0291 - Changes to the Siddur Tehilas Hashem

00:00 In the end of the Chof or the beginning of the Lamed, a few people got together and they made certain tikkunim, things that had to be fixed in the Seder Tehillas Hashem that we daven in. And they gave him to the Rebbe a whole list of things that they think have to be fixed. And the Rebbe agreed to many, many of it. But there were a few things that I remember the Rebbe did not agree. And what comes to my mind, there probably is more things, but what comes to my mind of what the Rebbe did not agree is that the Negei HaHalal, when we say, "Heidol Hashem keteif kilei om chazdei," and then we say, "Yemenol Yisro kilei om chazdei." So it says in Sefer HaMenhogim that between each one we say again, "Heidol Hashem keteif kilei om chazdei." That means after you say, "Yemenol Yisro kilei om chazdei," you say, "Heidol Hashem keteif om chazdei." And after the chazan says, "Neh yemenol beis haren," you say, "Heidol Hashem keteif om chazdei." After yemenol yiri Hashem, you say, "Heidol Hashem keteif om chazdei." So they asked the Rebbe that maybe we should write in the seder that this is what you have to do. And the Rebbe wrote not to write it. A second thing is that they want-- they asked the Rebbe, they want to put in, in benching, "Harachamon yivarach es adoneinu, m'reinu, v'rabbeinu." And the Rebbe said not to put it in. And also, I remember a very small thing that

01:16 in Birchas Krisme, before you say Shema, where you say in capital in the piece there, "Tizborech," it says at the end, "V'kulam peischem espia m'kdush of Torah, v'shira, v'zimra, u'mavorchim, u'mashachbim, u'mapo'arim, u'maritzim, u'magdishim, u'mamlichim." So the kama is after u'mavorchim, u'mashachbim, there's a kama. U'mapo'arim, u'maritzim, there's a kama. And then magdishim, u'mamlichim. But the way the Rebbe used to say it when he davened for the omit, you could hear he would say, "Mashachbim, u'mapo'arim, u'maritzim, magdishim, u'mamlichim." The three, maritzim, magdishim, u'mamlichim went together. So they asked the Rebbe, maybe they should take out the kama after the word u'maritzim and put it before. It should say, "Mavorchim, mashachbim, mapo'arim, kama, u'maritzim, magdishim, u'mamlichim." And the Rebbe did not agree. He said you should leave it the way it is. Some of the things that the Rebbe did agree, so a whole bunch of things the Rebbe did agree, but what I remember, small things, is that in Mincha, in Shemoneh Esreh, the old Tehillas Hashem Seder, before Sim Shalom, it would have Birchas K'yanim. Because you do say sometimes Birchas K'yanim in Chazaras Hashatz of Mincha, that's on a tiny sibber. So it had the Birchas K'yanim in Shemoneh Esreh. On the other hand, by Shacharis, before Sim Shalom, they didn't have Birchas K'yanim, but it was on the bottom of the page. And it said that on, on, uh, Chazaras Hashatz you say Birchas K'yanim. L'chulech it should be the opposite. Because by Shacharis, every day the chazan says Birchas K'yanim. By Mincha, it's

02:52 very seldom that he says Birchas K'yanim. So why by Mincha is Birchas K'yanim inside the Shemoneh Esreh? And by Shacharis it's on the bottom. So they asked the Rebbe to change it, and the Rebbe agreed to change it. So therefore, the siddurim the way they are now, in Shacharis, Birchas K'yanim is in the Shemoneh Esreh, in the Pnim, up on top of the page. And in Mincha it's on the bottom of the page. Another thing, by Ma'ariv, the old siddurim, when it says in the first brocha, "Mavdil ben yomo ven layla ven layla Hashem tzvot yishmei, baruch ata Hashem hamavdil ha'aravim." So after the words "Mavdil ben yomo ven layla" was a big period. And then it said, "Hashem tzvot yishmei," kama, "Baruch ata Hashem hamavdil ha'aravim." L'chulech it should be the opposite. The period belongs before baruch. And between "ven yomo ven layla Hashem tzvot yishmei" should be a kama. So they asked the Rebbe that too, and the Rebbe agreed that they should change it, and that's why it was changed. So they put the kama between "Mavdil ben yomo ven layla" and "Hashem tzvot yishmei." And after that, between that and baruch, there is a period. I also think, but I'm not sure, that it's from that time on that in Kris Ma'alamita they put in the "Yehi ratzon" and then the "Ribono olamim." Because the original prints of the Tehillas Hashem Seder did not have the "Yehi ratzon" before "Ana b'choach." And it also did not have at the end the

04:15 "Ribono olamim." And the later prints, they put it in. So I think it was from that time on that they did this, that they put in the "Yehi ratzon," and then later they put in the "Ribono olamim." But this I'm not sure that it started from then. But definitely a moled wasn't there, and later it became. And there are many, many more things that the Rebbe agreed to, and maybe there are some things that the Rebbe didn't agree to, but these are just a few things that come to mind.