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[Lisa Liel]

At 10:37 PM 6/23/2011, Simon Montagu wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> >>> Why do we say Baruch She'amar? Because it was on a piece of paper that
> >>> fell from heaven.
> >>
> >> A piece of paper that fell from heaven. I'm not even sure how to respond
> >> to that. I don't think we get our liturgy from pieces of paper that fall
> >> from heaven.
> >
> > Except that that is *exactly* how we got Baruch She'amar.  I'm not sure
> > how to respond to someone who openly says they don't believe that.
> > See Taz OC 51:1
>
>See http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14392&st=&pgnum=61&hilite=
>(ot samech at the foot of the page).

See, now, that makes a lot more sense.

Lisa