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Jewish Festivals: Creating Bioluminescent Light
You may not create bioluminescent light, as with glowsticks, on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Blotting Hair
You may blot your hair with a towel on Jewish festivals as long as you don't squeeze or wring out your hair.
Jewish Festivals: Showering
It is forbidden to shower on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Adjusting Air Conditioner Temperatures
On Jewish festivals, you may:
- Lower the temperature when an air conditioner compressor is running, and
- Raise the temperature when the compressor is off.
Note You may do so ONLY with an analog control; not with a digital control.
Reason Grama is permissible on Jewish festivals (but not on Shabbat).
Reason Grama is permissible on Jewish festivals (but not on Shabbat).
Jewish Festivals: Adjusting Air Conditioner Louvers
As on Shabbat, you may adjust air conditioner louvers on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Feeding Trapped Wild Animal
You may not feed wild animals on Jewish festivals. But if you intend to keep the animal, you MUST feed it.
Jewish Festivals: Releasing Trapped Wild Animal
As on Shabbat, on Jewish festivals you may release a wild animal that is trapped in a trap or cage by opening the door or gate, but you may not move or lift the cage.
Jewish Festivals: Trapping Animals
You may not trap animals on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Acquisitions
You may not acquire items (kinyan) on Jewish festivals unless they are needed for that Jewish festival or for a mitzva. The classic example is bringing food or wine to a house for Jewish festival lunch, which the house owner acquires on the Jewish festival for the Jewish festival. Other permissible kinyan on Jewish festivals is giving:
- Siddur, machzor, or chumash to use on that day.
- Permissible medicine for use on that day.
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Havdala: Who Drinks the Beverage
For men: No one should drink the havdala beverage except the person saying havdala. This is a non-binding custom, not a halacha.
For women: This custom does NOT apply to women. Women who say havdala for themselves may give their havdala beverage to someone else to drink.
For women: This custom does NOT apply to women. Women who say havdala for themselves may give their havdala beverage to someone else to drink.
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Havdala: How Much To Drink
To fulfill the commandment of havdala (or kiddush), the person making kiddush must drink at least 2 fl. oz. (59 ml) within 30 seconds from the kiddush cup. However, drinking at least 4 fl. oz. (119 ml--a revi'it) from the havdala cup within 30 seconds allows you to say bracha achrona.
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Havdala: Filling the Cup
You must pour at least 4 fl. oz. (119 ml--a revi'it) of wine or other beverage into the havdala cup--this is halacha. However, to symbolize that we are blessed (siman bracha) with wealth, overfill the cup (non-binding custom).
Note Do not drink the overflow, to show that we are so rich that we do not need the spilled beverage.
Note Do not overfill a cup containing shmita wine!
Note Do not overfill a cup containing shmita wine!
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Havdala: Beverage
Wine or grape juice is the preferred beverage for havdala, but you may use any common beverage (chamar medina) that is drunk for social reasons.
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Havdala: No Candle or Spices
For Jewish festival havdala, use only wine (or a substitute, chamar medina, beverage); NO candle or spices (unless the Jewish festival also coincided with Shabbat).
Jewish Festivals: Ending: Before Havdala: Ata Chonantanu
As on Shabbat, if you forgot to say ata chonantanu after Jewish festivals, you do not need to repeat the amida. But, if you then ate food before saying havdala, you must repeat the amida including ata chonantanu.