On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:21:13PM +0100, Minden wrote: : IIRC, the right parsing is "... shemeih dekudsho." New sentence: : "Berich hu..." Then why do Sepharadim and many Chassidim (including the SA haRav) answer "amein", making shemei deQBH a clear coda? Tir'u baTov! -mi