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האם מותר לשנות את נוסח התפילה והסליחות? | הרב אלישע וולפסון
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How many minutes do we have? I wanted to address an issue
that we are now dealing with in the kollel and it will be
presented to the public in general, always, and now
in particular, from several directions.
This is the matter of the text of the prayer. The text
of the prayer.
The sages say that the text that we have, or rather, the people of the
Great Knesset, established for Israel a set of
holy prayers, blessings,
and later, Rabbi Shimon the Pekuli returned and established them, and revealed that it is
correct and
in fact, the people of Israel have been praying for generations, for centuries, blessings, and the Shema,
18, which the sages
have established for us [snorting with contempt]. Now there is a
question that we are all dealing with now, namely,
during the Ten Days of Repentance, the sages have established to add or is this
part of the question? Yes, we are accustomed to adding, it is said that way, we are
accustomed to adding, We were granted
life from a greater source,
in the Book of Life, etc., and of course, the holy king, the king of
judgment.
So the holy king, the king of judgment, this is an explicit issue in the Gemara. Yes, they repeat, they do
not repeat. There is a dispute
[snorting with contempt]. And there is a dispute about this in the Rishonim.
What is the ruling regarding the other collections?
Yes, what everyone is accustomed to say, We are used to it being
ruled that the additional additions are not repeated,
but it is not simple at all. There is a very large group of Rishonim
, additions on the page, and another
very large faction of Rishonim who
believe that they are repeated, that it is a hindrance. So first of all, the additions, so yes, first of all, it is worth knowing that those who opposed
adding, oh,
first of all, it is worth knowing that, because oh, it means to try to make an
effort not to forget, a
large faction of Rishonim who say that it is a hindrance and repeat it for
prayer, so even though it was not ruled that way, one should
make an effort in this matter, but apparently that is the basis of the
dispute, and it is actually a question that concerns us
now that we are dealing with this, oh, which is a very
interesting question, did the Sages, when the Sages tell us there if they
corrected the order of prayers, holy blessings, did they really
give us an exact text, and that there are some
changes there, this is from the length of the exile, so here a little has changed here and
there, but the Sages actually insisted on an exact text,
and therefore one actually has to be very, very precise in the text, and if a
person omitted from the text, first of all, it is forbidden to omit from the text,
and it is possible that if a person omitted from the text in all the
blessings, he is the one Repeater, you need to understand what the definition is
exactly the
same thing, add as if even
then adding is simpler because adding is an
explicit Gemara in a foreign work that says that it is permissible to add in a way that is like every yes,
and so it is ruled in the Shulchan Aruch. Yes, a person asks his
needs in a way that is like adding yes, but changing the
wording or shortening the wording or evaluating it
regularly on the wording is already a much, much more
complex question. So I will not take this whole issue now
because I just want to say this. So
first of all, the matter is really paid attention to, but I
say this. It probably actually touches on this question. Did the
Sages have a very, very precise and detailed wording
that we really need to say every single word in it,
or did the Sages [snort of contempt]
give us principles of blessings, principles of salvation,
and certain things that they told us that hindered us from saying,
like tloter, etc. You can
say in your own language. So, okay, naturally, over the
generations, things were established, things were arranged, things were arranged, things were arranged so that it would be
convenient, words, but there is no such thing as a living wording here, and
something needs to be precise about it. So then
I say this issue is a question that we will not open
now, but what? For
example, the version of the Selichot that we say now, the
version of the Selichot for the sake of a young woman, is a
later tradition.
It is not some mandatory version that the Sages have fixed to say
. The same thing is written that the
Sages recite on Mondays and Thursdays. Yes? There are different customs, what to say, etc. Now in these matters, it is important to remember what the Sages say in Tractate Yoma, page 7, page 2, where it is written that the Gemara says, "Why is it called the name of the people of the Great Knesset who restored
the Tara to its old age?"
