[Avodah] 'Al Hanisim

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

I thank R' Michael Poppers for bringing my attention to a post that I missed when it was first published.

In Avodah Digest 25:432, R' Jonathan Baker wrote:
> Baer notes that almost all old siddurim, both Ashkenazic
> and Sphardic, don't use V'al, but Al.  He notes that even
> those few commentators (Mateh Moshe and a couple of others)
> who add the Vav only do so in Benching, where there is a
> string of V'als.  In Shmoneh Esreh, though, the string of
> V'als is broken by Hatov ki lo calu rachamecha vehamerachem
> ki lo tamu chasadecha.

Okay, but I'd like to note that the Mishneh Brurah 682:1 writes:

>>> It's written in sforim that in the text of Al Hanisim, one should say "v'al hanisim" with a vav, both in Tefilah and in Birkas Hamazon.

Aruch Hashulchan 682:1 says the same thing in different words:

>>> All eight days of Chanukah one says Al Hanisim in Birkas Hamazon in Birkas Haaretz. That is, he begins "nodeh l'cha" and says up to "uvchol shaah", and afterwards he says "v'al hanisim" until "l'shimcha hagadol", and afterwards he says "v'al hakol Hashem Elokeinu anachnu modim lach." And likewise in Tefilah, after Modim until "kivinu lach v'al hanisim" ... ... And it seems to me that one must say (tzarich lomar) "v'al hanisim", because even before it there are thanksgivings, and this is additional. In the sidurim it is written "al hanisim", but it appears that one must say with the vav.

Akiva Miller

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