What Time Is Chatzos Today In Lakewood (2024)

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What time is chatzos in israel today? ›

Mincha may be said from ½ hour after halachic midday until sunset. Mincha gedola is the earliest time that you may say mincha: from 1/2 halachic hour after halachic midday until 2 ½ halachic hours before sunset.

Plag hamincha is the midway point between mincha ketana and nightfall, which is two and a half hours. After the fact or in a case of need, one may recite Mincha after sunset. (The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch says "until the stars come out," but he is not speaking literally – see MB 233:14.)

Possible Definitions of Chatzos

The zmanim of chatzos / חצות are the solar midday and midnight points. The Radak in the ספר השרשים, שרש חצה defines the word chatzos / חצות as splitting the morning from the afternoon (or first half of the night from the second half).

Jews are supposed to pray three times a day; morning, afternoon, and evening.

Chatzos (Chatzot) – Noon or midday. Technically, this is chatzos hayom, “halachic noon,” the midpoint of the day. There is also a chatzos halailah, halachic midnight. This is halfway between sunrise and sunset (or between daybreak and nightfall) and it need not coincide with 12:00 noon.

What time of day do Jews worship? ›

Traditionally, Jews pray three times a day: in the morning (shaharith), afternoon (minhah), and evening (maarib). The times of prayer are deemed to correspond to the times when sacrifices were offered in the Jerusalem Temple.

Therefore, some poskim maintain that if one davened mincha immediately after Chatzos, although he should've waited until half an hour after Chatzos, nevertheless, since m'dorayso the korbon would be valid then, the Tefilla of Mincha is valid then as well.

The halakhah requires that a Jew pray three times a day, every day. However, it is inevitable that there will be times in every person's life when it will simply be impossible to fulfill this obligation. For that reason, the halakhah sets some minimal standards for daily prayer.

The Talmud defines dawn as the moment 72 minutes before sunrise. However, some Jewish communities claim that this definition pertains only to the situation in Mesopotamia on the days of the equinoxes.

According to the Geonim, nightfall is 13½-18 minutes after sundown (or, equivalently, when the sun falls 3–4.65° below the horizon). According to Rabbeinu Tam, nightfall occurs exactly 72 (or 90) minutes after sundown (or, equivalently, when the sun falls 16.1° or 20° below the horizon).

Shabbat Ends 8:30 PM

Caution: Shabbat candles must be lit before sunset. It's a desecration of the Shabbat to light candles after sunset.

The festival begins at sundown with what is known as Kol Nidre and ends the following evening. In 2023, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on September 24th and ends the following evening on September 25th.

It's customary to eat some time between 12 and 2. Restaurants in business districts have discounted lunch menus at around that time.