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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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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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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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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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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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Why do Ashkenazim in Israel tend to use Nusach Sefard?
Some comments on the question have disputed whether you're right that an inordinate number of Ashkenazic synagogues in Israel use nusach "S'farad". I haven't seen statistics on point, but my limited ...
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Why does Nusach Sefard omit Tachanun during Mincha?
See here where they suggest:
1 they often daven until after shkiya, and according to many opinions
tachanun may not be said after shkiya, so a blanket rule was
instituted so as never to come to ...
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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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Why is "Yismechu VeMalchutcha" omitted in the Shabbat Mincha Amidah (Nusach Sefard)?
Ta'amei HaMinhagim 390 writes:
טעם שאין אומרים ישמחו במלכותך בתפילת מנחה מחמת היות עת פטירת הצדיקים ערבה השמחה
The reason that we don't say yismechu vemalchutcha during minchah is since it is ...
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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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Who is Using Siddurim: Tefillas Shlomo Hashalom and Etz Chaim
Nusach Sefard is the name for the many versions of the Hasidic siddur, so yes, these siddurim are Hasidic in nature. However, they do not fit into a particular Hasidic sect as a whole, although I am ...
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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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What exactly is Minhag Polin?
Minhag Polin refers to liturgical variations within the Ashkenazi community which differ from the practice in Germany. Current mainstream Ashkenazi practice is close to Minhag Polin (because the ...
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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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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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Rademishel: Velomar Barchu
The word ולומר being prefaced to Barekhu occurs in the context of the Hasidic practice of reciting a passage from the Zohar, כגוונא, before Ma'ariv on Leil Shabbat.
The passage in the Zohar includes ...
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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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Bucharian Nusach; Nusach Sfard
It is my understanding that they use "Nuasch Sepharad" due to 18th century Rabbi Yosef ben Moshe Mammon (Maimon) Maravi deciding to move to Bhukara (from his native Morocco) and teach them in the face ...
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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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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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Possuk when washing for bread?
Many say the following passuk:
שְׂאֽוּ־יְדֵכֶ֥ם קֹ֑דֶשׁ וּ֝בָרְכ֗וּ אֶת־ה'׃
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and bless Hashem.
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Birkat Haminim, order of requests in Nusach Sfard
A similar question is asked with regard to Shema:
Berachot 61a
תניא רבי אליעזר אומר אם נאמר בכל נפשך למה נאמר בכל מאדך ואם נאמר בכל מאדך למה נאמר בכל נפשך אלא אם יש לך אדם שגופו חביב עליו מממונו ...
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Why do Ashkenazim in Israel tend to use Nusach Sefard?
The Hasidic movement won over the majority of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe, at least on superficial levels like prayer rite, and the majority of people ended up using Nusah Sfard. Eastern ...
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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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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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Gerer Chassidishe Minhagim
Ger tfilin -- the shel yad is Ashkenaz (winds in toward the body) but the shel rosh has a Sfard knot at the back of the head (3 box knot)
Ger tallis -- no silver or other ornamental headpiece
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If Psalm 27 was said during Ma'ariv and Shachrit, should it be said during Mincha, also?
I think this follows the general rule mentioned in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch in 17:10 - סימן יז - הלכות קריאת שמע - that if one is with a congregation one should say what they are saying - even if ...
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