[Avodah] Sholom Aleichem [was: Tinok Shenishba]

[T613K at aol.com]

In response to something I wrote:
 
> I would also like to say that those individuals who mentioned that  they
>  sing Sholom Aleichem but don't sing the third stanza are  implicitly
> criticizing the behavior of thousands of rabbanom and roshei  yeshiva who
> are gedolim meihem.
 
 

R' Arie Folger wrote:  


>>So you say. There are halakhic authorities that disagree.  AFAIR, in Chaim 
Berlin, yevorkhuni leshalom was substituted for the usual  text, because 
apparently Maharal had a problem with it. <<
 
Someone else wrote to me:



>>Incidentally it was the Gaon who is cited as the source of the  custom of 
saying only two stanzas of Shalom Aleichem.  He thought it  obligatory to 
criticize his predecessors when he thought they were  wrong.  See Rabbi 
Zevin's book Ishim V'Sheetos p. 18, where he cites  Tshuvos Hut 
HaMeshulash #9 and completes the quotation which was censored in  the 
original.<<

>>>>>
I therefore withdraw my comment about the arrogance of people who skip the  
third stanza of Sholom Aleichem.  I mistakenly thought that they do it on  the 
basis of their own understanding and did not realize that they were  following 
earlier authorities.
 
But I still think that "Borchuni lesholom" is not davening to the angels  but 
just saying, "I did my part, now you do yours.  My Shabbos table  is set, you 
are supposed to give me a bracha now."  
 
If someone has a problem with that, maybe they also have a problem with the  
medrash that says the malachim give the person a bracha.  I'd like to ask  the 
Gaon that very question.  Or ask Yakov Avinu why he demanded a bracha  from 
the angel who wrestled with him.


--Toby  Katz
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