Monday, April 28, 2008

גדושה


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

what is that?

Anonymous said...

From: BoJoM@... (Baruch Merzel)
> R' Baruch Epstein, Z"L, the baal "Torah T'mima " was the first to
>offer this emendation in his sefer "Baruch She'omar". In the sefer he
>makes a very convincing case for this correction . Among other things
>he states, as Rav Chipman notes, that G-d's holiness does not fit the
>context.

Anonymous said...

From: BoJoM@... (Baruch Merzel)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:52:10 EDT
Subject: Re: Gedusha

Rav Yhonatan Chipman writes concerning Paltiel Birnbaum's Siddur

<< My favorite correction of Birnbaum's is in the third blessing of
Birkat Hamazon, where in a footnote (not in the text) he changes
"kedoshenu" to "gedoshenu" (as in the adjective "gadush," meaning full,
overflowing), making the phrase into a series of synonyms ("yadkha
he-mele'ah hepetuha hagedosha vehar'hava..."). Gd's Holiness is
irrelevant in this particular context.>>

This change is not original with Birnabaum. R' Baruch Epstein, Z"L, the
baal "Torah T'mima " was the first to offer this emendation in his sefer
"Baruch She'omar". In the sefer he makes a very convincing case for
this correction . Among other things he states, as Rav Chipman notes,
that G-d's holiness does not fit the context.

I believe that this was one of his concepts that his father, the baal
Aruch Hashulchan would not endorse with out textual proof from earlier
siddurim or other sources, as R' Baruch himself mentions in his book of
memoirs entitled "M'kor Habracha"

Baruch Merzel

Anonymous said...

actually the aruch hashulchan does mention the existence of such a girsa...