<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:56 AM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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My question concerns the long (Mon & Thur) Tachanun, and the many pages at the end of Selichos. I have almost never found a Chazan who raises his voice anywhere during these portions. (Ditto for certain piyutim.)<br>
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Why not?<br>
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Akiva Miller<br></blockquote></div><br>While in Aveilus I used to pace the Tzibbur. One fellow found my "pacing" annoying and actually "shushed" me.<br><br>If you read historical lliterature on litrugy you will see that the techinos following the Amidah were essentially private. So the fellow who shushed me had good historical data to back him even though I felt it was a case of "no good deed goes unpunished"<br>
<br>AIUI, Sephardim pace everything but the few silent passages and Amidah.<br>Yeeks pace MORE because in many aspects they are closer to the ancient Sephardic rite.<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
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