[Avodah] Keil melech neeman
D&E-H Bannett
dbnet at smile.net.il
Sun Dec 24 13:55:58 PST 2006
For a few days. I've been more or less following the
discussion on the added words to kri'at sh'ma'. I didn't add
my two cents because I had a 102 degree temperature so I
just waited to see if some Yekke from KAJ would finally
mention that at KAJ the chazan says only the single word
Emes out loud and they always say El melekh ne'eman. Just
61 years ago I heard the chazan and when I asked I was shown
the chazan's siddur which had written in the margin "nur
emes laut".
Today, with only 100 degrees, I gave in to the urge to post
to the list a letter from Ptolemy. If Ptolemy had known, he
would have added that Copernicus wrote his theory only in
the early 1500's, a few hundred years after R"T.
I also want to point out that the best detailed explanation
of the many shitot on added words in sh'ma is that of R'
Hamburger in the second volume of Minhag Ashkenaz. Believe
it or not, he has 120 pages on this "little" subject. One
thing I remember is his quote from one of the geonim who
didn't think much of the magic protective power of having
248 words to match the number of "eivarim" and didn't think
it proper to add sheimot for that purpose.
Yes, I had the flu shots. If I get a sufficiently strong
urge, I might write sometime soon about the mixing up by
ashkenazim of not saying amen to someone else's b'rakha and
not saying amen to you own b'rakha and the connection with
El melekh ne'eman, saying ga'al yisrael in shaharit and even
birkat ahava before sh'ma silently.
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