[Avodah] Even "trivial minhagim"...

[Micha Berger]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I lack the patience to sing the
entire Dayeinu, all 15 stanzas, to that "Dai, dai-, -einu, dai-, dai-,
einu..." tune. So, we tend to only bother every fifth stanza or so.

However, even something as late and as trivial as this may have
qedushah!

>From Y-mi Berakhos 67b-68a, in a discussion of things that beis din
decreed and was ratified in BD shel maalah:
    R' Avun besheim R' Yehoshua ben Levi: Even maaser [in these days,
    when ein rov yosheveha aleha]. As it says (Malakhi 3:10) "Bring all the
    maaser[, so that there may be foor in My house... would I not open
    the windows of heaven and pour for your a berakhah ad beli dai]"

    What is "ad beli dai"?

    R' Yosi bar Shim'on bar Ba besheim R' Yochanan: Something that is
    impossible to say about it "enough" is a berakah.

    R' Berachah veR' Chelbo veR' Aba bar Ilai [68a] besheim Rav: until
    your lips tire of saying "dai".

So it would seem there is value to a tune that thanks Hashem for all the
berakhos he did for us during yetzi'as Mitzrayim that tires out our lips
saying "dai"!

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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