#nusach

[jewish-hot-takes]

Nishmas Kol Chai shouldn’t be included in Shabbos morning davnen. It doesn’t fit with the rest of psukei d’zimra because it’s not a passage/collection of verses from Tanakh, it’s long and boring, and there’s at least some argument that it was written by an apostate heretic (the man the Christians call St. Peter). All it does is bog things down between psukei d’zimra and shacharis.

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[i-chew-on-pushpins]

A database of Jewish liturgical nusach melodies and songs, with sheet music and links to audio on the internet.

just found THE most amazing resource?? so many different nusach melodies, from all over the world and from all sorts of traditions

[hiddurmitzvah]

Pr. Jehudoh Schweitzer

Ungarischer Nussach

I’ve been so lucky to met this rabbi during his lifetime. Here you can get a hint of the hungarian nusach. Shabbat shalom!

[booksandblintzes]

Moritz Henle Moritz (Moshe) Henle, celebrated Hazzan (Cantor), born August 7, 1850 in Germany. Henle's music influenced the liturgical style of Jewish communities throughout Western Europe and North America.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Hi I was wondering what a patrilineal convert in progress should do if their ancestors were Spanish-Portuguese sefardi but they're converting in an ashkenazi shul/orthodox in terms of davening nuach. Thanks, you're amazing btw :)

This is something to discuss with your rabbi, as there are various factors to weigh.

Hatzlacha! And thanks. :)

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Wait, so what's the difference between ספרד and תהילת ה'?

The latter is a subset of the former. The only time I’ve ever davened Sefard was on a Shabbos when I wasn’t home and forgot my siddur, and my hosts (who themselves davened Ashkenaz) randomly had a nusach Sefard siddur in their house. But based on that experience, they’re really not that different, just minor things here and there.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Sefard (and Nusach Ari) is basically just Ashkenaz retrofitted to include certain things that are important al pi kabbalah. Sefardi/Eidas Mizrach is the Nusach for people with sefardi minhagim (which does include some shitos al pi kabbalah).

As for actual practical differences, they’re tons of small things and some big ones.

@goldahawn

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

The difference between ספרד (used by Chassidim) and עדות מזרח (used by Sephardim and Mizrachim).

I’ve only davened ספרד once (the nusach Chabad uses is closely related but not the standard ספרד) and I’ve never davened the other, so I can’t really pinpoint for you exactly where all the differences are, but I do know that at least bensching is significantly different between the two.