[Avodah] shelo osani ...

[mkopinsky at gmail.com]

On 5/31/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> Well, there are two dialects of Hebrew which do use both "HaMaqom"
> and "lekha" -- Abazit and modern liturgical Ashkenazis. We may open the
> berakhah "Modim anakhnu Lakh", but a short while later we say "nodeh Lekha
> unsapeir tehilasekha .. beyadekha", rather than "nodeh Lakh unsapeir
> tehilasakh", and then the berakhah switches back to "pequdos Lakh".
> But in general, "-kha" wins the Ashkenazi popularity contest. (As opposed
> to Sepharad's "qadsheinu bemitzvotakh, vetein chelqeinu betoratakh,
> sabe'einu mituvakh, vesamach nafsheinu biyshuasakh".)
>

Interestingly, (like many other areas) Nusach Sefard seems to be a
compromise between Ashkenazi and Sefardi suffixes l'inyan zeh:

Ashkenaz (in Mussaf kedusha) has "naaritz'cha v'nakdish'cha".  Nusach
Sefard has (in shacharis) "Nakdishach v'naaritzach", conforming with the
sefardim.  They do say "ham'shalsh'lim lecha kedusha".  I can't remember
whether Sefardim say lecha or lach there.


KT,
Michael