[Avodah] a troubling halacha

[Arie Folger]

RAM wrote:
> So the last kaddish of the davening - after Aleinu - was said by such a
> son. When other tefilos were added (like Shir Shel Yom and such) an orphan
> would say kaddish after those too.

Just for the record: since you pain yourself to summarize the development of 
tefillah, I point out that the last qadish of teh Gemara is NOT the qadish 
after 'aleinu, as 'aleinu was originally only part of malkhiyot on RH. It is 
only in the 13th-14th centuries that 'aleinu became part of the daily 
liturgy.

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