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Back to SearchConcentration during Shemona Esra. What items are forbidden to held
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Three steps before Amidah. Should one look upward during Amidah? Before? How should one hold one’s hands during Shemona Esra? Why?
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Is it ok to pray in the presence of idolatrous images? Why do we pray Amidah with our feet together? If you didn’t, does it count?
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Can an elderly person daven Shemona Esra while sitting? A sick person while lying down? Why can’t one lean on something during Shemona Esra?
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Can you daven Shemona Esra sitting down while on a journey? What are the options? What’s the best course of action?
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Facing South or North to gain wisdom or wealth! What to do while Davening in a minyan? Why one Sage faced West. Is any direction ok? What if one started and was not facing East?
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Why is it forbidden to stand on the site of the Holy Temple even today? Does a synagogue have to face Jerusalem?
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What direction to face when Davening Amidah; outside of Israel, in Israel, in Jerusalem, opposite the site of the Holy of Holies. The reason and source.
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