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Why is Rishon and Sheiyni of Ki Sisa so long? – Shulchanaruchharav.com

How important is it for one to thank the Kohanim after they perform Nesias Kapayim, as well as the Makri and Shliach Tzibur for Davening?

Doing so is a very old tradition, and is viewed as a completion of the service of the Kohen and Baal Tefila and helps to receive the Bracha from the Kohen.

Piskeiy teshuvos 128:48; Likkutei dibburim vol. 3 likkut 23:72 p. 624

From where does the Chabad melody that is customarily sung by the priestly blessing, come from?

It originated from the choir of the Mittler Rebbe. Interestingly, the Rebbe Rayatz testifies that he heard it for the first time while he was in the city of Riga, in the 1930s. From here we can understand that it was not traditionally sung in Lubavitch, and while perhaps it was composed by the choir or a member of the choir, it never became the official tradition until later.

Likkutei dibburim vol. 3 likkut 23:72 p. 624

May one answer all the Amens of the first Half Kaddish in Pesukei Dezimra?

The accepted and widespread custom recorded in Poskim is to answer all the Amens of the first Half of Kaddish in Pesukei Dezimra. However, some argue that according to Admur in his Shulchan Aruch, this is incorrect, and that rather one can only answer for the middle and last Amen of the Half Kaddish.

Shoel Vinishal 4:26; Ben Ish Chaiy Vayugash 10; Shemos 6; Kaf Hachaim 66:23; Devar Yehoshua 2:6; Yabia Omer 1:5; 6:4; Igros Moshe 4:14;   Piskeiy teshuvos 51:14 footnote 113; See Sefer Hefsek Betefila p. 217-245

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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