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size=3> I took special note in Neila that we beseech midas
harachamim-- and decided from its wording that here midas harachamim was a
seperate being from HKBH-- so I skipped that particular part of the piyyut--
anyone else bothered by it? made me wonder if the whole piyyut of 13 midos also
construed them as separate from HKBH. it occurred to me that the midrashim and
targumim that translate what happened in the cleft of the rock was that hashem's
angels came to moshe-- maybe kol tuvi=the midos as melachim.
<BR> Zvi basser<BR> </FONT><A
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