[Avodah] Transition From Aramaic To Hebrew

[Arie Folger]

RAM wrote:
> I am looking at three different siddurim (Otzar Hatefilos, ArtScroll, and Sacks/Koren/OU) and they are virtually identical, except for some vowelling changes. In all three of them, the "vadai Aramaic" stops six words from the end, not five, and in all three siddurim, those words are: "lanu ul'chol yisrael hadarim ba'ir hazos".

But isn't it obvious that that is an addition? It really should not be
said except by the rav of the city who is mezakeh with his eruv
tavshilin all inhabitants who may have forgotten. As a later addition,
it must have been copied verbatim from a Hebrew responsum, when
Aramaic was no longer the Jewish lingua franca, not even for
liturgical use.

KNLAD. Kol tuv,
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Arie Folger,
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