Questions tagged [nuschaot]
liturgical wording and syntax
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Text of prayer contains a neder
Sometimes I say prayers, typically tehillim, that appear to contain a promise to do something. Example: " חַסְדֵי יְהוָה, עוֹלָם אָשִׁירָה; לְדֹר וָדֹר, אוֹדִיעַ אֱמוּנָתְךָ בְּפִי. I will sing of ...
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A grammatical question about Shabbes davening
I recently noticed that in my siddur (Siddur Vilna), in the fourth berakha of the Shabbes davening (או"א רצה במנוחתינו...), there's a pronominal suffix near the conclusion that changes depending on ...
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Does Halakhah permit one to daven a different Nussach in a bind?
Suppose one's minhag is to daven Nussach A; but, one finds oneself in a synagogue, which only has siddurim of Nussach B, and one has not committed all of Nussach A to memory. He could daven Nussach A ...
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new artscroll siddur dikduk questions
In the new Artscroll siddurim (ie. the "WASSERMAN EDITION OF THE NEW, EXPANDED ARTSCROLL SIDDUR"), there are a few changes from the older Artscroll siddurim.
In the new siddurim, the word "rivah" in ...
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Why were different pronunciations allowed in the first place? [duplicate]
The following question might be a duplicate of How could different pronunciations arise when we are obligated to pronounce the Shema precisely?
Why did our Rabbonim however many hundreds of years ...
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Yaakov in our tefillos? Why not Yisroel?
At the beginning of the Amidah we say ברוך אתה ה, אלקינו ואלקי אבותנו אלקי אברהם אלקי יצחק ואלקי יעקב. Simchas Torah's answer to Yisrael or Yaakov? says that Yisrael refers to the spiritual. So why ...
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Kohen k'rav ya'amod
Inspired by this question.
When we call up a Kohen (or when not present, a Levi or Yisrael) we use a special formula: ויעזר on Shabbat and yom tov (Shacharit) and ותיגלה on weekdays (and Minchah). In ...
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Shortened version of birkat hammazon
Anecdotally, I've eaten with people before who have recited birkat hammazon to themselves quietly and who are either record-breaking speed speakers or who are using a shortened version. I suspect the ...
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Writings about Nusach Provence
Last Thursday, I had the honour of looking at a handwritten machzor (Rosh haShannah) from somewhere in Provence. I noticed that it is completely different from almost anything I've seen, bearing the ...
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What exactly is Minhag Polin?
Is it just a fancy name for the Poylishe minhogim, or what? Is any Nusach Sfard siddur automatically minhog Polin or is it more specific?
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"People who recite Ashrei many times": a question on Tosafot
In Berakhot 32b, Tosafot (s.v. קודם תפילתו) provide a reason as to why we start Ashrei with Psalm 84:5. In their words, it's "לאפוקי מנהו דאמרי אשרי הרבה", which either means to exclude or to exempt ...
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What's the origin of the Conservative recititive?
I've noticed that people who learned to daven in the Conservative movement have a particular recititive which they use for weekday nusach and another for Shabbat nusach (this is among those who ...
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How does the 19th brocho of the shmona esrai open?
I see nusach taiman has it starting with
למשומדים אל תהי תקוה
I see the rambam has that too
Rambam (mechon mamre)
לַמְּשֻׁמָּדִים אַל תְּהִי תִקְוָה, כָּל הַמִּינִים כְּרֶגַע יֹאבֵדוּ, ...
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Minhog of Boruch Schneerson
Rabbi Schneur Zalman Schneerson founded Lubavitch Chassidus but what nusach did his father Boruch follow?
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“Moshe, your servant” and “Moshe, your prophet” - why the different wording in prayers?
In the preamble to the text of spice offering in Shacharis (nusach Ashkenaz) the text is
כאשר צוית אותם על ידי משה נביאך
whereas in Musaf for Rosh Chodesh and Sholosh Regolim the text before the ...
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Vishnitz Minhagim [closed]
Recently I found out that before the war, my grandfather was in the court of the Vishnitz Chassidim. Naturally I now want to find out what some of the Vishnitz minhagim are such as:
What Nusach is ...
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Kiddush - סברי מרנן ורבנן ורבותי
I have noticed various customs surrounding the words before Hagefen for all kiddushim. My sefard siddur says סברי מרנן ורבנן ורבותי but I have also seen סברי מרנן and many other variants across other ...
