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	Killing the Buddha - Bostoner Rebbe, page 2
		Though davening may involve a descent into the interior of one's soul, it has a liturgy that is far more complex than the invested syllable of the mantra.
		As I davened that morning, I realized that I was attempting to gather myself up into the language of the liturgy; to become a heightened being; so that I might speak the fullness of myself to the grammatical "you" that is the recognized audience of the prayers—God.
		Instead I was captivated by the davening itself and by the mythos of the hasidic court.
	www.killingthebuddha.com /critical_devotion/bostoner_rebbe2.htm (638 words)

	Hashkafah.com -> Davening at a kever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It is pretty much a minhag yisroel to daven at kevorim, particularly those of ancestors by the yahrtzeit, or by kivrei tzadikim.
		For davening at the time of the yahrtzeit, how is that to be understood, are we davening to the tzadik/family member-- obviously not but we are asking them to intermediate for us, is this how it is understood?
		He explains that we daven at a kever in order to humble ourselves before G-d as if we were dead and to pray to G-d in the merit of our deceased ancestors.
	www.hashkafah.com /index.php?showtopic=1251 (1091 words)

	Synagogue Guidelines for a Quiet Davening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Sefer Chareidim (9:19) notes that this prohibition is in force even not during davening time; he concludes by quoting that one should learn in this regard from the behavior of non-Jews who stay completely silent when in their houses of worship.
		He also criticizes even people who learn Torah and discuss it publicly during davening; he concludes that one must be even more diligent about all of this on Shabbos.
		Davening out loud in a "leibedik" manner to encourage proper Kavanah is certainly permissible, although one should be careful not to disturb those around him.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /tzemach/daven.shtml (896 words)

	Davening: For the chazzan or baal tefillah in your synagogue
		Davening: For the chazzan or baal tefillah in your synagogue
		Davening also points out potential problems and pitfalls, and suggests mnemonic devices.
		More details are available on the Davening website.
	www.geocities.com /jewishgroups/1Davening.html (147 words)

	Let's Shmooze About Davening - OU.ORG
		As a matter of fact, many people who are fastidious in their mitzva observance and would not dream of uttering a word after "Baruch She'amar" or during krias haTorah, still manage to fill the shul with the sounds of friendly, irreverent banter.
		We are blessed with Siddurim that translate davening into Hebrew and English, along with extensive commentary, and we should make liberal use of them.
		The Shloh's son, Rabbi Sheftel Horowitz, ZT"L, writes (in his work, Vovey Ho'amudim) that when he was a dayan in Frankfurt-am-Main, he established chaburos (study groups) for the purpose of learning the meaning of the tefillos of weekdays, Shabbos and Yom Tov.
	www.ou.org /services/davening/part1.htm (882 words)

	Chinuch (Education) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This doesn’t necessarily mean observing the davening of especially important people, people known for their great righteousness, but adults and children who are familiar in their daily life.
		Here’s food for thought: In my experience, those children who have a hard time davening, drag their feet with many preparations, and cause delays both before davening and in the middle of davening, are the ones more likely than others to experience davening with greater feeling.
		Most of the time a finger of blame is pointed at the educational institutions, which are said to be slacking off from their duties of instilling important values in the young children entrusted to them.
	www.beismoshiach.org /Chinuch/chinuch300.htm (4169 words)

