[Avodah] Melech Chanun V'Rachum

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

> So if that is the text of the pasuk (and, according to my Tanach, it
> is), then why would we include the word "Melech" for Shmoneh Esreh,
> and omit it only in Birkas Hamazon? Why, for example, would one say
> it in Maariv on the first night of Pesach, but [not] at the Seder on
> the first night of Pesach?

That we don't follow the nusach of the pasuk exactly is no chiddush;
the nusach hatefilah often alludes to psukim, or borrows language from
them, without quoting them exactly.  The nusach that Chazal established
for Yaaleh Veyavo includes "melech".  The question is why omit it in
benching, and the reason is that one may not mention Malchut Shamayim
in the same context as malchut beit David.  Those who leave it in say
that this is far enough removed the mention of "malchut beit David
meshichecha".   See Ramo OC 188:3, but also see the MA and Taz.


> A related question: How widespread is the practice of omitting "Melech"
> in Birkas Hamazon?

The Ramo, who holds that it ought to be omitted, writes that he has never
seen that done.

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