# Prayer

Source: Halachipedia: Prayer

Link: [https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Prayer](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Prayer)

Categories: `Prayer`

Exported: 2025-12-30

There is a mitzvah for every Jew to pray to Hashem every day. There are three formal prayers, the morning prayer (Shacharit), afternoon (Mincha), and night (Maariv or Arvit).

* Mitzvah to Daven

**What One May Do before Davening**

* Greeting People before Davening
* Eating before Davening
* Netilat Yadayim in Preparation for Davening
* Other Activities before Davening
* Preparations for Davening

**Davening Times**

* When Is the Earliest and Latest Time to Pray?

**General Halachot of Davening**

* Answering Amen
* Fulfilling One's Obligation by Listening to a Bracha (Shomea KeOneh)
* Davening with a Minyan That Uses a Different Nusach
* Kaddish
* Kavanah necessary for Davening (Kavanah for Tefillah)
* Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages
* Prayers for Certain Occasions
* Dvarim SheBichtav
* Shaliach Tzibbur
* Correcting a Bad Dream
* Someone who comes late to Davening
* Saying the Words of Davening Correctly
* What to do if one missed davening (Tashlumin)
* Turning to the Right and Left
* Leshem Yichud
* Learning During Davening

**Halachos of a Shul**

* Davening with a minyan
* Respecting the sanctity of the Shul
* Where Is It Permissible to Daven?
* Acquiring Rights to a Mitzvah
* Brov Am Hadrat Melech
* Praying in a Shul with a Stone Floor

**Specific Sections of Davening**

* Birchot HaShachar
* Birchot HaTorah
* Korbanot
* Kaddish
* Pesukei DeZimrah
* Barchu
* Birchot Kriyat Shema
* Kriyat Shema
* Pores Al Shema
* Shmoneh Esrei
    * Mashiv HaRuach UMorid HaGeshem
    * Atta Chonen
    * Atta Chonantanu
    * Hashivenu
    * Slach Lanu
    * Refaenu
    * Barech Aleinu (VeTen Tal UMatar Lebracha)
    * Yaaleh VeYavo (insertion for Rosh Chodesh)
    * Al Hanissim on Chanukah
    * [Sim Shalom](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Shemoneh%20Esrei#sim-shalom-)
    * Taking Three Steps Back
* Chazarat HaShatz
    * Kedusha
    * Birkat Cohanim
* Havinenu
* Kriyat HaTorah
    * Hagbah and Gelila
* Hallel
* Tachanun, Ashrei, Aleinu, Shir Shel Yom
* Special prayer for travelers (Tefillat HaDerech)
* Mincha
* Mariv/Arvit
* Mussaf
* Repeating Shema at night
* Bedtime Shema
* Tikkun Chatzot