[Avodah] KVCT

[Jonathan Baker]

Something occurred to me this evening: most people switch from Ketivah
Vechatimah Tovah, or Leshanah Tovah Tikateivu, to Gemar Chatimah Tovah
or for short Gmar Tov, right after Rosh Hashanah.

However, all the tefillot are written in terms of "Ketivah": Zochreinu
Lechaim, Avinu Malkeinu, Besefer Chaim Tovah Uvracha, etc., and use
that verb right up through mincha on Yom Kippur.  Only for Neilah do
the tefillot switch to Chatimah.

So why do the greetings change, when clearly the aggadic message of
the tefillah texts, the theological message, is that the whole period
right through Yom Kippur afternoon is associated with Ketivah?

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