Questions tagged [tefilla]
Questions about Jewish prayer (the fixed order of typically-thrice-daily prayers, or prayer generally).
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Source for parable about wandering attention during tefillah
There's a well-known parable about concentrating during tefillah.
A person walks through the fair and looking at the various items on sale. Suddenly, he is struck in the chest. He sees nobody in the ...
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Is it appropriate for a man to pray deeply for a woman?
In light of the verse in Exodus 2:11, with Rashi's explanation "וירא בסבלתם AND HE SAW THEIR BURDENS — he set his eyes and mind to share in their distress. (Exodus Rabbah 1:27)" - which I ...
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In places south of the Equator (South America, Africa) their winter is our summer. Why don't they say V'ten tal u'mater l'bracha?
Those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere begin to sat V'sayn Tal U'Matar l'vracha around Dec 4
or Dec 5. Yet people living in the Southern Hemisphere continue to say V'sayn B'racha, only ...
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Is there permission to daven a different nusach in a shul? [closed]
I want to clarify that I'm not asking what he should do if he has a different nusach, since that was already clarified on this site. Rather I want to ask if the person is being "forced" to ...
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Why do we say the second paragraph of the Shema every day, והיה אם שמוע, if there are no noticeable consequences for not listening?
The second paragraph of the Shema, והיה אם שמוע, warns that if we abandon God’s commandments, we’ll be expelled from the promised land. But practically we don't see that now.
So why do we include this ...
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Why Do Some Siddurim Say ‘ועל כל יושבי תבל’?
In oseh shalom, certain communities (seemingly mostly reform and some conservative), include
ועל כל יושבי תבל
What is the reason behind this ? What sources are behind this ? And when did this custom ...
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Can one daven with chazzan silently as a loophole if one can't make a nedavah
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If one for whatever reason hypothetically wastes time before shacharis and is considered to have "intentionally" delayed to the point where he can no longer make a tashlumin, and ...
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Birkat HaChodesh: aruchim or arukim?
What evidence is there to read it as "arukim" = healthy, as opposed to "aruchim" = long life?
Are there Rishonim and Acharonim who understand it as "arukim" healthy?
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What was this prayer about Malchut HaRisha?
One weeknight in November, I went to a Persian shul in LA for Arvit. After Alenu, the chazan said by heart some long prayer(s) about “Malchut HaRisha”.
What is it (or what were they)? I’d like to read ...
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What part of liturgy is this line from?
A line from the liturgy came back to mind from my youth in Egypt (I can even sing it!). What service is it from and what does it mean? (They cried out to HaShem... from their shelters...?)
Va-iz'aku ...
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If you are supposed to pray towards Eretz Yisrael, why do many American synagogues only face east?
I did a bit of computer programming with Google Earth and a straight great circle line from, say, Los Angeles to Jerusalem is actually north-northeast, and actually going straight east (not due east, ...
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Is this pronunciation of ה acceptable?
I have a friend who is often the ש״ץ of a casual Minyan.
I’ve noticed that he occasionally pronounces ה very emphatically, such that it becomes strongly pharyngealized, and thus identical to the ...
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Correct wording in Lecha Dodi / "Gam (BeSimcha) BeRina..."
In the Sephardic version of Lecha Dodi, we say: "גם בשמחה, ברינה ובצהלה".
The Ashkenazic version is "גם ברינה ובצהלה", which seems more correct to me: The stanza is already quite ...
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Praying for a specific job
The Gemara in Moed Kattan brings the story of how we shouldn’t pray for a specific shidduch because if that girl is “the one” then Hashem will give her to us, but if she isn’t then you are messing ...
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Barkhu and V'Hu Rahum in an Ashkenazic Minhag
An unpublished 16th minhagim book (Ashkenazic from N. Italy) has the line:
דער חזן דוינט לאַנג והוא רחום און ברכו גלייך אז מן דוינט ווען שבת אויש גיט
This means that at the end of Yom Kippur the ...
