[Avodah] R' Eliezer's wife and tachanun

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:45:44PM -0500, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
: Nefilas Apayim is a time for free-form personal prayer, after the
: formal scripted prayer of the Shemoneh Esrei.

Which is why we follow 28 and Tachanun with a Qaddish that asks the
RBSO "tisqabel tzelos-hon uva'us-hon -- to accept the tefillos and
requests". 

Or as the Gra put it, tefillah and tachanunim. "Becharbi uvqashti".
I wrote more on these two modes of prayer at
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/prayers-and-requests

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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