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In this article, Rabbi Ephraim Halivni discusses the various practices regarding the doubling of the word “le’eilah” (i.e. לעלא לעלא) in Kaddish and “mikol birkhata” (מכל ברכתא) verses “min kol birkhata” (מן כל) in kaddish.
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Ephraim Bezalel Halivni was born in New York in 1959. He has a BA from Columbia, 1981; an MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1982; a Ph.d from Bar-Ilan University, 1992. He studied for a few years at Yeshivat Har Etzion and received rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, 1993. He taught at the Institute for Traditional Judaism, 1994-1996. Since 1996 he has been working at the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Halivni has published the following books: