- Q. (See above question). How important is it then to make the great effort and wake up so early to daven then?
A. Poskim write that as valuable and important praying with the Netz is, if it would interfere with the crucial intention of prayer or the learning and teaching of Torah and other important mitzvos and endeavors one has to do in the day, one should not sacrifice for it.
Piskei Teshuvos (58: 6) he also mentions that many Gedolim and great men, likely for that reason, did not keep the attending to a Vesikin minyan.
Horav Shlomo Miller”s Slit”a opimiom is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a