<div dir="ltr">after a google search<br><br>Beer Hetev on OC 238:1 brings the Ari that one should not learn<br>mikrah (Torah shebechtav) at night .<br>He also brings that one should sleep only after 3 hours after nightfall<br>
sleep on the left side and sleep in a different (meyuchedet) bed.<br>Birkei Yosef also brings the Ari that one shouldn't learn mikrah at<br>night except for thursday and friday night(?) (or hashishi)<br> Ben Ish Chai (pekudei -1 ) allows tehillim after midnight. MB in shaar tziyun 1<br>
says that the Pri Megadim disagrees and allows tehillim at night.<br>BM concludes that it is not a prohibition but a lechatchila since G-d<br>learned with Moshe Mikrah during the day and Mishna at nigh(Birkei Yosef<br>disagrees with the reason and explains that mikrah is midat hadin)<br>
<br>Tzitz Eliezer 8:2 has a lengthy discussion and says that the main kabbalistic<br>objection is to learning mikrah and not to saying tehillim and so he<br>allows saying tehillim for a sick person at night<br>see also Yabia Omer 6:30<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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