[Avodah] Shva Na's etc.

[Zev Sero]

On 17/5/19 11:29 am, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> And while the original Tehillas Hashem copied Seder haAvodah (1911,
> Vilna), the above could be why they chose a Razah-based pointing rather
> than copying another siddur. The project wasn't run by amei haarez,
> and they did give RYYS (L's Friardiker Rebbe) a voice in the result.

It was certainly not run by amei-haaretz -- it was run by the then-LR's 
son-in-law, later to become the LR.  But he himself said that it was 
prepared in haste and they didn't have time to get everything perfect. 
Given that L does not put any great emphasis on correct pronunciation of 
tefillah, making sure the stars were correct would have been quite a low 
priority.   They almost certainly chose that siddur to copy simply 
because it was available in a good clear print, so it would reproduce 
well.  (This was photo offset, so every generation of reproduction 
degraded the quality.)

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