[Avodah] German siddur questions

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 10/12/07, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
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>
> But before the chazarat hashatz of Tish'a B'av there is the following
> not: "Some protest against all the additions that are written in the
> machzorim in the tefillot of all the fast days, and especially in the
> first and last three brachot, because according to the gemara one
> should say the brachot properly, and then add afterwards even like
> the order of Yom Kippur, as the community wishes."
>
> --
> Zev Sero
>

Someimtes I just don't get us Jews.

Kallir - the Judean - obviously felt that Selichos and Krovos were no
problem in the Amidah on the 9th of Ava and Purim {and mabye many even other
occasions with which I am not familiar

Seder Rav Amram Gaon - The Babylonain -points specifcally to selichos in
Slach Lanu

So Israel and Babylonia BOTH tell us the parameters of how to do hefsek in
Amidah. But the Europeans somehow figured out the Talmud better than the
major liturgists who stemmed from the 2 societies that produced the entire
Talmudic literature to begin with! There is something wrong with this
picture. How did Europeans know how to be better at the liturgy and in
understanding Talmud than those closer to the source in both time and place?

It's like I have said for years about Rambam. I would say that given a
particular difficult Rambam, The kesssef Mishnah probably had a more
authentic approach than WADR the Brisker. after all he was closer in time
and society!


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