Halachah: This is the source for the Minhag of breaking a glass at a wedding.

Explanation: The simple explanation of the Pasuk is "If you serve Hash-m with fear, then when the day of trembling arrives, you will rejoice".

Explanation: This refers to Tefilah, which is called 'Avodah', as we learned in a Beraisa in the Sifri (Parshas Eikev) " ... and to serve Him with all your heart" - 'This is Tefilah!'

Question: Did we not say in the third Perek of Avodah-Zarah (Daf 44.) with regard to the blood of the outer and the inner Korbanos - 'both are sold to the gardeners as manure (See Hagahos ve'Tziyunim) ...

Conclusion: From which we can extrapolate that they are subject to Me'ilah?

Answer: There it speaks after the blood has been sprinkled, in which case the owner has already attained his atonement, which is not the case here.

Ruling: And we rule like them.

Halachah #1: That is why one may not Daven in a state of lightheadedness or laughter, but rather in a serious frame of mind and out of the joy of having performed a Mitzvah.

Halachah #2: And this explains the Minhag to recite Pesukei de'Zimrah and 'Ashrei' before the Amidah.

Yerushalmi: One should only Daven following a D'var Halachah.

Yerushalmi (cont.): Rebbi Yirmiyah said that 'Someone who deals with communal needs is akin to studying Torah.

Question: The Yerushalmi asks that Yirmiyah seems to be an exception, as we find with Eichah, which concludes with the Pasuk "For You have rejected us ... "?

Observation: It does not however, ask from the Pesukim at the end of T'rei-Asar and Koheles, since it considers them to be words of comfort, as it is not speaking about the punishment of Yisrael (See Agados Maharsha).

Question: The Gemara will say later that 'If someone comes to bow down at the end of each B'rachah, we teach him not to do so'?

Answer #1: Rav Yosef therefore explains the the Gemara here is referring to the Tachanunim that one recites after the Amidah.

Refutation: This is not correct however, since we are referring to the Amidah, similar to 'Someone who was Davening together the Tzibur'.

Answer #2: It therefore seems to the Ri that although it is certainly forbidden to bow down at the end of each B'rachah, it is permitted to do so in the middle of a B'rachah. That is what Rebbi Akiva used to do.

Answer #2 (cont.): And when he reached the end of the B'rachah, he would straighten up.

Halachah: This explains why on Rosh ha'Shanah and Yom-Kipur, when one Davens 'Zochreinu;', 'u've'Chein Tein' and 've'Simlosh, people tend to bow down when they reach the Pesukim, coming straight at the end of the B'rachah, since one is not allowed to bow down at the end of a B'rach, except where they instituted that one should.

Clarification: Even though there is no Isur d'Oraysa ...

Clarification (cont.): Because if there would be, it would be obvious, seeing as the Torah writes "Hoche'ach Tochi'ach" (Vayikra 19).

Clarification: What Chanah meant was 'a man that is worthy of being counted among men'.

Halachah: In the Yerushalmi in the first Perek of Maseches T'rumos, Rebbi Zeira asked Rebbi Ami whether a Shikor is permitted to Bensch, to which the latter replied with the Pasuk "Ve'achalta Ve'sava'ta u'Veirachta", implying that he is obligated to do so even if he is inebriated.

Explanation: Even if he is so Shikor that he is unable to speak properly, as that is the implication of "ve'Sava'ta u'Verachta".

Clarification: Whether it is in front of him or at the side.

Clarification (cont.): The Teshuvas ha'Ge'onim establishes that specifically where one is siting idle, but if he is reciting the Sh'ma or its B'rachos, and the like, then it is in order to sit.

Clarification: "Imcha" implies within four Amos.

Explanation: Some commentaries explain however, that since "Imchah" is spelt out in full with a (n extra) 'Hey', it means that he was sitting, not in her four Amos, but in the fifth Amah.

Implied Question: Even though he (Shmuel) had not yet learned before him ...

Answer: Nevertheless, he (Eli) was the leader of the generation, and he (Shmuel) had now come to learn before him.

Clarification: Rabeinu Chananel establishes this with regard to a Ta'anis Chalom.

Support: And so it is written in Medrash Tehilim.

Halachah: Somebody who fasts a Ta'anis Chalom on Shabbos, says the B'hag, inserts 'Aneinu' in 'Elokai, N'tzor', even to the point of concluding with a B'rachah, seeing as it is not actually said in the Amidah.