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# The pasuk of "Hashem Sfatai Tiftach..." (Tehillim 51:17) was added to Shemoneh Esrei because it indicates that even one who sinned may accomplish atonement through sincere prayer. <ref> Beit Yosef 111 in the name of Rabbeinu Yonah </ref> | # The pasuk of "Hashem Sfatai Tiftach..." (Tehillim 51:17) was added to Shemoneh Esrei because it indicates that even one who sinned may accomplish atonement through sincere prayer. <ref> Beit Yosef 111 in the name of Rabbeinu Yonah </ref> | ||
#If one forgot to say "Hashem Sefatai Tiftach..." and began the first Beracha of the shemoneh esrei he is yotze and need not go back. <ref> Mishnah Berurah 111:1, see Biur Halacha "Chozer V'omer" </ref> | #If one forgot to say "Hashem Sefatai Tiftach..." and began the first Beracha of the shemoneh esrei he is yotze and need not go back. <ref> Mishnah Berurah 111:1, see Biur Halacha "Chozer V'omer" </ref> | ||
==Berachot== | |||
===Atta Chonen=== | |||
# The beracha of atta chonen... is recited first among the middle 13 berachot of the shemoneh esrei either because what makes man better than other creations is Hashem gave us the power to think or because the ability to distinguish between right and wrong is the most important. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 115:1 and Mishnah Berurah 115:1 </ref> | |||
# On Motzaei Shabbat, Havdalah ( [atta chonantanu] ) is added to this beracha because it is the ability to distinguish that allows to be distinguish between kodesh (holy) and chol (vain). <ref> Mishna Berurah 115:1, Baer Heitev 115:1. see Mishna Berura and baer heitev who add that the word binah is itself an acronym for besamim yayin ner and havdala, the four berachot we recite in havdala. </ref> | |||
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