PRAYERS

• PRAYERS
  • Introduction to Prayers
  • Introduction to Prayers
  • Pre-Prayer
    • Pre-Prayer: Mental Preparation
    • Introduction to Mental Preparation for Praying
    • Pre-Prayer: Attire
    • Man's Head Covering for Prayers or Torah Study
    • Attire for Amida
    • Praying in Bare Feet on Stone Floor
    • Praying in a Kittel on Rosh Hashana
    • Pre-Prayer: Charity
    • Charity To Enhance Prayers
    • Pre-Prayer: Washing Hands
    • Washing Hands before Prayer Service with Amida
    • Washing Hands after Touching Animal
    • Pre-Prayer: Greeting People
    • Pre-Shacharit: Greeting People
  • Who Should Pray
    • Who Should Pray: Women
      • Women's Requirements To Pray
      • Women's Requirements To Pray
      • Baby Care or Prayer
      • Baby Care instead of Praying
      • When You May Nurse a Baby while Praying
  • With Whom To Pray
    • With Whom To Pray: Prayer Quorum (Minyan)
      • With Whom To Pray: Seeking a Quorum (Minyan)
      • How Much Effort To Pray with a Minyan
      • With Whom To Pray: What Constitutes a Quorum (Minyan)
      • How Many Men Needed for a Minyan
      • With Whom To Pray: Who May Be Counted in a Quorum (Minyan)
      • Non-Shomer Shabbat Jew Counted in Minyan
      • Boy less than 13 Years Old
      • With Whom To Pray: Quorum (Minyan) Size
      • Large Minyan or Small
      • With Whom To Pray: Which Prayers Require a Quorum (Minyan)
      • Prayers that Require a Minyan
      • With Whom To Pray: Minyan Etiquette
        • With Whom To Pray: Minyan Etiquette: Priority
        • Priority of Synagogue Members
        • With Whom To Pray: Minyan Etiquette: Nusach
        • Minyan Leader Follows Custom of Minyan
      • With Whom To Pray: Minyan: Amen
        • Minyan: Amen: When To Say
        • Wait for Amen until after Completion of Blessing
        • Don't Answer Amen within 2.5 Seconds
        • Minyan: Amen: When To Interrupt Your Prayer
        • Interrupting Your Prayer To Say Amen
        • Interrupting Your Blessing To Say Amen
        • Interrupting Your Amida To Say Amen
        • Minyan: Amen: When You Cannot Hear Blessing
        • Saying Amen When You Cannot Hear the Blessing
        • Minyan: Amen: Mispronounced Blessing
        • Saying Amen to Mispronunciation
        • Minyan: Amen: When 10 Men Includes Prayer Leader
        • Prayer Leader of 10 Men Should Wait
        • Amida with Minyan but with less than Nine Men Answering
      • With Whom To Pray: Minyan: Keeping Pace
        • Minyan: Keeping Pace: Shacharit Minyan
        • What To Skip To Catch Up in Shacharit
        • If Arrive Late on Shabbat or Jewish Festival Morning
        • Minyan: Keeping Pace: Any Minyan
          • Finishing Amida before Kedusha
          • Finishing Amida before Leader Says Kedusha
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan: Regular Shacharit
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan: Shabbat/Jewish Festival Shacharit
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan: Mincha
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan: Ma'ariv
          • When To Pause or Join Minyan: General Prayer Services
  • Where To Pray
    • Where To Pray: Set Place
    • Set Place (Makom Kavu'a): Enhancement of Prayers
    • Where To Pray: How Close
    • Prayer with Minyan in another Room
    • Where To Pray: Avoiding Distraction
      • Where To Pray: Distracting Attire
      • Men's Prayer near Immodestly Dressed Woman
      • Husband's Prayer near Wife
      • Women's Prayer near Immodestly Dressed People
      • Where To Pray: Distracting Smell
      • Prayer near Feces
      • Prayer near Animal
      • Where To Pray: Distracting People/Mechitza
      • Room Divider/Mechitza: Purpose
      • Where Mechitza Needed
    • Where To Pray: Synagogue Etiquette
      • Where To Pray: Synagogue Etiquette: Hugging/Kissing
      • Don't Hug or Kiss People in Synagogue
      • Where To Pray: Synagogue Etiquette: Eating or Sleeping
      • Eating or Sleeping in Synagogue
      • Eating or Sleeping in Bet Midrash
      • Where To Pray: Synagogue Etiquette: Children
      • Bringing Children to Synagogue
    • Where To Pray: Blessings
    • Where To Pray: Blessings
    • Where To Pray: Non-Jewish Prayer Places
    • Where To Pray: Non-Jewish Prayer Places
  • How To Pray
    • How To Pray: Reading
    • Use Siddur or Not
    • How To Pray: Speaking
      • How To Pray: Volume
      • Saying Prayers Out Loud
      • How To Pray: Language/Pronunciation/Nusach
      • Praying in Own Language
      • Ashkenazi Jew, Sefardi Pronunciation
    • How To Pray: Actions
      • How To Pray: Actions: Stepping
      • How To Pray: Actions: Stepping
      • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing: When Required
        • Bowing: Halacha or Custom?
