Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

If it's in the form of a Bracha or a Pasuk, then it does not require Atifah.

So you'll see all the time, if you watch Rav Shechter during Davening, he has his talus over his head during the Kadesh,

during Baruch Hu, it is not over his head during Kriya Shema and Kriya Shema, and it is back over his head during Shemona Esrei.

I was in Houston for a Shabbos not that long ago, a few weeks ago, and the assistant rabbi of the shul of the young Israel over there

is Rabbi Buchwald.

And Rabbi Buchwald, I think he learned in BMG, actually.

I don't think he learned in our yeshiva, but he has a close kesh.

He had, when he was younger, a close kesh with Rav Schechter.

He used to go learn with him in Tannersville.

all the time, and he told me after davening, he said it brought him back so many years and gave him such a warm feeling to see a Yid who davens with a talus not on his head during birch kriyashma and kriyashma.

You never find that.

Everyone always has a talus over their head.

So he said, it reminded him of Rav Shechter.

He asked me, no doubt, that that's why you do it, because Rav Shechter, I said, yeah, of course, that's why I do it, that my talus is not on my head.

during that time.

Okay.

Question number four.

Is it inappropriate or halachically problematic to learn Torah while lying down?

The Gemara Bracha says that you're supposed to learn Torah by Zia.

Rav Shai told me that his father used to always tell them it's not Zia, it's Zia.