<html>
<body>
<font size=4 color="#800000">At 22:26 19-09-07 +0000,
kennethgmiller@juno.com stated the following:<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">In our context, all you
need to do to change the siddur is to become a popular siddur publisher.
ArtScroll decided to go with "umorid hageshem" and
"v'sayarev l'fanecha" (among many others) even in Nusach
Ashkenaz, and in another few decades no one will ever know there had been
another way.<br><br>
In fairness, I should admit that I pick on ArtScroll because -- to my
generation -- they're the new kids on the block.
</blockquote><font size=4 color="#800000"><br>
Certainly not on my block. In my town they are unheard of.
Even their gemara is known as Schottenstein.<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I was raised on Birnbaum,
which therefore seems totally normal and standard to me; I'll bet that
people older than me can make similar comments about Birnbaum's siddur if
they wanted to.</blockquote><font size=4 color="#800000"><br>
What does one do who was raised on Birnbaum's addition of "Elokeni
vElokei avotenu" on a weekday festival, now that he prays from a
siddur that does not have that? What about the lack of
"HAshalom" in qaddish? Or "vah" rarther than
"vam" in Shabbat minha? Or "hanah lanu" in
birkat hamazon for Shabbat?<br><br>
</font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font face="Verdana" color="#000080"><i>~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=<br>
IRA L. JACOBSON
<br>
</i>=<i>~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~<br>
</font><font face="Verdana">
<a href="mailto:laser@ieee.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:laser@ieee.org</a>
</i> </font></body>
</html>