[Avodah] davening to melachim

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:05:56 -0400
"herb basser" <basserh at queensu.ca> wrote:

>     I took special note in Neila that we beseech midas harachamim-- and decided from its wording that here midas harachamim was a seperate being from HKBH-- so I skipped that particular part of the piyyut-- anyone else bothered by it? made me wonder if the whole piyyut of 13 midos also construed them as separate from HKBH. it occurred to me that the midrashim and targumim that translate what happened in the cleft of the rock was that hashem's angels came to moshe-- maybe kol tuvi=the midos as melachim.  

We discussed this recently; see:

http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/2008q3/009265.html
http://lists.aishdas.org/htdig.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org/2008q4/009366.html
http://lists.aishdas.org/htdig.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org/2008q4/009375.html

>     Zvi basser

Yitzhak
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