Brachos 26- Recompense for Missed Prayers, When is the Latest Prayer Times, Who Invented Prayer - a podcast by Eran Netkin

1. Excrement in front of a person
According to Rav Huna, when the Mishnah said that one must be four amos away from
excrement in order to recite Krias Shema, it was referring to when it is behind the person.
If it’s in front of the person, then it’s prohibited to recite Shema as long as it is in one’s
field of vision.
2. Making up for missed tefillos
After introducing the time periods of various tefillos in the perek’s opening Mishnah, the
Gemara teachers that one may make up for missed tefillos (תשלומים (as follows:
- If one missed Minchah, he may daven Maariv twice even though it is not the same
day.
- If one missed Minchah Erev Shabbos, he may daven the Shabbos Maariv twice, even
though it is not the same Shemoneh Esrei.
- If one missed Shabbos Minchah, he may daven the weekday Maariv twice, inserting
Havdalah in the first Maariv.
3. The source for davening three times a day
The Gemara brings a machlokes whether davening three times a day originates with the
Avos (תקנום אבות (or the Anshei Knesses Hagdolah (the Men of the Great Assembly), who
instituted the tefillos to correspond to the daily tamid offerings (תקנום תמידין כנגד .(
Siman – A military coup
Soldiers wearing binoculars burst into the shul but didn’t notice the man in the corner
davening his second Maariv, because they were transfixed by the Sukkah poster depicting the Avos.

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