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# Some explain that the above case is only if one is silent and unsure where he is up to, however, if as one is saying the words of Shemoneh Esrei one begins to have a doubt whether he skipped a bracha, one should continue from where one is up to because we assume that he didn't skip anything. <ReF>Sh"t Beit Oved 159 quoted by Pitchei Teshuvot (Siman 119:34). A support for this could be brought from the Yerushalmi (quoted by Yalkut Yosef [[Tefillah]] vol 1 p. 540). </ref> | # Some explain that the above case is only if one is silent and unsure where he is up to, however, if as one is saying the words of Shemoneh Esrei one begins to have a doubt whether he skipped a bracha, one should continue from where one is up to because we assume that he didn't skip anything. <ReF>Sh"t Beit Oved 159 quoted by Pitchei Teshuvot (Siman 119:34). A support for this could be brought from the Yerushalmi (quoted by Yalkut Yosef [[Tefillah]] vol 1 p. 540). </ref> | ||
==Davening | ==Position of Davening== | ||
===Davening Sitting=== | |||
# One should not lean on a pillar or a friend while saying Shemonah Esrei. <ref>S”A 94:8 </ref> | |||
# If one is riding a donkey, one is not obligated to get off the donkey, even if there is a person who will hold the donkey while one prays. Instead, one may pray while the donkey is moving. Some are strict to stop the donkey to say the first Bracha of Shemonah Esrei, and one should be careful to follow this, unless there’s danger. <ref>S”A 94:4 </ref> | # If one is riding a donkey, one is not obligated to get off the donkey, even if there is a person who will hold the donkey while one prays. Instead, one may pray while the donkey is moving. Some are strict to stop the donkey to say the first Bracha of Shemonah Esrei, and one should be careful to follow this, unless there’s danger. <ref>S”A 94:4 </ref> | ||
# If one is on a boat or a wagon if one is able to stand to pray one should do so. If one is able to stand for the bowings and three steps back (at the end of Shemonah Esrei) one should do so. If not, one should pray sitting. Some are strict to stop the donkey to say the first Bracha of Shemonah Esrei and one should be careful about this unless there’s danger. <ref>S”A 94:4-5 </ref> | # If one is on a boat or a wagon if one is able to stand to pray one should do so. If one is able to stand for the bowings and three steps back (at the end of Shemonah Esrei) one should do so. If not, one should pray sitting. Some are strict to stop the donkey to say the first Bracha of Shemonah Esrei and one should be careful about this unless there’s danger. <ref>S”A 94:4-5 </ref> | ||
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# It all depends on the situation, the time, place, and ability of the person to pray with a settled mind. <ref>S”A 94:4 </ref> | # It all depends on the situation, the time, place, and ability of the person to pray with a settled mind. <ref>S”A 94:4 </ref> | ||
# Someone who is sick and can’t stand may pray even [[lying]] down if he is able to have kavana (proper intent). If he is not able to have kavana he should think the words of Shemonah Esrei. <ref>S”A and Rama 94:6 </ref> | # Someone who is sick and can’t stand may pray even [[lying]] down if he is able to have kavana (proper intent). If he is not able to have kavana he should think the words of Shemonah Esrei. <ref>S”A and Rama 94:6 </ref> | ||
# If one was forced to pray sitting or while traveling, one should pray again standing when one is able to. <ref>S”A 94:9 </ref> | # If one was forced to pray sitting or while traveling, one should pray again standing when one is able to. <ref>S”A 94:9 </ref> | ||
===Feet Together=== | |||
# When one davens one should make sure to have one's feet together.<ref>The Gemara Brachot 10b writes that one should be sure to keep one's feet together for Shemona Esrei like an angel. Rabbenu Yonah Brachot 5a s.v. hamitpalel explains that one should try to keep one's feet together so that they appear like one leg as the angels are described as having one foot. This is codified by the Shulchan Aruch 95:1.</ref> | |||
# One should not put one's heels together and keep a distance between one's feet forming a "V". <Ref>Rabbenu Yonah Brachot 5a s.v. hamitpalel quotes some who held that one should keep one's feet like a "V" with one's heels together since one pasuk describes an angel's feet like the hoof of a calf. Rabbenu Yonah rejects their opinion and holds that one's feet should be put together. Rav Moshe in Igrot Moshe OC 5:38:5 writes that since this opinion was rejected even if someone has a minhag to do that or he saw a Rebbe do that he should change to follow the halacha.</ref> | |||
# If one can't put one's feet together one should simply try to put them as close together as he can.<ref>Igrot Moshe 5:38:6 writes that if one can't put his feet together he should just try to put them as close together as he can. He is in disagreement with the Aruch Hashulchan who recommends putting the heel of one foot together with the toes of another foot. The Aruch Hashulchan 95:2 is based on the Yerushalmi but Rav Moshe writes that it isn't clear that that interpretation of the Yerushalmi is correct, the Bavli disagrees with the Yerushalmi, and it would look strange to do that which one shouldn't do in public. | |||
* The Yerushalmi has a dispute about the position one should have in Shemona Esrei, whether it was to mimic an angel or the kohanim. | |||
The Tosfot Yeshanim Yoma 22a and Tosfot Harosh ad loc. understand that the Yerushalmi's two opinions don't disagree about the halacha but merely about the source of the halacha. The Bet Yosef 95:1 suggests that but also suggests that perhaps the Tur held that the two opinions are disagreeing. The opinion who learns from the Kohanim held that one should keep the heel of one foot next to the toes of the other foot, as this was the way the Kohanim walked. Bet Yosef mentions that even if this is the correct interpretation in the Yerushalmi the Rabbenu Yonah writes that we hold like the Bavli and not the Yerushalmi. </ref> | |||
==Traveling in a dangerous place== | ==Traveling in a dangerous place== | ||