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Titkabbel vs. Titkabbal
In קדיש תתקבל, most Ashkenazi siddurim I've seen say "תִּתְקַבַּל." ArtScroll, however, has "תִּתְקַבֵּל." Why did this difference arise?
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Answering kedusha differently to the kehilla?
If one is praying a nusach which is different to the nusach that the shul is using, is it wrong to answer according to your own nusach?
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Nussach of Retse in Birkat Hamazon
I see in all sidurim in nussach of retse (BHMZ of Shabbat) "לשבת בו ולנוח בו". But recently some books changed the nussach to "לשבות בו ולנוח בו"
So far I believed that the kamats ...
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Does anyone know a siddur containing yotzrot (Ashkenaz or Sefard, preferably in print)?
In my shul there are some very ancient siddurim containing extended yotzrot for various chagim and shabbatot (e.g. chol hamoed, chanukah, shekalim, parah, hachodesh, hagadol, bereishit, each shabbat ...
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Ordering the healers's attributes in different minhagim
In Ashkenazic Nussach the 8th blessing of the Amida, the Nussach is:
"רופא נאמן ורחמן" trustworthy and merciful.
and in Sepharadic Nussach the order is "רחמן ונאמן". I am wondering if the difference ...
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Prayer for the Government if the President or VP is female
The prayer Hanosen Teshuah as recited in the US has the line את הנשיא ואת משנהו. To me, these terms sound masculine. If the President and/or Vice President of the United States were female, would this ...
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Why doesn't Chabad say Hanotein Teshua
In many siddurim, particularly those printed for the Ashkenazi or Spanish-Portuguese communities, there is a tefillah for the government, Hanotein Teshuah (the title is based on a passuk in Ps. 144) ...
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Shalom Aleichem -- "shuvchem" instead of "tzeitchem"?
I've heard a setting (by Debbie Friedman) of the song "Shalom Aleichem" that, in the last verse, says "shuvchem" instead of "tzeitchem" (recording, mixed group of singers). A rabbi who knew her told ...
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Explain the different positions of reciting the prayer for an ill person in weekday Amidah
I pray Nusach Ashkenaz. I noticed that various Siddurim place the personal prayer for ill people ("Yehi Ratzon") in one of two places during the weekday Amidah.
Art Scroll says to include it in the ...
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Explain two "types" of Tikun Chatzot
Some people have a custom to arise at midnight and recite verses of mourining and repentance for the destruction of the temple. This is called Tikkun Chatzot.
I was browsing the version on my "Smart ...
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What's the difference between sim shalom and shalom rav?
What's the difference between sim shalom and shalom rav? Why replace sim shalom at mincha and maariv?
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Shabbat Mincha 2 Nuschaoth
I am wondering what is the source of the difference between Sepharadi Iraki and Ashkenazi, Sfaradi Nord African,and Yemenite nussach:Sepharadi Irakiוּמִי כְעַמְּךָ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל גוֹי אֶחָד בָּאָרֶץ ...
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Ata Honantanu in nussach Sfard [duplicate]
In Nussah sfard the text is
אַתָּה חוֹנַנְתָּנוּ ה' אֱלֹקינוּ לְמַדַּע תּוֹרָתֶךָ. וַתְּלַמְּדֵנוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּהֶם חֻקֵּי רְצוֹנֶךָ
in Nussach Ashkenaz:
אַתָּה חוֹנַנְתָּנוּ יְהֹוָה ...
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Whose opinion is followed by those who say כרעותיה in Kaddish without a dagesh in the כ?
My question on kaddish was well answered.
The answer said that the Vilna Gaon preferred the word כּרְעוּתֵהּ with the dagesh in the chaf, because that word is not connected to "ברא", but to ...
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"Chaparat Pesha" just through Adar II
We know that the phrase ולכפרת פשע is added to the Musaf Amidah of Rosh Chodesh during a leap year. However, in most minyanim I've davened in, the custom seems to be that one only adds it from ...
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כּרְעוּתֵהּ (with a dagesh in the כּ) or כרְעוּתֵהּ (without the dagesh) in Kaddish?
Kaddish starts: יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא. אמן:
בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ
The siddur HaGr”a has כּרְעוּתֵהּ (with a dagesh in the כּ) and all my other siddurim have כרְעוּתֵהּ ...
