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How does the 19th brocho of the shmona esrai open?
I obviously can't comment about what is "original" or not, because we don't know what the "original" wording was, if there ever was such a thing. Chazal left us nothing of the sort.
What we do know ...
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Did Rav Saadiah Gaon really phrase the bracha as "Sim shalom b'olam . . ."?
In Saadya Gaon's Siddur, the phrase shows up again with the desired variation at the end of the blessing and seems to have been transplanted from there to the beginning of the blessing in Siddur Sim ...
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כּרְעוּתֵהּ (with a dagesh in the כּ) or כרְעוּתֵהּ (without the dagesh) in Kaddish?
The general rule is that letters "בגד כפת" do have a dagesh when they appear in the beginning of a word, unless the word follows a word that ends with one of the vowels (אהוי), and there's a ...
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"Chaparat Pesha" just through Adar II
There are three different minhagim (according to Kaf HaChayim) for the timing of this addition: only during Adar 2, all year long (Cheshvan to Elul), and from Cheshvan to Adar 2.
Rabbi Shelomo Min-...
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In Yemenite Nusach, what are the differences between Shami and Baladi?
The Shami nusach is accepting concepts brought from the Ari z"l. The Baladi nusach follows the older Yemenite tradition.
For many Jews from Yemen, they do not want any innovations from their older ...
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Chabad beginner visiting a Modern Orthodox shul
You won't find too many differences other than some changes in the Nusach and the siddur.
Most MO shuls tend to be Nusach Ashkenaz from what I've seen, but you should inquire. That's not a given ...
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Al gav or al gabei – singular or plural?
This is a controversial issue. If you look at older siddurim, like the one of R' Yaakov Emden, who, besides his other talents, was an exceptional authority on grammar, you can find the על גבי version ...
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What's "Nusach Kafa"?
The only custom I've previously come across from that community (cited by Siddur Otzar Hatefillot, Volume 2, page 46) is that they had the custom to read Megillat Antiochus on Chanukah.
A quick search ...
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What's the difference between sim shalom and shalom rav?
According to http://www.aishdas.org/asp/shalom-rav it is partly based on Nusach Bavel vs Nusach Eretz Yisrael
Two variants of Shalom Rav were found in the Cairo Geniza. Given the
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Does 'atah chonantanu' replace the first line of 'atah chonein,' or is it said in addition?
The "add" option is certainly not immediately intuitive, since there's a clear duplication of the phrase "you have graced אתה חונן". It seems reasonable to expect that אתה חוננתנו was composed as a ...
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Chabad nusach for Birkat Hamazon
See page 30 of this pdf: http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/pardes/pardes19-s2.pdf
Basically, he brings many different versions, and posits that at the time of the Alter Rebbe there was not yet a ...
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What's the difference between sim shalom and shalom rav?
Kipa.co.il links שים שָׁלום to the priestly blessing according to Orach Chayim 127 (2), so whenever there is a possibility for the priestly blessing, שים שלום is said.
The trouble there is that ...
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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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new artscroll siddur dikduk questions
1) הַטֵּה אֱלֹהַי אָזְנְךָ וּשְׁמָע is just a quote from Daniyel 9:18 and there is no Patach there. If you're seeing a Chataf-Patach in some editions, realize that's just an old fashioned way of ...
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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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Sepharad vs Sephardic siddurs/nusachs
Nusach Sefaradi is an overarching name (much like the term "Sefaradi") of the Nusach used by Jews who follow Minhagei Sefarad (Spain) and Edot haMizrach. This is an oversimplification, but the ...
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Which version of Rashi is learned on M'nachos chapters 7–10?
When I learned Menachos by R Dovid Soloveitchick Shlita he would learn both Rashi's - the upper one he referred to as Rashi-in-der-hoich, and the other as Rashi csav-yad. I don't remember the specific ...
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A grammatical question about Shabbes davening
@DoubleAA alluded to Aruch Hashulchan. Indeed, p. 3 of this article cites Aruch Hashulchan 268:14 explaining the reasons of the feminine and masculine aspects of Shabbat. In Mincha, the uses of בם is ...
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Pre-Rambam Teimani Siddur?
There is a consensus among academic researches that before accepting Rambam's nusach, Yemenite Jews used the nusach of Rav Saadya Gaon. This is based on multiple questions the Jews of Yemen sent to ...
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Chaba''d doesn't follow minhag hamakom?
Sounds like someone who didn't know what they were doing. There is no minhag in chabad to skip tachanun for a yartzeit. Those that skip tachanun on gimmel tammuz do so as a personal hergish bc of the ...
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Sepharad vs Sephardic siddurs/nusachs
The nusach used by Jews of Sephardic extraction (meaning either Jews who live in Spain and Portugal, or are descended from those who were expelled from those places in 1492) is called "Nusach ...
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Versions of HaNeros Hallalu
A great article on this topic is by Rabbi Daniel Sperber in Minhagei Yisrael, Book 5 Chapter 2. It addresses your question (some of it directly, otherwise, by the sources he cites) and much of it is ...
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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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Anyone know of a nusach that exludes the word לברך from the prayer of ובמקהלות?
As far as I can tell, לברך doesn't appear in many non-Ashkenazi siddurim. For example, Sefaria's Edot Hamizrach siddur omits it, the de Sola Pool siddur omits it, and I've checked my own Yemenite (...
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No mention of Korban Tamid in Amida
The Node Beyehuda (V1, OCH §4) discusses this question:
ואשר בדק לן מעלתו למה פסוקי המוספין קבעו בתפלת המוסף ופרשת התמיד לא
תיקנו לומר בתפלה פסוקי התמיד.
Loosely translated: Why are the verses of the ...
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In Yemenite Nusach, what are the differences between Shami and Baladi?
The main difference is that the Shami use the almost the same "nusach" like the sepharadic Jews. While Baladi have a very different Nusach mainly they have a shorter "nusach". In any case both are ...
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Switching siddur style (Nusach)
In general one should not change once nusach, especially if you follow a strong family tradition (mesorah). Various poskim discuss the possibility to change once (incl. the need for Hatarat nedarim [...
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Why do we comfort a mourner with Hamakom Yenachem Eschem?
My own thought about this is as follows: "Makom" specifically alludes to the fact that God does not inhabit this world; this world inhabits Him. Put another way, the existence of the world is ...
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Why is "Tzidkas'cha" ordered as it is?
Elya Raba 292:17 in the name of the Avadraham from the Sefer Hamanhig that we increase the greatness of Hashem and therfore we say in this order
צִדְקָתְךָ כְּהַרְרֵי אֵל, מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ תְּהוֹם ...
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Marovis on Yom Tov
KAYJ of Jerusalem says them. As does Kehilas Ashkenaz of Bnei Brak. As does KAJ of Beitar. As does the Yekkish minyan in Kiryat Sefer.
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