[Avodah] Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo

[Daniel Israel]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:17:44 -0600 Simon Montagu 
<simon.montagu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>From the Daily Halacha emails which appear in my inbox:
>> 966. One should be mindful to carefully pronounce each word when
>responding "Boruch Hu U'voruch Shemo", and be especially vigilant 
>to pronounce the letter "Vuv" of U'voruch. Piskei Tshuvos 124:11, 
Kaf 
>Hachaim 124:29, Boruch She'omar
>
>I didn't understand this well. There are two vavs in "Uvaruch", 
and I don't
>know which one it refers to or why one has to be especially 
vigilant to
>pronounce either one of them.

I would assume the first one.  It is all to easy and common, in my 
experience, to slur the two words together: Baruch Hu-varuch Shemo.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu