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===Learning===
===Learning===
# It’s permissible to learn until Mincha Ketana (9½ hours into the day). However, once Mincha Ketana comes, it’s forbidden to learn until one prays. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 232:11 writes that the laws of learning before mincha are the same as those for Shacharit after Olot HaShachar. </ref> Nonetheless, under four circumstances it’s permissible to learn even after Mincha Ketana:
# It’s permissible to learn until Mincha Ketana (9½ hours into the day). However, once Mincha Ketana comes, it’s forbidden to learn until one prays. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 232:11 writes that the laws of learning before mincha are the same as those for Shacharit after Olot HaShachar. </ref> Nonetheless, under four circumstances it’s permissible to learn even after Mincha Ketana:
* if one usually goes to daven in a tzibbur,
* if one usually goes to daven in a tzibbur (minyan),
* if one is learning the place where a tzibbur will come to daven,  
* if one is learning the place where a tzibbur will come to daven,  
* if one asked a friend who wasn’t learning to remind him before the latest time of Mincha, or
* if one asked a friend who wasn’t learning to remind him before the latest time of Mincha, or
* if one was teaching Torah to a group if there’s no concern that one will miss the latest time for Mincha. <ref>S”A 89:6 with Mishna Brurah regarding Shacharit</ref>
* if one was teaching Torah to a group if there’s no concern that one will miss the latest time for Mincha. <ref>S”A 89:6 with Mishna Brurah regarding Shacharit</ref>
===Working===
# From 9 hours in the day, one may not start work that could drag out.<Ref>Mishna Brurah 232:9 </ref> If one always goes to minyan and there’s a set time, it’s permissible, even after 9½ hours.  <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 232:3 </ref>
===Traveling, Showering, Shaving===
# If one always goes to minyan and there’s a set time, it’s permissible to travel, shower, and shave, even after 9½ hours. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 232:3 </ref>
===Sleeping===
# One shouldn’t sleep after 9½ hours. If one asks a friend to wake one up, then it’s permissible.  <Ref>Ishei Yisreal 27:27 </ref>


==Mariv==
==Mariv==