[Avodah] Friday Nighr blessings

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

I had written that the Torah Temimah, in Parshas Naso, page 82, wrote
> that the Gra gave a bracha to the Noda B'Yehuda at his
> wedding with only one hand, because using two hands is
> done only for Birkas Kohanim.

I strongly suspect that the Noda B'Yehuda was not the subject of that story. The person is actually identified by the Torah Temimah as "heh-gimel-mem resh-yud-ches Landau Moreh Tzedek d'Vilna". My wild guess at the abbreviations was that it stood for "Hagaon Moreinu Rav Yechezkel" (with the ches being part of Yechezkel rather than a second name).

Although the Nodeh B'Yehuda is most famous his work in Prague, I figured that perhaps he was also the rav of Vilna for a while, and that he was the person referred to by the Torah Temimah. However I have been assured that he was not ever the rav of Vilna; the Torah Temimah's story must have been about someone else.

Akiva Miller

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