[Avodah] Birkat Cohanim on Hoshana Rabbah

[Prof. Levine]

At 08:13 AM 10/12/2009, David Cohen wrote:

>The davening on Hoshana Rabbah takes on some but not all the charcteristics
>of Yom Tov. Were any specific criteria used to determine which parts were
>changed to YT and which were left like a chol day? Specifically, in nussach
>askenas, we add the extra tehillim in p'sukei d'zimra, but don't say
>Nishmat. We use the weekday kedusha for Shacharit but Yom Yov kedusha for
>mussaf.
>And since it is questionable that we don't duchen in chutz l'aretz except on
>YT, why don't we do so on HR?
>
>Shabbat shalom and chag sameach,
>
>David I. Cohen

Some places in Chutz L'Aretz do duchan on HR. I davened in a Shteibel 
near my home in Brooklyn on HR, and they did indeed duchan.  Of 
course, they daven the (Chassidishe) Nusach Sefard.

I still recall what happened one year (some time between 1968 and 
1973) when I was living in Elizabeth, NJ. On HR Rav P. M. Teitz, 
ZT"L, took huge Hoshanos.  They were at least 6 feet tall and looked 
even taller. Then, much to the surprise of everyone, he told the 
Kohanim to duchan, which they did. Rav Teitz's shuls all davened 
Nusach Ashkenaz.

YL


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