- Q. When Yom Kipur coincides with Shabat as is this year, (2024), can one pray for his personal needs on that day? After all one should not pray for his private needs on Shabat.
A. On question 4443 regarding if one can one daven on Rosh Hashana that coincides with Shabbos for one’s personal needs such as health and parnassa (sustent), we answered:
“Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 288: 9) permits in cases of danger of life to pray for those needs on Shabbos.
Mishna Berura (28) thus explains why on a regular ‘Mi Sheberach’ we add the words; ‘Shabbos Hi Milizok’ or we should not be praying on Shabbos.
Poskim point out that there seems to be many contradictions regarding the above Halacha, since we do recite in Shabbos the Yehi Ratzon after the morning blessings, E-lokai Netzor at the end of the Amida, Yekum Purkan and the Tefilos of Birchas Hachodesh, just to mention a few.
Medresh Tanchuma (Vayero) mentions that the reason for avoiding those Tefilos is to spare ourselves from the suffering and pain involved when reciting them. Therefore, if they are standard one should be able to recite them. Yet we do daven a short Amida on Shabbos. (See Piskei Teshuvos ibid).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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