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==Proper Dress for Davening== | ==Proper Dress for Davening== | ||
# One must wear a belt during [[ | # One must wear a belt during [[davening]], though some say this applies only to someone who usually wears a belt, for someone who does not usually wear a belt it is considered a pious practice to wear one for [[davening]]. <Ref> Shulchan Aruch 91:2, Mishna Brurah 91:4 </ref> | ||
# If one’s pants are tight the pants serve as a | # If one’s pants are tight the pants will serve as a sufficient separation between the top and bottom part of one's body, but it is still a pious practice to wear a belt. <Ref>Avnei Yishfeh (pg 53 note 5), Piskei Teshuvot 91:1</ref> | ||
# Being dressed properly depends on the standards of the time and place | # Being dressed properly depends on the standards of the time and place and the way people would walk in the streets and in front of important people. If it is accepted to wear short sleeve shirts or sandals without socks, one does not usually need to change for [[davening]]. One needs to make sure one is wearing respectable clothes as one is standing before Hashem. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 91:3 </ref> | ||
# One who usually works in short pants (shorts) | # One who usually works in short pants (shorts) is not recommended to daven in shorts, but it is not forbidden to. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 2:15 </ref> | ||
# One who usually wears a hat and jacket and | # One who usually wears a hat and jacket and happens not to have them should not daven without it unless one will miss [[davening with a minyan]] if one waits until one aquires a hat and jacket. (Draping a jacket over one’s shoulders is not considered wearing it.) However, one who usually does not wear a hat or jacket does not have to wear them during davening, but it is still a proper practice. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 2:15, Piskei Teshuvot 91:3 </ref> | ||
# One should not daven in a robe or a bathing suit. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo (2:15 note 73) </ref> | # One should not daven in a robe or a bathing suit. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo (2:15 note 73) </ref> | ||
# Some have the practice to wear a hat during [[davening]] in order to be properly dressed for [[davening]]. <ref>The Mishna Brurah 91:12 quotes the Chaye Adam as saying that one should wear a hat for [[davening]] just as people walk in the street with a hat. </ref> | # Some have the practice to wear a hat during [[davening]] in order to be properly dressed for [[davening]]. <ref>The Mishna Brurah 91:12 quotes the Chaye Adam as saying that one should wear a hat for [[davening]] just as people walk in the street with a hat. </ref> | ||
== | ==Needing the Bathroom== | ||
# If one needs to go to the bathroom, even if one | # If one needs to go to the bathroom, even if one would be able to hold it in for 72 minutes, it would be preferable not to pray until one has gone to the bathroom, unless one will miss praying before the [[latest time for Shemona Esreh]] by doing so. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 92:1</ref> | ||
==Going to Mikveh== | ==Going to Mikveh== | ||
# Originally, Ezra HaSofer made an institution that someone who was impure | # Originally, Ezra HaSofer made an institution that someone who was impure may not learn Torah or pray until he dips in the mikveh. However, this practice was not upheld and nowadays it is permitted for an impure person to learn Torah and daven.<ref>Gemara Brachot 22a, Rambam (Kriyat Shema 5:4), Shulchan Aruch 88:1. See, however, the opinion of Rav Hai Goan quoted by Rosh (Brachot 3:21) and Rif 13b who says that the institution of Ezra was only repealed with regards to learning Torah and not davening. </ref> | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Prayer]] | [[Category:Prayer]] | ||
Revision as of 19:16, 30 June 2015
Proper Dress for Davening
- One must wear a belt during davening, though some say this applies only to someone who usually wears a belt, for someone who does not usually wear a belt it is considered a pious practice to wear one for davening. [1]
- If one’s pants are tight the pants will serve as a sufficient separation between the top and bottom part of one's body, but it is still a pious practice to wear a belt. [2]
- Being dressed properly depends on the standards of the time and place and the way people would walk in the streets and in front of important people. If it is accepted to wear short sleeve shirts or sandals without socks, one does not usually need to change for davening. One needs to make sure one is wearing respectable clothes as one is standing before Hashem. [3]
- One who usually works in short pants (shorts) is not recommended to daven in shorts, but it is not forbidden to. [4]
- One who usually wears a hat and jacket and happens not to have them should not daven without it unless one will miss davening with a minyan if one waits until one aquires a hat and jacket. (Draping a jacket over one’s shoulders is not considered wearing it.) However, one who usually does not wear a hat or jacket does not have to wear them during davening, but it is still a proper practice. [5]
- One should not daven in a robe or a bathing suit. [6]
- Some have the practice to wear a hat during davening in order to be properly dressed for davening. [7]
Needing the Bathroom
- If one needs to go to the bathroom, even if one would be able to hold it in for 72 minutes, it would be preferable not to pray until one has gone to the bathroom, unless one will miss praying before the latest time for Shemona Esreh by doing so. [8]
Going to Mikveh
- Originally, Ezra HaSofer made an institution that someone who was impure may not learn Torah or pray until he dips in the mikveh. However, this practice was not upheld and nowadays it is permitted for an impure person to learn Torah and daven.[9]
Sources
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch 91:2, Mishna Brurah 91:4
- ↑ Avnei Yishfeh (pg 53 note 5), Piskei Teshuvot 91:1
- ↑ Piskei Teshuvot 91:3
- ↑ Halichot Shlomo 2:15
- ↑ Halichot Shlomo 2:15, Piskei Teshuvot 91:3
- ↑ Halichot Shlomo (2:15 note 73)
- ↑ The Mishna Brurah 91:12 quotes the Chaye Adam as saying that one should wear a hat for davening just as people walk in the street with a hat.
- ↑ Yalkut Yosef 92:1
- ↑ Gemara Brachot 22a, Rambam (Kriyat Shema 5:4), Shulchan Aruch 88:1. See, however, the opinion of Rav Hai Goan quoted by Rosh (Brachot 3:21) and Rif 13b who says that the institution of Ezra was only repealed with regards to learning Torah and not davening.
