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If someone b'mezid, intentionally, prayed shacharis without tefillin, would he have fulfilled his obligation? Or would he have to pray again with tefillin.
I don't know about the earliest source, but the opening words of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 122:1 are: .כֵּיוָן שֶׁבְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז הִתְחִילוּ צָרוֹת הַחֻרְבָּן, לָכֵן נוֹהֲגִין קְצָת ...
What is our stance on creating new tags? On MY it was preferable not to create new ones, but what about here?
My opinion: Should we allow users to write questions in non-English languages? No. The primary language of the site should be English, so each question should be substantially English for the f...
As I understand it, generally speaking: If you count the correct number of days (ideally also weeks, but days is the most important) in any way (e.g., "tonight we count...") after Tzeis Hacochav...
I can't answer this, but at least I can reply with another question, which might affect the answer. What form does the reward take? Is there an idea in Judaism that humans improve their well-bein...
Someone at my seder asked about the ordering in Dayeinu, specifically that "had God not given us Shabbat..." comes before "had God not give us the Torah..." -- but wasn't Shabbat given at Sinai, as...
One foundational point that might shed some clarity: The requirement for tevilas keilim is only for utensils that are owned and being used with food by a Jew, but were previously owned by a non-...
While reading Megillat Ruth on Shavuot, I noticed that there were an unusually large number of words that were read differently than how they're written in the text. This includes outright omitting...
If one is in shul on a Shabbos afternoon and a mourner (who is in his 7 days) is davening there, does the minyan say Tzidkat'cha? My logic -- during the week,one does not say tachanun in the house...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
the argument between Beit Hillel (BH) & Beit Shammai (BS) was whether we follow the qualified majority based on the daat of man, or the most correct answer. R Eliezer(RE) was right and the rab...
I too had this problem. I bought the Artscroll Interlinear siddur. It slowed me down a lot and imbued much more meaning into my davening.
I have a similiar experience with my davening Recently I started learing Reb Shimshon Pincus's sefer on tefilla as suggested by a friend and its working already... Here's a link.. no I don't get ...
Try to be the sheliach tzibbur as often as possible. I find that when I lead the prayers I'm much more focused on them. Partly this is because representing the congregation is a serious undertakin...
Copied from my answer here: Take a minute to clear your mind and try to fee the presence of Hashem all around you. Daven to Hashem to help you daven with Kavanah Every time you catch your mind st...
Without checking sources: Psukei DeZimra (the psalms and passages from Baruch SheAmar to Yishtabach, before Shema) should be recited slowly, as though one were counting money. Try to pronounce each...
You should consider getting a Siddur with Kavanot. Before I used one I was around 1.5x faster than I am now. Now I take my time and I feel better after I finish. P.S. If you are Sephardic I recomme...
R' Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer 6, Y.D. 14, was asked by a religious girls school if it was better to enforce a dresscode which prohibited short skirts or pants, as the school had determined they wou...
In addition to the other answer that I have already written on this question, something else that helps me is standing in front of somebody who davens slowly. Since I can't take my three steps back...
Two things have proven effective for me over the years in this regard: Davening near/behind people who are more into it than me. This is inspirational not for competitive reasons but because it p...
The Koren-Sacks siddur can be worth a try. Also worth a try is a siddur with a different version of the text than the one you're used to (Nusach Sefard, real Sfaradi, etc). Makes it much harder t...
Not really a complete answer, but a path to an understanding of the difference between the two words. The Gur Aryeh on Rashi Bereishit 29:17 explains a grammatical difference between the word Anoch...
EDIT: Having now read a sefer on this topic, I would edit my answer a bit--mostly just to say "It's complicated," but also to solidify these points: Technically, halacha follows the Ramban tha...
אֲנִי is the basic word "I". It is just about always followed by an adjective or noun. It is used the vast majority of times both in Tanakh and later writings. אָנֹכִי is a more nuanced version of ...