[Avodah] tehillim at night

[Eli Turkel]

after a google search

Beer Hetev on OC 238:1 brings the Ari that one should not learn
mikrah (Torah shebechtav) at night .
He also brings that one should sleep only after 3 hours after nightfall
sleep on the left side and sleep in a different (meyuchedet) bed.
Birkei Yosef also brings the Ari that one shouldn't learn mikrah at
night except for thursday and friday night(?) (or hashishi)
 Ben Ish Chai (pekudei -1 ) allows tehillim after midnight. MB in shaar
tziyun 1
says that the Pri Megadim disagrees and allows tehillim at night.
BM concludes that it is not a prohibition but a lechatchila since G-d
learned with Moshe Mikrah during the day and Mishna at nigh(Birkei Yosef
disagrees with the reason and explains that mikrah is midat hadin)

Tzitz Eliezer 8:2 has a lengthy discussion and says that the main
kabbalistic
objection is to learning mikrah and not to saying tehillim and so he
allows saying tehillim for a sick person at night
see also Yabia Omer 6:30

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Eli Turkel
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