin requesting rain at <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Ma\u2019ariv <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">on the seventh night of the month of Mar\u0125eshvan (SA 117:1). Even after the destruction of the Temple, this custom was not abolished, since any practice that reminds us of the glory days of the Temple is cherished. Only after the Temple is rebuilt will the <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Sanhedrin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> be able to determine whether or not to change the time that we start requesting rain, taking into consideration contemporary means of transportation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We continue to invoke rain until the first day of Pesa\u0125, when we still invoke rain in <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Sha\u0125arit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> but begin invoking dew in <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Musaf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">. Regarding the request for rain, since the request is only made on weekdays, the last time we request rain is <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Min\u0125a<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Erev Pesa\u0125<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the winter season, we mention rain twice in the Amida. At the beginning, we invoke rain to praise God, Who causes rain to fall; afterwards, we ask God to bless us with dew and rain. In the second berakha of the Amida, Me\u0125ayei Ha-meitim, we praise the One \u201cWho makes the wind blow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-13"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>07. Invoking and Requesting for Rain - Peninei Halakha<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/03-13-07\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"07. 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