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<DIV><BR>R' Alan Rubin <A
href="mailto:alan@rubin.org.uk">alan@rubin.org.uk</A> asked:<BR><BR>>
> Why do the vast majority of siddurim print most tehillim as if they<BR>>
> were prose? Doesn't this obscure the poetry of the tehillim?<BR><BR>R'
Micha Berger answered<BR>> To really answer your question, I think in many
cases it reflects the<BR>> fact that most people aren't shopping for a siddur
based on their<BR>> knowledge of what the tefillos mean. <BR><BR><BR>RAR
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<DIV>>>Pity that the only answer is so prosaic!
<<<BR><BR>>>>></DIV>
<DIV>I don't know if the pun was intended -- the answer is *prosaic*
-- but it is an excellent pun. And he is right that it is a pity, I've
often thought it myself. Tehillim should be printed on the page with every
new pasuk starting a new line. And since many pesukim of shira
(poetry) have a parallel structure, "kefel davar bemilim shonos," the
second part of each pasuk should be on a new line too, but indented a
little. And when the lines start with successive letters of the aleph
bais, the first letter of each pasuk should be printed in bold. In the
ArtScroll Yom Kippur machzor, Ashrei actually is printed that way, with each
pasuk on a new line and the first letter in bold. But they didn't do it
with other perakim of Tehillim (for instance, the Shir Shel Yom). </DIV>
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