Morning Prayers (בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר)
Morning Prayers (בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר)

Morning Prayers

Blessings recited in the morning, or at the beginning of the Shacharit prayer.

("The Morning Blessings... and the order of prayers and blessings for the whole year that you asked, which You showed us from the heavens, we saw fit to arrange and restore according to the tradition in our hands, as the correction of Tannaim and Amoraim" - Siddur Rav Amram Gaon (HaRafnas) Morning Blessings, and also: "In his writing, a formula in Kaddish was found on two leaves in a manuscript from the Geniza in Egypt, a remnant of an old and ancient prayer order, and among the Morning Blessings he also brought the blessing 'Who did not make me a gentile!'" - Leket Yosher Part 1 (Orach Chaim) page 7, topic 2)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּרָכוֹת הַנֶּאֱמָרוֹת בַּבֹּקֶר, אוֹ בִּתְחִלַּת תְּפִלַּת שַׁחֲרִית.

("בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר...וְסֵדֶר תְּפִלּוֹת וּבְרָכוֹת שֶׁל שָׁנָה כַּלָּה שֶׁשָּׁאַלְתָּ, שֶׁהֶרְאָנוּ מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם, רָאִינוּ לְסַדֵּר וּלְהָשִׁיב כְּמָסֹרֶת שֶׁבְּיָדֵנוּ, כְּתִקּוּן תַּנָּאִים וְאָמוֹרָאִים"- סֵדֶר רַב עַמְרָם גָּאוֹן (הרפנס) בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר, וְכֵן:"בְּמַאֲמָרוֹ נֻסְחָא בְּקַדִּישׁ שֶׁמָּצָא שְׁנֵי עָלִים בכת"י מֵהַגְּנִיזָה בְּמִצְרַיִם פְּלִיטַת סֵדֶר תְּפִלָּה אֶחָד יָשָׁן נוֹשָׁן וּבֵין בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר הֵבִיא שָׁם ג"כ בִּרְכַּת שֶׁלֹּא שֶׁמַּתְּנַי עַם הָאָרֶץ!"- לֶקֶט יֹשֶׁר חֵלֶק א (אֹרַח חַיִּים) עַמּוּד ז עִנְיָן ב)

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