[Avodah] Mi Ban Siach

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:08:08PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote:
:> I already mentioned why I reached a different conclusion. The medrash
:> compares the mevareikh to the shoshan itself. So then why, "Mi bon"?

: No, the Shoshan is Knesset Yisrael and siach Shoshan 'hokhim is the
: talk of the Shoshan, i.e. Torah..

But that's not what the medrash in question says -- if we agree that
"Mi Bon" is based on Shir haShirim Rabba 2:4:

    R' Chanan deTziporei applied the reading in megilas chasidim:

    It is the way of the world for 10 men to enter a beis aveil and are
    not able to open their mouths to bentch birkhas aveilim, and one
    comes and opens his mouth and blesses birkhas aveilim. To what is
    he compared? To a "shoshanah bein hachochim."

    And also, it is the way of the world for 10 men to enter a beis
    mishteh and are not able to open their mouths to bentch birkhas
    chasanim, and one comes and opens his mouth and blesses birkhas
    chasanim. To what is he compared? To a "shoshanah bein hachochim."

Then a third iteration about those who are able "lifros al Shema velaavor
lifnei hateiva."

It seems clear to me that in all three contexts the one-in-a-minyan who
knows how to daven is being compared to the shoshanah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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