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing: Direction
        • When To Bow toward Jerusalem
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing: Two Main Types
        • Waist-Bowing and Knee-Bowing
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing: Women
        • Bowing: Women
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing: In Front of Animals and Mirrors
        • Bowing If Animal in Front of You
        • Mirror or Picture of People in Front of You
        • How To Pray: Actions: Bowing-Like Activities
        • Bending Down during Amida To Pull Up Socks,...
        • When You May Crawl on Stone Floor
        • When Kneeling Is Forbidden
  • When To Pray
    • When to Pray: Traveler's Questions
    • When To Pray: Traveler's Questions: Crossing from Day-Night or Night-Day
    • When To Pray: Morning Prayers/Shacharit
      • When To Pray: Morning Prayers/Shacharit (Weekday): Order of Prayers
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: What Time To Begin
        • Introduction: Shacharit: When To Begin
        • Shacharit: Earliest Time for Blessings over Tefilin and Tzitzit
        • Very Early Shacharit: How To Begin
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: What Time To Finish
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: What Time To Finish
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: Blessings of Daybreak (Birchot HaShachar)
        • When To Say Blessings of Daybreak (Birchot HaShachar)
        • Where To Say Blessings of Daybreak (Birchot HaShachar)
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: L'Olam Yihei Adam
        • When To Say Mekadeish et Shimcha BaRabim
        • When To Say Baruch She'Amar
        • Shacharit: Might Return To Sleep and Miss Latest Time To Say Shema
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: Shema
          • Shacharit: Shema: When To Say Shema
          • Earliest Time for Shema (and Amida)
          • Latest time To Say Shema
          • Late Shema: L'Olam Yehei Adam by Third Hour
          • Saying Shema after Proper Time
          • Shacharit: Shema: When To Say Shema Blessings
          • When To Say Shema Blessings
          • Shacharit: Shema: El Melech Ne'eman
        • When To Pray: Shacharit: Shemoneh Esrei/Amida
        • When To Say Morning Amida
    • When To Pray: Mincha
    • Timing of Mincha
    • Mincha Gedola
    • Mincha Ketana
    • When To Pray: Ma'ariv
    • When To Say Ma'ariv
    • When To Say Mincha To Allow Early Ma'ariv
  • What To Pray
    • What To Pray: For What To Pray
    • Ask for Ultimate Goal
    • Praying for a Miracle
    • What To Pray: Personal Requests
      • What To Pray: Personal Requests: Amida
      • Where To Add Personal Requests in Amida
      • What To Pray: Praying for Sick Person
      • Yehi Ratzon of Refa'einu for a Sick Person
      • Praying for a Very Sick Person
      • Praying for a Sick Non-Jew
    • What To Pray: Set Prayers
      • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Shema
        • Shema: Mental Preparation
        • Shema: Mental Preparation
        • Shema: What To Wear
        • What To Wear for Shema in Shacharit
        • Shema: What To Say
        • Men and Shema in Shacharit
        • Women and Shema in Shacharit
        • Amen before Shema
        • Baruch Hu before Shema
        • Starting Shema before Prayer Leader Says
        • Shema: How To Say
        • Covering Eyes for First Line of Shema
        • "Stretching Out" Echad in Shema
        • Kissing Tzitziyot in Shema
        • Ga'al Yisrael/ HaMelech Bi'Chvodo
        • Saying Ga'al Yisrael with Leader or Amen
      • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Pre-Prayer
        • Amida: Bathroom Needs
        • Amida: Intention/Concentration (Kavana)
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: With Whom To Pray
        • Amida: With Whom To Pray
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Location
          • Amida: Location: Changing
          • Amida: Location: Moving Away
          • Amida: Location: Where To Face
          • When To Face Jerusalem
          • How To Face Jerusalem
          • Where To Face for Wisdom or Wealth
          • Amida: Location: Near Someone Praying
          • Amida: Someone Praying
          • Amida: Someone Blocking the Way while Praying
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Volume
        • How Loud To Say the Amida
        • Amida Phrases That Are Never Said Aloud
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Actions
          • Amida: Actions: Standing
          • Amida: Standing Up
          • Amida: Standing with Feet Together
          • Amida: Actions: Sitting
          • Amida: Sitting for Concentration
          • Amida: Actions: Stepping
          • Amida Actions: Steps Before and After
