[Avodah] le Dovid

[Elazar M. Teitz]

REli Turkel wrote:

<< 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>>

RZev Sero responded: 
<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.>

    The origin of saying L'David ori are murky, so it's hard to say how it started and how it subsequently developed.  Lam'natzeiach in the beis aivel, though, is an interesting phenomenon.  It began as a S'faradi custom said before Ma'ariv.  The Ashk'nazim borrowed the practice, but changed the time.  It would thus seem that they b'davka wanted it after Ma'ariv.

EMT


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