Note 130 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 3)

There are two shorter forms of the tefillah for urgent occasions: the one is a substitute for the “Eighteen,” in which the middle thirteen paragraphs are contracted into one; it is called ‏הביננו‎ (the first word of this middle section), or ‏מעין שמונה עשרה‎ “abstract of the ‘Eighteen.’ ” The other is a contraction of the Friday evening tefillah, and is called ‏מעין שבע‎ “abstract of the ‘Seven’ ” (scil., paragraphs forming the tefillah), originally intended for those who were too late for the full Service.130