1) In the month of Tishrei, Kiddush Levana is not recited before Yom Kippur. (Rama Siman 426:2)
Here too, the reason is that in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are in a state of trembling due to our annual heavenly judgment and thus are lacking in Simcha. (See Mishna Berura Siman 426 S"K 9)
Some Poskim, however, maintain that during this period, when every extra Mitzvah performed can help tip the scales in our favor, it is indeed best to perform the Mitzvah of Kiddush Levana even before Yom Kippur. (See Biur Halacha Siman 426 Dibur Hamaschil V'Lo Kodem Yom Kippur)
The prevalent custom is to indeed wait until Motzaei Yom Kippur to recite Kiddush Levana.
2) Unlike on Motzaei Tisha B'Av when we wait until the fast is broken and the Tisha B'Av shoes are removed, on Motzaei Yom Kippur the custom is to recite Kiddush Levana right after Ma'ariv, before eating and before changing shoes, as here we are B'Simcha with the confidence that we have made it through our judgment with a positive outcome. (See Mishna Berura Siman 426:11. See also Sdei Chemed; Yom Hakipurim Siman 1:1)
QUESTION:
why cant you eat before kiddush?
ANSWER:
It is prohibited to eat before performing any Mitzvah whose time has arrived.
However, with most Mitzvos, only sitting down to a meal is prohibited before the Mitzvah is performed, while before Kidush even eating a small snack is prohibited. One of the reasons for this is that the Rabbis wanted a person to recite Kidush as soon as possible after sunset, and in order to make sure this happens they prohibited even small snacks or drinks.(See Mishna Berura Siman 271:11)
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Question:
Why was Korach blessed with such wealth if Hashem understood that this might be his undoing?
Answer by
HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
Not only Korach, all men are blessed with wealth although Hakadosh Baruch Hu knows that it'll be their undoing.
Here's a poor little grocer, and all his life he's decent, he can't afford not to be. So one day he is crossing the street and a car crashes into him, and the car owner has big insurance, and now he's rich! So he closes up his grocery store and now he begins traveling to glatt kosher hotels in the mountains. But according to his present circumstances it's not enough, so he goes to the Grossinger's hotel. From Grossinger's he graduates to Europe, and then when his wife is not around, he has plenty of money in his pockets, certain forbidden pleasures occur to his mind which never would have come to his mind in his poor days in the grocery.
The end is however, he gets into trouble, he's ruined and he dies an early death. Now why did Hashem give it to him? The answer is, why did Hashem give anybody wealth? Because wealth is an opportunity.
Suppose he would have taken all that money and he would put it in a bank and he would have continued in his grocery store! Only now, every Tuesday afternoon he brings in an assistant and he goes and sits in the bais hamedrash and says Tehillim, and from this money he can now give a lot of charity. So he can continue to live a quiet life, he could have been healthy and happy because now he's not worried if the customers don't come, and he could have given a lot of charity and gotten olam habah and lived longer.
Wealth is a blessing and a curse, it depends on the way you use it, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu gives it to a man as a test.
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