Prayer

Source: Halachipedia: Prayer

Link: 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
  • 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