	Halachah in Brief #36
		If the surrounding tsibbur is up to certain vital parts of the davening-- qedushah, the yehe sheme rabbah of qaddish, or barekhu-- I am permitted to stop my own prayers momentarily, listen to the community prayer and then return to my own discussion with God.
		Others, however, note that Eloqai netsor began as private additions at the end of davening and therefore permit responding to these parts of the prayers—; qedushah, etc. That opinion is certainly helped by those who recite the words "yihyu le-ratson, etc." after the berakhah of hamevarekh et amo yisrael ba-shalom.
		Since the words "yihyu le-ratson" signal the end of davening, the person praying has indicated that the body of prayers is over, and therefore in responding to other blessings or prayers is not interrupting his own Amidah.
	www.rjconline.org /hib36.htm (876 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		If your davening experience has been meaningful, and you feel that you have the tools to continue growing in davening, then this essay isn't for you.
		This is for people who find davening consistently boring, who use it as a time to practice patience or organize their day, or who don't do it at all.
		Someday, with practice, you'll be able to daven with the sophistication that is available in the composed tefillos, but first, you have to cut your teeth on the core of tefillah.
	members.aol.com /cling2treeoflife/tefillah.htm (3642 words)

	Actual Davening - Let's Shmooze About Davening - OU.ORG
		The key to enjoying davening is to enunciate the words, feel their beauty, sense their poetry.
		An added factor leading to a spirited davening is a unified responsive "Omein" and "Yehei sh'mei rabba." And think of the poor sheliach tzibbur and how disheartening it can be for him to be abandoned at the amud.
		Davening with engagement of mind and heart can be an adventure, a fulfilling experience, rendering the joy of exchanging news and views ephemeral by comparison.
	www.ou.org /services/davening/actualdavening.htm (552 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Davening just isn’t what it use to be.
		For the uninitiated, the happy minyan is a fairly recent American phenomenon, in which the melodies of Reb Shlomo Carlbach of blessed memory are infused into the davening.
		He, too, did not know the nusach and believed that spirited and catchy melodies were a fair substitute for proper davening.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=9860 (683 words)

	What is Prayer? \| Chabad.org
		He would daven with that meditation, with those studies, and the davening would then penetrate and really have a tremendous effect on him.
		In other words, we might feel the effects of davening in the preparation for davening itself, and the fact that not every part of davening, or no part of davening, arouses the same feeling every time does not necessarily mean that something is wrong.
		What I described as davening is the ideal form of davening, and it might take years and years -- but the main thing is that you have to start, to know what the davening is about, and to use the davening to go in that direction.
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=3241 (2112 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 8 Number 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I happen to be well-acquainted with numerous groups and individuals involved in women's davening groups and this is not at all their general level of frumkeit.
		The general level of frumkeit in these groups is that the married women go to the mikvah and the single ones don't have to.
		My husband has said for ages that a lot of the hostility to women's davening groups is not toward them as such, but is similar to that directed at hashkama minyanim; in his experience, the people (or the rabbi) are upset at the taking-away from the main minyan.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v8/mj_v8i13.html (2006 words)

	Learning During Davening - Let's Shmooze About Davening - OU.ORG
		The learner-davener is proclaiming that he is just as bored with the davening as the addicted conversationalist and is projecting a message that davening is not important.
		It is reported that a highly regarded Chassidic Rebbe recently walked around his shul during a Friday night davening and closed the seforim of the learner-daveners.
		He responded that the Gemora (Berachos 54b) teaches us that one who devotes extra time to davening is blessed with a long life, and he plans to make up any lost learning during that extra time.
	www.ou.org /services/davening/learningdavening.htm (616 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Shmoozing in shul, especially on Shabbat and Yom Tov when the davening is longer and people don't have to go to work, is a major problem.
		According to the Aruch ha-Shulchan (124:12), it is a chillul Hashem to talk during davening, since it unfortunately gives credence to the widely held perception that non-Jews are more careful than Jews to maintain proper behavior in their house of worship.
		Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (Tosfot Yom Tov) maintained that the terrible massacres of Chmielnicki (gezerot tach v'tat), in which tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by Cossacks, was a punishment for the lack of decorum that prevailed in shuls at that time.
	www.israelnn.com /article.php3?id=4610 (635 words)

