<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM, R' Saul Mashbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saul.mashbaum@gmail.com">saul.mashbaum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I once heard (I know, this is usually not a good introduction to a<br>
reliable source) that Kallir purposely omitted a q'rova for the bracha<br>
of "Et tzemach David" on Purim. Purim's hero came from Binyamin, as<br>
did Shaul HaMelech. In light of the enmity between Shaul and David, it<br>
was deemed unseemly to devote a q'rova to David HaMelech on Purim.</blockquote></div><br>That's what the commentary in the Artscroll siddur states, but RNScherman doesn't provide a source for this contention.<br>
<br>Joshua Meisner<br>