[Avodah] "v'imru amen"

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, December 12, 2006 10:27 pm, RSBA revived this post from RELPhM:
:> Siddur Otzar Hatefilos, Likutei Maharich, RS Schwab, Boruch She'omar all
:> say that we are whispering to the Malochim - that accompany a person all
:> the time. [Maybe 'oseh sholom BIMEROMOV' indicates this?] The earliest
:> source seems to be Mateh Moshe - which some cite.
:> The OH also brings a nusach - IIRC - Machzor [or Siddur] Roma - that
:> indeed does not include the 'Ve'imru Omein' at the end of SE.

: This is a bedieved explanation (aetiology). It's simply an error: people
: automatically went on with "ve'imru omein" after "ouse sholoum". The
: same error occurs at the end of benshen, unless somebody is leading it.

RSBA, I just want to point out that you just quoted another example of a
minhag based upon a ta'os. And, like I suggested WRT dancing SA night (which
also applies to ST night as well, as was later clarified), it's a true minhag
rather than a hanhagah or minhag ta'os because some positive kavanah was found
post-facto. And in fact, to repeat myself further, *every* mihag is started by
the people and ratified by such sevaros, as opposed to taqanos which start
with the rabbanim and then need to get accepted by the people.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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