[Avodah] R' Eliezer's wife and tachanun

Marty Bluke via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Nov 23 23:08:00 PST 2016


Todays daf (BM 49) has teh story of Tanur shel Achnoy. Part of the story is
that R' Eliezer's wife, R' Gamliel's sister was worried that if R' Eliezer
would say tachanun that R' Gamliel would be harmed and therefore the Gemara
says that she prevented him from saying tachanun (nefilas apayim) until one
day she made a mistake and he said tachanun and R' Gamliel died. This
raises a few questions:
1. How did she prevent him from saying tachanun? My wife cannot prevent me
from saying tachanun when I am in a shul with a minyan, she isn't there and
if she is she is in the women's section behind the mechitzah. This would
imply that R' Eliezer always davened in his house with his wife there. What
about tefilla betzibur and daviening in a shul?
2. Why is tachanun more powerful then other tefilos specifically shemoneh
esrei which is the main part of tefila?
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