          • Amida Actions: Stepping Before Kedusha
          • Amida: Actions: Hitting Your Chest
          • When To Hit Your Chest during Prayers
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Interruptions
        • Responding to Prayer Leader before Elohai Netzur
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Errors
          • Amida: Errors: Tashlumin
          • Introduction to Amida: Errors: Tashlumin
          • Amida: Errors: Amida Additions
            • Amida Errors: Mashiv HaRuach
            • Introduction to Amida Errors: Mashiv HaRuach
            • Amida Errors: Mashiv HaRuach
            • Amida Errors: HaEl HaKadosh
            • Amida Errors: HaEl HaKadosh
            • Amida Errors: Chonein HaDaat/Yismach Moshe/Tikanta Shabbat/Ata Echad/Rashei Chodashim/Ata Vichartanu
            • Amida Errors: Chonein HaDaat/Yismach Moshe/Tikanta Shabbat/Ata Echad/Rashei Chodashim/Ata Vichartanu
            • Amida Errors: Tein Bracha/Tein Tal U'Matar L'vracha
            • Amida Errors: Tein Bracha/Tein Tal U'Matar L'Vracha
            • Amida Errors: Ya'aleh V'Yavo
            • Amida Errors: Ya'aleh V'Yavo
            • Amida Errors: Sim Shalom
            • Amida Errors: Sim Shalom
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Ambiguities
        • Tein Bracha If in Eretz Yisrael Cheshvan 7/Dec. 4
        • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Amida: Reader's Repetition
          • Amida: Reader's Repetition: Beginning
          • Standing for Reader's Repetition of Amida
          • Adonai Sifatai by Prayer Leader
          • Ki Shem by Prayer Leader
          • Amida: Reader's Repetition: Replying
          • Replying during Your Private Amida
          • Amida: Reader's Repetition: Kedusha
          • Say Minyan's Version of Kedusha
          • Bowing for Kara Zeh El Zeh
          • Amida: Reader's Repetition: Priestly Blessing (Birkat Cohanim)
          • Birkat Cohanim: Pausing in Private Amida
          • Birkat Cohanim: Seeing Each Other
          • Birkat Cohanim: Looking at Priests'/Cohanim's Hands
          • Birkat Cohanim: Talit over Child's Head
          • Birkat Cohanim: Priest/Cohen in the Room
      • What To Pray: Set Prayers: Avinu Malkeinu to Psalms
        • Introduction to Avinu Malkeinu to Psalms
        • Introduction to Avinu Malkeinu to Psalms
        • Avinu Malkeinu
        • When To Say Avinu Malkeinu
        • Avinu Malkeinu on Tzom Gedalia
        • Torah Reading
          • Torah Reading: Offering/Declining Aliya
          • Consecutive Aliyot for Family Members
          • Declining an Aliya
          • Torah Reading: The Bima
          • Shortest Route to Bima
          • Stand on Bima after Aliya
          • Returning to your Seat after Aliya
          • Torah Reading: Saying Torah Blessings
          • When Saying Torah Blessing
          • How Loud To Say Torah Blessings
          • Torah Reading: What To Do While on Bima
          • Torah Reading: What To Do While on Bima
          • Torah Reading: Aliya Donation
          • Donation after Aliya
        • Mourner's Kaddish
        • Responding to Mourner's Kaddish
        • Late in Joining Mourner's Kaddish
        • More on Mourner's Kaddish
        • U'Va L'Tzion
        • Kadosh in U'Va L'Tzion with the Minyan
        • Hallel
        • Saying Hallel with a Minyan
        • Order of Prayers with Hallel
        • Timing of Hallel and Musaf
        • Hodu in Hallel
        • Birkat HaChodesh
        • Announcing the New Month
        • Announcing Two-Day Rosh Chodesh Starting Shabbat
        • Tachanun
        • Shacharit: Tachanun: How To Say
        • Shacharit: Tachanun: When Not To Say
        • Psalm of the Day/Shir Shel Yom
        • Shacharit: Psalm of the Day/Shir Shel Yom: Daytime
        • Psalm 27/L'David Adonai Ori V'Yish'i
        • When To Say Psalm 27/L'David Adonai Ori V'Yish'i
        • Alenu
        • Who Should Say Alenu
        • When To Say Alenu
        • Psalms/Tehilim
        • Value of Saying Tehilim
        • Concluding Tehilim with Yehi Ratzon of Refa'einu
        • Tehilim Additions to Regular Prayers
        • When To Say Tehilim
    • Set Prayers: Mincha
    • Mincha: Tzidkatecha
    • Mincha: Tachanun
    • Set Prayers: Ma'ariv
    • Shir HaMa'alot Hinei Bar'chu
    • Bar'chu at End of Ma'ariv
    • When To Respond to Bar'chu
    • Saying HaMelech BiChvodo with Prayer Leader
    • Halachot of Ma'ariv Amida
    • When To Say Ma'ariv Psalm 27
    • Bedtime Shema
      • HaMapil
      • HaMapil and Shema: Halacha, Not Custom
      • When To Say HaMapil
      • HaMapil When You May Not Fall Asleep
      • If You Cannot Fall Asleep after HaMapil
    • Selichot
    • Selichot
  • SIDDUR GUIDE: How To Pray in Synagogue
  • Introduction to How To Pray in Synagogue