[Mesorah] S. Baer on Shelo Assani Nochri

Sun Mar 18 14:00:13 PDT 2012

    The author of Vayetar Yitzchak was at best a kal, and at worst an oisvurf; see the hakdama to the Eizor Eliyahu siddur.  K'vodo shel RS. Baer bimkomo munach, if one has to choose between, on the one hand, Baer and Satanov opting for l'shon Torah, and on the other hand the Tosefta, R. Amram Gaon, Rambam, Abudarham and Tur preferring l'shon chachamim (who authored the b'racha), the choice would seem obvious. 

EMT

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From: "R. Rich Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>
To: "Mesorah List" <mesorah at aishdas.org>
Subject: [Mesorah] S. Baer on Shelo Assani Nochri
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:04 +0000

Free Translation of the first part of R Seligmann Baer's entry re: Shelo Assani Nochri.
The original may be found in Seder Avodas Yisroel pp. 40-41

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* M'nachos 43b (brought by Rif and Rosh in Brachos ch. 9) hanuscha "She'asani Yisroel". 

However, in the Tosefta B'rachos ch. 7 R Y'huda says 3 blessings should be said daily "Shelo Assani Goy, etc." And so is Girsas Rav Amram the Rambam, Abudarham, the Tur and all old siddurim and see MGA at the end of O"CH 46. 

However the author of Vayetar Yitzchok distanced [rejected] the word "Goy" and replaced it with "Nochri" - and he fixed well!  Because Hazal regularly called a Gentile "Goy" as Radak wrote in Sh'roshim "Goy", nevertheless throughout scripture the word "Goy" denotes Nation and [thus] is not fit to use this in speaking of an individual as Ibn Ezra testifies in his commentary to Sh'mos 21:8

But, "Nochri" is the correct word if the intention is for an alien person not from the Seed of Israel. And it is our obligation to order our prayers in a clear [unambiguous] articulation

Ad Kahn 
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* Recent research attributes this form, She'assani Yisroel, to censors. 
Shalom and Regards, RRW
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