[Avodah] Nefilas Apaim in Yerushalayim

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Fri Mar 16 15:09:08 PDT 2007


kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> R' Danny Schoemann wrote:
>> The Be'er Heitev brings the SKNH"K (who's that?) in the name of
>> the Rokeach that "if there are other seforim they have the din
>> of a ST, and that's what we rely on nowadays."
> 
> R' Elliott Shevin asked:
>> Hmm. Might one include the siddur you're davening as an eligible
>> sefer? <g>
> 
> And now I ask: Why the grin? If "other seforim" count, why would a 
> siddur be different?

And yet the Baer Hetev, by whose time printed siddurim were already
ubiquitous, didn't draw this obvious conclusion.  Nor did any of the
later authorities who quoted him.  Therefore it seems obvious that
even according to the Shirei Knesset Hagedolah one needs something
more than a siddur.  Just what, isn't clear.


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