...Continued from previous week
1) Women [who are able to] should recite pesukei d'zimrah, including Baruch She’amar beforehand and yishtabach afterwards. (See Mishna Berura Siman 70 S”K 2 where he rules, based on Rav Akiva Eiger, that this is an obligation. However, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav Siman 70:1 and the Aruch HaShulchan Siman 70:1 rule that it is not mandatory. See also Shu”t Shevet Haleivi from Rav Shmuel Wosner zatzal, vol. 6 Siman 12, Hanhagos os 3, where he deems it a reshus, voluntary, and not a chovah, an obligation. See also Aruch HaShulchan Siman 47:25 that although they aren’t obligated according to the letter of the law, women have accepted upon themselves to say pesukei d'zimrah and shiras hayam (az yashir) and as such it is incumbent upon them to recite these texts as if they were obligatory)
2) Women are exempt from birchos krias shema, the brachos before and after krias shema, both in the morning and in the evening. (See Mishna Berura Siman 70 S”K 2)
If they want to recite them, however, they may, as with other brachos on mitzvos asei shehazman grama. (Even Sephardic women who follow the ruling of the Bet Yosef not to recite brachos on time-bound mitzvos, may recite birchos krias shema, according to the Kaf Hachaim Siman 70:1. However, HaRav Ovadiah Yoseph zatzal in Shu”t Yabia Omer vol. 2 Siman 6 rules that Sephardic women should not recite these brachos. For Halacha L'ma'aseh each woman should consult her Rav.)
3) Women are exempt from reciting the entire krias shema, as there is a specific time for these to be said, once in the morning and once in the evening and they are thus mitzvos asei shehazman gerama. (Shulchan Aruch Siman 70:1)
4) However, they should recite the first pasuk of "Shema Yisroel..." and "Baruch Sheim...", (and if possible, also the first parasha of V'ahavta), as they are definitely obligated in kabolas ol malchus shamayim (accepting upon themselves the yoke of Hashem’s kingdom) (Shulchan Aruch and Rama Siman 70:1 and Mishna Berura S”K 5. See Pri Megadim, Aishel Avraham, Siman 70:1 and Mishna Berura Siman 66 S”K 11 regarding "Baruch Sheim")
5) Even women who have accepted upon themselves to recite all three parshiyos of krias shema each day, are not obligated to do so before the end of zman krias shema, the timeframe in which males are obligated to recite krias shma. (Ruling of the Aishel Avraham, Butchatch, Siman 70:1)
6) Women are obligated in remembering Hashem’s redeeming us from slavery in Mitzrayim (Egypt) each day (and according to some Poskim each night as well, and are therefore obligated in saying "Emes V'yatziv..." after krias shema of Shacharis (See Mishna Berura Siman 70 S”K 2 and Shu”t Shevet Haleivi vol. 6 Siman 12)
7) Women who daven shemona esrei, which according to many Poskim, is also an obligation for them, should also say shemona esrei immediately after finishing the bracha of "Ga'al Yisroel" (l'hasmich geula l'tfilah). (see Mishna Berura Siman 106 S”K 4)
8) Women who daven ma'ariv should also recite the brachos of Emes V'emunah and Hashkiveinu, followed immediately by shemona esrei.
Most women, however, do not daven ma'ariv (See Mishna Berura ibid. That they aren't obligated in shemona esrei of ma’ariv, although many rishonim and Poskim, including Rabbeinu Yonah in igeres hateshuva, drash 3:79, Kaf Hachaim Siman 299:62, Aruch HaShulchan Siman 106:7 and others maintain that they are indeed obligated) and it isn't prevalent for them to recite the brachos of Emes V'emunah and Hashkiveinu without following it with a shemna esrei, as some Poskim rule they should indeed do. (See Mishna Berura Siman 70 S”K 2 at length)
...To be continued next week B’Ezras Hashem
