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Why do yekkes say Shir Mizmor Le'Osof each morning?
In the siddur Sefas Yisroel from OpenSiddur it is written:
שיר מזמור לאסף has been recited since the end of the Geonic period - a few hundred years before the introduction of the שיר של יום. Its ...
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Gerer Chassidishe Minhagim
Gur Tefillin:
Square knot (edit: some wear single dalet) , Shel Yad Ashkenaz, Wrapping also Ashkenaz way, Brachos on both must be said standing.
Ksav: Ari Zal with Shin of Beys Yosef which is called ...
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Western Ashkenazi Siddur?
The Siddur used by most German communities nowadays is the Sfas Emes Siddur published by Victor Goldschmidt Publishing. However, even at its first publication in 1799, the nusach had been changed to ...
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A piyut refers to the converts: Keni, Na'aman, Ovadiah, Rachav, Na'amah and Ruth. How come?
1) Keni was one of Yisro's names. (See Rashi who brings the Mechilta about his many names and Rashi further mentions there that he converted; Shmos 18:1)
He is famous for exclaiming that now he knows ...
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"People who recite Ashrei many times": a question on Tosafot
Tosfot is disapproving of the practice of including extra verses beginning with Ashrei before Psalm 145. In the roughly contemporary Machzor Vitri (89), we find Psalm 145 introduced with Psalms 119:1, ...
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Why do Ashkenazim recite both "ahavah rabbah" and "ahavat olam" but Sephardim only the latter?
Note: This answer is from the OP.
Thanks to DanF, who pointed out that I should look on the website Beurei Hatefila for an answer, and to "go to that site when [I] have a tefilla-orientated ...
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Touching the tefillin during Ashrei
In Tefiloh Sefas Yisroel 1 Shacharit, note 63 on פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ it says
“The ancient מנהג of touching and kissing the תפילין during,
”פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ...“, is cited by רב משה מאינץ”.
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Differences between the Rosh HaShanah service Ashkenaz/Sefard
In the Amidot of the Yamim Nora'im, in the blessing Kdushat Hashem, in Nusah Sfard four paragraphs beginning ובכן are added. In Nusah Ashkenaz, three are added.
In Avinu Malkeinu on Rosh HaShanah, in ...
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בְּצִלְצְלֵי שָׁמַע or בְצִלְצְלֵי שָׁמַע
The Aleppo codex has it with a "v". The Leningrad codex has it with a "v". Minchas Shay doesn't comment on this. I haven't checked any other authorities, but you can probably ...
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Reasons to say Psalm 30 before Barukh Sheamar
The Aruch HaShulchan (cited below) writes that Psalm 30 before Baruch Sheamar is part of Nusach Ashkenaz. He also offers an original reason for its recitation. He writes, "the practice of ...
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Why do Ashkenazim recite both "ahavah rabbah" and "ahavat olam" but Sephardim only the latter?
There is a concept found in Kabbalistic/Chassidic literature that ahavah rabbah, unlike ahavat olam, is available only on the ethereal plain of Atzilut, which is inaccessible to us. I do not ...
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Differences between the Yom Kippur service Ashkenaz/Sefard
The biggest difference is that there is an entirely different Avoda. Ashkenazim say אמיץ כח, while Sefaradim say אתה כוננת. Some prayer books (at least Koren and artscroll) include the second version ...
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Are Metsudah Siddurim permananently out of print?
The weekday siddur is available in Lehmanns albeit in compact size if that helps.
Here has the combined Chumash and Shabbos siddur.
There also appears to be the Shabbos edition available on Amazon (...
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L'dor Vador or Atah Kadosh in a heicha kedusha?
The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch in 69:7 סִימָּן סט - דִּינֵי תְּפִלַּת מִנְחָה says that everybody says לְדוֹר וָדוֹר together with the Shliach Tzibbur.
שְּׁלִיחַ הַצִבּוּר כָּל הַשְּׁמֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵה עִם ...
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Differences between the Rosh HaShanah service Ashkenaz/Sefard
Psalm 27 will be recited at mincha in nusach sfard congregations and at arvit in nusach asheknaz congregations so it will be in mincha in sfard machzorim and at arvit in ashkenazi communities.
If ...
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L'dor Vador or Atah Kadosh in a heicha kedusha?
See Shulchan Aruch OC 109, 2. Magen Avraham sk 7:
פי' שיאמר עמו נקדש לדור ודור וכו' עד האל הקדוש ואח"כ יתפלל בפ"ע אם יוכל לסיים קודם שיגיע ש"ץ לסיום שומע תפלה [כ"מ בת"ה ור&...
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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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Seder HaAvoda "Ata Konanta" in Nusach Ashkenaz
The משכן שילה synagogue in the רמת שילה neighborhood of בית שמש, Israel. (Source: The גבאי told me.)
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Reasons to say Psalm 30 before Barukh Sheamar
After having posted my question I've done some research and found some additional points:
R' Avraham Landau in Tzelota deAvraham discussed that Psalm 30 was not present neither in Siddur Rav Amram ...
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Nusach Lita vs Polin
Each town had its own slight variations in davening, and these differences were especially pronounced in Selichos and other piyutim. When they started mass producing siddurim, and especially in ...
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Nusach Lita vs Polin
Really what Artscroll and others today calls Ashkenaz is a bit of a misnomer.
Nusach Ashkenaz really means the German/Yekkish rite of davening with today is called "Minhag Ashkenaz". What ...
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Are Metsudah Siddurim permananently out of print?
I had a similar question years ago about metsudah publications, i don't believe they are in print anymore. you can still find their products on various judaica and seforim websites, but as you ...
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Correct girsa in yekum purkan
The prayer Yequm Purkan was composed by the geonim after the Talmudic Period and it is written in Aramaic, the spoken language of Bavel at the time. The most fitting dialect of Aramaic used in Yekum ...
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"En K-elo-heinu / Pitum" weekday addition for Nusach Ashkenaz
Concerning the Ketoris, the halacha says that if one forgets on spice then he is chayav misa. There is a machlokes between The Rema and the Beis Yosef if that applies to speaking. The Rema says that ...
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The tamid as well as the tamid in Rosh Hashana Musaf?
The copy I was using offered those lines as alternate versions, to say one or the other. I'm guessing that that's how it started and then the alternateness was forgotten about.
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Difference in starting order of Psukei Dezimra
According to Seder Olam Rabbah, the first fifteen verses of Hodu were recited during the morning korban tamid service, and the last fourteen verses were recited during the afternoon korban tamid ...
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Sitting by kadosh in purpose?
Along the same lines you noted the contrasting customs between Ashkenazim and Sefardim, Rabbi David Sperling writes:
There are different customs about standing or sitting for Kaddish. The
Rema ...
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Why not cease מוריד הגשם at שחרית according to רמ״א?
Both explanations comes from the Rosh in the first chapter of Taanit and the source is the Yerushalmi, we see that they are two contradictory pshatim in Yerushalmi. This Yerushalmi needs a serious ...
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L'dor Vador or Atah Kadosh in a heicha kedusha?
The translation of the Kitzur in Code of Jewish Law Gantfried - Goldin, volume 2 Chapter 69 Halacha 6 says what to do but does not say explicitly which to do. The implication may be l'dor vador.
If ...
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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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