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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 574
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Orach Chayim Siman 574 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 5 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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- Seif 124 words
Opens “שנותנין בתענית חומרי מקום שיצא ושהלך לשם.…”
- Seif 247 words
Opens “ההולך ממקום שאין מתענים למקום שמתענים יתענה…”
- Seif 327 words
Opens “שכח ואכל אל יתראה בפניהם כאלו אכל…”
Named: רבה.
- Seif 425 words
Opens “מצוה להרעיב אדם עצמו בשנת רעבון ואסור…”
- Seif 513 words
Opens “כל הפורש מן הצבור אינו רואה בנחמתן…”
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<b>שנותנין בתענית חומרי מקום שיצא ושהלך לשם. ובו ה סעיפים:</b><br>ההולך ממקום שמתענין למקום שאין מתענין ודעתו לחזור צריך להתענות כל תעניות שקבלו עליהם:
1. (The Laws) that we give in matters of fasting the stringency of the place of those leaving and those coming to there, and in it is 5 paragraphs. One who is going from a place that is fasting to a place that is not fasting, and his intention is to return, he needs to fast the whole fast that was accepted upon him (via the members of the fasting city).
ההולך ממקום שאין מתענים למקום שמתענים יתענה עמהם אפילו דעתו לחזור ומיהו כיון שלא קבלו עליו תענית אם יצא מן העיר חוץ לתחום מותר לאכול ואינו צריך להשלים: הגה ודוקא שבא לשם ביום התענית אבל אם בא לשם מבעוד יום צריך לקבל עליו התענית וצריך להשלימו (טור):
2. One who is going from a place that is not fasting to a place that is fasting, he should fast with them even if his intention is to return. However, since he did not accept upon him, if he leaves the city, outside of the Halachic Border, it is permitted to eat and it is not necessary to complete (the fast). Note (Rema): Specificially, if he came on the day of the fast, but if he came when it was still day (that is prior to the fast beginning), it is necessary to accept the fast upon himself and he needs to complete it [Tur]
שכח ואכל אל יתראה בפניהם כאלו אכל ואל ינהג עידונין בעצמו לומר הואיל ואכלתי מעט אוכל הרבה (ואפי' שלא בפניהם אסור לנהוג עידונין בעצמו) (מרדכי פ"ק דתענית):
3. If he forgot himself and ate and drank (on a day observed as a fast day in the place), he must not show himself before the public, nor must he indulge himself with delicacies, saying since I ate a little, I'll eat a lot. Parentheses (Rema): even not in front them, it is forbidden to accustom himself with delicacies [Mordechai, First Chapter of Taanis]
מצוה להרעיב אדם עצמו בשנת רעבון ואסור לשמש בו מטתו חוץ מליל טבילה ולחשוכי בנים (פי' ולמנועי בנים) מותר (וע' לעיל סי' ר"מ סעי' י"ב):
4. It is a mitzvah to famish oneself (i.e. eat little) in a year of famine, and it forbidden to have marital relations except for the Night of Immersion and one who lacks children explanation: to those who have been deprived of children it is allowed. Parentheses (Rema): See prior in Siman 240 Paragraph 12.
כל הפורש מן הצבור אינו רואה בנחמתן וכל המצטער עמהם זוכה ורואה בנחמתן:
5. Anyone that separates from the community (in times of distress), he will not see its consolation, and anyone that grieves with them, he will merit and see it in its consolation.
English translation: Sefaria Community Translation · CC0