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Hilchot Tefillah Uzmana (Answers)

Written by Jonny Caller

Please correct any mistakes!

1. A) After dawn, once it starts to get noticeably lighter = ‘mishehair pnei hamizrach’ B) Netz

2. Shacharit corresponds to the Tamid offering, which was shechted meshahair hamizrach

3. From when he can recognize his friend from 4 amot = ‘misheyakir’ (which is a specific point in time between dawn and sunrise)

4. The exact time that one can see the sun rise/set from one’s precise position. Therefore, slightly different time for different floors of same building…

5. alot hashachar, mishehair hamizrach, misheyakir, netz

6. End of the fourth halachic hour of the day, since the koraban tamid could not be brought after the first third of the day

7. He should daven before the end of the 6th hour

8. A) yes b) no

9. That if he is exempt from davening, then this Amidah should be ‘betorat nedavah’ = have the status of a voluntary prayer.

10. Chatzot

11. If someone either by mistake didn’t daven or if circumstances prevented him from davening before chatzot, then at mincha time, he should daven the mincha amidah followed by the shacharit amidah. If someone davened shacharit in the half-hour after chatzot, he is yotze bedieved and should not daven tashlumin.

12. Not fitting to honour a person by using Hashem’s name (Shalom) before honouring Hashem

13. yes

14. Only if one needs to sort something out with the person (not just to greet him)

15. no

16. Only if he has said brachot

17. yes

18. So that we realise that it is forbidden to delay davening for anything

19. no

20. Half an hour before dawn

21. However you want!

22. yes

23. yes

24. no

25. 1) If it’s for a Mitzvah e.g sechar of the steps or not to delay work, which would be stealing (Rav Nevenzahl) or 2) if it’s ‘sha’at dechak’ – time-presssed

26. yes

27. No – it’s ga’avah.

28. A) and b):mutar, c): assur

29. A) Mutar if it is drunk to settle the mind/ help kavana in davening b) machloket, though we are noheg to drink it with sugar. Though if one drinks it, one should say birchat hatorah, the 1st para of shema and the passukim of ‘mah betza’ (Rav Nevebzahl). Also, one shouldn’t drink it in groups of friends.

30. Not chayav. But if he wants, he can eat/drink and then daven

31. yes

32. If its more than a beitzah: No. If it’s less than a beitzah: yes.

33. yes

34. Yes, so long as there is some means to ensure that he won’t miss shacharit. E.g. learns in a shul, asks a friend to wake him. E.g. asks a friend to ring him, sends a message to his friend, alarm clock (Rav Nevenzahl).

35. Purifies our thoughts, prepares our mind for davening. PT: ‘There is no better way to prepare for davening than gemara with commentaries…’

36. Since the zechut of many is a great thing.

37. A) yes, though some are machmir not to within the half-hour before dawn (s.k.37). B) no

38. Yes – it’s ‘chefzei shamayim’

39. Yes – can do any Mitzvah-needs before davening (Rav Nevenzahl). E.g. shower freshens one up for davening, thus helps one’s kavana. If one does activities such as haircuts before davening, one should say brachot before.

40. Daven at home after meshehair

41. No. most daven on the way, with smichat geula litfillah, like Magen Avraham.

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