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==Before [[Shmoneh Esrei]]==
==Before [[Shmoneh Esrei]]==


#It’s proper to take three steps forward before [[Shmoneh Esrei]] to show that one is going to do an obligatory mitzvah. The halacha doesn’t require taking three steps back, but the minhag haOlam is to take three steps back in order to take three steps forward. <ref>Rama 95:1, Mishna Brurah 95:3, Piskei Teshuvot 95:3 </ref>
#It’s proper to take three steps forward before [[Shmoneh Esrei]] to show that one is going to do an obligatory mitzvah. The halacha doesn’t require taking three steps back, but there is a widespread [[minhag]] to take three steps back in order to take three steps forward.<ref>Rama 95:1, Mishna Brurah 95:3, Piskei Teshuvot 95:3 </ref>
#If taking 3 steps back in order to take 3 steps back involves waling into the 4 [[amot]] of someone [[Davening]], don’t take these steps back at all and just start [[Shmoneh Esrei]]. <ref>Halichot Shlomo 8:33, Piskei Teshuvot 95:5 </ref>
#If a person is taking his 3 steps back in order to take 3 steps forward and someone is davening within 4 [[amot]], he should not take these steps back at all and just start [[Shmoneh Esrei]].<ref>Halichot Shlomo 8:33, Piskei Teshuvot 95:5 </ref> See the [[Walking in Front of Someone Davening]] topic.
#Some have the custom of saying ki shem Hashem ekra havu godel lelokeinu before the shmoneh esrei of [[mincha]] or [[Mussaf]]. If one forgot it and has already begun Hashem sfatai he does not go back. <ref>Sefer Meorer Yeshainim 24, Piskei Tshuvos 111:2 </ref>
#Some have the custom of saying "''ki shem Hashem ekra havu godel lelokeinu''" before the [[Shmoneh Esrei]] of [[Mincha]] or [[Mussaf]]. If one forgot it and already began "''Hashem sfatai tiftach''" he does not go back to say that pasuk.<ref>Sefer Meorer Yeshainim 24, Piskei Tshuvos 111:2 </ref>


==After [[Shmoneh Esrei]]==
==After [[Shmoneh Esrei]]==
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