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<strong></strong>I wrote: "R' Birnbaum in his introduction cites R' Yaakov Emden as his
source for declaring the phrase ["Elokeni <br>vElokei avotenu" on a weekday festival] a printer's error. ... But when I stood at the <em>Amud</em> in my yeshiva and omitted the phrase, my Rosh Yeshiva corrected me.<br><br>I was corrected off-list. I had it backwards. Rav Emden advocated including, not omitting, the phrase in the weekday Yom Tov davening, leaving only "retsay b'menuchaseinu" in parentheses.<br><br>Zvi Lampel<br>Zvi Lampel<br>
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