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Saying various blessings to God for waking us up giving us functioninng bodies. Then Psalms of praise to God are said in order to get us in the proper mind set for prayer usaually taking 10-15 minutes. What is reffered to as Shma is said with it's accompanying blessings both before and after The Shma is 3 paragraphs from the Torah preceeded by the Single verse "Hear O Israel Hashem is our God, Hashem is one." Rabbis differ as to how much of the Shma is biblically commanded and how much is rabbibnically commanded but all agree that the introductory verse is Biblical and the finale paragraph is Rabbinic.

Now what is called the "18" eventhough it is in fact 19 Blesings is said silenly by each congregant and this is the actuall prayer. After at least 6 men have finnished with this the person leading prayers repeats it out loud with minor changes and one major change that involves everyone praising God toghether.

Afterwards a few brief prayers are siad similar to the Psalms of praise said earlier

Many orthodox Jews take a few minutes after services to study a little Jewish law

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