Do You Say Tefilas Haderech When Traveling on Shabbos?
If a woman is having a baby on shabbos or another emergency occurs which necessitates travel on shabbos, should the travelers say Tefilas Haderech?
If a woman is having a baby on shabbos or another emergency occurs which necessitates travel on shabbos, should the travelers say Tefilas Haderech?
If you’ve been following Torah Live for a while, you know the story of how Rabbi Dan Roth started out teaching, but quickly discovered that Jewish kids today are much more focused when they are learning with technology.
For our upcoming feature, “Live to Give,” an exciting film that teaches chesed on a totally new level, we needed to shoot a scene in the Golan. No problem for us. We’ve been to the Kinneret, and the Golan is only a bit farther. But we had an added challenge.
Tefilas HaDerech is recited before taking a trip outside the city limits. In this tefillah, we ask Hashem to protect us from the perils of travel.
We tend to think that brachos are for holy things, like mitzvos, or for the more obvious blessings in our lives like the food we eat. And yet...