[Avodah] Tachnun

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

Cantor Wolberg asked:<cantorwolberg at cox.net>
> Do any of you not say tachnun until the 13th?

I find the word "until" to be very ambiguous. If a siddur says to skip tachanun "until the 13th", does that mean "skip it for a while and start again on the 13th", or does it mean "skip it until and including the 13th"?

According to the Sefer Eretz Yisrael by Rav Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, page 66: (A PDF of this sefer is available at http://www.teachittome.com/seforim2/seforim/eretz_yisrael.pdf; then go to page 35.)

"Nohagin kan she'ayn omrim tachanun ad yud-gimel sivan, haynu od shiv'a l'tashlumin l'yom hachag. --- The minhag here is not to say tachanun until Sivan 13, that is another seven days of make-up for the day of the holiday."

I interpret this to mean that "here" (i.e., in Eretz Yisrael), they of course omit tachanun on Sivan 6 (being Shavuos), and also omit it for "od - another" seven days, being Sivan 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and start saying it again on Sivan 14.

The word "tashlumin - make-up" presumably refers to the seven days after Shavuos during which one can still do the mitzvah of Aliyah L'Regel. If there are shuls which omit tachanun on Sivan 12 but do say it on Sivan 13, it suppose it is because their rabbis hold that Aliyah L'Regel can only be done for seven days *including* yom tov, and not for seven days *after* yom tov.

Akiva Miller

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