You are Moses, the great hero and the terrible one, you are
Jeremiah, and he said, "Gentiles from the wine cellar in his temple,
his lights, he did not say terrible, he did
not say terrible, the Lord of the world, Moses, our Lord, says, "
You bring down,
you are Daniel, the Gentiles enslaved by his sons, his mighty
deeds were not said, "A hero
with him, did you
skip over, but to someone,
his Jeremiahs,
Daniel, you Gentiles, you said, "On the contrary, this is his mighty deeds, that he who conquers, you will be strong, that
he gave you once to the wicked,
and these are not his lights, that the teacher of the Holy One,
blessed be He, can only exist among the
nations." The Gemara asks, "Wait, wait, wait, and our Lord, you will be my
destroyer after me." And I read, "Tiknat, fix Moshe, Moses, our Lord, said, "The
great hero and the terrible one" and the
Gemara also says, "It is forbidden to add to the shi'im, that if
Moshe, our Lord, said, "And we fixed the
great Knesset in prayer," we could not say them, "
What do we give to the Holy One, blessed be He, as it were, what Moshe,
our Lord, said, "And we fixed there a Knesset of
Doli?" This is what they say, "Beyond this, the strengthening of a hero, etc." Q:
What they have established, they say, then how do they
come and uproot a regulation of Moses our Rabbeinu?
The Gemara says, Rabbi Elazar said, from the knowledge of the Holy One, the Holy One, blessed be He, that He is
true, therefore they did
not deceive Him. In
other words, the Gemara doesn't really provide an answer here.
What are you uprooting that Moses fixed? But they
know that it is impossible for the Holy One, blessed be He, to want
you to tell a lie. And if you now, in
your own measure before the Holy One, blessed be He, do
not see, how can you praise something that you feel the opposite of in
your soul? Prayer of Mercy Any work in the heart is a
prayer. You can't say something from the heart. Your heart
comes to your people. Yes, and I think this is a
very, very important foundation. Therefore, I would also like to
offer here things that were recently published, written by
Rabbi Elyakim Levanon. They issued a new edition of the
Selichot. Yes, Rabbi
Elon Moreh. Yes, and Rabbi
Shomron. Yes, Rabbi Hashomron. Yes, and I didn't see how you
put it together, but I accepted the introduction. I will
read the story. In
previous generations, we found that when the situation of the
people of Israel changed, the sages saw fit to change the prayers and
adapt them to the new reality. A prominent example of this is found in
Tractate Megillah. Shimon the Enlightener and
others. Oh,
I'm skipping a bit. It is clear that if the construction of the Second Temple was
completed, the people of the Great Knesset fixed the requests that were
appropriate for the time of the Temple. Yes, the people of the
Great Knesset fixed them. And after the destruction, Pekoli came there and
arranged them. But the reality was different.
So it is clear that the requests changed. When the sword came,
some of the requests became irrelevant. That is why
Rabban Gamliel stood. And the Dean of new requests as many as the
previous requests and trained for the new situation. The
Selichot poems were written in exile and include two
central issues: one is a request for forgiveness for offenses and sins, and
the other is about the current situation where Israel is in
exile, persecuted, slaughtered, despised, and so on. Thank God, we
were privileged to return to our land to build and build the Torah. The Torah is returning to the world.
And with Israel, Israel is in a
superior position even in the eyes of the nations of the world. It is a good deed
towards the Holy One, blessed be He, to continue
to complain about our poor situation. That is why you have come to re-edit the Selichot. Omit the Selichot
that deal with our situation in exile and say only those that deal with asking for forgiveness. The right of the ancestors to tie the knot should also be part of the Selichot. In short, this is how Rabbi Ken Levanon writes: There, there, they will see and live. And we here on the Temple Mount remember to say Selichot every morning, and we also made a kind of Selichot version that simply omitted the prayers, Eh, all the
piyyutim of both the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim,
which are simply not right to say, and instead
they say verses of the Psalms. That everyone loves and everyone
knows and everyone connects. And so the main essence of the
forgiveness is the 13 measures of mercy
and also with adjustments. With adjustments. Small ones. Very
small but very, very important. For example, we
say in prayer that this can be our covenant of the ancestors, as
you said to the house of the firstborn, etc. And then if we
continue to say
and pray, and even this is the most narrow, not the most blasphemous,
to pray with us, then it is a good deed. So you
did with us as we promised, yes, our Sabbath is our return and our mercy,
as it is written, you fulfill us, and for
this we pray, what will we gather all our guidance, that is,
we are now I say to change what the
Sages, according to some of the methods, actually corrected, which is the
text of Blessings 18, etc. These are already things that are
more complex, but these things that are forgiveness, these are the competitions on Mondays and
Thursdays, these are things that certainly
not only can be changed, but must be changed and it is commanded to be
changed. May things be with the help of God,
Amen.
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Merman ‏M.