[Avodah] Bracha after Haftara on Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
Lisa Liel
lisa at starways.net
Sun Jul 3 15:04:56 PDT 2011
This bugs me every time there's a Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, but I always
forget to ask about it after Shabbat is over.
On yamim tovim, we finish kiddush and the middle bracha of the musaf
amidah with "mekadesh Yisrael v'ha-zmanim". We also end the last of
the brachot after the haftarah that way. On Shabbat, of course, we
end all three of those with "mekadesh ha-shabbat", and if it's
Shabbat *and* Yom Tov, we end all three with "mekadesh ha-shabbat
v'Yisrael v'ha-zmanim".
But on Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, we end the middle bracha of musaf with
"mekadesh ha-shabbat v'Yisrael v'roshei chodashim". And both kiddush
and the last bracha after the haftarah end only with "mekadesh ha-shabbat".
Why the inconsistency? I see why we say a special bracha in the
musaf amidah, because that whole nusach that precedes it is special
for Shabbat *and* Rosh Chodesh. But why do we ignore it during
Friday night kiddush and the bracha after the haftarah?
Lisa
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