Commentary for Berakhot 57:12
הני עשרים וארבע דתעניתא כנגד מי א"ר חלבו כנגד כ"ד רננות שאמר שלמה בשעה שהכניס ארון לבית קדשי הקדשים אי הכי כל יומא נמי נמרינהו אימת אמרינהו שלמה ביומא דרחמי אנן נמי ביומא דרחמי אמרי להו:
To what do the twenty-four benedictions of the fast day correspond ? R. Helbo said: To the twenty-four "cries" Solomon mentioned when he brought the Ark into the house of the Holy of Holies (I Kings viii.). In that case, one should say them every day! [No ;] when did Solomon say them ? On a day of supplication ; and so we likewise say them on a day of supplication.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The additional six benedictions to the eighteen are enumerated in Mishnah Ta'anit ii. 3 f. The only addition now made to the Tefillah on a fast day is the paragraph in Singer, p. 50, which is quoted from J. T.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Words for prayer and supplication.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Since it was on no special day of the Calendar that this happened.
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