[Avodah] Torah Pre-Sinai

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Fri May 25 06:54:32 PDT 2012


On 25/05/2012 7:41 AM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> But there is another tefillah that we also say each morning - Tehillim 20, Lamnatzeach. This is also skipped on joyful days, but the threshhold is at a higher level of simcha, resulting in many days (of relatively small levels of simcha) when we skip Tachanun but we do say Lamnatzeach.
>
> How did this distinction develop? I don't think anyone ever sat down and debated which days to say this and which days to say that. Rather, I suspect that Klal Yisrael collectively intuited what is appropriate.

Only Ashkenazim seem to have intuited this, though :-)

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