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Comment by Aryeh Shore on July 31, 2009 at 9:06am

Splitting sentences from the torah.
1. The TT is not alone. Indeed I don't know of anyone who defends adding to zot habracha. Some sephardic siddurim have it. Some don't. Some put it in parenthesis. Never saw a source where it came from. Just appeared one day.
2. Repeating HaShem Elikei Emet at the end of the Shma is in the same category of making up new sentences in the torah. However, in this case the debate is moot as the splitters won over very strong opposition from various rishonim.
3. Now how to categorized the pause in Vkarot. Is this splitting the sentence or just plain silly. (For the uninitiated, this is a pause in the middle of a sentence made by a printer where an instruction use to be.) Torah Ohr, which is the real Lubowitz siddur does not have it. The present editions of Tehilat HaShem are ambivalent. Sometimes they split the sentence and sometimes they sorta put it in the middle of the page. (Thats in the same siddur. That is what I call ambivalence.)