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KEDUSHA revisited REVISITED again
TTreader RAW called our attention to an inaccuracy in the Nusach Sfard version of the Shabbat Musaf Kedusha. We are therefore reprinting the Kedusha page (see hard copy of TT) with the correct version. (Turn the page; that's p.16, even though it doesn't say so.) See last week's TT (715) p.15 for details and explanations of the Kedusha text page.

More on KEDUSHA
If one is in shul and the congregation is up to Kedusha, must join in and answer with the p'sukim (at least). If one is in the middle of the Amida, then he stops, listens but does not say anything, and then resumes his Amida after Kedusha. Even if one is sitting and learning in shul (i.e. not davening at the moment), he should stand and join in Kedusha. One who is passing by a shul and hears Kedusha, MAY join them, but is not required to. So too, if you are at one minyan and a nearby minyan is saying Kedusha, you need not (but may) respond to their Kedusha.
If you are saying the Amida and the Kahal is approaching Kedusha, if you can finish the last bracha and say YIHYU L'RATZON IMREI FI... before they get to KADOSH, then you continue even through the N'KADEISH (or other) invitation so that you will be able to join in with the p'sukim. Then say ELOKAI after Kedusha and YIHYU again.

...SHISHA V'ARBAIM ELEF VA'CHAMEISH MEOT:
BAAL KOREI BEWARE: We've mentioned this before; it bears repeating. The correct way to read this phrase is with a pause after the TIPCHA. SHISHA V'ARBA'IM ELEF (46,000), VACHAMEISH MEI'OT (and 500). If you pause longer (in error) after the T'VIR (and it is natural to do so - but don't!), the phrase reads 46 and 1500, which is 1546, which is not correct. So too with other counts.

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