A weekly feature of Torah Tidbits to help clarify practical and conceptual aspects of the Jewish Calendar, thereby better fulfilling the mitzva of HaChodesh HaZeh Lachem... As we will hopefully be getting a nice amount of blessed rain during this rainy season, let us review some basic aspects of the "mention" of rainfall in the Amida of every day. and the request for rain in the weekday Amida. If one is not sure whether he said Mashiv HaRu'ach Umorid HaGashem or not - or even if one knows for sure that he forgot to say it - one does not say the Amida over because we may assume that we said Morid HaTal if we didn't say MHUH, and that acknowledges G-d's role as weather-maker, and the Amida is not invalid. (This assumes that one says Morid HaTal between Pesach and Sukkot.) However, forgetting Tal Umatar during the rainy season invalidates the Amida and one must say it over. There are many other details, but no room to review them in this box. [The Parshat Vayeira Homepage]
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