About several months ago I started to daven regularly. I’m coming from an abjectly secular background with no regular davening experience. In the past I did learn Shema (all 3 verses), so I started building upon it, adding the morning blessings, the Amidah, blessings for the Shema and a couple of other verses that I happened to pick up (Ashrei, Aleinu, and a couple more).
So here’s the question: the remaining pieces of Shacharit (specifically – I mean verses from the Torah, Psukei D’Zimra, Takhanun, etc.) look fairly long and forbiddingly complex. With my ability to read unfamiliar Hebrew text it would take me the whole day to get through them 🙂 Surely I can quickly blabber them in English but the point is to eventually be able to do it in Hebrew in a reasonable time. I’m curious if people have tips on how to approach this dilemma or at least the recommended sequence of verses to introduce into my prayer to a) make progress and b) to avoid being demotivated. Any tips or help would be appreciated.
Important details:
- I daven at home (I live in an area where the closest minyan is way too far)
- I mostly follow Nusach Ari (i.e. Tehillat Hashem siddur) but on occasion I switch to “standard” Orthodox Ashkenazi siddur (Koren).
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