[Avodah] Prayers That The Tzibbur Does Not Say

[Zev Sero]

On 24/2/21 10:31 pm, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> 
> To keep the conversation going, I'll suggest another scenario, similar 
> to those you've mentioned. Suppose a great leader (a Rosh Yeshiva, or a 
> chassidic Rebbe, for example) is very ill. The community arranges a big 
> event, to encourage great throngs to come and pray for the leader's 
> health. There are many tehillim recited, many speeches given, and many 
> tears shed. Then the entire crowd unites to daven mincha together. When 
> the shliax tzibbur recites Xazaras Hashatz, can he add a tefila for the 
> leader's health, either in Refa'einu or in Shema Kolenu? If not, why not?

The obvious analogy is to those countries that need rain when it is not 
needed in Bavel, and therefore Tal Umatar is not said.  The halacha is 
that each individual in those countries should add "Vesein Tal Umatar 
Livracha" in Shomea` Tefillah.  However the shliach tzibur does not do 
so, even though each individual he is representing needs rain and did 
pray for it in his private tefillah.

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