[Mesorah] Davening: Pesach vs. Hag Hammatzos

[Mandel, Seth]

To the best of my knowledge, the GRA made no changes without having a earlier textual source.  There were many nuschaos that I have seen prior to the GRA that had bone yerushalayim; this was not just a change because he disagreed, but a choice of one nusach among the variants.
Not so the grammarians, who mostly did not care about finding earlier sources for their views.  If R. Zalman Henau had cared, he would not have made up his whole system of schewa merachef, since all rishonim are against it, nor many of his emendations on the siddur.

Rabbi Seth Mandel

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Rav Teitz wrote:

<<< Don't you think there is a difference on the one hand between a GRA changing the placement of the works of a paytan, or the TaZ changing the placement of the work of a paytan, because they felt there was a problem al pi din (hefseik) with the paytanim's placement, and on the other hand a ba'al dikduk changing the words of Anshei K'nesses Hag'dola because the ba'al dikduk thoughtr he knew better?  >>>

Yes, but my understanding is that the GRA made wording changes too.

Among the more famous ones was in Birkas Hamazon, where he preferred the Lashon Tanach of "Boneh Yerushalayim" over the traditional "Boneh B'rachamav Yerushalayim."

(I used the word "traditional" because I have no idea whether the Anshei Kneses Hagdola formulated only the subject matter of this bracha, or the exact wording as well.)

Akiva Miller

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