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# Some early authorities consider the mitzvah to pray as a biblical Mitzvah based on the פסוק “ועבדתם בכל לבבכם” which Chazal explain as a reference to the service of the heart. <Ref>Rambam Tefillah 1:1. The Chazal can be found in Tanit 2a. </ref> However, many early authorities argue that the entire obligation is rabbinic. <Ref>Ramban (ספר המצות), Mishna Brurah 106:4 </ref>
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==Shemona Esreh==
==General Obligation==
# According to Sephardim all the brachot of Shemona Esreh all necessary and one may not say a portion of them without the others. For example, if one only knows a portion of the Brachot it is better not to say anything. <Ref>Sh”t Yabea Omer 2:8, 10:10 </ref> However, according to Ashkenazim one should say any of the Brachot one knows or one can. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 593:2 </ref>
==Obligation==
# Gentiles are not obligated in Tefillah but if they do pray they fulfill a mitzvah like a person who isn’t commanded but volunteers. <Ref>Sh”t Igrot Moshe 2:25 </ref>
# Women are obligated in saying Shemona Esreh of Shacharit and Mincha. <Ref>S”A 106:1, Mishna Brurah 106:4. See also Sh”t Yechava Daat 3:7 who writes that women are obligated in one Shemona Esreh a day but if they say three a day it’s praiseworthy. Tefillah KeHilchata (chapter 1 note 17) quotes Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul who says that women are obligated in all Tefillot except Arvit. </ref> It’s proper that women accept the yoke of heaven by saying Shema at least the first פסוק. <Ref>S”A and Rama 70:1, Mishna Brurah 70:5 </ref>
# A woman who is unable to say Shemona Esreh of Shacharit should at least say a short prayer which includes praise, a request, and a thanks of Hashem. <ref>Tefillah KeHilchata 1:10 based on Magan Avraham 106:2 </ref>
# A woman who has limited time for Shacharit should say parts of Tefillah according to the order of importance: 1)Shemona Esreh 2)first פסוק of Shemaand Emet VeYatsiv before Shemona Esreh 3) Baruch SheAmar, Ashrei, and Yishtabach, 4) Birchot HaShachar, 5) Birkat HaTorah, 6) Birchot Kriyat Shema and the entire Shema and 7) Pesukei Dezimra. <Ref>Tefillah KeHilchata (chapter 1 note 21). There he quotes Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul who says that women may make Pesukei Dezimra and Brachot Kriyat Shema with Shem UMalchut while Sh”t Yabea Omer 2:6 holds that these Brachot should be made without Shem UMalchut. </ref>
# Women aren’t obligated in Arvit and if one wants to say it one should specify that it is done Bli Neder (so that it’s not binding after 3 times of performing it). <ref>Mishna Brurah 106:4, Tefillah KeHilchata 1:11 </ref>


==References==
#Some early authorities consider the mitzvah to pray as a biblical mitzvah based on the verse “ולעבדו בכל לבבכם”<ref>Deuteronomy 11:13/דברים פרק יא פסוק יג</ref> which Chazal explain as a reference to the service of the heart<ref>Tanit 2a</ref>, ולעבדו connoting worship through prayer. [[Tefillah]] is listed as the fifth mitzvah in the Rambam's ספר המצות.<ref>Rambam Tefillah 1:1,ספר המצוות לרמב"ם מצות עשה ה</ref> However, many early authorities argue that the entire obligation is rabbinic and only biblical in times of great distress (בעת צרה). <ref>Ramban on ספר המצות, Mishna Brurah 106:4 </ref>
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#One who lengthens his [[prayers]] will merit a longer life. <ref>Sh"t Rivivot Ephraim 1:50:7 says that although the gemara Brachot 54b says this in reference to the amida, it is true for all [[prayers]] </ref>
 
