[Avodah] Mi Ban Siach

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:47:36PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote:
: AFAIU, and that is obvious from the midrashic source in question, this
: is NOT A PRAYER, it is an invitation for the messader
: kiddushin/chazzan who will recite 7 berakhot to step forward.

I already mentioned why I reached a different conclusion. The medrash
compares the mevareikh to the shoshan itself. So then why, "Mi bon"?
That plus RSZ's point about having the same closing line as "Mi adir"
led me to conclude Someone else was being described -- the One Who knows
the speech of the one-in-ten who can properly bless the couple.

I fail to see how that is less loyal to the medrash, and in fact I would
think that by describing the mesadeir qiddushin as the shoshan rather
than a "mi bon siach shoshan", it's /closer/ to it.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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