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# 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> | # 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) is not recommended to daven in shorts, but it is not forbidden to. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 2:15 </ref> | # 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 happens not to have them should not daven without it unless one will miss [[davening with a minyan]] if one waits until one | # 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 acquires 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> | ||
==Preparing the davening text== | |||
# Even though in theory it is proper to prepare the text of the holiday davenings we don't say so often, such as rosh chodesh, chanuka, purim, or the like, the minhag is to rely on the fact that we daven from a printed siddur and not prepare the text beforehand. Nonetheless, one should be careful to say yaaleh veyavo or the like from a siddur the first time they are said after 29 days.<ref>The gemara Rosh Hashana 35a states that one should prepare one's tefillah every 30 days. The Tur 100:1 explains that there's a dispute whether this includes rosh chodesh or not and the Shulchan Aruch 100:1 rules that one should also prepare the rosh chodesh tehillah and all the more so the less frequent tefillot. Rabbenu Manoch (quoted by the Beit Yosef 100:1) says that if one is davening from a siddur one doesn't have to prepare it in advance. While the Shulchan Aruch 100:1 doesn't hold like the Rabbenu Manoch, the Rama 100:1 does and the Yalkut Yosef 100:1 writes that the sephardi minhag is to rely on the rama.</ref> | |||
==Needing the Bathroom== | ==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. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 92:1</ref> | # 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> | ||
