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Podcast: The Tefilah Podcast
Episode: The Meaning of Halleluyah/Hallelukah (Pesachim 117a)
Description: Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In tonight's Tehilim shiur (4/6/21 at YBT) we decided to take up a side-topic: the meaning of the word הללויה. I figured that we'll encounter it eventually (and already did, back when we did 146), and rather than go off on a tangent then, we'll just discuss it now. Plus, it comes up so much in davening. Although we read through the whole sugya in the Gemara, along with the Mesivta's summary of some meforshim, we ended up focusing on three possible meanings of the word. We kind of had to rus...