	Chinuch (Education)
		In the previous article we described the child who has difficulty davening from a siddur as a child who thirsts for feeling and excitement in general, and in t’filla in particular.
		In contrast to these children whose chinuch should focus on the emotions rather than on the technical details of davening, are those children with whom we are generally satisfied.
		This has to be done wisely, not in a dry and boring manner, but with stories from daily life which will enable a child to understand on an emotional level what we want him to adopt in practice.
	www.beismoshiach.org /Chinuch/chinuch301.htm (1202 words)

	Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim
		The rule that the Mishna Brura gives is that one should dress for davening the same way as he would dress if he had to meet important people.
		The MB says that one should dress for davening in the same way that he would dress if he was meeting an important person.
		The Poskim have indicated that from the time that wearing one was considered making a statement that you are Jewish, and since the time that the non-Jews were always careful to not cover their heads, it has become obligatory.
	www.ohryerushalayim.org.il /halacha_topic.php?id=4 (3319 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 28 Number 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		If you have kavanah on the davening, then you are not paying attention to your driving and are putting yourself and others in saccanas nefoshos (danger to life).
		There is the story of the father of the first Lubavitche Rebbe who was davening mincha while on his lunch break working for a Polish nobleman (I may have the story wrong as to who it is).
		The Rebbe's father was so intent on davening that he did not hear him, nor did he notice when the gun went off.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v28/mj_v28i21.html (1643 words)

	FrumTeens.com - Torah for Teenagers
		nopes, she told me that if i dont daven when im at home, then i shouldnt daven at all in school or ever if im not going to do it all the time.
		her reason was that she said im only davening because im in school not because i really want to daven.
		There is nothgin that says you should only daven when you "really want to" whatever that means.
	frumteens.com /topic.php?topic_id=3050&forum_id=36&...&M=0 (1346 words)

	Weekly-Halacha, Parshas Pekudei, 5757 - Torah.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		If, after davening is over, one remembers that he was not mechaven properly during the first verse of Shema Yisroel, he must repeat the first verse and the first parsha (Vohavta), but no more than that.
		Each individual needs to judge for himself if it is better for him to daven with a siddur or not, since some people concentrate better if they daven from a text, while others have better kavanah davening with their eyes closed.
		If one is davening and is in doubt of a halachah concerning the Shmone Esrei, he may go and look up the halachah in a sefer.
	www.torah.org /advanced/weekly-halacha/5757/pekudei.html (2249 words)

	Young Israel - Suggestion Box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A "good davener" is someone who is able to finish within a certain amount of time and the "poor davener" is equated to the slow poke or the person who cannot finish by a certain time.
		Kavana during davening is so important that the Mishna Brura writes that one should not even learn Torah during chazarat hashatz even if one is answering amein to all of the brachot.
		Another way of improving one's davening is by being careful to respond "amein" and "Y’hei Shmei Raba." At the last Siyum HaShas, to which I had the privilege of attending, the part that I found most inspiring was davening as one minyan with all the tens of thousands of people in the Nassau Coliseum.
	www.youngisrael.org /Divrei_Torah/Suggestion_Box (4312 words)

	Let's Shmooze About Davening
		It is incumbent upon the abstainers to help the indulgers by generating the proper esprit de corps in shul.
		One need only observe the seasoned davening of a Rav or the fresh attempts at tefilla of a young child to be convinced that proper davening is far, far from boring.
		To heighten the sensitivity to the importance of talk-free davening, one Shabbos a year should be dedicated by each shul to a discussion of all aspects of davening.
	www.project-awareness.org /page_shmooze.htm (2577 words)

	Weekly-Halacha, Toldos - 5763 - Torah.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The degree to which women are obligated to daven, however, is a subject debated by the early poskim.
		Nevertheless, women are still not as free to daven as men and the demands on their time may legitimately conflict with the halachic times for davening.
		If a woman is unable to daven before then, she may recite Shemoneh Esrei until midday (chatzos)(22), but she should not recite Birchos Kerias Shema(23).
	www.torah.org /advanced/weekly-halacha/5763/toldos.html (1328 words)

