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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>R'Micha wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>></span> I had a similar experience many years ago with Aleinu and Nusach haGra's (and RYBS) "vekhisei khevodo" rather than "umashav yaqaro". The Gra's nusach might even be older Ashkenaz than what the other Litvaks say -- the Tur says it's Nusach Roma. I've since seen it as a "N"A" (nusach acheir) in a Machon Moreshet Ashkenaz project.<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'> <<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Minhag FFdM compromised (who says Yekkes aren't flexible?) -- the <i>nusach</i> during Musaf (i.e. on RhSh and YhK) is "<i>v'chisei chvodo</i>" and is "<i>umoshav y'qaro</i>" at all other times. (Similarly, it's "<i>hu elokeinu ein acheir</i>" during Musaf [at least, during <i>chazaras haSHaTZ</i>] and "<i>hu elokeinu ein od</i>" at all other times.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>A gut'n Shabbos/Shabbas Shalom and all the best from </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#7030A0'>Michael</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>