MITZVAH OR BETTER NOT? Learning Torah on Nittel Night

4
>>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<<


4 COMMENTS

  1. He didn’t research the issue enough.

    In Sefer Igros Sofrim there is a letter from the Chasam Sofer zt”l (Siman 2). He writes that the reason for not learning before Chatzos on that night is as follows.
    The Goyim go to church and celebrate Mass at midnight. Since they are awake for their Avoda Zara and the Yidden are asleep, it might be a Kitrug in Heaven that the Goyim stay awake for their god but the Yidden do not stay awake for Hashem. Therefore, he writes, it is an ancient custom that the Yidden go to sleep early and do not learn their nightly Seder and get up to learn at Chatzos so that there will not be a Kitrug.

    However, not to learn at all that night is no Minhag at all.

Leave a Reply to Serious masmid Cancel reply

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here