Note 129 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 4)

In the German Ritual for week-days a third berachah, beginning ‏ברוך יי לעולם‎ and concluding ‏ועל כל מעשיו‎, is added. This berachah seems to have been at first a substitute for the Amidah, which was optional in the Maaribh Service. The substitute became in many congregations an integral part of the Maaribh, and was retained even when the Amidah was generally adopted as obligatory. On the eve of Sabbath and Festivals the Amidah was always recited, and there was no need for the substitute. The third berachah is therefore absent from the Maaribh on these evenings. ↑