Prayer

Shalom aleichem Rabbi Lauffer. Thank you for answering my last question. In Rashi to Micha 6:9, he says that someone who says daily a pasuk that begins with the first letter of his name and ends with the last letter of his name, the Torah will save him from gehinnom. If a person has two names, for example Chaim Yankel, would he say a verse with the first and last letters corresponding to the first and last letters of "Chaim," "Yankel," both, or would he say a verse starting with the Ches of Chaim and ending with the lamed of Yankel. Thanks

If you are bowing during Amidah, and there is an inanimate object of some type in front of you in the path of your bowing, what makes it so you are bowing to G-d and not the inanimate object?

Is there any reason some people might omit Tachnun on Adar 7? I was at a shul yesterday I normally don’t go to. I went because I was in the area. I was surprised to find out they weren’t saying Tachnun. I thought perhaps there was a newlywed and after services, I asked the guy sitting next to me who just got married. He said no one there got married. A few people then told me it is their minhag to omit Tachnun on Adar 7. They didn’t say why. The rabbi left in a hurry after services to do carpool. And most people were in a hurry to leave to go somewhere. I couldn’t get an answer why Adar 7 is such a special date.

Are prayers with scripts identical to orthodox ones, but recited in a non-orthodox synagogue valid? Does G-d accept these prayers? Or are they rejected by G-d, only to remain on earth?

If one mistakenly recites the wrong paragraph in the last blessing of Amidah (Sim Shalom or Shalom Rav), must the Amidah be repeated?

Do gerim recite Shelo asani goy? G-d made them goyim, and then they chose to be Jews. So then do they thank Hashem for not having made them goyim?