Food before prayer

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asked 1 year ago

Hello Rabbi, I am organizing an intensive conference lasting several days.
The venue where the conference is being held only allows breakfast very early. Is it possible to pray after breakfast in the first place?

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מיכי Staff answered 2 weeks ago

Problematic. At most, prepare yourself afterwards. If you are organizing the conference, I would expect them to be willing to go to you. At least allow you to prepare yourself. In a state of necessity, perhaps there is room for leniency, as was the case with someone who is sick or hungry and cannot concentrate on prayer without eating (O’H. 35:64, and M. B. ibid., 626). The basis of the permission is not the necessity, but rather the fact that, due to the necessity, the act of eating early does not express pride, and therefore there is no prohibition in it.

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מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

By the way, in the second part of the ninth root in the Rambam, it means that "you shall not eat with the blood." This is neither Torah nor reference.

goorsakbardari replied 1 year ago

What is your opinion on the explanation that the nature of the prohibition in the Sugiya Berachot is implied as a legend and is not an outright prohibition?

מיכי Staff replied 1 year ago

It is possible. This should be reinforced by the fact that in Sanhedrin 3 all the prohibitions that are learned from this law are cited, and eating before prayer is not mentioned. It should be rejected, since most opinions have this as a reference. Only Maimonides cited it there as a prohibition.

י.ו replied 1 year ago

What is very early? Now in the summer the sunrise is a little after 5 and you can pray even before that in certain situations. Does everyone there get up that early?

עמנואל ברכפלד replied 1 year ago

They will immerse themselves in the mikveh and pray according to the Sephardic tradition, Chassidim eat before praying. http://www.chabad.org.il/Magazines/Article.asp?ArticleID=5616&CategoryID=1249