==Doctors==
 
#If a doctor is involved with healing a patient and there's an urgent need he shouldn't interrupt to say Shema or Shemona Esrei. However, if he can take a brief break and his involvement isn't critical for that time then he should do so in order to say Shema and Shemona Esrei.<ref>Nishmat Avraham 38:6. Dirshu 93:8 also cites Chut Shani Chol Hamoed v. 1 p. 328 as agreeing.</ref>
#For example, someone who is a doctor healing a Jewish patient and missed the entire period of a Tefillah from beginning to end, since he was dealing with a mitzvah he doesn't need to recite Tashlumin afterwards.<ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach cited in Nishmat Avraham 38:6 writes that someone who is healing a Jewish patient is doing a mitzvah and as such he is exempt from Tefillah and if he's involved with that mitzvah from the beginning of the time of the Tefillah to the end then he doesn't even need to recite Tashlumin in accordance with the Derisha YD 341:3. He also cites Rav Zilberstein who explains that even if he doesn't have intention for a mitzvah nonetheless he is practically doing the mitzvah of Hashavat Aveidah and as such the exemption applies.</ref>
 
==Women==
===Shemona Esrei===
#Women are obligated in saying [[Shmoneh Esrei]] of [[Shacharit]] and [[Mincha]]. <ref>S”A 106:1, Mishna Brurah 106:4. See also Sh”t Yechave Daat 3:7 who writes that women are obligated in one [[Shmoneh Esrei]] a day but if they say three a day it is praiseworthy. [[Tefillah]] KeHilchata (chapter 1 note 17) quotes Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul who says that women are obligated in all Tefillot except [[Arvit]]. </ref> It is proper for women to accept the yoke of heaven by saying at least the first pasuk of Shema. <ref>S”A and Rama 70:1, Mishna Brurah 70:5 </ref>
#Women are not obligated in [[Arvit]]. If one wants to say it one should specify that it is done Bli Neder (so that it is not binding after 3 times of performing it). <ref>Mishna Brurah 106:4, [[Tefillah]] KeHilchata 1:11. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/703731/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Women_at_Prayer Rabbi Hershel Schachter] in a shiur on yutorah.org ("Women at [[Prayer]]", min 10-16) agrees and explains that women are not obligated to say [[Arvit]] since according to the gemara, [[Arvit]] is optional and although men have accepted it upon themselves to say [[Arvit]], making it an obligation for men, the minhag however does not include women and therefore [[Arvit]] is not an obligation for them. </ref>
#Many poskim hold that women are exempt from saying [[Mussaf]].<ref>Mishna Brurah 106:4 quotes the Tzlach (Brachot 26a s.v. VeShel Musafin) who says that women are exempt from [[Mussaf]], while the Magen Giborim disagrees. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/703731/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Women_at_Prayer Rabbi Hershel Schachter] in a shiur on yutorah.org ("Women at [[Prayer]]", min 10-16) explains that the reason women are exempt, is that [[Mussaf]] is not about asking for mercy, which is the basis for women's obligation to pray (Gemara [[Brachot]] 20b). Additionally, [[Mussaf]] was instituted because of the [[korbanot]] Mussaf and women were not obligated in donating the Machasit HaShekel which was used for communal [[korbanot]] such as the Mussaf [[korbanot]]. </ref>
#A woman who is unable to say [[Shmoneh Esrei]] of [[Shacharit]] should at least say a short [[prayer]] which includes praise, a request, and a thanks of Hashem. <ref>[[Tefillah]] KeHilchata 1:10 based on Magen Avraham 106:2 </ref>
===Sequence of Importance===
#A woman who has limited time for [[Shacharit]] should say parts of [[Tefillah]] according to the order of importance: 1) [[Shmoneh Esrei]] 2) first pasuk of Shema and Emet VeYatsiv before [[Shmoneh Esrei]] 3) Baruch SheAmar, Ashrei, and Yishtabach, 4) Birchot HaShachar, 5) Birkat HaTorah, 6) Birchot [[Kriyat Shema]] and the entire Shema and 7) Pesukei Dezimra. <ref>[[Tefillah]] KeHilchata (chapter 1 note 21). </ref>