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In Yemenite Nusach, what are the differences between Shami and Baladi?
In my curiosity of possibly attending a Yemenite minyan on Shabbat, I viewed this directory of Yemenite congregations in the U.S.
The last column lists 2 nuscha'ot - Shami and Baladi
As I am a ...
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Switching siddur style (Nusach)
I'm Ashkenazi and I usually pray with a Nusach Sfarad or a Rinat Israel siddur, but I have a pocket siddur that I use for travel that is Sefaradi. Can I say birkot hashachar in the Sefaradi version, ...
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Say Shir hamaalos mimaamakim when?
It is common practice to add psalm 130 ("mimaamakim") to shacharis during the ten days of repentance. In my experience, most congregations say it between p'suke d'zimra and "Bar'chu" (immediately ...
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Borei P'ri or Borei F'ri hagefen?
Have heard a few older mizrahi recordings for qiddush and am noticing that some of them use borei f'ri hagefen. When i looked up Qiddush in my Egyptian siddur (Farhi Siddur) i noticed the Pei had no ...
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Looking for RH Kiddush audio file
Need answer fast!
I'm looking for an audio file of the Rosh Hashanah Kiddush, in the RH melody. So far everything I've found uses the Hagim melody. My usual go-to site, virtualcantor.org, doesn't ...
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Slichos, netz and nusach [closed]
A person who is ashkenaz (father ashkenaz, mother sephardi) has the habit of praying netz with the only minyan in his area that does, and it is a sephardi minyan. In order to not be different than the ...
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Machzor with the Chayei Adam's version of the Seder HaAvodah
The Chayei Adam (in Nishmas Adam) lists several edits he made in his Machzor for Yom Kippur in the Seder HaAvodah (Amitz Ko'ach) to better correspond with the description of the Avodah brought down in ...
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Davening in shul with different nusach [duplicate]
If person davens in a shul with other nusach.
E.g. a nusach-ashkenaz-guy goes to a nusach-sefard-shul and in order not to get confused he wants to daven with the Tzibbur as much as possible.
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Difference in Kedusha of Shemoneh Esrei between Nusach Ashkanaz and Nusach Sephard
During Chazaras HaShatz of Shemoneh Esrei the beginning of "Kedusha" is different in Nusach Ashkanaz than it is in Nusach Sephard. What is the reason for the difference and where does each nusach come ...
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Did Rav Saadiah Gaon really phrase the bracha as "Sim shalom b'olam . . ."?
In Or Hadash, the commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom (the American Conservative siddur), it states that the nineteenth bracha of the Amidah was intentionally reworded from the the standard
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ה׳ מלך for Rosh Hashanah Day Two
During the repetition of the Amidah for both days of Rosh Hashanah, most Ashkenazi communities recite piyutim entitled ה׳ מלך. On the first day, the format is relatively simple, being arranged in a ...
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Origin of responses for Kaddish
I have noticed in some siddurim that there are pesukim interspersed before kaddish and between sections from תתקבַל onwards. For those unaware of this practice, it may be found on pg. 58 of this ...
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Using a different text of Birkat Minim
It is known that we remove a sha"tz for omitting Birkat Minim. However, there are multiple texts that I know of, including: Vilmalshinim, Laminim, and Vilam'shumadim. There are also small variants in ...
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Historic, variant wording for birkat hamazon for women?
The Mishna Berura (halachot birchat hamazon, siman 187) mentions a variant wording of the birkat hamazon that is said by women. Precisely what is this wording and when was it used and when was it ...
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Kaddish - d'chol yisrael vs d'chol beit yisrael
I have recently become aware of a Nusach difference in Kaddish. In the pasuk starting Titkabel I have noticed that people davening Nusach Ashkenaz are very particular to say d'chol yisrael and not d'...
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Different endings of Yishtabach
There are at least five nuschaos (liturgies) for the very end of Yishtabach between habocheir b'shirei zimrah (who chooses musical songs of praise) and chai/chei* haolamim (life/life-giver of the ...
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Different Versions of Haneirot Hallalu [duplicate]
My father ususally lights the hannuka candles and reads the blessings from the Authorized Daily Prayer Book (aka the Singer Siddur). This year he is away and I read the blessings from the Artscroll. I ...
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