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WolfishMusings
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i forget which day

That would be Thursday.

Here’s an even better one for you (although, admittedly, it’s not from davening).

One Tisha B’Av, I was listening to someone lain Aicha. He got to the passuk at 2:20:

????? ?????? ???????????, ????? ?????????? ????: ???-??????????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ?????????, ???-??????? ???????????? ??????? ?????? ????????.

The translation (JPS) for this passuk is as follows:

See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The tipcha in the second half of the passuk is on the word Ad-noy.” As a result, the proper word grouping is “B’Mikdash Ad-noy, Kohen V’Navi.”

The person laining began to put the tipcha on the word “mikdash” — putting the grouping as “B’Mikdash, Ad-noy Kohen V’Navi” – completely changing the meaning to something blasphemous. Fortunately, he realized his error and corrected himself before he got to the next word. 🙂

The Wolf