Ba'al Tefillah/ Cantor / Prayer Leader

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Ba'al Tefillah/ Cantor / Prayer Leader

Ba'al Tefillah/ Cantor / Prayer Leader

A person who knows how to serve as an agent of the congregation in prayer in the synagogue or is skilled in cantillation.

("A sergeant-ba'alat tefillah and a mischievous widow— a mistress of the neighborhood who constantly visits her neighbors—indeed these are destroyers of the world—who are nothing but adulteresses, sorceresses, and who present themselves as righteous women so they will not be scrutinized after them"—Rashi on Sotah 22a, and likewise: "Especially on terrible days, sinners also desire to pray in a minyan of ten and hire a ba'al tefillah for costly blood money and forfeit money for this"—Responsa Pe'er Aharon, section 2, and also: "It is hard for her to bear, how can she hear the joy of another ba'al tefillah and not that of the wicked son of our chazzan?"—Shalom Aleichem / We go from strength to strength, Shamat, and likewise: "As the ba'al tefillah goes out, so goes out the Torah reader who used to cover their heads with a tallit"—Agnon, 'A Package of Stories,' 95)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בַּעַל תְּפִלָּה, בעל תפילה

Definition (Hebrew)

אָדָם הַיּוֹדֵעַ לְשַׁמֵּשׁ כִּשְׁלִיחַ צִבּוּר בִּתְפִלָּה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת אוֹ הַבָּקִי בְּחַזָּנוּת.

("צַיְלָנִית-בַּעֲלַת תְּפִלָּה, וְאַלְמָנָה שׁוֹבָבִית- בַּעֲלַת שְׁכֵנוֹת הוֹלֶכֶת וּמְבַקֶּרֶת שְׁכֵנוֹתֶיהָ תָּמִיד הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מְבַלֵּי עוֹלָם- שֶׁאֵינָן אֶלָּא נוֹאֲפוֹת וּמְכַשְּׁפוֹת וּמַרְאוֹת עַצְמָן כְּצִדְקָנִיּוֹת שֶׁלֹּא יִבְדְּקוּ אַחֲרֵיהֶן"- רָשִׁ"י סוֹטָה כב ע"א, וְכֵן: "וּבִפְרָט עַל יָמִים נוֹרָאִים רוֹצִים גַּם הַפּוֹשְׁעִים לְהִתְפַּלֵּל בְּמִנְיָן עֲשָׂרָה וְשׂוֹכְרִין בַּעַל תְּפִלָּה בְּדָמִים יְקָרִים וּמְוַתְּרִין מָעוֹת עַל זֹאת"- שׁוּ"ת פְּאֵר אַהֲרֹן סִימָן ב, וְכֵן: "קָשֶׁה לָהּ לְשַׁעֵר, אֵיךְ תּוּכַל לִשְׁמֹעַ אֶל הָרִנָּה שֶׁל בַּעַל תְּפִלָּה אַחֵר, וְלֹא שֶׁל הָרָשׁ בַּר הַחַזָּן שֶׁלָּנוּ?"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ אָנוּ הוֹלְכִים מֵחַיִל אֶל חַיִל, שָׁמַט, וְכֵן: "כַּיּוֹצֵא בּוֹ בַּעַל תְּפִלָּה כַּיּוֹצֵא בּוֹ הַקּוֹרֵא בַּתּוֹרָה שֶׁהָיוּ מְכַסִּים כּוֹבָעָם בְּטַלִּית"- עַגְנוֹן/ תַּכְרִיךְ שֶׁל סִפּוּרִים, 95)

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