Prayer without Intention in Avot
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Question
I prayed but did not have intention in Avot. Do I need to repeat?
Answer
There is no need to repeat the prayer due to lack of intention in Avot because, unfortunately, there is a high chance that you will not have intention in the next prayer either. (Even if there was something specific that disturbed your intention and you removed it)
Source
The Gemara, Tractate Berakhot, page 34b: "One who prays must direct his heart in all blessings, and if he cannot direct in all, he should direct his heart in one; Rabbi Chiya said in the name of Rav Safra in the name of one from the house of Rabbi: in Avot."
This is also ruled in the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, Siman 101, Paragraph 1: "One who prays must direct his intention in all blessings, and if he cannot direct in all, at least he should direct in Avot; if he did not direct in Avot, even if he directed in all the others, he should repeat the prayer." And the Rema wrote: "Nowadays, we do not repeat due to lack of intention, because even in repetition, it is likely that he will not direct, so why repeat (Tur)."
And the Shaar Tzion wrote in Siman 96, Small Paragraph 2, that when something is in hand and because of it, he did not direct in Avot, even in our days, he repeats, it seems that this applies to anything that can be attributed to the lack of intention that passed.
In our days, the opinion of our teacher, Rav shlita, is that even if it is assumed that he did not direct in Avot due to something that disturbed him from directing, he does not repeat because we direct less than in the times of the Chafetz Chaim.