[Avodah] Repeating during davening

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 06:40:48AM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> I think the essence of my question is: Why are the repetitions in Hallel
> exempted from this?

Because it was written to be sung, and repeating words in song lyrics
is less semantically significant than in poetry or prose?

I know that's pretty balebatish, but maybe the straightforward answer
is all you need.

In which case, whether or not repeating words in Lekha Dodi might depend
on your nusach. In Ashkenaz, LD has a chorus, and is clearly lyrics. But
most Sepharadim don't repeat the first two lines as a chorus. Second
maybe, maybe this is because they feel they are singing a poem, rather
than holding that R Shelmo al-Qabetz expected his words to be sung.

> Whoever it was that decided to repeat lines which Dovid Hamelech did NOT
> repeat, why did they do it, and what was the motivation?

Along the same lines -- "Ki le'olam chasdo" is clearly used as a chorus.
As if we needed more than Mizmor leDavid et al..


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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