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If our daily amida is (even partially) based on the Korbanot, why do we make no regular mention of the korbanot being replaced? On Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh and Yom Tov, we add in a musaf in order ...
#1: Initial revision
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rosends
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2025-06-19T16:03:08Z (about 18 hours ago)
Mentioning Korbanot in the Amida
If our daily amida is (even partially) based on the Korbanot, why do we make no regular mention of the korbanot being replaced? On Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh and Yom Tov, we add in a musaf in order to recount the korbanot (because the tefillah cannot be based on the avot and their davening), but why would we not have a bracha in each of the weekday shmoneh esrei prayers that asks for a return to the sacrificial system and recounts the sacrifices we cannot make today because of our sinfulness. [I note that we recount our sinfulness and its impact on our sacrifices on Yom Tov but not on a weekday] We do say r'tzei which seems to fit the bill, but we say that in Musaf also, and yet we still add in the specific korbanos of the day. Additionally, the closing of the r'tzei bracha asks that Hashem's shechina be returned, not anything related to sacrifices. So why not have, in our central prayer, a mention of the loss of and return of the sacrificial system, and a recounting of the specific sacrifice that each tefillah is marking?