[Avodah] Tekiah Gedolah

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:34:34PM +0000, shalomyitz at comcast.net wrote to
Areivim:
: Our makri used the Koren Machzor, and we caught another error. I 
: forget exactly where (I think at the end of Shofarim in mussaf), but 
: the Koren had the last blast as Tekiyah, rather than T. Gedolah. The 
: tokea caught it, and had him correct his call. 

I'm not sure that's an error as much as a difference in minhag. Our
maqri intentionally only called a teqi'ah gedolah at the very end.

Also, I don't think there actually is such a thing as a teqi'ah gedolah
on a halachic level. I think it's pure minhag, and really just another
teqi'ah.

GCT!
-Micha

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