	The Making of Chassidim: Davening: The Avodah of a Chossid
		He was so deeply engrossed and preoccupied with the meaning of the words of his davening that he was transported in thought, floating somewhere among the supernal sefiros and the sublime partzufim [which he had studied about in Kabbalah].
		A bystander observing Reb Mordechai's davening, his gestures, and the melody that he hummed might have thought him to be suffering from a deep yearning for something he loved dearly; his whole body was seized by great spasms of emotion.
		Reb Mordechai's davening was a living example of "Enter into the ark"; he put his whole head and heart into the words of the davening.
	www.sichosinenglish.org /books/making-chassidim/08.htm (4536 words)

	The Hevra Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		We are a new, Orthodox minyan that davens using Shlomo's nusah and his melodies.
		Our davenning is in hebrew, nusach sefard, niggunai rav shlomo generally, tho the occasional breslov niggun or other holy inspired melody, we feel w/ our rebbe's blessing, finds its way into the service.
		The davening is with the nusach of Reb Shlomo the community is egalitarian and the Torah is chassidish.
	www.rebshlomo.org /connect/minyan.html (4634 words)

	Blog Hamincha
		Your view on the impropriety of cell phone use during davening is 100 percent correct.
		One method Iâve used in an attempt to preserve the decorum of the davening is to write the Rabbi a quick note, outlining the message I wish to convey.
		There is a halacha that one who has an upset stomach and is unable to maintain a "clean body" for a reasonable period of time is not only patur from davening, but is not allowed to (particularly with regard to wearing tefillin).
	hamincha.blogspot.com (4899 words)

	Young Israel - Rabbi's letter Article
		But the idea that davening had to be curtailed because of the group’s behavior does make an impression on those who will ultimately listen to the call for decorum.
		Therefore, a rabbi must be keenly aware that the length of davening is a major factor contributing to commotion.
		It is only the unusually well liked gabbai who can circulate during davening and remind a stubborn group of talkers with just a kind hand gesture that silence is required.
	www.youngisrael.org /articles/443001.htm (3610 words)

	Weekly-Halacha, Parshas Pekudei, 5760 - Torah.org
		One of the interpretations given is that it is forbidden to eat before one davens "for his blood"(3).
		The prohibition of eating before davening begins at alos amud hashachar, which is generally accepted to be 72 minutes before sunrise(9).
		Kerias Shema and davening Shacharis are no different from any other mitzvah; it is, therefore, prohibited to eat a meal starting one half before alos amud ha-shachar(23).
	www.torah.org /advanced/weekly-halacha/5760/pekudei.html (1433 words)

	Wings of Morning - Parsha
		According to Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (the Piaseszner Rebbe who was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto), this level of davening is not something that you have to resign yourself to.
		And on the other hand, davening without kavanah should not even be on your radar screen.
		This is an extraordinary statement, so please allow me to repeat it: the Piaseszner rebbe says that if you cannot on command, every single time you daven or bench or make a brachah, generate true kavanah—feeling and even fervor—then you are not even at the lowest level of being a genuine Hasid of Hashem.
	www.shemayisrael.co.il /parsha/review (1276 words)

	Davening on Hot Coals - Torah Learning Center of Northbrook
		I rarely looked forward to davening. In fact, I often dreaded it. It was a source of secret embarrassment and shame. There, I said it. I feel like I'm standing up at a "Don't Like Davening Anonymous" meeting.
		If your davening experience has been meaningful, and you feel that you have the tools to continue growing in davening, then this essay isn't for you. This is for people who find davening consistently boring, who use it as a time to practice patience or organize their day, or who don't do it at all.
		Davening is a practice that can affect you to your very core. It's not always fireworks. Sometimes it is, sometimes it's a struggle just to do it, and other times it's the gentle hum of your being in well-balanced order.
	torahlearningcenter.com /hotcoals.php (981 words)

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