Round-up of my Fri., 4/17-Sun., 4/ 19/2009 posts

• For those whose minhag is to say "half-Hallel" Here's the (an?) explanation for why many have the minhag/custom of saying half-Hallel for the last six days of Pesach.
• Back to the future, seder-style. It's the little shadchanit's turn.
• P'ri hagafen. Why we say one brachah/blessing over grapes, but a different one over grape juice.
• Shower power, or researching halachah *here*??! It's only courtesy of a link that you can find, on my blog, an explanation of why one may take a hot-water shower, but not a shampoo, on Yom Tov.
• How do they do it? Nu, maybe next year Jameel can come here and help us put our Pesach things away in a record-breaking hour and a half?(!)
• Festival Maariv mystery solved Why do we go straight into the Bar'chu prayer, without any introductory passage, at the Evening Service on the Shalosh Regalim?
• Praying in synagogue, for the hubster's sake Because that's where he prefers to pray.