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0. Should you wear a tallit for mincha of a minor fast day? If so, why? (Easier than the rest of the questions; I'm just not sure of the answer. I don't think I've ever been to shul for such a mincha.)
1. Should you wear a tallit when leading mincha or ma'ariv on an ordinary weekday/Shabbat? Why or why not? And is the answer/reasoning different for mincha than for ma'ariv?
2. If the answer to question 1 is "yes", and you are wearing a tallit when leading mincha or ma'ariv, should you say the bracha before putting on the tallit? Why or why not? Does the answer change if you did not daven shacharit and did not previously wear a tallit that day?
3. I've heard of an answer to question 2 that involves deliberately wearing someone else's tallit. So speaking more generally, should you say a bracha before putting on someone else's tallit (such as if it's shacharit and you don't have your tallit around)? What about putting on a communal tallit belonging to a shul you're a member of? What about putting on a communal tallit belonging to a shul you're not a member of? Why or why not?
4. If you are wearing a tallit at mincha or ma'ariv not because of leading services, but rather because the torah is being read (Shabbat afternoon or simchat torah) and you have a custom of wearing a tallit for certain torah honors, should you say the bracha before putting on the tallit? Why or why not? Does the answer change if you did not daven shacharit and did not previously wear a tallit that day?
5. Should you say the bracha when putting on your tallit for kol nidre? Yom Kippur shacharit? Yom Kippur mincha? Why or why not?
6. If everyone has a neshama yeterah for Shabbat, why can't you make a minyan with 5 people?
1. Should you wear a tallit when leading mincha or ma'ariv on an ordinary weekday/Shabbat? Why or why not? And is the answer/reasoning different for mincha than for ma'ariv?
2. If the answer to question 1 is "yes", and you are wearing a tallit when leading mincha or ma'ariv, should you say the bracha before putting on the tallit? Why or why not? Does the answer change if you did not daven shacharit and did not previously wear a tallit that day?
3. I've heard of an answer to question 2 that involves deliberately wearing someone else's tallit. So speaking more generally, should you say a bracha before putting on someone else's tallit (such as if it's shacharit and you don't have your tallit around)? What about putting on a communal tallit belonging to a shul you're a member of? What about putting on a communal tallit belonging to a shul you're not a member of? Why or why not?
4. If you are wearing a tallit at mincha or ma'ariv not because of leading services, but rather because the torah is being read (Shabbat afternoon or simchat torah) and you have a custom of wearing a tallit for certain torah honors, should you say the bracha before putting on the tallit? Why or why not? Does the answer change if you did not daven shacharit and did not previously wear a tallit that day?
5. Should you say the bracha when putting on your tallit for kol nidre? Yom Kippur shacharit? Yom Kippur mincha? Why or why not?
6. If everyone has a neshama yeterah for Shabbat, why can't you make a minyan with 5 people?
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b) On Yom Kippur I would expect that you *do* say the tallit bracha in the morning, as you do every morning, regardless of if you had worn one the previous evening.
c) Additional info from the artScroller Rebbe:
Notes on Donning the Tallis on Erev Yom Kippur
Since the Scriptural commandment of tzitzis applies only during the day, the blessing over the tallis may not be recited unless it is donned during the daytime. Therefore, on Yom Kippur Eve, the tallis should be put on before sunset, or at latest during twilight. If one has not been able to do so before then, he should don his tallis without a blessing (see Orach Chaim 18:1).