Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

How seriously do we take the rule of kol psuket lo paskimosha, anan lo paskinan, given that we're strict about it in places like Kiddush and Hagba, yet in songs and even in the Gemara, we often split psukim.

Yeah, this comes up in the Sugi Masachas Megillah, where the Gemara talks about how we managed to get two aliyot out of just five psukim on Rosh Chodesh.

So it is a machlokas, that on the one hand, Rav says doleg, and Shmuel says poseik.

So Rav says to do what we do, to repeat one of the psukim, and Shmuel says to just cut one of the psukim in half.

So Gemara says that Rav doesn't want to say like Shmuel, that any Pasuk that Moshe Rabbeinu did not split, we're also not supposed to split.

However, according to Shmuel, that if it's not possible, then we do split the Pasuk.

So he views it as something that's not possible in that case, so it's the only option.

And therefore, that's basically the guiding principle, that we don't splipsukim, and yet there's an allowance that when it's not really possible any other way, we do splipsukim.

So that already is the first indication that maybe this halacha is...

has some wiggle room.

Most halachas don't have much wiggle room.

There's a halacha that has some wiggle room.

Another indication that it has some wiggle room is the fact that the halacha kol paska lo paska yamosha, or for that matter, kol parsha, the paska moshe ben paskina, the lo paska moshe ben lo paskina, which is sugyam brachos, those halachos are not mentioned in the Rosh, the Riff, the Rambam, the Tur, the Shulchan Aruch.

So it's somehow absent from halachas for him.

In fact, there's a wonderful little contrast called Omer HaShikha where he goes through all the halachas that the Rambam or the Torah or the Shulchan Aruch or the Riff forgot to write.

And he tries to give some sort of explanation why they didn't quote certain things.

So he says, you know,

We don't find anyone who disagrees with this halacha.

And he says, I do not know why we left off this halacha.

Now the Ramah in Hilchas Kiddush says that there's a minach on Friday night.