{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tbr/tbr26.htm","path":"jud/tbr/tbr26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tbr/tbr26.htm","text":"Tractate Berakoth, by , by A. Lukyn Williams, [1921]\nM.IV. 1. THE Morning Prayer [may be said] until midday. R. Judah says [only] till the fourth hour. 2 The Afternoon Prayer until the evening. 3 R. Judah says [only] till half the afternoon. 4 The Evening Prayer has no fixed law, and the Additional Prayers 5 may be said the whole day. 6\nT.\n2. The evening prayer has no fixed law. R. Eleazar bar Jose 4 says: [It ends] with the closing of the gates. 5\n3. If a man has prayed the additional prayers either while the morning continual burnt-sacrifice is offered, or up to a time when the morning continual burnt-sacrifice is no longer offered\u2014he has accomplished his duty. R. Aqiba says, if his prayer flows freely in his mouth, it is a good sign for him, but if not, it is a bad sign for him. He used to say: 6 Everyone in whom the mind of man finds pleasure, the mind of God 7 finds pleasure [also]; if the mind of man does not find pleasure in him the mind of God 7 does not find pleasure in him.\nEveryone whose own mind finds pleasure in what he does 8\u2014it is a good sign for him; if his own mind does not find pleasure in what he does it is a bad sign for him.\n28:2 the fourth hour. Until the end of it, which is the third part of the day (Bartenora), say so a.m.\n28:3 the evening. i.e. sunset, say 6 p.m.\n28:4 half the afternoon. The afternoon (Minchah) lasts from the ninth hour and a half, say 3.30 p.m., for two and a half hours, so that the half of this would be about 4.45 p.m. (cf. Bartenora).\n28:5 the Additional Prayers. Special prayers for Sabbaths and Feast days (SA, pp. 559-573, 233-238). Special sacrifices are ordered in Num. 2829.\n28:6 the whole day. B adds, \"R. Judah says [the Additional Prayers may be said] until the seventh hour,\" say 1 p.m.\n28:7 The Vienna MS. and the common text read, \"Just as the Law appointed a fixed law,\" and this may be right.\n29:1 was offered until midday. \"The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning\" (ba b\u00f4qer), clearly not later than midday (Ex. 2939)\n29:2 between the evenings. Exod. 2939, R. V. margin.\n29:3 the eleventh hour minus a quarter. 4.45 p.m. see mishna, note.\n29:4 Eleazar bar Jose. Eleazar, son of Jose the Galilean (p. 55), a mishna teacher of the third generation, c. 130-160 A.D.\n29:5 the closing of the gates. Presumably the Temple gates were closed at dusk.\n29:6 See Aboth III. 53 (15), where however the saying is attributed to R. Hananiah ben Dosa.\n29:7 God. Lit.: the Place, in Whom are all things, \"for He is the Place of the world, and the world is not His place.\" See C. Taylor on Aboth. II. 18 (17); Lukyn Williams on Col. 117.\n29:8 what he does. Lit.: \"what is his,\" but the reference seems to be not to his possessions, but to his occupations and actions.","title":"Tractate Berakoth: II.\u2014The Eighteen Benedictions: M. IV. 1; T. III. 1-3. The Three Times of Prayer","type":"page"}