<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">And even at the end of the 2nd Beis haMiqdash, the chasimos of Shemoneh</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Esrei were established, but the bodies of each berakhah was pretty</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">free-form. Just make sure that the body closes with me'ein hachasimah. >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">minor quiblle - I would put it a little later. Rabban Gamliel and Shmuel Hakatan after churban habayit are still working on the nusach. Lamalshinim is added later</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">As to piyut - my experience is that there are loads of different customs as to which piyutim are said. Many machzorim have piyutim in the midst of berachot kriat shema but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. As I previously pointed out our present piyutim on RH/YK are an amalgam of different piyutim. Whatever common ones exist are only because of the printing press. I would assume that for rishonim every town had their own set of piyutim<br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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