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  2. Tikkun Chatzot - Wikipedia

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    Although the ideal time for Tikkun Chatzot is the hour following midnight, Tikkun Rachel may be said until a half (seasonal) hour before `alot hashachar/dawn, and Tikkun Leah until dawn. [8] The Magen Avraham method (also held by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov) is that midnight is six clock hours after nightfall (appearance of 3 medium stars). The ...

  3. Midnight office - Wikipedia

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    Today, in most places where the Daily Cycle is observed, the Midnight Office is combined with Matins and the First Hour into one of the three daily aggregates called for in the Typikon. [3] Concerning the Midnight Office, Saint Mark of Ephesus says: "The beginning of all the hymns and prayers to God is the time of the midnight prayer. For ...

  4. List of Gnostic texts - Wikipedia

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    The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer; Asclepius 21–29 – another Hermetic treatise; Codex VII: The Paraphrase of Shem; The Second Treatise of the Great Seth; Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter; The Teachings of Silvanus; The Three Steles of Seth; Codex VIII: Zostrianos; The Letter of Peter to Philip; Codex IX ...

  5. Religious fasting - Wikipedia

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    Along with obligatory prayer, it is one of the greatest obligations of a Baháʼí. [4] In the first half of the 20th century, Shoghi Effendi , explains: "It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and ...

  6. Canonical hours - Wikipedia

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    From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times, being attached to Psalm 119:164, have been taught; in Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours ...

  7. Agpeya - Wikipedia

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    The Agpeya (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲡⲓⲁ, Arabic: أجبية) is the Coptic Christian "Prayer Book of the Hours" or breviary, and is equivalent to the Shehimo in the Syriac Orthodox Church (another Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination), as well as the Byzantine Horologion and Roman Liturgy of the Hours used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, respectively.

  8. Zmanim - Wikipedia

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    Midnight (חֲצוֹת הַלַּילָה, Chatzot Halailah or just Chatzot) is the midpoint between nightfall and daybreak, or equivalently between sunset and sunrise. The evening Shema should be recited by now, and the Afikoman on Passover should be eaten by this time.

  9. Nocturns - Wikipedia

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    Opening verse of matins. Nocturns (Latin: nocturni or nocturna) is a Christian canonical hour said in the nighttime.. In the liturgy of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, nocturns refer to the sections into which the canonical hour of matins was divided from the fourth or fifth century until after the Second Vatican Council.