Tefillah Treasures: Intro to Birchos Hashachar + 1st Bracha: Hanosein Lasechvi

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Okay, so today we have Tfila Treasures. We're moving on to what we'll turn we we call Birchos Hashachar, the blessings of the morning. We've already been learning about different blessings, but here we're referring to where we have 15 blessings in a row of all sorts, and we um these come on the heels of the brachos that we learned about the last few weeks. Um Asher Yatzar, Elokai Neshama, Birchos HaTorah, the blessing over learning Torah, and now we have 15 15 blessings. Um we're not going to go through them all today. In fact, we're going to do an introduction today and discuss the first of those 15. Now, the way that the Gemara tells us, and this is kind of a recurring theme from the other brachos that we learned, the Gemara has a specific time that you're supposed to recite each of these brachos. The Gemara says that when you hear the sound of the rooster waking you up, you say the first bracha, the one who gives sachvi, uh understanding to uh who the one who gives who gave to the rooster or to the heart understanding, we'll talk about the meaning of that bracha soon. And then it says when you open your eyes, you say the bracha Pokeach Ivrim, that God opens our eyes, and when you sit up, you say Matir Asurim, he releases the the bound. And when you get dressed, you say Malbish Arumim, he dresses the the naked, and so on and so forth. Each of

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6. 19:59that I have the gift of sight. Um when we when we sit up or when…
7. 24:10question is, what is a sachvi? So, Rashi in the commentary on the Gemara, and this…
8. 27:47wake up at midnight at chatzos to begin their day. And some people wake up late…
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