Prayer and Morning Blessings - Did Not Sleep All Night

Question

A girl who did not sleep at night, what prayers and blessings should she say? If there is no one to exempt her with the prayers, what should she do? What should she recite on her own? And what should she not recite?

Answer

 Hello Rabbi 

The prayers from the "sacrifices" and onward should be said as usual. 

However, there are morning blessings that someone who was awake all night cannot recite. I am quoting from the instructions written by Hagaon, Rabbi Amrom Fried, shlita, on this matter:

An Ashkenazi cannot recite the blessing 'Elokai Neshamah' (and if there is no one else to exempt him with this bracha, he should intend to fulfill it with the blessing 'Mechayei Hameitim' in the Amidah prayer), and he also does not recite the blessings on the Torah (and if there is no one else to exempt him, he should intend to fulfill it with 'Ahavah Rabbah' before Shema), and he does not recite 'Hamaavir Sheinah' (and if there is no one else to exempt him, he should nevertheless not recite it). The blessing 'Al Netilat Yadayim' should be recited after having been in the toilet and having touched an unclean place of the body (such as one's private parts) or, by touching (the generally) covered parts of the body, then he should wash his hands, recite 'Al Netilat Yadayim' and 'Asher Yatzar'. The rest of the morning blessings are recited as usual. 

 A Sephardi recites all the morning blessings as usual, except for the blessing 'Al Netilat Yadayim', which he does not recite (and if there is no one else to exempt him, he should nevertheless not recite it). 

 According to the above, an Ashkenazi and a Sephardi who were awake at night can fulfill all the morning blessings by each exempting the other with the blessings he cannot recite according to his custom.

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