[Avodah] conservatism in davening

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sun Oct 16 09:06:47 PDT 2016


On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Chesky Salomon via Avodah wrote:
:>                         ... I still have a deep problem with "Az beqol,
:> ra'ash gadol, adir vechazaq mashmi'im qol" -- the standard nusach has
:> the pauses in places that don't fit the grammar.

: Fortunately, the nusach barely needs to be changed to accommodate the
: correct grammar: the musical phrase for "az beqol" can be filled with
: just "az", that for "ra'ash gadol" takes "beqol ra'ash", and that for
: "adir vechazaq mashmi'im qol" needs a very subtle change to take "gadol
: adir vechazaq, mashmi'im qol" (works better if you pronounce "gadol
: adir" correctly milra).

Yes, and there are traditional tunes that isolate "Az".

The pasuq from the Maaseh haMekavah (Yechezqeil 3:12) is
    vatisa'eini ruach
    va'eshma acharai
    qol ra'ash gadol.

So, I would say that the noun is qol, the adjectives "ra'ash gadol"
are tighly bound to it as that's the quotes, and "adir vechazaq" is
there to describe the navi's "qol ra'ash gadol".

So:
    Az, beqol-ra'ash-gadol adir vechazaq, mashmi'im qol...

One comma moves, from after gadol to after vechazaq.

My guess is the source of the nusach is an overemphasis of the difference
between the navi's adjectives and the ones we're adding.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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