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From
<a href="http://ohr.edu/5483" eudora="autourl">http://ohr.edu/5483</a><br>
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<font size=3>Have you given any thought to how you are going to make
Havdalah this Motzai Shabbos? The proper way to perform Havdalah on
Motzai Shabbos Chazon, the Shabbos preceding Tisha B’Av, is one annual
issue that seems to always have disparate approaches. The main problem is
that the very essence of Havdalah is ending Shabbos, resulting in the
fact that it is actually recited during ‘<i>chol</i>’, weekday. That is
fine for an ordinary week, but Motzai Shabbos Chazon is
<i>halachically</i> part and parcel not only of the Nine Days, but
actually considered ‘<i>Shavua shechal bah</i> Tisha B’Av’. This means
that even the Sefardim, who generally are lenient with the Three Weeks’
and Nine Days’ restrictions<a name="_ednref1"></a>[1], are still required
to keep them this week. And one of these restrictions prohibits drinking
wine<a name="_ednref2"></a>[2], the mainstay of
Havdalah<a name="_ednref3"></a>[3]. So how are we supposed to synthesize
making Havdalah while not transgressing this restriction? <br><br>
Please see the above URL for more. YL.</font></body>
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