===Sephardim===
#According to the Sephardic minhag, women shouldn't recite the bracha of Baruch SheAmer, Yishtabach, or Birchot Kriyat Shema. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Dinim L'isha V'lbat 8:1-2). [[Tefillah]] KeHilchata (chapter 1 note 21) quotes Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul as saying that women may say Pesukei Dezimra and brachot of [[Kriyat Shema]] with [[Shem UMalchut]] and Sh”t Yabia Omer 2:6 holds that these [[brachot]] should be made without [[Shem UMalchut]]. </ref>
#The minhag is that women don't say [[Tachanun]]. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 131:1, [[Tefillah]] KeHilchata 15:5</ref>
#According to Sephardim, a woman who doesn't have time should at least say Birchot Hashachar, Birchot HaTorah, and Shemona Esrei. It is also proper for them to also say Shema. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Otzar Dinim Lisha Velebat p. 68, 77, 104)</ref>
===Minyan===
# Women are exempt from davening with a minyan.<ref>Shvut Yakov 3:54, Leket Halachot 3:577 based on [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1970&st=&pgnum=27 Teshuva M'ahava 2:229:10], and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah ch. 5 fnt. 4 p. 61). [https://ph.yhb.org.il/03-20-02/ Rav Eliezer Melamed (Peninei Halacha ch. 20)] explains that since women aren't obligated in mitzvot that are time bound they are exempt from joining the minyan. (Another [https://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/3858 link here].) Even though Rav Yakov Ariel (Bohela Shel Torah v. 2 ch. 26 p. 100) wrote that women are obligated in davening in a minyan he explained himself that he meant that [https://www.toraland.org.il/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94/%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%95%D7%91-%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F/ torahland.org.il] women are exempt but it is ideal for women to daven in a minyan. The fact that they are exempt is also evident in the fact that they can't join for the requisite quorum for a minyan (Tosfot Brachot 45b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 55:1, Mishna Brurah 55:3, Ishei Yisrael 15:6, Tefillah Khilchata 8:27).</ref> Therefore, they shouldn't skip tefillot in order to catch up to the minyan.<ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah ch. 5 fnt. 4 p. 61) holds that there's no obligation at all for a women to daven with a minyan and therefore she shouldn't skip to catch up with the minyan. Avnei Yishfeh Tehillah 16:6 quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman but also quotes Rav Elyashiv and Rav Shmuel Wosner who disagrees that women can skip pesukei dzimra in order to daven with a minyan since it enhances her davening.</ref>
# Regarding Kriyat Hatorah some say that women are obligated to listen to kriyat hatorah but the minhag is that women do not listen to kriyat hatorah.<ref>Magen Avraham 282:6, Mishna Brurah 282:13. Avnei Yishfeh Tehillah 16:6 explains that even the Magen Avraham who says that woman are obligated to listen to kriyat hatorah which needs a minyan that is only because it is part of a public reading that she understands and gains from as we find by hakel which includes women. However, davening Shemona Esrei with a congregation is something that since they can't form or contribute to the minyan, chazal never obligated to daven with a minyan.</ref>
 
==Children==
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==Gentiles==
 
#Gentiles are not obligated in [[Tefillah]] but if they do pray they fulfill a mitzvah, and are considered to be like a person who is not commanded but volunteers to do so. <ref>Sh”t O.C. Igrot Moshe 2:25 writes that non-Jews are not obligated to pray to Hashem but if they do they fulfill a mitzvah and receive reward as someone who is not commanded but nonetheless, volunteers. See Sh"t HaRambam 148 who writes even regarding [[Brit Milah]] that non-Jews can volunteer to perform a mitzvah.</ref>
 
==Sources==
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