[Avodah] davening to melachim/toby

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:38:17PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: In a message dated 10/12/2008, basserh at queensu.ca writes:
:> btw-- why should we call it "neila"-- we asked for  "psicha"-- pesach lanu 
:> shaar.

: This answer may be a little too pat, but -- the gates are closing, that's  
: why it's called neila!  And we're like the customer who shows up at closing  
: time and says, "Wait, wait, can't you stay open just a few more  minutes?!"

IOW, it's called ne'ilah in the same sense that shacharis is called
shacharis.

RHB has a point, though, that the tefillah itself, though, is not ne'ilah,
it's not a prayer that causes anything to close, it's an attempt at
pesichah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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