[Avodah] Saying Tehillim for a sick person

[Arie Folger]

RDK wrote:
> It always surprises me when kehillos that rush their weekday
> shacharis make such a big thing out of the passuk-by-passuk
> recital of Tehillim for a choleh at the end, the mispallelim
> shockeling with furrowed brows as if to say, "Aha, now we're
> really davening!"  What have you been doing for the past 30
> minutes?! The same thing applies to the marbeh b'kaddishim
> plague, but that's for another post...

For a period of time when we wanted to add daily prayers because of
the situation in Israel, I suggested that when we recite psalm 20
before Uva leTziyon, it be recited slowly, passuq befassuq, instead of
adding another psalm. I was moved by some of the same concerns you
have.

-- 
Arie Folger,
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