[Avodah] Reciting Shir haMa'alot or 'Al Naharot Bavel before Bentching

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 09:30:45PM -0800, Simon Montagu wrote:
: This would be a question on Roedelheim, since Tzefanya 3 9 (and many other
: siddurim) say "safa verura".

Thinking out loud:
Could it depend on whether one is saying "besafah verurah, uven'imah"
or if one is using both "berurah uveni'imah" to modify safah, thereby
giving the first word a looser coupling to the previous vowel?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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