[Avodah] Tachanun

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 05:05:44PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote:
: Eh, the act of reciting ta'hanun is also reflexive: lehit'hanen (occurs,
: for example, in Esther 4:8).

You omitted the obvious case, the title word of parashas VaEschanan.

As noted on Mesorah, hitpa'el isn't always reflexive. The pasuq RAF
cites, where it's "lehischanein lo" (to Achashveirosh), would appear
to be more likely an example than the instances of "lehispallel el..."
Alternatively, it's an implication that the appeal to Achashveirosh's
sympathy involve more than words. That she use herself.

As for MRAH, the gap between what one ought to request, that which we
inculcate through tefillah, and that which he actually would request,
tachanunim, didn't exist. This whole discussion of modes of tefillah
wouldn't apply.

Still, the thing we do after davening gets the verb "amar". The series of
techinos from which we got "E-lokai Netzor" are each introduced by "basar
tzelosana amar hakhi". So, the existence of a hitpa'el for other uses
of the verb doesn't impact our discussion of the mitzvah of tachanunim
in particular.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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