Traveling Before Morning Prayer
Question
Hello,Every morning I travel to another city before Shacharit, and I pray there. I’d like to ask:a. Is it permitted to leave my city and start traveling before praying, if my intention is to pray as soon as I reach the other city?b. On the way, to save time, may I recite all of Pesukei DeZimra up to “Yishtabach,” and then, when I arrive at the synagogue, put on my tallit and tefillin with a bracha, between “Yishtabach” and “Yotzer Or,” and join the minyan at “Bar’chu”?Thank you very much.
Answer
Shalom uVracha
a. Ideally, one should not travel from city to city before davening, unless leaving before alos hashachar (dawn). In such a case, you may rely on the later time of alos hashachar.
b. It is not permitted to put on tefillin or tallis between Yotzer Or and Yishtabach just to save time. Only someone who began praying without them and received them later may put them on at that point, and that is only bedi’eved.
When pressed for time, you may say all the morning blessings, korbanot, and Pesukei DeZimra except Baruch She’amar. When you reach your destination, put on your tallis and tefillin, then say Baruch She’amar, Ashrei, and Yishtabach.