[Mesorah] Hypercorrections or adaptation?

[Richard]

David Cohen
«First off, once the Targum was eliminated, a case could be made for bringing Akdamus forward regardless of whether or not one holds it is a hefsek.  Once Akdamus is no longer serving as an introduction to the Targum, but we have decided to continue saying it anyway because it's a nice poetic introduction (that just happens to be in Aramaic) to the story of Matan Torah, there is no inherent reason -- other than as a reminder of its original function -- why it should be said after the first pasuk.»

IMHO - It is absolutely legit to say:  "Now that the Targum has been dropped, let's move Akdamus. ...". But AFAICT the poskim didn't actually say that.  *  

Now if you wish, you may believe that they did the right thing for the wrong reasons, and furthermore that HKBH was pulling the strings all along.

RDC:
«Relatively early on, the Sefaradim adopted the Ashkenazi custom of saying "Hodu" each morning, but didn't want to put it "inside the brackets" of Baruch she'Amar / Yishtabach.»

I'm not sure of the history here.

Halachically Speaking AIUI:

Hodu outside the backets is recited as part of korbanos. IOW that's what was recited in the Mikdash during the Avodah.

While inside the brackets implies it is an adjunct to the original p'sukkei d'zimra.

So we have 2 Halachic sheetos as to how to treat Hodu.

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*  this opens another "can of worms, namely which poskim really understand the nuances of Davening?  

OT1H I would say the Maharil as a Shatz was one of the great experts.  The GRA, a superb grammarian, no doubt about it.  Abudarham seems to have been a Nusach specialist.  Ba'al Hatanya, for sure was an expert, [yet he perhaps was also another "hyper-correcter".]
  
OTOH I once saw a T'shuvah by a GREAT poseik -an author of one of the classic Shu"t - who seemed to not be certain whether "ADNY" was pronounced mil'eil or mil'ra.


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