[Avodah] German siddur questions

[Elazar M. Teitz]

      Apropos of RZSero's quote of http://www.lookstein.org/articles/veten_tal.htm., that "most of the Jews of South America and Australia abide to this very day" by R Chaim Shabbetai of Salonica's teshuva to the Jews of Recife, never to say 'tal umatar' in Birkat Hashanim, and instead to insert it into Shomea Tefila as required" (a statement which he contradicts, with respect to Australia), R. Michel Feinstein attested that his grandfather-in-law, R. Chaim Brisker, would do the following all year:
(1) say "v'sein b'racha" in birchas hashanim; (2) say "v'sein tal umatar" in Sh'ma koleinu; (3) never say "morid hagashem," but rather (4) say "morid hatal."

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