[Mesorah] Mishtaleiach

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:18:42PM +0200, D&E-H Bannett wrote:
: The nusach shenishtalcha (not ha-nish...) was changed by R' 
: Yitzhak Satanov in his Vayetar Yitzhak to ha-shelucha.  He 
: and R' Zalman Henne were the major change-makers in the 
: 1700's in their attempt to improve the siddur by replacing 
: rabbinic Hebrew terms with biblical ones.

I don't see this as a biblical Hebrew issue. Rather, the question is
whether acknowledging G-d's role in the churban would sound like we're
dumping on Him mid-tefillah. Hashelukhah, in the passive, doesn't say
Who sent it.

My original thought was to relate the se'ir hamishtaleiach with that it
represents. The se'ir is often darshen-ed as representing the one who
could have been Lashem but made other choices. Thus, while the se'ir
didn't actually send itself, that which the se'ir represents does.

But it seems that I'm placing too much weight in assuming hitpa'el means
reflexive. Nu, that's why I asked this crew first.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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