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1 KADISH I JUST NOTICED KADISH ASHKENAZI AND SEPAHRDI IS DIFFERENT OBSERVE RE YEHE SHMEI RABA DIFFERENT IN ASHAKENAZI AND SEPHARDI . DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. WHY THE ASHKENAZI KADISH OMITS SENTENCE..
2.I CANNOT FIND THE PRAYER MY GRANDFATHER CHIEF RABBI SUDAN IN THE 1930’S TRANSLATED BY MY FATHER AND DONATED TO EVERY YESHIVA AND SYNAGOGUE WORLDWIDE. gRANDFATHER MENTIONS P. 401 STATES THE PRAYERS IN OUR SYNAGOGUES SERVICES IN THEIR PRESENT FORM WERE ARRANGED AND ORDAINED FOR US BY THE GREAT ASSEMBLY(KNESSET HAGADOL) WHICH AT HE TIME INCLUDED THE PROPHETS HAGGAI, ZACHARIAH AN MALACHI, AS WELL AS THE HIGH PRIEST JOSHUA BEN ZADAK, TOGETHER WITH THE LEADER NEHEMIAH BEN HAKHLIA AND OTHERS. AMONG THE MORNING PRAYERS THEY LAID DOWN TO US WE STILL RECITE " mAY IT NE THY WILL, OUR GOD AND GOD OF OUR FOREFATHERS THAT WE BE PROTECTED TODAY AND EVERY DAD, FROM PEOPLE OF AUDACIOUS FACES, FROM THE AUDACITY OF EVIL PEOPLE, OF AN EVIL WOMAN, OF AN EVIL COMPANION , OF AN EVIL NEIGHBOR, FROM EVIL ACCIDENS, FROM AN EVIL EYE, FROM AN EVIL TONGUE ETC. OBVIOUSLY THESE DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE SANHEDRIN BELIEVED IN THE EIN HARA, OR ELSE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE INCLUDED IT AMONG THE EVILS FROM WHICH TO SEEK PROTECTION. PRAY MOSTLY FROM SIDDUR KOL SASSON. I CANNOT FIND THIS PRAYER ANYWHERE . HAS THE PRAYER BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM MODERN SIDDURIM. CAN YOU FIND IT FOR ME. I WANT O PRAY IT.GIIVE ME THE PRAYER IN HEBREW SO I CAN FIND IT.
3. GENIZAH I DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE RABBIS WHO TELL PEOPLE TO GENISSAH EVERY OLD BOOK. I HAVE THE SIDDURIM OF THE 1900 AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS NOT IN TODAYS SIDDURIM.
Answer
1. It doesn’t make a difference and everyone should follow his community or family custom. The Sfaradim added "v’yatzmach purkanei” to add an additional prayer for a speedy redemption, and the Sfaradic congregation answers aloud a little more than the Ashkenazim in Y’hei shmei rabba, but the essence is identical.
2. The prayer is found in Hebrew in most siddurim right after birchot hashachar (the morning blessings) and is based upon the personal prayer added by R. Yehuda HaNasi (Talmud Bavli, Brachot 16b). There are variant readings with small textual differences between the different siddurim. Ayin HaRa is explained either as a mystical concept or as jealousy from neighbors, or an invasion of privacy from neighbors.
3. No rabbis force anyone to destroy old books, but only if they are no longer usable, the custom is to bury them.
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