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"El melech ne'eman" not in Chabad siddurim

The First Chabad Rebbe, known as the Alter Rebbe (and also known as "The Rav (Ba'al HaTanya)", the author of Shulchan Aruch Harav) writes in his Siddur: יחיד המתפלל לעצמו יחזור תיבות אני ה' ...
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How does the Siddur Torah Ohr differ from the Siddur Tehilas Hashem?

As is common with most older siddurim, in Torah Or, things aren't duplicated, just printed once, e.g., the weekday Amidah. There's no separate Minhah provided, you would use the Amidah printed in ...
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"HaRachaman hu yevarech es avi mori..." - Questions

In Sefer HaMinhagim for Chabad, it states: The words, avi mori baal habayis hazeh v'es imi morasi ba'alas habayis hazeh, are said by everyone, even by a guest or by one whose parents are no longer ...
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Specific Breslov Nusach

The only specific detail in nusach that I can think of for which the Rebbe made a particular point, was to say "melech yachid chei ha'olamim" in Yishtabach in order to mirror the text of "Baruch ...
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A minor (?) issue with spelling in Nusach Ari

The Israeli Chabad site explains the difference in the following way: בסידור אדמו"ר הזקן מופיע בחול "המרחם" ובשבת "והמרחם". וביאר בס' שער הכולל (סי' ט ס"ק לב), שדקדקו ...
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Why does the Chabad nusach omit "Tzur Yisroel" before Shemoneh Esrei?

The following is a condensation of the explanation in the book שער הכולל (page 25, paragraph 19): The brakhah Emet ve-Yatziv is known to have the nature of being a blessing of hoda'ah (thankful ...
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Chabad Chazzanus Recordings

AFAIK there's no free recordings out there, but here's what I have found: Davening with the Rebbe - a recording of the Lubavitcher Rebbe davening shacharis on a weekday. Generally speaking, Chabad ...
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How does the Siddur Torah Ohr differ from the Siddur Tehilas Hashem?

the siddur TH you refer to (Rostov 1918) is not the same TH used by Chabad today, the TH used today was first published in 1945, it was a copy of an older siddur called Seder Hoavoda (סדר העבודה) ...
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Why repeat the last verse of "Yoshev b'Seter Elyon"

A late answer, I know, but a different one (and, I must say that I still don't understand some of the claims made in the other answer so this one is as reasonable, but I can't find a source for it). ...
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looking for recording of shacharit prayer - nusach chabad

This is a recording of all of weekday shaharit being read word-by-word by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson: http://vimeo.com/18771198
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Re-tying Arizal tefillin with Ashkenazi knots

You can always retie the knots but the result won't be the same as Nusach Ashkenaz tefilin. Many years ago I purchased Nusach Ari tefilin, after being told that ktav Ari was accepted by both ...
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Is Nusach al-pi Arizal davened by anyone besides Chabad?

I do believe that those followers of Rabbi Chaim Avraham Dov Ber Levine HaCohen (the Malachim) also daven the Chabad nusach. This is anecdotal, as I went to yeshiva with someone whose family ...
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Where to find a Nusach Maharitz siddur?

The publisher is Miller Publishing. Here is a link to their website. Here is their contact information Rehov HaOman 26 9342180 Yerushalayim Israel To call from the USA Tel: 011 972 2 678 3806 ...
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Siddur Ha'Arizal (R' Asher Margaliot)

Only on the technical basis that it is according to the nusach of the Ari z'l. The actual expert sofer of the Ba'al Shem Tov was Rabbi Shabbtai of Rashkov. The siddur which the Ba'al Shem Tov used ...
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Specific Breslov Nusach

Mohorosh z"l (the Tzadik of yavnial) printed a siddur called "Sidur eis rotzon", and in a letter in his popular sefer (response) "Asher banachal" he states that this is exactly the nusach that Reb ...
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Chabad Chazzanus Recordings

This is a recording of the nusach for Rosh hashanna and yom kipur from someone who was a chazan (cantor) during the Lubavotcher Rebbe's lifetime. Here is an article about it.... https://www.collive....
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Noam Elimelech davened nusach Ashkanaz

In the book Noam Elimelech, three letters address the nusach sfard usef by chasidim. I assume that the letter you are remembering is a letter in which the NE explains that when he did become older he ...
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Nusach Sefard vs. Nusach Ha-Arizal

My understanding is that Nusach Sfard is the nusach that was created by those who wished to incorporate the customs of the Ari. Many different versions of Nusach Sfard have existed and because of ...
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Nusach Sefard vs. Nusach Ha-Arizal

Nusach Sefard, Nusach Sepharad, or Nusach Sfard is the name for various forms of the Jewish siddurim, designed to reconcile Ashkenazi customs (Hebrew: מנהג "Custom", pl. minhagim) with the kabbalistic ...
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Are Arizal tefillin kosher for Chabad Chassidim?

Some in Chabad wear tefilin in Alter Rebbe ktav, others wear Ktav Ari. But there are multiple issues in tefilin beyond the ktav (script). For instance, as I documented here, the spacing between ...
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Why doesn't Chabad say Hanotein Teshua

The accepted practice in chabad is not to add tefilos during davening that were not included in the siddur by the Alter Rebbe. That being said without knowing more about the specific prayer there ...
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Chabad Houses singing Yedid Nefesh before Kabalash Shabbos

not everyone in a chabad house is or was always a Lubavitcher and some customs are done in a way to accommodate the congregation as apposed to for example 770 in crown heights or other smaller ...
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Answering 'Amen' to Birkas Kohanim during regular Shemonei Esrei (Chabad Nusach)

According to a more detailed chart found on the back of a Chabad siddur, one does not answer the "birkat kohanim" of the chazan during Pesukei Dezimra, but as you can see below, one does answer a real ...
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