[Avodah] Mincha and Z'rizin Makdimin

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:54:00PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: The simple answer is that our Tefilas Mincha is modeled after the
: Tamid Shel Bayn Ha'arbayim, and that Korban Tamid was delayed until very
: late in the day...

Another reason:
The tamid and davening should be "yiyra'ukha lifnei hashemesh" (Tehillim
72:5). This is the reason for kevasiqin in the morning (Berakhos 9b).
"Mitzvah lehispallel im didumei chamah". Rashi associates minhchah with
the gemara's quote of the second half of the pasuq, d"h "velifnei
yareich" -- "af tefilas haminchah mitzvasah im dimdumei chamah".

The Ramban (p' Bo) says the very name name of the afternoon qorban and
tefilah is about menuchas hashemesh.

I was wondering if those of us who live urban lives, and therefore live
by the time on our watches rather than relating the cycles of our days
to sunrise and sunset, really should delay minchah. It wouldn't provide
the same aid to kavanah, and therefore perhaps for us "zerizim maqdimin"
outweighs.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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