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When I was in yeshiva, we'd get together ten guys and then one person would approach and say:
And they respond:
But I haven't seen this in print, or anywhere other than yeshiva (and just one yeshiva, I think?) Does anyone know more about this practice? |
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We did it in all the Yeshivos I went to and we do it in our shul as well. I remember, as a small boy, seeing HaRav Baruch Milikovsky gathering men and students in T.A. to do Hataras Nidui. They also did it in Detroit by Rav Leib Bakst. I saw it done in Bais Yisrael as well as in the Mir (Yerushalayim). Common denominator between all these people and yeshivos: All students of the Mirrer Yeshivah, either in Poland or Eretz Yisrael. |
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Sefer Haminhaggim (Chabad) writes that the custom is to do Hataras Nedarim with 10 (probably because of Nidui) |
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In the Alter Rebbe's siddur Alex linked to in a comment here, A similar idea, called "Seder Nezifa" (Order of Condemnation) is performed. It's is found in the Siddur of the Shelah and Arizal (see here for sources). In it, the person accepts condemnation upon himself, and then asks the Beis Din to remove the condemnation, which they do. The Mateh Efraim, Avodat Hakodesh, and the Sha'arei Teshuva are quoted as saying (see here for sources) that many people don't do this now days, since we don't know if the people we are asking to release us from excommunication are fit to do it. The Avodat Hakodesh also quotes a Zohar that says someone who was condemned his prayers do not ascend to Heaven for 40 days. Minhag Chabad is not to say the Seder Nezifah (see footnote 17 here). All that being said, the nusach quoted in the question does not have the person accepting condemnation upon himself. Instead he is asking to be released from excommunication, should he need it. Perhaps that is different, although it would seem that the worry of the Mateh Efraim and the Avodat Hakodesh would still apply. |
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