[Avodah] Mincha

[allan.engel at gmail.com]

Serendipitously, I found an answer to this question in my Yom Kippur
machzor yesterday, quoted in the name of R' Chaim, the brother of the
Maharal MiPrag, in his sefer Iggeres HaTiyyul.

The scan of the page can be found here (lower paragraph):
https://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/machzor-why-minchah.jpg

G'mar tov to all,
ADE

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 14:35, Joel Rich via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:

> How do you think the various prayers got their names? This doesn't
> fully satisfy me.
>
> *תוספות הרא"ש מסכת ברכות דף ו עמוד ב*
>
>  לא נענה אלא בתפלת המנחה. תימה למה נקרא שמה מנחה אי משום מנחה שבערב גם בבקר
> יש מנחה, י"ל משום דערבית ושחרית יש להם שם אחר קורא זו תפלת המנחה.
>
> [Tosafos haRo"sh, Berakhos 6b:
> ... You would ask, why is it's name called "Minchah"? If it is about the
> Minchah which is in the evening, there is also a Minchah in the morning?
> Yeish lomar: Because Arvis and Shacharis each have another na,e, so they
> called this one "Tefillas haMinchah".
> -mb]
>
> GCT
> Joel Rich
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