What is Havdalah and when is it performed?

    Just as there's a mitzvah of Kiddush when Shabbat begins, there's a mitzvah of Havdalah over wine when Shabbat ends, to distinguish between the sacred and the mundane

    Source: Shulchan Aruch OC 296

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