What is the time of the morning blessings (birchot hashachar)?
Synopsis
The Magen Avraham holds that the time for prayer (and by extension morning blessings) begins from amud hashachar. The Biur Halacha discusses whether morning blessings follow the same 4-hour deadline as Shacharit or can be said all day.
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