[Avodah] shir hamaalot

[Zev Sero]

On 1/2/22 22:52, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> MB (3:11) points out that shir hamaalot is said before birchat hamazon 
> on Shabbat (and non-tachanun days) in place of al naharot bavel. So how 
> did the replacement become fixed and the original ISTM become abandoned?

Among whom has it been abandoned?   I'm not aware of this abandonment, 
or how widespread it is.  Of course nowadays there are a lot of people 
who only ever bench on Shabbos and Yomtov or at a wedding or such event, 
so they would always say shir hamaalos.

I recently realised that since the only occasions on which I generally 
say a whole sefer of tehillim are on Shabbos/Yomtov, I don't recall ever 
saying the weekday version of the yehi ratzon afterward.  This only came 
to my attention because I was in a minyan whose custom is to say the 
yehi ratzon after saying any amount of tehillim, and I had no idea what 
they were saying.  So nahara nahara upashteih.

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