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September 13 2010
5 Tishrei 5771; 5 Days to Yom Kippur
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1) Although it may usually be better (in order to concentrate better ) to daven Shemona Esrei with closed eyes, in Aseres Yemei Teshuva it is advisable to daven from a siddur, as this way it is less likely to forget the additions that must be added to the Shemona Esrei (Zachreinu L'Chaim, Mi Komocha, Hamelech HaKadosh, Hamelech Hamishpat, U'Ksov and B'Sefer Chaim). (This is practical advice and not a Halacha per se).
2) If Zachreinu L'Chaim, Mi Komocha, Hamelech Hamishpat, U'Ksov and/or B'Sefer Chaim were mistakenly skipped, and the next Bracha was already started , there is no need to repeat the Shemona Esrei.
However, if "Hamelech HaKadosh" was forgotten and you signed off the Bracha of Ata Kadosh with "HaKeil HaKadosh" like it is said the rest of the year, one must indeed repeat the Shemona Esrei, as the main point of these Yomim Noraim is to realize that Hashem is our King and to accept His Kingdom (and all the Mitzvos that come along with it) upon ourselves.
Thus forgetting "Hamelech HaKadosh" is forgetting the essence and "missing the point" of these significant days, and therefore must be repeated.
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Reader's Question:
What's the halacha if the Baal Tefila forgets to say Hamelech Hakodosh or Hamelech Hamishpat. Does he have to start again?
Answer:
According to the Rama and Mishna Berura (Siman 582) If Hamelech Hamishpat was forgotten, it never has to be repeated by anyone.
For Sephardic Jews who follow the Shulchan Aruch, it must be repeated (582:1)
If the Baal Tefilah forgot Hamelech HaKadosh by his quiet Shemonah Esrei he can rely on his Chazaras Hashatz to be his "davening over".
If He forgot it during Chazaras Hashatz, he must go back.
The question in the Poskim though is where he has to go back to. Some maintain that he just has to go back to "Atah Kadosh" (Rav Ovadia Yoseph shlita and others) while others hold he must start from the beginning of Shemona Esrei again.(Mateh Ephraim and Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal).
The practical difference would be regarding the Tzibbur repeating Kedusha again. As if he must start from the beginning, then kedusha must be repeated too.
The prevelant Minhag amongst Ashkenazim is to start from the beginning, while the Sefardim only go back to Atah Kadosh.
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As a Zechus for the Refuah Shelaima of one of the Gedolei HaDor, the Telzer Rosh Yeshiva , HaRav Chaim Stein Shlita, R' Chaim Yaakov ben Chasya Miriam, B'soch Sha'ar Cholei Yisroel, we will B'Ezras Hashem post here each day a short Chizuk thought to help us all improve our lives and grow in our service of our Father in heaven, HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
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Rav Avigdor Miller Zatzal
These days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the Aseres Yemei Teshuva, besides being days of introspection , are days to aim and reach higher within ourselves to try and attain greatness.
The following story illustrates true greatness, and we can all try and emulate the lesson contained in it in our own life situations.
TO ALL EXTREMES
Rav Avigdor Miller Zatzal, the world renowned rav and noted author, received the news
. The fainting spells he had been experiencing had finally been diagnosed, and the doctor decided that surgery was needed.
Rav Miller did not agree to the surgery immediately, despite the doctor's warnings. But after spending some time thinking it over, he agreed to the operation.
The surgery went well, and before long Rav Miller was back to his usual hectic schedule.
A few days after the surgery, R' Simcha Bunim Cohen [ A prominent Rav and author of several works on hilchos Shabbos and other areas of halacha, and a grandson of Rav Miller through marriage] paid Rav Miller a visit.
"You know," Rav Miller remarked, "I had complete faith in HaShem that I would be fine, and I really didn't need the surgery. But I decided to go through with the opieraton for my rebbetzin's (wife's) sake."
Rav Miller went on to explain that every morning, his wife would wake up early to escort him down the steps on his way to davening. She was afraid that her husband might faint and hurt himself.
"I can't practice my emunah on my wife's account," Rav Miller concluded. "So I agreed to have the operation."
"One has to extend himself so far for his wife -- even to the point of undergoing major surgery?" R' Cohen exclaimed.
"For a wife," Rav Miller emphatically stated, "one must do far more."
Submitted by C.S., Taken from Visions of Greatness, Vol. IV, by Rabbi Yosef Yona Weiss, pp.146-7
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