[Avodah] le-dovid

[Eli Turkel]

> Interestingly RYBS says that the difference between the customs of
> saying le-Dovid after minchah or maariv revolves exactly about this
> question. Is it an extra saying of tehillim which is not appropriate at
> night or is it part of the tefillah which can include pirkei tehillim

Zev writes
<<Or is the difference that in Ashkenaz they often davened Maariv
before dark?  In any event, I assume that it originally started as
amirat
tehillim, and only later became part of seder hatefillah.>>

Obviously Zev is not a Brisker. RYBS would never accept an answer that
it depended on circumstances. His whole approach was to explain why
different customs were based on different conceptual approaches.
I highly recommend the article by RAL conceptual approach to learning
in the orthodox forum
(available on line or I have a pdf version)



-- 
Eli Turkel