[Avodah] New Brachos

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> (Tangent: The Bal'adi Teimani siddur has a leading berakhah before
> Qorbanos -- birkhas haTorah! Rather than our "Eileh Devarim", they go
> straight to parashas Tamid, IIRC.)

As does the Rambam's siddur, and Nusach Italia.  In the Rambam's
siddur, Eilu Devarim comes after "Parshat Tzav uvirchat kohanim".
In the Italian nusach it comes after Ribbi Yishmael.  But this isn't
a change in what the bracha is on: the bracha is on all the Torah
that will be learnt that day.  The difference is only in the order
of the passages learnt before shacharit.


> I wrote "let's say for now" (3 par up) because the above has a
> problem.... The berakhah of "[ha]meqadeish [es] shimkha/o barrabim"
> was coined as a birkhas hamitzvah before dying al qiddush Hashem in
> the Crusades. It was then pulled into the siddur, perhaps as a berakhah
> before *living* as a qiddush Hashem.

Where did you see this theory?  I don't think it can be true, since
this bracha is in the original nusach in Tanna D'vei Eliyahu Rabba,
which was written* at least 100 years before the First Crusade, if
not much earlier.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=35935&pgnum=137
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=35935&pgnum=138



> But in any case, saying it daily
> appears to defy the Rosh -- both the coinage and the time for saying it
> is new.

Which is why nuschaot Sfard/Sefarad/Ari/Italia/Rambam all say it without
Shem uMalchut.  Though if the Tanna Dvei Eliyahu that we have really is
from the time of Rav Annan, i.e. before chasimas hatalmud, then the
Rosh's objection falls away.  


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