[Avodah] alenu edit

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 09:58:59PM +0300, Lisa Liel via Avodah wrote:
: There is a glaring flaw in the article, which is the absence of any
: mention of the Rinat Yisrael siddur.
...
: One of the counselors talked to us the first day about the new
: siddurim, and pointed out that line in Aleinu (no parentheses...

R/Dr Shlomo Tal did a good amount of manuscript work in creating the
siddur. Restoring Aleinu is typical.

Another example (which I followed him in, when compiling Ashirah Lashem,
as did the Koren Sacks Siddur) is the text of Yedid Nefesh. R' Elazar
Azkiri's manuscript and the first published edition both contain the
nusach used by Edot haMizrach. The Ashkenazi version is clearly meshubach,
both on the manuscript evidence, and it contains some verb tense issues.

So RST and Koren simply included that EhM version in their Ashkenazi
siddurim.

And back in 2001, R' Moshe Feldman noticed that while the gemara and
SA have the Birkhas haIlanos as referring to "ilanos tovos", Rinat
Yisrael has the corrected diqduq of "ilanos tovim". ("Ilan" is lashon
zakhar.)

But then there is the whole question of whether Nusach Ashkenaz always
had all these Tanakhi terms "vesein chelqeinu beSorasakh", "Modim anakhnu
Lakh", "shaAtah", etc... (Instead of "beSorasekha", "Lekha", "sheAtah".)
Etc... It's a widespread issue that RST didn't open.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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