[Mesorah] HQBH

[Minden]

IIRC, the right parsing is "... shemeih dekudsho." New sentence: "Berich hu..."

The habit of everybody shouting "brichu" was introduced somewhere in order to remind the chazen of this, but nowadays it's somehow the other way around. BTW, "kudhso" isn't Aramaic for "hakkodoush" (Isr.: hakadOsh), but for "hakkoudesh" (Isr.: hakOdesh), so it's even more plausibly "... sheim kodshou. Boruch hu...", not "sheim HQBH".

hQbH, hQbh, hqbh - isn't capitalisation a Christian minnek anyway?


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