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Questions about Jewish prayer (the fixed order of typically-thrice-daily prayers, or prayer generally).
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Why is the afternoon prayer called minchah?
This question is addressed using the same comment of Tosafos that is @JoelK's jumping-off-point, in Y'sodos Hat'fila (p. 181). Among the other answers, the most compelling one is that between minchas …
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"Eis" instead of "es" in the crop b'racha in the Amida
The ninth b'racha of the amida begins with the words
בָּרֵךְ עָלֵינוּ ה' אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ
אֶת הַשָּׁנָה הַזֹּאת
וְאֶת כָּל מִינֵי תְּבוּאָתָהּ לְטוֹבָה
where both את are vocalized with segol (three trian …
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How are all 613 mitzvot dependent on one mitzvah?
The example of tzitzis does stand out as being a gateway mitzva to the fulfillment of the others. Tzitzis is commanded initially as a mnemonic tool to spur one on to performance of all other mitzvos i …
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אין כערכך ואין זולתיך - a mistaken addition?
T'fila L'Moshe by Rav Aharon Lopiansky quotes Rav Y'huda ben Yakar as linking the two components in this way, with each later line being an explanation of its preceding word pair(+) (emphasis mine).
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Should you make an extra effort to pronounce prayers and blessings clearly?
According to Rav Ya'akov Emden, yes (but that might not mean you have to do it).
He considers "systematic" pronunciation and "dialectal" pronunciation (havarah?) inextricably linked. At the very begin …
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Saying Kaddish when one hasn't davened
The encyclopedic Nit'ei Gavri'el (Avelus vol. 2) says that there is no difference in quality between various instances of kadish - be they recited during t'fila, after recitation of T'hilim, or otherw …
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Omitting אלקי נצור in 'Shemoneh Esrei'
Even though there is special significance to the single line "yih'yu l'ratzon...", which is meant to be appended immediately after the end of sh'mone esre (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 122:1), there is …
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Are we praying or vowing to bring karbanos in musaf of shabas?
In t'filas musaf of shabas are we praying for Hashem to want us to bring the karbanos, or making an offer to bring them?
Two possible readings of this section are of the form "may it be your will, Has …
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Is there tashlumin for n'ila?
Incorporating some ideas that were mentioned in @IsaacMoses's and @DoubleAA's good answers, this question was asked of R' Ephraim Greenblatt and he printed the answer, YES, in a collection of short pi …
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Why do we pray for our prayer to be accepted?
Assuming we are referring to the requests we've made previously, there are still ways in which a request can be granted. Indeed we do not implore God "accept our prayers", but "pity us and accept our …
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Where do Ashrei's intro sentences in the liturgy before Psalm 145 (Ashrei) come from?
Those two lines, which begin with the same word, "ashrei", are excerpted thematically from two other chapters of T'hilim - 84 and 144 - as explained on Wikipedia.
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Selah ~ Does it mean 'forever' 'certainly' 'basket' 'pause', 'yahoo', a kabbalistic meditati...
Rada"k (on ch. 3) is of the opinion that it is a term of elevation, in this case indicating elevation of the voice in reciting the word/line/psalm in which it appears. The word appears only in T'hilim …
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What to think about during each shofar sound
In genenral, Sha'ar Hakavanos says that the set of blowings before sh'mone esre is an appropriate time to verbally admit one's sins and that the Ariza"l would do so while crying. This fits with the ma …
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When to say LeDovid HaShem Ori in a minyan with different nusach
I CMLOR many years ago on the predicament I found myself in davening mincha and ma'ariv in the same two places every day. The former was nusach Ashkenaz and the latter nusach S'farad. The result was t …
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how do Jews pray?
To add a couple facts to the other answers,
There is also an additional prayer service (for a total of four) on each of the holidays and the beginning of every month.
At least three morning prayers …