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Chayei Adam - K’lal 145 - Laws of Yom Kippur

does not repeat the beracha, because it is an unnecessary beracha. Some people
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smell spirits and don’t make a beracha which is forbidden. They also make a
knot in a cloth and pour the spirits onto it, and tying a knot at the end [of a string
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or material] is a Torah violation as explained in hilchos Shabbos, meleches kosher.
Furthermore, when they pour spirits on it, they are doing another prohibition
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because they are imparting a fragrance into the fabric and one must be careful
of this.

]34[ The order of the tefilos is well known and a person should mark off his
siddur because many sidurim are lacking retzai and modim and one could make a
mistake. Similarly in musaf it doesn’t indicate how much one should add from
shacharis. 74

]35[ The custom is to spread out grass in the shul, but the reason isn’t like
people think, that it is to stand on, but rather it is done because as a
remembrance of the Beis HaMikdash we bow when saying aleinu and when we
say “and the kohanim and the people … would kneel and bow”. Since the proper
custom is to bow with one’s hands and feet spread out like was done in the Beis
HaMikdash, and if the floor is covered with stone tiles, it is forbidden to bow on
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them; one who does violates that which it says “do not place an ‘even maskis’ in
your land for bowing down on”. Even if the ground has no tiles at all, one must
turn his body a little bit to the side because it is forbidden [to bow in the regular

םדו רשב
requirement. Although the Shelah forbids Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 317).
smelling besamim on Yom Kippur, the
consensus of the poskim is to encourage it. חכ 73. Which is rabbinically prohibited on
b Shabbos and yom tov. (See Beitza 23a, Rema
in O.C. 511:4).
71. As it is forbidden to smell fragrant
spices and foods without a beracha. (See 74. See above in hilchos Rosh Hashana
Chayei Adam vol 1. 61:1 and Shulchan Aruch (K’lal 139, note 15) that it was commonplace
O.C. 216:1.) for the earlier siddurim and machzorim to omit
sections of the tefilos which were repeated at
72. See Chayei Adam k’lal 26 and several junctures, merely referencing the first

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