[Avodah] al Hanissim (was "Re: 'Al Hanisim")

[Michael Poppers]

REMT replied to me:
> I don't understand your point. <
When REMT wrote...
<<Probably because unlike Al Hanissim, "v'al kullam" refers explicitly to 
the string of v'als in Modim, and is thus a continuation thereof.>>
...I understood him to be contrasting the "v'al kulam" of the Amidah with 
the "Al haNissim" insertion, saying that the "v'al kulam" referred back to 
the "Modim"-stanza "v'al"s (while "Al haNissim" didn't), and thus I noted 
that the "v'al hakol" of BhM also refers back to the "Nodeh 
l'cha"-stanza's "v'al"s (while "Al haNissim" doesn't), yet the "few 
commentators" mentioned by RJJB make a distinction between the Amidah ("Al 
haNissim") and BhM ("V'al haNissim").

> "R'tzei," on the other hand, is completely independent of the paragraph 
which precedes it, so there is no call for a vav hachibbur. <
One could argue that "R'tzei" shares themes with "Racheim [na]," both in 
its first half (which connects with the "v'harvicheinu" section) and in 
its second half (which connects with the overall Y'rushalayim & Tziyon 
theme that is continued in "Uvnei").

All the best from
Michael Poppers * Elizabeth, NJ, USA
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