[Avodah] tehillim on shabbat

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:09:04PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: FWIW Once upon a time we said tehillim on a Friday night @ Ner Israel
: Toronto for a young man thought to have had lung cancer.

If baqashos are a chilul Shabbos then they would still be permissable
for piquach nefesh.

RMWillig taught (one summer in Morashah Kollel) that RYBS limited the
perissability of Mi sheBeirakh for cholim to a choleh sheyeish bo saqanah
for this reason.

It would keep the list of names shorter without prayer oddities like
the person saying the tefillah pausing, and numerous people saying their
own one or two names to themselves.

While I'm off on this tangent...

I think that MsB underwent a basic change in meaning during my lifetime.

It used to be a community sharing the pain of one of its members. Who
knew of a choleh? Someone close to one of the mispallelim, or perhaps
someone from the biqur cholim took a request or two.

Today's telecommunications made it possible for the congregation to
know of dozens of names. A MsB is now about the unity of the greater
Jewish community.

Same words, totally different prayer.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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